Weekly Photo Challenge: Room

7 juni, 2014 / Leya / 31 kommentarer

This week’s photo challenge is called Room – for us to interpret the way we feel. A room for me to love, must contain flowers and plants and it must contain books. As books and humidity don’t go that well together, my real dream will never come true. There will have to be at least two rooms… But, here’s a dream medley, finished off with what comes closest – in my home.

Books are of course essential in my room

And flowers – orchids are not wrong…

…colours and shapes…

…and divine compositions…

…in a warm stillness.

I admire people who don’t tear down buildings – but recreate. This is the old railwaystaion hall in Madrid.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Split-Second Story

30 maj, 2014 / Leya / 6 kommentarer

Split-second stories, two of them, both chosen from trips done in May this year.

In the first picture we were travelling by bus, the students and teachers of the science program. On this narrow bridge we caught up with a young boy who took to biking as fast as he could to get to the other side. I understand his hurry…

Another trip was by car on a ferry to a small island. I think I captured the story in double frames?

Weekly Photo Challenge: Twist

24 maj, 201424 maj, 2014 / Leya / 30 kommentarer

A film tunnel that twists and turns..turning back time….A big surprise where we least expected it! Kristianstad was once a real film city and renowned as ”Little Paris” This tunnel contains old film memories of the great days back then in 1905 and the 20th C. This week Kristianstad celebrated its 400 years´ jubilée – and the King and Queen attended.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Work of Art

18 maj, 201418 maj, 2014 / Leya / 45 kommentarer

Nothing beats Nature when it comes to Art.

Early in the day this little coot was doing her morning toilet standing in a pool of water. She was silently watching me while going about it.

Moss and lichen are small but beautiful works of art. Together, earthen brown and light green are naturally soothing and mind lifting.

My last picture for work of art belongs to a series of morning views in my blog Warden Spirits. Early morning mist over the fields.

Weekly Photo Challenge: On the Move

13 maj, 2014 / Leya / 18 kommentarer

On the move – driving home in the heavy rain.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Spring

3 maj, 20143 maj, 2014 / Leya / 44 kommentarer

I think spring to me is a feeling…filling me from head to feet…when walking in my forest late in the evening. In the green flow of the fragrant beeches, listening to the clear melodies of the thrush in the canopy and the little strong voiced wren in the dark shrubbery below. Standing in the clearing the soft fragrance of hackberry fills the air, and I just breathe – Spring.

Everything is near and still far away…and I…am here, in the moment, in my self, in nature. Reborn.

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Pleasure

2 maj, 20142 maj, 2014 / Leya / 26 kommentarer

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young
Oscar Wilde.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Letters

26 april, 201426 april, 2014 / Leya / 42 kommentarer

Letters – letters and words, combined they make language. One of the things separating us from animals – the written language. What would happen if we didn’t have it? Letters and words give you power. Not only for Love. They are the strongest weapon. Burning books is still done…, leaking written facts…, starting and ending wars. Letters.

The most beautiful letters I know of are the Tibetan letters. The skill of making them is pure art. This is not a full alphabet, but called an alphasyllabary. It is a segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as a unit: each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary. Read more about the alphabet here.

These pilgrim stones are placed on the path leading up to the Pothala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet. Even if I don’t know the exact meaning of what’s written on them, I think I know something of their content.

I know that somewhere on these stones is carved the primary mantra of Tibetan Buddhism. It is commonly carved onto rocks or written on paper that’s inserted into prayer wheels. When the wheels are spinned the prayers will find their right way without someone constantly reciting them. Oṃ Maṇi Padme Hūṃ (Tibetan: ༀམཎིཔདྨེཧཱུྃ )

The mantra in Tibetan with the six syllables coloured. The exact meaning of the words is discussed, but below is the interpretation by the 14th Dalai Lama:

14th Dalai Lama

”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 […] symbolizes the practitioner’s impure body, speech, and mind; it also symbolizes the pure exalted body, speech, and mind of a Buddha[…]”

”The path is indicated by the next four syllables. Mani, meaning jewel, symbolizes the factors of method: (the) altruistic intention to become enlightened, compassion, and love.[…]”

”The two syllables, padme, meaning lotus, symbolize wisdom[…]”

”Purity must be achieved by an indivisible unity of method and wisdom, symbolized 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[…]”

Quotation from Wikipedia