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CP 473 launches out of Bensenville with a SOO SD60 and a UP SD70M. It looked like a great day to chase this thing across the frozen Illinois wasteland, but the need to earn a paycheck outweighed that desire. Work was waiting...
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31 410 is in charge of the Yarmouth - Norwich stretch of 1K23, the 09:00 Yarmouth - Liverpool Street as it passes Norwich Thorpe Junction
The 31s were just beginning to appear with the addition of the ugly roof fan cowling
Beautiful Gothic building full of mysterious color.
You are full of curiosity, detailed architectural model for a sense of the world view only.
漂亮的歌德式建筑充满了神秘的色彩.
对你充满了好奇,细致的建筑模式令世人感为观止``
A frozen moment in time - a snap of the atmosphere at the "Kopitiam" local deli. Shooting through the glazed screen from inside the restaurant towards the fresco.
A waiter bringing in the orders to the customers. It was a moment before the sunset.
LEICA M3 double stroke, Leica 5cm F1.5 Summarit, Fujifilm Neopan 400 (courtesy of Hiro-san), Kodak Tmax Developer 1:100, Home - Development, 2hr 30 minutes, Ilfospeed Rapid Fixer 1/4 6 minutes, Wide Open
I got out for a sunrise north of Cairns at Ellis Beach. Found this little group of rocks to help with my composition. The sun broke through the clouds for a few minutes and created some nice morning light. Enjoy.
........Arched window.
For those that remember Playschool.
Out one night and saw the window lit up, and remembered those far distant days of B/W tv.
9-22-20 Tunnel City, WI. Amtrak #7 the westbound Empire Builder is coming out of the tunnel and through the hills at Tunnel City on their way to Spokane.
RUPO with MEC 315 - MEC 512 - MEC 516 heads west through Auburn, Maine with about 45 cars.
April 15, 2022
Through the dense woodland, a path to Paradise suddenly appears as the sun shines with its golden light...
The Olympic torch was carried through Paris on April 7th. Despite heavy security, the relay was seriously disrupted by numerous pro-Tibet protesters and human rights activists such as RSF, resulting in a partial cancellation of the event.
Here, near the Eiffel Tower, all hell broke loose: the torch bearer, Jin Jing, a young handicapped girl in a wheelchair, was holding on to the torch, scared and shocked, while one protester after another tried to get close. The police managed to get them all, sometimes less than 2 meters from the torch. In fact, in some instances, some protesters could have easily grabbed the torch but they were just happy to wave their Tibetan flag.
[edit]: when I wrote the caption above, I didn't have all the sources available, it was just based on what I saw directly. So I stand corrected: at least one man DID manage to grab the torch.
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
Part of Paris torche les JO ! (Recommended as a slideshow)
An elderly gentleman makes his way through the backstreets of Kyoto. I saw him approaching with his shiny shoes, purposeful stride and the Japanese flags attached to his trolley. I had a gut reaction that this was a moment I needed to capture. Now, looking back over the thousands of images I took on the trip, this one is special to me. I waited for the moment he would be in just enough sidelight to pick out all the essential elements.
I think there are several layers of meaning here. I’ll leave it up to you to work them out. What do you see?
A special, with 3901, on the long line of the Pomerania meter gauge network from Tapadly to Mieszewo
OHCR 2160 rolls lite through Waste Management's Pittsburgh Greenstar Recycling site as the crew heads back out to the yard to continue their work. July 13, 2020.
Union Pacific Locomotive 5529 leads a few hundred tons of steel through The Dalles. The train was doing about 50 MPH, and I fired the shutter at the absolute last milisecond. I missed by just a hair, but I'm not throwing out the picture because ot it. I would add that the wide angle lens masks how too damn close to a 50 MPH train I was to get this image.
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Through the lens of a philosophical photographer, this image of Klostergarasjen in Bergen, Norway, becomes a meditation on the transient nature of existence. The orderly rows of cars, bathed in the cold, artificial glow of overhead lights, stand as silent witnesses to the fleeting moments of human passage—embodied by the blurred figures with luggage, drifting toward an unseen horizon marked by a solitary arrow. The concrete expanse, both confining and expansive, mirrors the duality of structure and freedom in our lives, while the interplay of light and shadow invites contemplation on the interplay between presence and absence. This is not merely a parking garage, but a stage where time and identity converge, captured in a single, contemplative frame.
Classic Cinderella Deluxe Fashion Giftpack from Mattel - 1991. Includes the Classic Cinderella and Both her Fashion sets!. This was only available through warehouse stores like Costco & Sams Club
Amtrak California Zephyr No. 5 rounds the curve through Leyden, Colorado as the BNSF Provo, Utah to Denver manifest holds in the siding.
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With some Haiku Notes:
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Other dimensions
providing information,
just don't look; but see.
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Take aim and you'll see
truth behind reality
in both yin and yang
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It's all in your mind
concentrate and be mindful
sense reality
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The Noble Eightfold Path describes the way to the end of suffering, as it was laid out by Siddhartha Gautama. It is a practical guideline to ethical and mental development with the goal of freeing the individual from attachments and delusions; and it finally leads to understanding the truth about all things. Together with the Four Noble Truths it constitutes the gist of Buddhism. Great emphasis is put on the practical aspect, because it is only through practice that one can attain a higher level of existence and finally reach Nirvana. The eight aspects of the path are not to be understood as a sequence of single steps, instead they are highly interdependent principles that have to be seen in relationship with each other.
1. Right View
Right view is the beginning and the end of the path, it simply means to see and to understand things as they really are and to realise the Four Noble Truth. As such, right view is the cognitive aspect of wisdom. It means to see things through, to grasp the impermanent and imperfect nature of worldly objects and ideas, and to understand the law of karma and karmic conditioning. Right view is not necessarily an intellectual capacity, just as wisdom is not just a matter of intelligence. Instead, right view is attained, sustained, and enhanced through all capacities of mind. It begins with the intuitive insight that all beings are subject to suffering and it ends with complete understanding of the true nature of all things. Since our view of the world forms our thoughts and our actions, right view yields right thoughts and right actions.
2. Right Intention
While right view refers to the cognitive aspect of wisdom, right intention refers to the volitional aspect, i.e. the kind of mental energy that controls our actions. Right intention can be described best as commitment to ethical and mental self-improvement. Buddha distinguishes three types of right intentions: 1. the intention of renunciation, which means resistance to the pull of desire, 2. the intention of good will, meaning resistance to feelings of anger and aversion, and 3. the intention of harmlessness, meaning not to think or act cruelly, violently, or aggressively, and to develop compassion.
3. Right Speech
Right speech is the first principle of ethical conduct in the eightfold path. Ethical conduct is viewed as a guideline to moral discipline, which supports the other principles of the path. This aspect is not self-sufficient, however, essential, because mental purification can only be achieved through the cultivation of ethical conduct. The importance of speech in the context of Buddhist ethics is obvious: words can break or save lives, make enemies or friends, start war or create peace. Buddha explained right speech as follows: 1. to abstain from false speech, especially not to tell deliberate lies and not to speak deceitfully, 2. to abstain from slanderous speech and not to use words maliciously against others, 3. to abstain from harsh words that offend or hurt others, and 4. to abstain from idle chatter that lacks purpose or depth. Positively phrased, this means to tell the truth, to speak friendly, warm, and gently and to talk only when necessary.
4. Right Action
The second ethical principle, right action, involves the body as natural means of expression, as it refers to deeds that involve bodily actions. Unwholesome actions lead to unsound states of mind, while wholesome actions lead to sound states of mind. Again, the principle is explained in terms of abstinence: right action means 1. to abstain from harming sentient beings, especially to abstain from taking life (including suicide) and doing harm intentionally or delinquently, 2. to abstain from taking what is not given, which includes stealing, robbery, fraud, deceitfulness, and dishonesty, and 3. to abstain from sexual misconduct. Positively formulated, right action means to act kindly and compassionately, to be honest, to respect the belongings of others, and to keep sexual relationships harmless to others. Further details regarding the concrete meaning of right action can be found in the Precepts.
5. Right Livelihood
Right livelihood means that one should earn one's living in a righteous way and that wealth should be gained legally and peacefully. The Buddha mentions four specific activities that harm other beings and that one should avoid for this reason: 1. dealing in weapons, 2. dealing in living beings (including raising animals for slaughter as well as slave trade and prostitution), 3. working in meat production and butchery, and 4. selling intoxicants and poisons, such as alcohol and drugs. Furthermore any other occupation that would violate the principles of right speech and right action should be avoided.
6. Right Effort
Right effort can be seen as a prerequisite for the other principles of the path. Without effort, which is in itself an act of will, nothing can be achieved, whereas misguided effort distracts the mind from its task, and confusion will be the consequence. Mental energy is the force behind right effort; it can occur in either wholesome or unwholesome states. The same type of energy that fuels desire, envy, aggression, and violence can on the other side fuel self-discipline, honesty, benevolence, and kindness. Right effort is detailed in four types of endeavours that rank in ascending order of perfection: 1. to prevent the arising of unarisen unwholesome states, 2. to abandon unwholesome states that have already arisen, 3. to arouse wholesome states that have not yet arisen, and 4. to maintain and perfect wholesome states already arisen.
7. Right Mindfulness
Right mindfulness is the controlled and perfected faculty of cognition. It is the mental ability to see things as they are, with clear consciousness. Usually, the cognitive process begins with an impression induced by perception, or by a thought, but then it does not stay with the mere impression. Instead, we almost always conceptualise sense impressions and thoughts immediately. We interpret them and set them in relation to other thoughts and experiences, which naturally go beyond the facticity of the original impression. The mind then posits concepts, joins concepts into constructs, and weaves those constructs into complex interpretative schemes. All this happens only half consciously, and as a result we often see things obscured. Right mindfulness is anchored in clear perception and it penetrates impressions without getting carried away. Right mindfulness enables us to be aware of the process of conceptualisation in a way that we actively observe and control the way our thoughts go. Buddha accounted for this as the four foundations of mindfulness: 1. contemplation of the body, 2. contemplation of feeling (repulsive, attractive, or neutral), 3. contemplation of the state of mind, and 4. contemplation of the phenomena.
8. Right Concentration
The eighth principle of the path, right concentration, refers to the development of a mental force that occurs in natural consciousness, although at a relatively low level of intensity, namely concentration. Concentration in this context is described as one-pointedness of mind, meaning a state where all mental faculties are unified and directed onto one particular object. Right concentration for the purpose of the eightfold path means wholesome concentration, i.e. concentration on wholesome thoughts and actions. The Buddhist method of choice to develop right concentration is through the practice of meditation. The meditating mind focuses on a selected object. It first directs itself onto it, then sustains concentration, and finally intensifies concentration step by step. Through this practice it becomes natural to apply elevated levels concentration also in everyday situations.
An Additional Haiku Note:
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Take time be aware
we are no-thing but our thoughts
so said the Buddha
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Personal Thoughts from August 07, 1976
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Energy is one.
Individuals are parts of that one.
Individuals through a source such as Love
(or other emotion or virtue) are one.
Thoughts are a source of energy.
Energy is neither created or destroyed.
Thoughts are neither created or destroyed.
Individuals are tuned-in to thoughts.
We do not think; we experience thought.
Our level of development is how we use
these thoughts to experience other
thoughts.
We are actually experiencing energies.
Our level of development is how we can
tune-in to these energies.
Our true purpose is to think and develop;
think and develop; become the source of energy.
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