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Because of the colours and light in this one, I recommend viewing it large against black. Click the picture or press L!
I’m back! I hope everyone has been fantastic, in full health and happiness, and that you’ve all been enjoying the summer. Thanks to everyone who has sent me messages/emails – I will get back to you all soon! I did promise two pictures the week I got back but unfortunately, it’s been impossible, so I’ll make up for it soon(ish!).
The first two weeks looked at the how we suffer, and why we suffer. But the Buddha didn’t leave it there. Can you imagine if he had?! When we go to a doctor and he says ‘you have lung cancer’, and then ‘it was caused by you smoking a packet of cigarettes everyday’ – you wouldn’t just thank him and leave (well, I hope). You’d want to know, is there a cure? What can be done about it? How can you help the situation?
When you’ve got a problem, if you know the cause, then that’s the first step to solving it, right? I mean, you could be having bad headaches and you could take painkillers, but if you found out that the underlying cause was a bad sleeping position – it’d be better to get a better bed or change pillows to end them completely, no? In the same way, the Buddha taught that just as a beautiful garden (our minds) might have many weeds (negative emotions), we can rid ourselves of them completely, and be free of suffering using methods he taught (everlasting weedkiller!). But we have to do it ourselves, it’s our garden after all.
Right now, we always rely on samsara – on food, clothes, relationships, gadgets, wealth, fun – which we take to be happiness but which in reality are only suffering. Once we stop this – then we will have realized cessation, we will know freedom, we will attain nirvana.
Of course, it’s not easy. Desire always acts like our best friend, and rarely do we suspect that our own desires might be the cause of so much suffering. We’re told from a young age that we need to look after our own desires, to nourish them, in order to make ourselves feel good. So you have to check for yourself. Does it feel happy when you’re attached to desire? You might think yes, so you can go ahead and attach yourself to all your desires, and see the result.
Why is it that the Buddha says we can be free from suffering? Look at our mind – the bad bits; our anger, our hatred, our aggression, our desire. Are they an inherent part of our mind? Impossible! If they were, then we’d always be angry, always be jealous, always be hating everyone! But these thoughts come and go. Some days you’re angry ten times, some days maybe just once. With this logic, the Buddha taught that we can be totally free of anger (and other negative emotions), every day – by using antidotes, like developing love to conquer anger, rejoicing in others’ happiness to conquer jealousy, and so on.
I’m gonna stop there before I leak over too much into next week’s shot, because then I’ll have nothing to write about!
The photograph in this shot was taken on a boat ride near Miyajima (you can see a picture of the picturesque Miyajima torii taken at dusk here), but as you may be able to tell, it’s been super-processed(!) and texturized. The line drawing of the Buddha is also by me. Check out the blog over the next few days to see the original photograph and line drawing too.
Someone has already asked me to send them a large copy of this picture for them to use as a desktop background. If there is anyone else who wants this, let me know and I’ll send you a copy.
Be happy!
Matt
If you’d like to find out more about this photo, with tips on how I achieved it, and to see the original shot, as well as for further discussion on the ideas involved, you can pop over to the Samsara Nirvana 52 Week Project blog.
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I can't believe I have finally finished this page. I have drawn this a little by little every now and then. Usually when I had a cup of coffee with my sister.
This page in progress:
l drew this on May Day. there is limited access to media in jail. the ladies like to watch lifetime and music videos. l didn't find out about the protests til later in the week. at any rate, during 'yard time', some of the inmates decided they wanted to do drills ala ROTC. some of them were pregnant women. l did yoga off by myself while they got each other all riled up. and l said to myself: l don't like military.
handdrawn and digitaly manipulated with gimp.
abstract/modern~
Mystic Challenge
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Crows And Ravens Challenge - June 2024
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Archeologists have found cave paintings from 15,000 years ago in France and Spain depicting crows sitting on posts next to graveyards. Their meaning is unclear. Are they waiting for dinner or are they waiting to take the departed spirits to the afterlife?
Raven and crow motifs carry ancient symbolism—in different cultures and at different times associated with evil but also rebirth, darkness and (in Chinese mythology) the sun, spiritual strength and yet death
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interesting read
marycsimmons.com/2014/01/06/crows-inspiring-painters-for-...
“John Martin’s Book for Little Children,” April 1913, Vol. II, No. 1
Subscriptions $3.00 a year. Single copies 25 cents. Published Monthly at No. 5 West 39th Street, New York, New York, by John Martin’s House, Inc.
Entered as second-class matter, November 23, 1912, at the Post Office, New York, N.Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Illustriertes Lüdenscheid Poster | Detail
Das illustriertes Lüdenscheid Poster gibt es nun auch in kleiner Auflage in meinem Shop.
A small edition of the illustrated poster of the German town Luedenscheid is now available in my shop.
(September 2011-August 2012). Pen on paper, 500 x 700 mm (whole)
Super hi-resolution version coming soon.
Ink (Platinum Carbon Black, Iroshizuku Kiri-Same and Fuyu-Syogun, and J. Herbin Gris Nuage) on Bristol Smooth.
"The Little Red Wonder Book;" A First Book of Religion for Little Children by Lewis Gilbert Wilson. Illustrated by Clara E. Atwood. Copyright 1917, The Beacon Press, Boston.
Free download under CC Attribution (CC BY 4.0). Please credit the artist and rawpixel.com.
Born to a station master in Tulln, Austria, Egon Schiele grew up drawing trains and exploring paintings. He later became Gustav Klimt’s protégé and was exposed to the works of Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch during his time with Klimt. Schiele's early works are influenced by the art nouveau movement and the Vienna Secession style. Later his artworks diverged to explore the subject matter of human forms and bodies, sometimes, in sexually explicit and erotic manners. His works also explored the depth of emotions and human psychology. Schiele was an eminent figure in the Expressionism movement and produced more than 3,000 pieces of art. His "Kneeling Nude with Raised Hands (1910)" is regarded as one of the most important nude pieces of the 20th century. We’ve brought some of Schiele’s timeless vintage public domain line art drawings and paintings for you to enjoy in high resolution printable quality and download under the CC0 license.
Higher resolutions with no attribution required can be downloaded: https://www.rawpixel.com/board/1292224/free-erotic-nude-cc0-portraits
A place where you feel yourself like inside the photos of Brassai (smartphone changing Brassai to Brassens - yes and a little like in Brassens songs) and Paul Almasy, Through the window you can see the man in hat on Korolenko street standing in the clouds of smoke, at the bar the girl also wearing hat is driking wine with her girlfriend, the girl dressed in feathers the colour of raven is making a perfect match with the sculpture of an eagle, standing upon the bar.