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22 November is the Convocation day of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi Nilayam.
Bhagawan Baba, “In olden days, when the pupils completed their educational tenure in the ashram of the guru and were about to enter the life of a grihastha (householder), the preceptor gave them a parting message to serve them as guidelines for their worldly and spiritual good. That ceremony is observed today as a Convocation. (SSS Vol.20)
The students were provided with holy guidelines and reminded of their duties. When the young were at the Gurukul, with fellow students and teachers, engaged in study, one had to strive ceaselessly to cultivate serenity, purity and detachment, and try to identify their truth. For, the stage of Brahmacharya (studentship) sets the pace and decides the fate of three subsequent stages of householder, recluse and monk. (SSS Vol.19)
When pupils completed mastery, of all branches of knowledge at the Gurukuls in ancient India, they were exhorted, on the day they left the sacred precincts of the hermitage, by the loving preceptor who showered blessings on them, to observe certain ideals and adhere to certain practices and attitudes in life. (SSS Vol.15)
The advice given by gurus during Convocations in hermitages is the same. "Mother and Motherland are more worthy of reverence than Heaven. Your parents are sacrificing their comforts and even necessities in order to ensure your progress. It is your duty to revere them and make them happy. Engage yourselves in acts that others will respect and not in acts of which you feel ashamed. Honour the elders. Love your native land." After receiving such directions from the Gurus, students returned home, with hearts heavy with gratitude and sorrow at the departure from the hermitages. The Convocation marked the close of a sweet chapter in life when the ideals to be pursued in later years were implanted. So the leave taking was fraught with humility and hope. They realised then that life involved both coming together and separation from each other. They engraved in their hearts in golden letters the advice imparted to them on the occasion of departure. (SSS Vo. 19)
The convocation address, delivered on the occasion of conferring degrees to those who have passed the examinations and who are venturing into the world beyond, is but a poor counterpart of that benediction and that encouraging counsel. The message communicated then was most elevating and was worthy of practical application in daily life and each axiom was nectarine in content. Every advice was clothed in inspiration. The tone and tonic effect of the message has become erased in the womb of Time and reduced to a forgotten dream. While the immortal words of the Siksha Valli (the section on education) of the Taithiriya Upanishath are being repeated for their benefit, the pupils of those days were thrilled and transformed by them. The response of the students of today to the same message will only be a mixture of strangeness and surprise. But that same message can serve as a beacon-light to guide present day students, who are tossed about on endless waves of worry and anxiety caused by in-ordinate desire and vain pursuit of tantalising goals.The characteristic result of the modern educational process is the bloating of conceit into the size of a pumpkin when only a mustard seed size of learning has been acquired! And, the students aspire for unlimited rewards. As the proverb says, they pay for an onion and demand a melon as extra. The bond between jobs, degrees has to be cut asunder. Education should foster moral and spiritual excellence. Students should cultivate the intelligence needed to cleanse the mind to stand on one's own feet and to tender service to fellowmen. Napoleon used to tell his people: "Be clear. The rest will follow." Minds clear and strong can achieve the hardest tasks with ease.
"Speak the truth. Follow dharma (righteousness). Treat thy mother as God. Treat thy father asGod. Treat thy teacher as God. Treat thy guest as God." These were the duties marked out for the pupils. The baby is borne and bred by the mother, the child is fostered and fed by the father, the boy is directed and divinised by the guru, and the adult is afforded the chance to serve and sacrifice for the guest. Man is moulded and made to shine and spread light, by these four---mother, father, teacher and guest. Students might fail to revere the guest or adore the teacher as God. But, it will be a great pity if they fall into the sin of dishonouring the father and the mother.Students! Learn effective means to smother the anxiety, the tears, the cruelties and the lies that afflict the world today. Revive the ancient ideals of learning and of high living in the awareness of divinity. Shine forth in the splendour of eternal truth, in the practice of time tested values and in ways of holy living adjusted to the times. Be ready to renounce that which leads you as precious. Be heroes for adventure. The world needs today youths full of universal love, enthusiasm to serve, and disciplined emotions. Students must cultivate commendable virtues, mould themselves into ideal men and women, promote the happiness of their parent, and be examples to others through their holy thoughts and deeds. (SSS Vol.15)
Education does not mean imparting of verbal knowledge. The knowledge that is gathered in schools and colleges should be capable of being used for service to society and helping to improve the conditions of one's fellow men. The place where true teachers and students are gathered should be filled with serene peace and orderliness (SSS Vol.20)
Students! You must be aware of the implications of studentship. You have to translate that awareness into actual practice. You have to enshrine the experience in your hearts. You must, then, share the joy of that experience with others. Do not allow your minds to get agitated with limitless desires. (SSS Vo. 19)
Sanctify your lives by making every act of daily living holy and purposeful. Students should dedicate themselves to the revival of Bharat's hallowed culture and to the service of the Motherland. You must uphold the good name of the Institute wherever you are. Revere your parents and make them happy. (SSS Vol.20)
The cultivation of love is the greatest need today. There is no use in acquiring all kinds of knowledge and performing of japas and mediation if there is no love in the heart. It is love alone which can save the world. Students, teachers and lovers of education! I wish that in your attempt to perfect the system of education you provide for love, dharma and moral values, for these alone can take the country forward and enable it to regain its past glory. (SSS Vol. 18)
First and foremost, make your parents happy. Make everybody happy and be an ideal.
The Vedas declare,
Sahanavavathu, sahana bhunakthu,
Sahaveeryam Karavavahai
Tejaswi navadheethamasthu
Maa Vidhvisaavahai.
May we grow in intelligence and valour working together!
May we live in friendship without any conflict!
I wish that you practice and propagate these sacred ideals. Blessing you.”
This was made for Utata's "Picture This" project. A title is given, "Separation Anxiety" in this case, and a photo must be made based on your interpretation of that.
I feel I need to explain this because a very sweet and dear friend of mine sent me an email of concern after seeing this photo.
I feel bad that this friend thinks I'm truly going through something (because my boo is out of town??) for whatever reason.
Sweet friend, your concern for me is a wonderful thing and I treasure it, but I'm having an amazing time!
Lets chill soon, though, okay?
Attachment theory describes several behavioural systems, the function of which is to regulate human attachment, fear, exploration, care-giving, peer-affiliation and sex. Attachment is defined as any form of behaviour that results in a person attaining and retaining proximity to a differentiated other. The primary caregiver is the source of the infants stress regulation and, therefore, sense of safety and security. Attachment theory emphasises the role of the parent as mediator, reflector and moderator of the childs mind and the childs reliance on the parent to respond to their affective states in ways that are contingent to their internal experience, a process often referred to as secure base/safe haven functioning. Within the close parent-child relationship neural networks dedicated to feelings of safety and danger, attachment and the core sense of self are sculpted and shaped. These networks are conceptualised as internal working models of attachment.
Characteristic patterns of interaction operating within the familys caregiving-attachment system give rise to secure, insecure and disorganized patterns of attachment. These discrete patterns have been categorized using the Strange Situation research procedure, which observes the young childs behaviour when separated and reunited with his or her primary caregiver. Attachment patterns are represented in the childs internal working models of self-other relationships. Secure attachment is promoted by the interactive regulation of affect, which facilitates the recognition, labelling and evaluation of emotional and intentional states in the self and in others, a capacity known as reflective function or mentalization. The recognition of affects as having dynamic, transactional properties is the key to understanding behaviour in oneself and in another. The child comes to recognize his or her mental states as meaningful self-states via a process of parental affect mirroring and marking. Secure children are able to use sophisticated cognitive strategies to integrate and resolve their fear of separation and loss.
When the parent is unavailable, inconsistent or unpredictable, the infant develops one of two organized insecure patterns of attachment: avoidant or ambivalent-resistant. These defensive strategies involve either the deactivation or hyper-activation of the attachment system. Deactivation is characterized by avoidance of the caregiver and by emotional detachment. In effect, the avoidant child immobilizes the attachment system by excluding thoughts and feelings that normally activate the system. Hyper-activation is manifested by an enmeshed ambivalent preoccupation with the caregiver and with negative emotions, particularly anger. However, in common with the avoidant child, the ambivalent child appears to cognitively disconnect feelings from the situation that elicited the distress. Disorganised-disoriented attachment is discussed below.
Attachment research, then, demonstrates that discrete patterns of secure, insecure, and disorganized attachment have as their precursor a specific pattern of caregiver-infant interaction and their own behavioural sequelae. Repeated patterns of interpersonal experience are encoded in implicit-procedural memory and conceptualized as self-other working models of attachment. These mental models consist of generalized beliefs and expectations about relationships between the self and key attachment figures, not the least of which concerns ones worthiness to receive love and care from others.
In sum, the care-giving environment generally, and the infant-caregiver attachment relationship particularly, initiate the child along one of an array of potential developmental pathways. Disturbance of attachment is the outcome of a series of deviations that take the child increasingly further from adaptive functioning. Child abuse and cumulative developmental trauma violate the childs sense of trust, identity and agency and have pernicious and seminal influences on the developing personality. In essence, internal working models of early attachment relationships provide the templates for psychopathology in later life, which may include violent, destructive and self-destructive forms of behaviour. In attachment theory, the main purpose of defence is the regulation of emotions. The primary mechanisms for achieving this are distance regulation and the defensive exclusion of thoughts and feelings associated with attachment trauma.
Early trauma in the form of abuse, loss, neglect and severe parent-child misattunement compromises brain-mediated functions such as attachment, empathy and affect regulation. From an attachment theory perspective, patterns of attachment are encoded and stored as generalized relational patterns in the systems of implicit memory. These are conceptualized as cognitive-affective internal working models which are seen as mediating how we think and feel about ourselves, others and the relationships we develop. Although open to change and modification in the light of new attachment experiences, whether positive or negative, these non-conscious procedural models, scripts or schemas within which early stress and trauma are retained, tend to persevere and guide, appraise and predict attachment-related thoughts, feelings and behaviours throughout the life cycle via the implicit memory system. Psychopathology is seen as deriving from an accumulation of maladaptive interactional patterns that result in character traits and personality types and disorders.
Disorganised attachment may occur when the childs parent is both the source of fear and the only protective figure to whom to turn to resolve stress and anxiety. In such instances, neither proximity seeking nor proximity avoiding is a solution to the activation of the childs attachment and fear behavioural systems. If the trauma remains unresolved and is carried into adulthood, it leaves the individual vulnerable to affect dysregulation in interpersonal conflict situations that induce fear, hate, shame and rage. In such cases, alcohol and illicit drugs are often resorted to as a maladaptive means of suppressing dreaded psychobiological states and restoring a semblance of affective equilibrium.
Findings show that disorganised attachment developed in infancy shifts to controlling behaviour in the older child and adult, reflecting an internalized mental model of the self as unlovable, unworthy of care and support, and fearful of rejection, betrayal and abandonment. Disorganised attachment is associated with a predisposition to relational violence, to dissociative states and conduct disorders in children and adolescents, and to personality disorders in adults. This state of mind constitutes a primary risk factor for the development of borderline, anti-social and sociopathic personality disorders. The rate of such disorders in forensic settings is particularly high. Clinically, dissociated traumatic experience is unsymbolized by thought and language, being encapsulated within the personality as a separate, non-reflective reality which is cut off from authentic human relatedness. The information contained in implicit memory may be retrieved by state-dependent moods and situations. Dissociated archaic internal working models are then activated, influencing and distorting expectations of current events and relationships outside of conscious awareness, particularly in situations involving intense interpersonal stress. In such situations, the self is felt to be endangered, thereby increasing the risk of an angry and potentially violent reaction.
Part of the separation wall in Bethlehem where Pope Francis prayed, covered today by graffitii.
© Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk
INL's 30-stage solvent extraction mixer-settler system for rare earth element separation. It is part of INL's Critical Materials Institute work.
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"And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the final hour of separation."
-- Kahlil Gibran
While not my favourite, mostly because the images are a little softer than what I came to expect. But there's nothing wrong with running with Rodinal and 2238, a slight uptick in contrast, no noticeable increase in grain or sharpness. Honestly, I think a pull and a reduction in time might do the combo some good.
You can read the full review online.
www.alexluyckx.com/blog/index.php/2020/06/08/film-review-...
Minolta XE-7 - Minolta W.Rokkor-X 28mm 1:2.8 - Eastman 2238 @ ASA-12
Blazinal (1+50) 15:00 @ 20C
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC
Anxiety attack symptoms, Anxiety, Anxiety attacks, anxiety attack, social anxiety disorder, - Stress releaving photos
www.anxiety-attack-panic-chronic-depression-bipolar-disor...
Carl Zeiss Jena 1Q Biotar 1.4/25 from Pentaflex AK16 film camera, (1961) at f/1.4. Adapted to NEX using c7Adapter. Does not cover the FF sensor, not strange for a 16 mm film lens, although its 50 mm brother does..
Photographed on Film with Olympus OM-1n using Kodak Portra 400VC film. 500mm f8 Mirror-reflex lens.
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Hommage. Pierre. Défunt. Accompagner.
Envoi. Méditation. Prière. - BOUCLAGE -
Quand les morts s'en vont, ils disparaissent de nos vies, ne sont plus avec nous, avec leur corps, leurs gestes, leur voix.
Pourtant ils restent là, à leur manière, à l'intérieur, dans les profondeurs de nos coeurs soudain illuminés par cette lumière venu les chercher au tombeau et qu'ils projettent sur nous, car ils sont devenu cette lumière.
On les VOIT, ils vivent, sourient, nous murmurent des mots vrais, consolateurs, et éclairants. Bien plus que de leur vivant.
Il nous faut renoncer à les toucher, parler avec eux, nous tenir compagnie, faire comme avant.
Leur présence devient autre.
Elle est réelle.
Comme Marie,
Comme Jésus,
Comme les saints que nous prions,
Comme notre ange gardien qui nous protège.
C'est le grand et beau mystère de la mort du corps si difficile à appréhender et qui nous fait peur.
Mais si nous l'acceptons, si nous le recevons dedans, le transcendant, alors la MORT se fait amie, et elle nous révèle une part importante de son secret, qui nous transforme.
C'EST IMPORTANT.
Pierre, je te sais ailleurs.
J'ai la certitude que tu feras beaucoup pour nous, au pro-rata de ta vie qui fut très éprouvante et que tu as si bien bravé.
Je te confie à NOTRE DAME DE LA PAIX.
Spécialement. Tu vois bien que le hasard n'existe pas justement.
Tu es parti de l'autre côté du chemin.
Droite certainement, comme les élus du ciel assis à la droite du trône de Dieu après leur fin et aux fins du Royaume éternel où ils auront leur part pleine et glorieuse. Elle sera un prolongement merveilleux de leur vie.
C'est ICI que nos chemins se séparent, dans cet accompagnement pour toi, que j'ai fait avec tout mon coeur.
Il restera.
Ses mots sont imprimés quelque part dans le grand livre blanc.
Que ton âme soit bénie, sauvée, et que tu te reconnaisses une fois la porte étroite franchie, où tu auras dit ton OUI à l'appel, ayant compris...
Alors ta vie nouvelle sera une immense porteuse de fruits au ciel et sur la terre, pour les tiens qui en ont besoin .
Je ne t'oublie pas.
Je repars dans ma direction.
Et je veille , priant pour toi et ceux que tu as laissés. Et je serai très attentive aux signes.
MERCI d'avoir été mon frère, ainsi.
Tu le resteras à jamais.
La paix soit toujours avec toi et l'amour aussi.
FIN DE l'HOMMAGE.
Week 6 of social distancing in San Francisco. Ilford HP5 in Rodinal 1:25, 8 min at 20C, scanned with plustek opticfilm 8100
This is a wall. Anywhere in the world, it would be called a wall. But in many Israeli reports, it's referred to as a "fence" - as though it were like a garden fence between two neighbors. Such are the wonders of hasbara.
and I want you to show me!!!
We had an 80's playlist going the whole time, and I picture this frog singing this song in his head at this moment.
“I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don’t know what grey is. I never did.”
The forced separation of two organisms that are meant to be together, creating entropy in an ecosystem!!!1!!11!!!
I don't know why I did this
A painful separation. Suzanne must let leave Amadou.
Une séparation douloureuse. Suzanne doit laisser partir Amadou.