To advance, to transpire, to transcent, through music, through space, from mountain to mountian, ocean to ocean, one night club to one religious retreat...
I think this is the only good gourmet restaurant up in Tien Mu Area .... When I first heard of this name, I immediately thought of the Never Never Land in Peter Pan. Although the restaurant itself does not represent any bit of animation, as soon as I stepped into its garden and bakery area, I can sense the fragrance of exoticism and delicacy !
Everything passed by so quickly that we never noticed it.
This afternoon I placed an un blossomed Lilly flower in the vase as an daily offering to Buddha and deities then went to take an afternoon summer shower. When I came back to pay respect to deities after one hour, the pinkish flower bud was not only burgeoning, but it was half blossomed already.
How amazing !!! Life and time travel so fast .....
Suddenly, I realize this Lilly flower is truly alive and truly opening up in a short movement of time, only that I did not notice the speed of it's growing within matters of seconds.....
As much I have been so touched, I am sending my appreciation and blessings to all sentient beings including my family, lover, friends, strangers, and plants of nature!
Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.
A Scene in a movie :
Going to a Color White Party hosted by White Tara....
I am touched by a love song shedding tears like Pearl dropping, as I walk down the ail to meet this secret person....
There is a silver metal light shinning in my eyes from the strap of his watch reflects at my crystal necklace....
At a table, there sits a crystal ball forecasting my dreams, which display heavenly music with snow and light...
Porcelain, My face smiles like a porcelain doll, pure and shy... Looking up at the sky there is a milky way gathered white cloud acting as a bridge to heaven.... The sun rises from the surface of water of lake moon, glittering platinum Light, so sacred and powerful ...
This light reflects white tara's pure nature of compassion emits into my heart making it translucent and shine....
I transform into model of purity as Virgin walking towards a white marble stair....
As soft as satin, I feel the air permeates with fragrance of white lotus....
Meeting the secret one, smiling, heart to heart, hand to hand, lips to lips, becoming one as Perfection as the Emptiness in Love....
Pina Bausch Brought out our sadness, joy, beauty, fear , pain and loneliness, which seem so alive in the 3 D movie theater. I like this documentary very much !!
Philippina "Pina" Bausch[1] (27 July 1940 – 30 June 2009) was a German performer of modern dance, choreographer and ballet director. With her unique style, a blend of movements, sounds and prominent stage sets, and with her elaborate cooperation with performers during the composition of a piece (a style now known as Tanztheater), she became a leading influence since the 1970s in the world of modern dance.[2]
The film presents extracts from some of the most noted dance pieces by Pina Bausch in the Tanztheater ("dance theater") style of which Bausch was a leading exponent. The extracts are from four pieces: Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Café Müller, Kontakthof, and Vollmond. These are complemented with interviews and further dance choreographies, which were shot in and around Wuppertal, Germany; the film includes scenes showing the Wuppertal Schwebebahn, an elevated railway, and some dances sequences take place inside its carriages.
In the first piece, Le sacre du printemps, (Frühlingsopfer, The Rite of Spring (1975)), the dancers of the Tanztheater Wuppertal, separated into male and female groups, move about a stage covered by a thick layer of peat.
The following section, Café Müller (1978), portrays a café Pina often visited when she was a child.[citation needed]
The next piece, Kontakthof, (Kontakt "contact" + Hof "court, courtyard", hence "contact court, courtyard of contact") was performed multiple times for Wenders' cameras, with groups of different generations: teenagers, middle-aged dancers, and dancers over 65 (Bausch had choreographed these three variants, as Kontakthof – Mit Teenagern ab 14 (2008), Kontakthof (1978), and Kontakthof – Mit Damen und Herren ab 65 (2000)). The film edits these performances into one, cutting between different performers to highlight their different abilities.
In the final piece, Vollmond, (2006) (Vollmond, "full moon") the stage is flooded. The scenery consists of one large rock and some chairs. At the end of the film, the actors face the audience on a small path with a brown coal mining region in the background to an open end.
We enjoy heavenly pleasures and therefore avoid earthly ones. No worldly tumult is to be heard in heaven. All live in greatest peace. We lead angelic lives, yet have a merry time of it besides. We dance and we spring, We skip and we sing. Saint Peter in heaven looks on.
Posing as "Snow White" on the day of Dragon Boat Festival in the Sexiest City in Asia !
As I walk down the aisle,
there you are,
smiling eyes with embracing arms,
no matter what I had encountered,
I devote and bow myself
to your magnificent compassion;
I surrender to supreme power of wisdom,
manifesting
as pure as snow,
as translucent as white lotus,
I become you,
the Venerable White Tara.
The initiatory rites of White Tara are said to prolong the recipient's life, removing "diseases, sins obscurations, and untimely death."
Holy blessed Tara ,
May we all quickly attain the fruit of great enlightenment;
May the sufferings of all beings, infinite as space, quickly be exhausted;
May we attain the unobstructed strength to save the unsaved, rescue the unreduced,
Banish the sighs of the careworn, and place all beings in the stage of Nirvana.
May the holy Tara ever protect us unweakened and unerring through all our future lives!"
The qualities of White Tara are ultimately inseparable from our own.
Her loving kindness reflects an innate altruism that arises spontaneously from recognizing realities,
but a reaching outward to embrace the world with infinite compassion.
If we see through to Tara's essence, she frees us from self-serving thoughts and encourages us to act selflessly, and wisely, for the benefit of all beings;
the surest prescription for a long and fulfilling life !!!
Open Seven Eyes:
Like Tara, and be sure that everyhing you do, every step you take,
every thought you think, is fueled by compassion.
You will then be inseparable from White Tara,
THe embodiment of Pure Love !!!
"When we have compassion toward anyone, it does not mean that we are standing at a higher position where we are giving out something from our sympathy", Rinpoche reminded us as the above.
Because we have empathy over this person, in which we can feel their suffering, their pain and their needs inside as we have the similar obstacles within us, we then offer assistance to this person.
Charity has become an essential part of my life, as I participate many activities in helping those under privileged or physical impaired people, I realize the most precious principle, beside the luxurious appearance of such, is to cherish each moment of what I have bestowed and to see and feel with my heart and my soul....
Dear Mighty God, Buhdda , and High Spirit,
Please Grant me Wisdom,
Ability to Trust, and Love,
Please Grant me Beauty and Happiness...
As I promise to be awaken and grant my merit to others....
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