Venice

“By day it is filled with boat traffic – water buses, delivery boats, gondolas

- if something floats and it's in Venice, it moves along the Grand Canal.
And by daylight it is one of the glories of the Earth.
But at night, especially when the moon is full and the soft illumination reflects off the water and onto the palaces - I don't know how to describe
it so I won't, but if you died and in your will you
asked for your ashes to be spread gently on the
Grand Canal at midnight with a full moon,
everyone would know this about you - you loved and understood beauty.”
― William Goldman, The Silent Gondoliers

PHOTO FRIDAY

THE CURRENT CHALLENGE

Fri Dec 11, 2015

This week’s challenge:

      ‘Transportation’.

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Venetian Party

 REAL PEACE

The peace I am talking about is the peace without which we would lose the very

fabric of who we are, the peace that dances in the heart of everyone. The reality. The

beauty. The joy. The true peace—not an absence of something, but the very presence

of something. That is what is alive. That is what is possible. Even in the middle of a

war, a person can experience this peace.

Some people think freedom is when you get away from your house for the weekend.

To teenagers, freedom is when they leave their parents’ house. Freedom to parents

is when their teenagers actually leave, not just threaten to leave, but actually leave.

Is that freedom?

Freedom from my troubles. Is that freedom? Freedom from my concerns. Is that

freedom? Freedom from my responsibilities. Is that freedom?

I talk about a freedom that can be felt even in a prison. That’s the freedom that

no one can take away from me. Peace that cannot be disturbed—that is real peace.

Freedom that cannot be taken away—that is real freedom.

Who am I? Who are you? We have a singular quest to better

ourselves—to evolve, to move forward, to improve upon all

that can be improved. To make it better.

My message is about the possibility of the ultimate betterment

of a human being—not of mankind, not of a country, not of

a social belief, but of a human being. And it is not through

religion or doctrine, not through ideas or concepts. Neither is

it through hearsay or repetition.

It is through each individual exploring and finding the beauty

within themselves.

 —Prem Rawat

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"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too."

–  Blaise Pascal

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Venice Paysage II

Zen and the Art of Photography

Wayne Rowe California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Driven by a passion for photography and a fascination with the

Zen Buddhist philosophy,

the author conceptually and experientially examines the relationship between

Zen Buddhism and the art of photography.

Among the subjects discussed:

What is the relationship between haiku and photography?

What is the relationship between the mind of the photographer

while creating a photograph and the Zen concept of the Empty Mind?

What role does intuition and feeling play in photography?

In Zen?

Through examination of these concepts and relationships,

the author explains the heightened awareness, joy, and enlightenment he has experienced through photography and suggests ways that others may share in the creative process.

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Venice Paysage

"Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing."

– Wernher von Braun

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