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I am one who believes in the collective power of prayers. I believe the Angels walk with us and hear our words. Some of you may remember me posting a picture of Tiger, my neighbor's cat, who likes to hang out in my pasture tree. He was a sweet, shy, loving kitty with a wonderful sense of humor. Today, another neighbor's dogs killed little Tiger. He was just shy of his first birthday. It was an ugly thing that happened and Evan and I had to get his body from the dogs. We buried him in our pasture. I am asking you to not only say prayers for Tiger, but, my main request is for the little girl who was Tiger's person. Almost two years ago this little girl lost her dad in a car accident. She is a shy girl who doesn't speak much since her dad's death. Last Christmas, her mother got her a kitten, Tiger. This little girl has lost a lot in her life and this is no exception. I have spoken with the owner of the dogs. His answer was that the cat came on his property. I understand that, however these dogs have killed other animals on their property. They hunt them as a pack. Don't get me wrong, they are sweet dogs doing what dogs can do. However, you can train them what is acceptable and unacceptable behavior. I did point out to the owner that if you curb such pack mentality in your own backyard, if they were to ever get out, they won't cost you liability. Sometimes legal terminology can go a long way. I have yet to speak to the mother of this little girl because they are out celebrating trick or treats. I really don't have the heart to ruin that. I will speak to mom, privately, in the morn. I assure you we gave Tiger a proper burial. I sang the songs from our tribe and asked St. Francis to embrace him on the other side. Please pray that the Angels are there for this little girl, with all their strength and love right now. She will need it. I will never forget what happened to him, but most, I won't ever forget the sweet little guy with the wonderful sense of humor. I will miss him deeply myself. Thank you for any and all prayer for him and for his little girl.
A huge prayer wheel on the way to Chimi Lhakhang, Western Bhutan.
Chimi Lhakhang is a Buddhist monastery in Punakha District, Bhutan. Located near Lobesa, it stands on a round hillock and was built in 1499 by the 14th Drukpa hierarch, Ngawang Choegyel, after the site was blessed by the "Divine Madman" the maverick saint Drukpa Kunley (1455–1529) who built a chorten on the site.
In founding the site it is said that Lama Kunley subdued a demon of Dochu La with his “magic thunderbolt of wisdom” and trapped it in a rock at the location close to where the chorten now stands. He was known as the "Mad Saint" or “Divine Madman” for his unorthodox ways of teaching Buddhism by singing, humour and outrageous behaviour, which amounted to being bizarre, shocking and with sexual overtones. He is also the saint who advocated the use of phallus symbols as paintings on walls and as flying carved wooden phalluses on house tops at four corners of the eaves. The monastery is the repository of the original wooden symbol of phallus that Kunley brought from Tibet. This wooden phallus is decorated with a silver handle and is used to bless people who visit the monastery on pilgrimage, particularly women seeking blessings to beget children. The tradition at the monastery is to strike pilgrims on the head with a 10-inch (25 cm) wooden phallus (erect penis)
Traditionally symbols of an erect penis in Bhutan have been intended to drive away the evil eye and malicious gossip.
this was taken at the Monserrat Monestary in Spain this last May-they have a beautiful area inside a cave, where they have their prayer candles-we lit candles here as well to say prayers for loved ones-but looking at this image today if I were there I would light them for all those affected by the Tsunami-it's so sad and devastating-my heart goes out to those affected and many prayers are being sent your way...
l have a beautiful 17 year old cousin that has been diagnosed with Luekemia and this post is for Veda that God will place His healing Hand upon her and bring her through!!!! Thank you for agreeing with me in prayer!!! Hugs!!!
Un moulin à prières (mani chuskor ou mani 'khor lo en tibétain) est un objet cultuel utilisé par les Tibétains pratiquant le bouddhisme.
Le moulin à prières traditionnel est constitué d'un cylindre rempli de feuilles sur lesquelles sont écrits ou imprimés des mantras (formules incantatoires), et qui peut tourner librement autour d'un axe. Selon les croyances associées à ces moulins, les mettre en mouvement « active » le pouvoir du mantra et confère protection et acquisition de mérites (sanskrit: puṇya).
Le moulin à prières est habituellement de taille relativement petite, et on peut le prendre dans la main. Toutefois, il existe de grands moulins, fixés à un mur ou alignés dans une armature. De tels moulins sont mis en mouvement l'un après l'autre par les fidèles qui passent à côté d'eux. On fait tourner les moulins avec sa main droite. Et le moulin doit être tourné dans le sens des aiguilles d'une montre, afin que le mantra soit lu dans le sens où il a été écrit.
D'après diapositive.
Prayer wheels at Swayambhunath, the Buddhist temple in Kathmandu. The inscriptions on the wheel speak the great Buddhist mantra "Om Mani Padme Hum", which translates into "Oh jewel in the heart of the lotus". This is the mantra of the Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of compassion (of which the Dalai Lama is an incarnation).
The meaning of the prayer is complex, and I will share the current (14th) Dalai Lama's interpretation of the mantra:
"It is very good to recite the mantra Om mani padme hum, but while you are doing it, you should be thinking on its meaning, for the meaning of the six syllables is great and vast... The first, Om symbolises the practitioner's impure body, speech, and mind; it also symbolises the pure exalted body, speech, and mind of a Buddha.
"The path is indicated by the next four syllables. Mani, meaning jewel, symbolises the factors of method: (the) altruistic intention to become enlightened, compassion, and love.
"The two syllables, padme, meaning lotus, symbolise wisdom
"Purity must be achieved by an indivisible unity of method and wisdom, symbolised by the final syllable hum, which indicates indivisibility.
"Thus the six syllables, om mani padme hum, mean that in dependence on the practice of a path which is an indivisible union of method and wisdom, you can transform your impure body, speech, and mind into the pure exalted body, speech, and mind of a Buddha."
Subject: What's Blooming?
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The dogwood trees in my yard bloomed this past week. This photo taken in my yard with prayer flags in the background.
Playlist Song : Water Prayer - Adham Shaikh
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDdquTGrgvw
Done with the 24-105 at ISO200 100mm F5 and 1/2000sec in Aboadela, Portugal
Inspired by the painting 'Virgin In Prayer' by Giovanni Sassoferrato, this was one of teh beautiful arrangements in the 2016 N.C. Museum of Art fundraiser Art In Bloom The floral designer was Trisha Kaminski, Wake Forest Florists & Gifts, Wake Forest, North Carolina.
As Wind carries our prayers for Earth and All Life, may respect and love light our way.
May our hearts be filled with compassion for others and for ourselves.
May peace increase on Earth.
May it begin with me.
- Tibetan Wind Horse Prayer
Hope of Rainbows after the Storms of Destruction
My heart is crying after watching the news footage tonight of the Earthquake and horrifying Tsunami in north Japan March 10, 2011.... it is hard to wrap my mind and heart around the pain and suffering of thousands of people as homes and vehicles, boats and business are torn to shreds and carried across the farmlands of NE Japan, in many cases actually burning as they float. An 8.9 magnitude earthquake is one of the 5 most powerful quakes in recorded history, and shook buildings and took out power 230 miles away in Tokyo, causing some fires there as well. More waves will follow the first, making rescues difficult or impossible until they calm down.
Hawaii was under a tsunami warning... uncertain how much will hit the Islands but estimated time of arrival would be at 3 am, while on the Oregon Coast and around the mouth of the Columbia we are under a Tsunami watch, for around 7:30 am... may only be a small surge by then, but very hard to tell.
My prayers and tears go out to the people of Japan and surrounding area as the destruction spreads and people work on survival and recovery.... (UPDATE IN COMMENTS)
link to an Asian blog blogs.aljazeera.net/live/asia/live-blog-japan-earthquake
story on the nuclear concerns www.huffingtonpost.com/karl-grossman/japan-nuclear-fukush...
related volcanic activity www.theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-3_11_2011_threevolcano.html
a you tube video taken on the bluff near Crescent City filming the wave coming in against the cliffs www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3AFnbkLmiI
the day this photo was taken was a day of memories... as my mom had passed away on November 7, 2003
One of my entries for the Photography competition in Holy Trinity Church.
Used a bare manual flash.... And how do i say that the flash was placed in front of the subject and on the right side, that can sound "storbist"? :P
In case you cant decipher my writing: "More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones." - Teresa of Avila
Yay made it to the explore =)
Prayer, Morning
First Thoughts
Let God have your first awaking thoughts; lift up your hearts to Him reverently and thankfully for the rest enjoyed the night before and cast yourself upon Him for the day which follows. Familiarize yourself so consistently to this that your conscience may check you when common thoughts shall first intrude. Think of the mercy of a night’s rest and of how many that have spent that night in hell; how many in prison; how many in cold, hard lodgings; how many suffering from agonizing pains and sickness, weary of their beds and of their lives. Think of how many souls were that night called from their bodies terrifyingly to appear before God and think how quickly days and nights are rolling on! How speedily your last night and day will come! Observe that which is lacking in the preparedness of your soul for such a time and seek it without delay.
Richard Baxter
Mark Water, The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations (Alresford, Hampshire: John Hunt Publishers Ltd, 2000), 774.
"In order to receive what God gives us and to make it bear abundant fruit, we need to press beyond the boundaries of the visible Church in two ways. In the first place, by uniting ourselves in prayer with the Church in heaven. The prayers of the Church on earth establish a communion of mutual service and goodness which reaches up into the sight of God. Together with the saints who have found their fulfilment in God, we form part of that communion in which indifference is conquered by love. The Church in heaven is not triumphant because she has turned her back on the sufferings of the world and rejoices in splendid isolation. Rather, the saints already joyfully contemplate the fact that, through Jesus’ death and resurrection, they have triumphed once and for all over indifference, hardness of heart and hatred. Until this victory of love penetrates the whole world, the saints continue to accompany us on our pilgrim way. Saint Therese of Lisieux, a Doctor of the Church, expressed her conviction that the joy in heaven for the victory of crucified love remains incomplete as long as there is still a single man or woman on earth who suffers and cries out in pain: “I trust fully that I shall not remain idle in heaven; my desire is to continue to work for the Church and for souls” (Letter 254, July 14, 1897)".
– Pope Francis, Message for Lent 2015.
Candles burn as signs of prayer near the Lourdes grotto.
The last day in Bhutan, after a pleasant drive north of Paro we reached the old Dzong. This fortified castle and monastery in now in ruins but its location is amazing. That sunny day we could see the peaks above 6800m surrounding the valley.
While coming back to the village beside the Dzong, I stopped to rest and admire the view above the rice paddies from a kind of stupa. There was two old women, chatting and praying. One was trying to rotate the prayer wheels located bellow the roof above us. I guessed it was not a standard procedure as some kind of propeller indicate these were supposed to turn only by the force of wind. She was obviously too short and was unsuccessfully pushing the blades of the prayer wheels. I decided to give her a hand for few wheels.
Then she started to talk to me like if it was obvious that I understand her language. Of course I didn't understand anything but it was still a pleasant "conversation" as we were both smiling a lot ! With some body language she accepted my proposition of a portrait, here is the result.
For those who like details, I recommend to see this photograph in large, this is why I love film and 6x7 !
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Mamiya 7II, 65mm f4 / Fuji Astia 100