It is only when the subtle mind is externalized through the activity of the intellect and the sense-organs that gross name and form constituting the world appear. When, on the other hand, the mind stays firmly in the Heart, they recede and disappear.

all that naturey crap was starting to make me twitch. needed something to break it up

This video introduces us about Akram vignan and current living Gnani Purush Pujya Deepakbhai. It says that Pujya Deepakbhai is absolutely beyond fear, He has found himself, He is beyond all vision and opinions, He is not concerned about how the world judges Him or thinks about Him. The interviewer asks that when one being is liberated another one comes into incarnation. How often liberation happens? Pujya Deepakbhai says that in the scriptures it is mentioned that at a time, minimum one and maximum 108 Souls can go for salvation. It is difficult to get salvation but Param Pujya Dadabhagwan has found out a spiritual science that where is the starting point of charging new karma once stopped then automatically after discharge of past karma gets finished, the Soul gets ultimate liberation. Every human being requires a form in order to reach the formless, this is the summary of all the religions. When one looks very critically at various religious symbols there is no difference to reach the formless. Some people refuse to believe that God has form and when He comes in form, to remind that which is the highest amongst Men, such human beings are very very rare. He says that ultimate goal of human life is to achieve liberation which is possible after Self Realization that is knowing ‘Who am I’ and for realization an Enlightened person is needed. If you do not get the opportunity for Self Realization then use your mind, body and speech, intellect and ego to help others. If you give happiness, then you get happiness. If we want permanent happiness we must achieve self realization.

My entire fucking arm hurts from being buzzed and deciding it was a good idea to climb over a HIGH fence to swim in a private pool.

Even when extraneous thoughts sprout up during such enquiry, do not seek to complete the rising thought but instead, deeply enquire within, ‘To whom has this thought occurred?’

Knowing that the train carries all the weight, why indeed should we, the passengers travel-ling in it, carry our small individual articles of luggage on our laps to our great discomfort, instead of putting them aside and sitting at perfect ease?

If the mind becomes absorbed in the Heart, the ego or ‘1’, which is the centre of the multitude of thoughts, finally vanishes and pure Consciousness or Self, which subsists during all the states of the mind, alone remains resplendent. It is this state, where there is not the slightest trace of the ‘I’-thought, that is the true Being of oneself. And that is called Quiescence or Mouna (Silence).

It's been a while since I uploaded anything. October just sort of flew by me, and November is off to a vicious start, as well.

This is one of the Mirrors set for my capstone project. I may rework this one in terms of color, after I finish the other two in the set. The other two photos have a lot of rose and orange tone in them that I'd like to keep, but I'm not sure if this blue one will look out of place, or if the mirror symbol can connect it strongly enough to the set as a whole.

I wish I'd had a bigger mirror to clearly show that this is a reflection turning its back on the woman in front of the mirror. I didn't have a meaning in mind when I first sketched out this scene, but the more I think about it, the more I believe it's about the difficulty we can often have forgiving ourselves. I know I'm far less forgiving of myself than I am of people outside my self. Hmm.

The flowers beside Erika were a strange addition that was not in the original photo concept. When we came to the beach, we had to sneak the mirror onto the beach, so I drove everyone (David, Danielle, and Erika) down to the camping area and they unloaded the car there. Then I drove back to the parking lot and walked a couple of miles down the beach to where they were setting up. As I was walking, I saw flowers strewn out across the beach in various places - hundreds of flowers. I didn't see anyone near them, or anyone tossing flowers around... so I picked a little bouquet as I wandered down the beach. I tossed them into this shot just to see how they would look - and it turned out to be the shot I liked best. I think the flowers add a nice counterpoint of color to the rest of the image. So hooray for unexpected bouquets!

On a production note: I've started thinking of nearly all my photo sets in terms of 3, these days. Maybe it's the influence of the whole project (a 7-piece series made up of sets of 3), or maybe it's something else in my psyche to do with the number 3, I don't know. At any rate, even my non-capstone projects I've started thinking of as sets of 3 photos.

Anyway, I hope I'll have the other two photos in this set posted soon.

Model: Erika

Master of Props: David Aneja

Mistress of Props: Danielle Vinette

Texture by les brumes

A certain pesky contact who shall go unnamed keeps pestering me to play. ...Jeh did too... but he's excused.

Why, WHY do you people think I'm fun! Boooooo... I'm anti-fun, people. get over it! =P

anyways, I'm not tagging anyone.... except maybe Wendy... who'd probably play along even if I didn't tag her.

you know the rules. sit down, no primping, and take a spontaneous SP.... and post 6 days later.... ;)

By incessantly pursuing within yourself the inquiry ‘Who am I?’, you will know your true self and thereby attain salvation.

Realisation is nothing but seeing God literally. Our greatest mistake is that we think of God as acting symbolically and allegorically instead of practically and literally.

I love this hat.

look who's making a rare appearance on her own stream.

Nekkid in the hawker centre? I wish. but it sure looks like it, right? :D

not taken by me.

“He knows what is best and when and how to do it. His is the burden. You have no longer any cares. All your cares are His. Such is surrender,” says Sri Ramana Maharshi.

I really really really want to move back to bangkok :(

can someone up there hire me, please?

kthxbai.

I love to hang upside down but I hate the blood rush to my head. It's a conundrum. Eh.

...My Jessops 360 AFD Flashgun arrived through the post this morning. Just taken a self portrait and really my first attempt at using a Flashgun.

I pointed the flash to aim slightly off the wall and onto the ceiling to bounce the flash rather then making a bright flash onto the mirror, ruining the photograph.

Anyway, have a good weekend and I am to Eastbourne Airshow on Sunday. I shall return then with pictures to share, depending on the UK weather!

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Just a simple comment would be nice no big logos...thank you!

Continuing my exploration of the self and alter egos I produced this body of work, which I called Brooke.

This alter ego spawns off the idea of having hard exteriors or thick skin. I thought about a girl that never lets her guard down around anybody and not even for herself. The model was asked to portray tough, bored, vague, angry and neutral emotions. Might re-do concept in the future. Model: Elizabeth Sandman

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My younger brother lived with me in Santa Fe for a while and almost every morning we would do these impromptu shoots in the bathroom.

Thank you for bearing witness.

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I ❤ Deer...and Nature...

love it love it love it!

Me, D's Middle Finger, and Ro-dent...

Sept 23, 2009

5'4

122lbs

Light Brown Hair (Natural)

Hazel Eyes (Natural)

Tattoo'd, Pierced, and

100% Nuyorican

Look - Medusa!!

An image from a project I did exploring the notion of alter ego's and presenting the self in different ways. My Lucy alter ego revolves around the idea of a person that is jaded and has her head up in the clouds, basking in her surroundings. Starring: S.S

While the color doesn't come up in this photo...I was badly bruised on my chest the day after New Years Eve...eh.

(i cut my hair (by myself) again. why can't i just let them grow long?....comme des garcon....)

in the movie "adaptation", donald kauffman wrote a script, called "the three".

here's one paragraph of the three:(it's shown at the end of the credit of the adaptation.)

"We're all one thing, Lieutenant. That's what I've come to realize. Like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell." - Cassie from THE THREE

I just wanted a photo of what I was wearing...because I'm a fucking dork.

25 years old and Happier than Ever.

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