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Am I the shadow?
The caster of the shadow?
Or, the light?
Who am I?
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I am the shadow.
The caster of the shadow.
And, the light.
I am.
Am I the shadow?
The caster of the shadow?
Or, the light?
Who am I?
• • •
I am the shadow.
The caster of the shadow.
And, the light.
I am.
In my last post, I mentioned having a workshop on the next day with big waves – and it did not disappoint! Jackie and I had worked together the last two years and this year we decided to do a two day photo workshop, allowing us more time to get to some of the further out spots of Maui and the Hana side. The first day, Jaws was breaking BIG – like, 40+ feet – so after a quick sunrise shoot at Ho'okipa Point, we made our way down the road to Pe'ahi.
Over the course of the next 90 minutes, we both shot many frames of these incredible surfers riding these beautiful epic waves.
We have had a number of large swells this winter here in Hawaii that has produced waves up to 30 feet and beyond – mostly on the North and West facing shores. It sounds like the largest swell of the season is happening right now and waves are expected to get to over 40 feet! I've got Big Maui Surf on My Mind!
A few weeks ago I made my way to Ho'okipa Point at sunrise to shoot this series of photographs in this post. I assigned myself a mini-project so I sat down today, edited the images, developed them, and here they are!
SILVERSWORD Maui, Hawaii 2015
The sun lowers into the ocean and the sapphire blue sky soon revises itself, deepening in shade first to lapis, then navy, and furthermore to an indigo blue with a deep purple influence. By this time, my focus was no longer on the atmosphere above, but rather on the volcanic cinder underfoot. My descent into the depths of the dormant volcano, the Haleakala crater of Maui, was underway. Beginning from the summit, an elevation of over 10,000 feet, my attention was now solely focused on the few feet of area ahead, being lit by my headlamp. Of course there was still some attention lingering with the atmosphere, but now it was focused on the cool, dry, crispness moving in and out of my lungs. "That's reason enough to hike on a mountain – it results in further attention to breath," I think to myself, as I navigate my way further down the crater interior, nearly 3,000 feet below.
If you were interested in learning about long exposure photography techniques and were to do a Google search: "how to long exposure photography", you would find 32,300,000 search results giving you 1000 lives worth of information, tips, pointers, techniques and more. Over 32 million! Long exposure photography is obviously a very popular topic, and one you could study forever. However, studying the topic of photography technique is not nearly as exciting as actually going out and photographing, so let's tweak the question and ask "why". Why make long exposures? Asking "how to" activates something in the thinking-mind that wants to research, study, and gain knowledge. Curiously asking "why" is born out of a different part of our self and activates something else entirely – the inner creative. When activated, the inner creative is more inclined to go out and photograph life and experiment with different techniques – not just sit at home and read about them. When you understand the why, the how to comes quite naturally.
There are countless reasons why to make long exposure photographs. Let's look at some of them and you will begin to not only see the endless possibilities, but likely begin to feel sparks of inspiration that with some focused attention, will allow you to go out and make fire with your photographs.
You can create a hint of movement in the water, as seen here with a 1/15 second exposure of a wave exploding against the rocks. Why? Because you don't want your photos to look like the guy who jumped off the tour bus and took a quick snap. And, it lends itself more to the feeling that the wave is blowing up into the sky.
INTERSECT Maui, Hawaii
If you close your eyes and visualize your living room and the various elements within the room, what do you see? A sofa, a coffee table, an entertainment center, a TV, art, and probably quite a number of other elements. Now, let me ask you – which element is the largest in the room?
If you are like most people, your response might be – the sofa, the TV, or the entertainment center. If you think a bit more cleverly, you might say – the walls. What most people don't recognize is, there is much more "space" than anything else, by far. Physicists tell us that 99.999% of the universe is space – no-thingness. Oddly, science can be so much more bizarre than science fiction! If you removed all the empty space from the entire human race, leaving only electrons and the other subatomic particles, all seven billion human bodies would fit in the space of a sugar cube. That's just mind boggling stuff, right? But that gives you a sense of how much space there is in relation to form – yet we rarely bring our attention to the space.
With the living room exercise, it points out how we as people are living primarily form-based. That is to say, our attention is always going from one form to the next to the next – whether it be the external forms of the world, or the hyper-active thought-forms continuously flowing through our minds seemingly on auto-pilot. We are form-conscious beings, but is this our natural state? Isn't it odd that 99.999% of everything is space yet we hardly bring our attention to it?
There we were on Shell Beach in Southern California's "Jewel" – La Jolla. If you consider shorts, t-shirt and flip flops ideal attire, then the mid-August weather was just perfect. The sweet morning light was just beginning to show herself to those of us eager enough to be awake, which on this morning included myself and seven photography workshop participants who were joining me for one of my California workshops. Shell Beach seemed like an ideal location to take seven passionate photographers for a sunrise – it's small and intimate, yet contains many elements that can be arranged well for a diverse style of seeing photographic compositions. It's only as wide as a football field, yet both sides lead upward to steep cliffs that stretch out toward the sea, undercut with partial caves on the sides and a scattering of rocks throughout the beach, with a couple large rocks just offshore where pelicans and cormorants linger about. Having photographed this spot many times before, I knew good compositional arrangements could be made, but of course, it is also quite easy to include too much or too little and fall short of success as well. So, an ideal setting to place students – a place where they can make it work, or not, and then discuss the why's and why not's as to what is working and what is not working in real time.
One of my favorite things is to hike down Sliding Sands Trail in the Haleakala National Park, the night before the full moon, during sunset time. It gives me a chance to get down inside the crater, one of my favorite places on the planet, during the time of optimal-sweet light. With or without camera, I recognize this as an incredible life-experience – one that I always try and make time for, at least a few times a year. Last night, I was able to share this experience with a Maui photo workshop participant who was looking for an adventurous photographic expedition during his island vacation to Maui. It so happened that on this particular day, the moonrise was the most dramatic of the year! With the sun perfectly opposite the moon, the light and size of the moon appeared to be 14% larger and 30% brighter than normal! It only made sense for us to venture into the crater from atop the 10,023 foot peak, and put ourselves in an epic and otherworldly place (inside a volcanic crater) for this special moonrise! As good fortune would have it, we were graced with an insane sunset and the light was so sweet.
The Big Island was clearly visible, seemingly close enough to touch, as the large and brilliant moon arose above it. Me – as much as I was ooh'ing and aah'ing the moonrise to the right of this scene, I couldn't resist focusing my photographic efforts on the sweet, brilliant, and colorful light that presented itself to my lens in this composition. Here, in Hawaii, being much closer to the equator, this period of sweet-light does not last long. It is fleeting. Ephemeral. You put yourself in in the right place, at the right time, and hope for the best. Last night, I found myself at the right place at the right time – very cool to be able to share the experience with another passionate photographer!
PAINTED FOREST Maui, Hawaii 2013
A number of years ago, I decided I wanted to make a successful image or two of the Rainbow Eucalyptus trees. I am aware of a few small groves of these trees here on Maui, and I had my sights on one of them in particular. These trees are extraordinary. Beautiful. Perhaps the most stunning tree on the planet! Well, no matter – one of the most stunning anyways. Really, they look as if they were hand-painted by Salvador Dali himself!
As a subject to a successful landscape photograph, this can be very easy to bugger up. How? The most common mistake would be to include too much in the scene, allowing these other elements to take away from the trees. Another aspect that I was hyper-aware of is that these trees have been photographed once or twice before. Okay, many times before. I didn't want to just go out and do the norm, the expected. I wanted to do something special, something different. So, I waited. I resisted doing the norm and getting the standard shot to include into my portfolio, desiring something more expressive and personal.
A couple of years ago, the vision became clear in my mind's eye. I visualized a way to capture these trees in a way that was different, personal and of-my-own-style, while bringing the viewers attention solely to the beauty of the trees. I'd shoot them at night! – while introducing my own light source. Now, with the image clearer in my mind, it was just a matter of doing the work.
On a few separate occasions, I recruited a friend to journey to the other side of the island, in the dark of night, to assist me in my attempts to bring vision to expression. On each of those occasions, I came close to my vision. Sometimes very close, making it difficult to decide whether the images were worthy of releasing into my portfolio and to the world, or if I should work harder and try again. Each time, after living with the images for some weeks, I ultimately determined that they did not live up to the vision I had. The work was not done.
My energy waned some, and nearly a year passed before I returned to give it another go, but the idea and vision stayed with me, and I trusted that it was simply a matter of time before it would happen. Early 2013, while driving home from a shoot, I get to thinking about the trees. It's nighttime. I'm in the neighborhood. I'm feeling motivated. But, I'm alone. The thinking-mind tries to start talking me out of it: It's totally dark. The shoot will be too tough with no assistance. What if zombies get me. And on it went. As I approached the trees, I was still 50/50 whether to stop or B-line it home: I am kinda hungry. I still have an-hour drive home. A glass of wine would be awesome right now. As the trees neared, the will to shoot won and I pulled the truck over, geared up, and headed out to shoot the trees in the dark of night.
For the next 90 minutes, I worked through the process of making the images, with a goal of making two successful photographs. From my earlier experiences, I already had a good idea of the look that I was after, and how to achieve it with my painting-with-light techniques. Nearby cows roaming about in the surrounding fields sure did sound like zombies coming to get me, but I stayed focused and remained mindful to the myriad aspects that would make this work, or not. Once I felt that I had successfully captured good strong foundations in-camera, I headed home, anxious to see if they would translate to print.
I am happy to say that they do translate well to print, and do represent my initial vision very well!
RAINBOW TREES Maui, Hawaii 2013
I often speak with my Maui photo workshop students about how to make personal-expressive work, and working through "the process". It is important – recognize the path as a process and do the work. Allowing yourself to have a vision in your mind, and then working backwards from there is an exciting way to work! Vision to expression. Working this way, the process of making photographs is very rewarding and the path is a joyful one.
As the world of photography and image making is proliferating, so is the behavior of seeing-and-repeating. In recognizing and bringing awareness to this, continually look to create work that is more personal, more expressive, and more communicative. Pass on the obvious photographs and delve deeper. Ask continually: What am I feeling? What am I wanting to communicate? What do I want to express? It has been very exciting working with workshop students in regards to this, and bringing it to the forefront of our attention. Activating the right-brain and bringing balance to the overactive thinking-mind. It is important to remember – artwork is feeling based, and it resonates (or not) with people on a feeling level. The more you can approach the work from a personal feeling based place, the more likely you are to communicate that. The more you are able to communicate that, the more compelling your photography is bound to be.
I look forward to delving even deeper into this with workshop participants in a La Jolla photo workshop I have just announced for August!
During one of my Maui Photo Expeditions this week, while working with a cool couple from Orange County, our emphasis turned to the element of "time". Of course, if you follow my work, you know this is my favorite aspect to photography – especially extending the exposure out to be quite long. Through the use of neutral density filters, or the time of day or night, you as the photographer can control whether your shutter speed is 1/250th of a second, or two minutes, and everything in-between. By using different exposure times, you create different effects and evoke different feels in your image, translating and communicating different messages. So first, get mindful as to how you're feeling and what it is you want to communicate, simplify, and then determine what shutter speed will best translate what you are feeling.
With this photograph, I used a shutter of 1/2 second. Two minutes would have evoked a serene and peaceful feel, but I wanted the big winter surf to be the focal point and to evoke a sense of Mother Nature's raw power. The final element that finishes this capture is the warm light from the setting sun, captured moments before it dipped below the horizon to end another beautiful day in paradise.


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Re: [Meditation Society of America] SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION
dear friends
Religions are Rivers but Spirituality is Ocean:
All the religions in the world are the feathers of the same bird i.e., God with different colours. There is only one God and there is only one universe. Similarly the man is also only one. Man should aim that one God and he should belong to all the religions in the universe. He should pick up the diamonds from all the religions and use in his spiritual path. One can have love towards the nationality. Every nation has some physical boundaries. The people who are living in that nation have that nationality. Thus there is a meaning in the nationality because it has physical sense. But in the case of religion and spiritualism there is no physical sense. Every religion belongs to every man. Therefore in religious and spiritual matters all the religions can be used. The human incarnation in every religion announces that He is the universal preacher. The message of Lord Krishna i.e., Bhagavat Gita is for the entire world. The message of Jesus i.e., Bible is for the entire world. The message of Mohammed is for the entire world. So there is no need of conversion of religions. Just like in science the invention of Einstein is useful for the whole world, every religious preaching is for everybody. Different scientists belonging to different countries have discovered different scientific inventions. The subject science contains all these inventions. If any invention is removed the science become discontinuous. Similarly the spiritualism consists of the preaching of the preachers belonging to various countries. The spiritualism must be built up by the preaching of Lord Krishna, Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Mahavir etc. Spiritualism means truth like science. Different religions are following their preachers and they have taken the essence of their scriptures into the practice. Such traditional practices are like different experimental parts of Science. The scriptures of different religions are like the different theories in various chapters of science. In science the student does not distinguish the scientist based on his nationality. Similarly in spiritualism one should not have repulsion or attraction to any scripture or tradition in the World.
The spiritualism requires divine virtues, which are emphasized in various religions. The firm faith of Islam, the infinite love of Christianity, the tolerance towards other religions of Hinduism, the social service of Bhuddhism and the non violence of Jainism are important virtues of the spiritualism. These are the practical traditional aspects of various religions, which are more precious than those scriptures. Tradition is the most important essence of the scripture.
One must praise the firm faith of a Muslim on God associated with strict regularity and discipline. People are worshipping God either in the leisure time or on a holiday. But a Muslim worships God on every day whether it is a holiday or not. He worships God regularly at some intervals of time whether it is leisure or working time. The faith on God and the importance to God supercedes everything and every activity. This aspect is a page in the book of spiritualism.
Another page in the book of spiritualism is a tradition of Christianity, which is the infinite love. Bible says revenge is mine. The Christians love even their enemies proving that love is infinite. Love is God. God is infinite and so Love is infinite. Such infinite love can only attract the God. The proof of love is sacrifice in service. Christians sacrifice lot of their money for the spiritual works. Their love is so unlimited that they sacrifice money even to the spiritual centers of other religions. Even if some religion is opposing their religion they fund the other religion and this shows their love even to enemies. Their love in the family bonds is very weak. So the love is stored in their hearts without flowing. This concentrated love in the heart flows entirely towards God and so they sacrifice lot of their earnings for the work of God. They do not store the wealth for their children, and they ask their children to earn and live after certain age.
Hinduism should be another page. The house of every Hindu contains photos of different forms of God. At the same time they find only one God (Para Brahma) in all those forms of God. They treat the different forms of God as the different dresses of the same actor. This indicates that there is only one God for the entire world and Lord Krishna, Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, and Mahavir are only the different dresses of the same God. This brings the brotherly hood of all the human beings in the entire world.
Another page must be Buddhism. Buddha kept silent on God because Veda says that God is beyond even imagination. His silence is misunderstood as atheism. He concentrated on the society, which is entire universe. All the human beings in this universe must be uplifted through right knowledge. Buddha means knowledge. Any incarnation of God does the same work.
Jainism is another page. They do not kill any living being. The highest justice (Dharma) is non-violence (Ahimsa). God has given life to any living being. What right you have to kill and eat it? You can kill even a human being if he disturbs the peace and justice of a human society. Lord killed evil people in that way. But to kill a living being which does not harm you in any way is the highest sin. God has given sufficient vegetarian food to all the living beings. Science proves today that non-vegetarian food is not good for health.
Similarly there are precious traditions of other religions, which should be copied on different pages of the book of spiritualism. It should be just like a book of science. Spiritualism is the most important practical line to achieve the grace of the God. As the Science is the universal subject, spiritualism must also be the universal subject. The nations may have physical boundaries but the spiritualism is the single ocean in which all the religions mix like rivers. Every human being in this world must enter this ocean through a river and settle there as a sea fish. The man should not stop the journey while he is in the river. He should follow the journey of the river up to the end where he can find the sea with unlimited boundaries. The man is not moving along with his religion and is becoming stagnant as a river fish only.
at the lotus feet of shri datta swami
subhash naik <sbhshnaik@...> wrote:
Author: P.Rajagopalachari (President of S.R.C.M.)
(Published in "Principles of Sahaj Marg, Set I. Pages 3-11")
We assume that the terms '"Religion' and 'Spirituality' are synonymous. It is
not so. Perhaps these two terms are most naturally misunderstood as far as
their mutual identification in respect of meaning, systematic thinking and
obedience to principles and practices are concerned.
We are no doubt aware that religious feeling has always been one of the
fundamental emotive aspects of a man's emotional make-up or psyche, and
this is borne out amply by a study of anthropology from the earliest times of
man's appearance on this planet. Of course, the expression given to the
religious emotional content has varied from race to race and from time to time,
but that hidden craving in man's heart which tended to seek an answer, or
answers, to the questions which arose in him concerning the creation of the
universe, the reasons for such creation and man's own place and part in it,
has not varied. Expression depends on development of thought; thought
stems from ideas; and ideas of course are governed by the development of
various features of man's mental make-up, including such diverse factors as
physiological, environmental and social.
A study of the history of ancient and modern religions, combined with a
parallel study of anthropology, reveals that religious sentiment was almost
simultaneous with man's own appearance. In the beginning, the religious
sentiment expressed itself mentally in terms of fear and awe leading to the
worship, at least in bygone times, of animal life, vegetable life, the
phenomena of nature, etc. All these later became ritualized into general forms
of worship where the object of worship was nature, fire in its various forms,
and worship of the dead. This form of worship prevailed through most of early
man's history, and was almost the only form of worship available and
prevalent throughout the world up to the middle ages. Nevertheless, their very
prevalence up to the emergence of higher forms of worship would appear to
indicate that, in some measure at least, they had served to satisfy man's
internal craving for some form of communion with what may be called his
Maker or Nature or Universal Spirit, or whatever else it may be called.
Later, this religious sentiment turned its attention to somewhat more
sophisticated objects of worship and, at this stage, we can see the
commencement of the representation of God in terms of anthropomorphic
forms, i.e., in terms of human figures which the human imagination enriched
and endowed with higher powers than merely normal human powers by the
addition of extra arms, extra heads, a higher stature, and diverse other similar
embellishments. The craving was the same; the mode of expression of the
emotive sentiment was the same; all that had changed was merely the object
that was now worshipped in place of the earlier primitive ones.
Yet later in the history of humanity there arose even more purified religions
where we find the beginning of what may be called ethical codes and laws
being given to the people, often through a leader of the people themselves,
who was proclaimed as a religious leader or the giver of the law, the revealer
of the truth and so on. We have historical personalities such as Christ, Moses,
Mohammed, Buddha, Confucius, Krishna, etc., in the various religions as an
illustration of this development. This stage of development in religions can
roughly be stated to cover the past few millennia of human history.
Analyzing the religious content and the modes of religious approach of those
coming under its fold, we find that all religions have heavily relied on two
important instruments for regulating and controlling the behavior of the flock
under their control. These two instruments, by and large, have been fear and
temptation. It is perhaps beyond any reasonable debate that this is an
established fact. Religions have always held out to their devotees the
temptation of redemption and a place in heaven, whether during the course of
this life itself or after death. They have always tried to control and canalize
man's behavior in a desired direction by trying to induce him to accept this
temptation for the fruits offered by the respective religions. This is one side of
the picture. How to enforce a man's behavior in the pursuit of the goal was the
next question and here fear came in all too handy-the fear of punishment for
swerving from the performance of religious rituals stipulated; the fear of
punishment for not supporting the body of one's own religion in its continued
existence; the fear of retribution for acts forbidden; and so on and so forth.
Therefore, fear on one hand, and temptation on the other, would be a fair
representation of religious activity, and religious control.
Modern psychologists will no doubt agree that an imposition on the human
mind of two opposing forces of this nature could do nothing but create tension
in the mind of the individual, and this tension cannot be eradicated by the
practice of religion, because religion itself is the very force that created the
tension in the first place. This would appear to indicate the necessity for a
source outside religions to eradicate such tensions, and to normalize the
human being at least in his mental make-up.
Perhaps the appearance of such diverse phenomena as the cult of hippyism,
the associated habit of the taking of drugs and narcotics, the widespread and
deeply penetrating discontent of the human being with his personal
existence, which appears to pervade all sections of humanity at every stratum
of social existence, all these would appear to be the results of such religious
training which have not satisfied the real nature of man, nor given answers to
his fundamental questions referred to earlier. You will pardon me if I therefore
suggest that religions have not kept up with man's innermost needs and
requirements of the soul. At this stage I may be permitted to add that it is not a
failure in religion itself because, at the time when these great religions,
whether Christianity, or Hinduism, or Buddhism, or Islam were founded, at that
time the religious leaders who established them had molded them into such
shape, and given them such form as fulfilled the needs of humanity of those
It may also be noted that the founders of all great religions have preached
love as being the only proper approach to the Creator, and this love, when
properly cultivated by religious sentiment and religious practice, was
expected to reflect in love for all that is contained in creation. How this has
been forgotten, and religions have had to depend on temptation and fear, is
the sorry story of religious decadence. Nevertheless, the fault can be
attributed to lie in the fact that religions have become stultified, and to some
extent petrified, and they have not altered or evolved in keeping with man's
own evolution. I humbly suggest that the evolution of religion has lagged
behind the evolution of man whom it is supposed or expected to serve for his
vital inner spiritual needs.
This being the case as far as religion is concerned, what is it that spirituality
has to offer? Now the term 'spirituality' has nothing to do with religion, as
commonly understood Spirituality really begins where religion ends. While
the basic education of man can be undertaken by religion, his further
development when he has reached what may be termed adulthood can only
be offered by spirituality. Spirituality is easily identifiable with mysticism in all
its aspects. Religion enforces an externalization of the mind in man's search
for God. Mysticism or spirituality internalizes the search and directs the mind
to the heart of man where the search should really commence.
One of the great tenets or principles of all religions has been that at the heart
of the human being God Himself resides. Of course this may be thought to be
the mere doctrine of immanence; but it is true that God is immanent within us.
When the search is externalized, the first thing man loses sight of, or touch
with, is himself. The goal is taken to be far away, very often in some far distant
sphere of existence not easily accessible to us. The search is therefore begun
on the premise, often founded on solid theological doctrine, that the search
will in almost all cases be futile and the goal inaccessible. The search is
therefore begun and undertaken in a spirit of frustration and a foreboding of
non-achievement of the goal. How can such a search ever help anybody? On
the contrary spirituality focuses man's attention on the Divine effulgence
radiating in one's own heart, which effulgence is created by the presence of
the Creator Himself in the heart. This immediately presents the Divine in an
altered light, and brings Him to a proximity with one's own person that can
hardly come any nearer. Being within us such a Person is not only always
accessible but readily reachable, and all that spirituality requires of us to
achieve the sense of oneness with the Ultimate is to focus the mind inward
upon the Person. Apparently, therefore, spirituality is by far the easier method
of the two to achieve the goal of human life.
Again, religion concentrates heavily on ritual worship. Taking a parallel from
the childhood development of the human being, toys may serve children but
real living things alone can bring happiness to adults. Therefore, performance
of ritualistic modes of worship may be given in the formative years of a human
being's life but, after a certain stage, they cease to have meaning and, for a
majority of human beings, degenerate into mere mockery. Spirituality on the
other hand does not specify or advocate ritualistic approaches. In spirituality
all that is required to be done is to sit comfortably in a comfortable room, close
one's eyes, turn the attention from the external world into the heart, and
meditate on the contents of that heart in the shape of Divine effulgence
emanating from the Being seated therein. Here there is no mummery or any
other form of bewilderment, or what can in some religions even be classed as
trickery, but there is an honest approach to the search for the Ultimate.
Further, in the spiritual practice there are no associated threats or fears of
retribution, nor are temptations held out to the seeker. All that is stated is that
one's development depends solely and entirely on one's effort. If the practice
is not indulged in, there is no benefit, and that is about all that there is to it.
Turning our attention once again to religion, it is a well-known fact that
religions, while accepting or even arrogating to themselves the role of
preservers of law and morality, have often signally failed in this duty for a very
important but, at the same time, a very little noticed fact. I would like to
emphasize this by inviting your attention to it, and it is this. Most religions
while giving out their code of ethics or laws have only told their people what
not to do. Therefore, these codes of behavior can at best be termed negative
codes or negative laws, because most of them do not tell man what should be
done to attain a better life. I agree that we must know what not to do, but
certainly this cannot be taken as more than negative wisdom, nor can strict
adherence to such laws be taken as more than negative virtue. But all too
often we come across people who ask, "Well, I know what not to do, but it
does not help me in knowing what I should do," and this again creates not
only confusion but a tension in their minds, leading again to mental distress
and possible ultimate deterioration in character itself. Spiritual edicts, on the
other hand, have mostly confined themselves to precise and simple sets of
injunctions stating very understandably to the seeker what exactly he should
do. It is my contention that once a man knows what he should do, whatever be
the field of action, whether professional, moral, social, it at the same time
excludes the entire field of activity which should not be indulged in. The
contrary, unfortunately, is not true. To know what one should do it is not
enough to know what not to do. This, to my mind, has been the greatest failure
of religions throughout the world, and this was sought to be rectified by great
spiritual Masters of the world.
It is common knowledge that religions have divided man from man, brother
from brother, and often turned the father against the son, the husband against
the wife, inciting much of humanity during history to violence against each
other; because religions have their own separate gods of worship and the
modes and rituals by which such gods should be worshipped. Religions, to
hold their flock, have had to insist upon a strict adherence to their own
religious paraphernalia while simultaneously forbidding even the thought of
the gods of other religions. One of the paramount and deep-seated forces of
hatred has been created by religion, and I believe this does not need any
Spirituality on the other hand invokes no names, confers no attributes,
demands no subservience to any such artificially created gods of the human
mind, but focuses man's attention on the Infinite Ultimate Source of All Being
Who, as aforesaid, is nameless, formless and attributeless. It is, I believe, a
matter for easy agreement that such an approach to the Ultimate can serve as
an integrating force and bring together human beings of all lands and all
religions in oneness in the most fundamental aspect of human life, which is
sadly lacking today. Spirituality, if widely practiced in this spirit of a humble
approach to the Ultimate, is perhaps the most potent force that can bring
about such an integration.
Unfortunately, there have been no spiritual systems as such comparable in
power to the great religious systems, and this is surely the fault of man
himself, in that he has allowed himself to be guided by the nose and made to
subscribe to established bodies and organizations without examining in detail
either their make-up or his own. Nevertheless, spiritual teaching and
instruction, even from the Middle Ages, has not been lacking. There have
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Kate Upton's British Vogue cover story hit newsstands today, and it features lots of predictable quotes about her boobs and overall body size. To her credit, Upton diplomatically navigates the "role model" label that the Vogues are so set on giving her:
I never imagined that I would be in a position to be a role model. I just focused on being healthy and being the best that I could be. I'm happy to be seen as a good example. If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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Of course, one hopes that Upton's increased visibility will provide yet another reason for the industry to diversify its beauty standards. Upton touches on this idea, too, quite articulately:
I'm sure every designer has a certain person in mind who they would ideally like to wear their clothes, but the problem is that a lot of the time that person doesn't actually exist, unless she is a 15-year-old model. I don't really have a personal opinion on whether they should change the sizes of samples or not, but I do think it's a topic that should be looked at, and I do think there won't be many women buying those clothes, if, size-wise, they don't seem realistic.
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East Midlands CAMRA Cider Championship Competition 2016
Presentation of Gold certificate for the winning perry from Mark Shirley of Rockingham Forest Cider, in the CAMRA East Midlands Regional Cider & Perry Championships. Well deserved for an excellent "Green Horse" single variety perry - Image courtesy of Ray Blockley
Each year, the Nottingham Robin Hood Beer & Cider Festival hosts the regional round of the national search to find the best cider and perry makers in the UK. The winner of our cider and perry competition goes forward to the National CAMRA Cider & Perry Competition held in Reading in May of the following year.
The competition to find our Champion cider and perry takes place early on the Wednesday evening so do look out for the Gold, Silver and Bronze rosettes on the East Midlands Cider Bar which will identify the winners in each category.
Please support our Local and Regional cidermakers.
Note that only Heritage Real Cider and Perry are allowed to enter the CAMRA competitions.
Image courtesy of the Lincoln Green Brewing Company
Images provided courtesy of Ray Blockley at the 2016 Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival
Plenty of choice from one the Cider stalls at the Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival
Nottingham CAMRA is proud to support and promote true Heritage Cider and Perry.
Heritage Cider & Perry recognises and respects the true tradition - dating back millennium - of only using apples and pears to make truly real cider and perry. We will not be stocking any "flavoured ciders".
All of the producers will be featured and on sale from the start of the festival, but due to space restrictions, we may not be able to get every single cider and perry in the bar. Please bear with us.
The producers are organised alphabetically. There is a dedicated East Midlands Cider Bar in the Main Marquee (top tent) and a dedicated Welsh Cider Bar in the Entertainment Marquee (lower tent).
To help identify the ciders and perries on the bar, the ABV posters will feature a red apple icon for cider and a green pear icon for perry. ABVs will be clearly printed on the ABV posters on the bars.
Please respect the ABV of these drinks and act responsibly in your choice.
The Robin Hood Beer & Cider Festival 2016 Cider List is available here in Word, Excel and .pdf formats
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'Latin Lover' Tops 'The Circle,' 'Fate of the Furious' Rides to Third Straight No. 1
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - It has become a familiar story -- "The Fate of the Furious" is, once again, the box office champ.
DETROIT (Billboard) - After spending most of 2008 dealing with health issues, the members of Aerosmith hope to return to the studio next year to finish their first album of original material since 2001.
"We're sitting on a bunch of music we've already recorded for a new album," guitarist Brad Whitford told Billboard.com. "We haven't gone back into the studio to put the final touches on it and get it done, and still don't know when we're gonna do that. Hopefully it'll be sooner rather than later."
The album will be Aerosmith's first of all-original material since 2001's "Just Push Play." The 2004 release, "Honkin' on Bobo," was comprised primarily of blues covers.
Most of Aerosmith's headlines this year were away from the recording studio and concert stage. Guitarist Joe Perry had knee reconstruction surgery in March.
Frontman Steven Tyler, meanwhile, spent time in a California rehabilitation clinic during the spring to recover from his own leg injuries in a drug-controlled environment; he did re-emerge on July 18 to sing "Walk This Way" with Billy Joel and his band at New York's Shea Stadium.
In 2006, bass player Tom Hamilton underwent radiation treatment for throat cancer.
"You'd think it was a football team or something," Whitford said with a laugh. But he added that health issues should not raise concerns about Aerosmith's mortality.
"You have more than average concerns about it, I guess," Whitford said, "but you can't do anything about it. Like a lot of other things in life, you don't get to call the shots on these things, do you? We're just ... getting older."
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - It has become a familiar story -- "The Fate of the Furious" is, once again, the box office champ.
NEW YORK Bruce Springsteen talked on Friday about his struggle to live in the real world rather than inside the lyrical songs he has composed over his 40-year career.


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- From: "Tom Liberty" <picpc(--nospam--at)2xtreme.net>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 07:17:23 -0800
UBC Table 23-II-I-1, footnote 3 clearly has the minimum requirement for"all framing members receiving edge nailing from abutting panels shall not be less than a single 3-inch nominal member (for allowable shear >350PLF)" This would clearly indicate that 2-2x's are not acceptable. As an alternative, 4x's may also be used. In the 5 jurisdictions that we do the Building Department administration for, 2-2x's are not acceptable. Conceder is failure occurred how 2-2x's instead of the required minimum single 3x would stand in a court of law. Thanks Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "SEConsultant" <seconsultant(--nospam--at)earthlink.net> To: <seaint(--nospam--at)seaint.org> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 10:05 PM Subject: RE: 3x_ versus (2)-2x_ > I might be confused on the issue of 3x vs. 2x lumber since I have had no > problems with contractors obtaining the materials. Isn't it reasonable to > assume that as the code requires the use of 3x material for shear above 350 > plf that the demand will resolve the shortage issues in a very short period > of time? Or, is this problem typical in area's outside the higher seismic > regions? > > Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rhkratzse(--nospam--at)aol.com [mailto:Rhkratzse(--nospam--at)aol.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 9:27 PM > To: jeffc(--nospam--at)kpff.com; seaint(--nospam--at)seaint.org > Subject: Re: 3x_ versus (2)-2x_ > > > I'm curious, Jeff, how heavy are your "heavily nailed shear walls"? How > much > double-stud nailing would be required? What are the chances that all of > this > nailing will be properly completed? Will the 2x studs take all these nails > into 2 faces without expiring (AKA splitting)? > > Ralph Hueston Kratz, S.E. > Richmond CA USA > > In a message dated 1/25/00 7:58:24 PM, jeffc(--nospam--at)kpff.com writes: > > << A common request by contractors is can they substitute (2)-2x_ for the > 3x_ > studs we specify heavily nailed shear walls and bearing studs in the lower > levels of multi-story buildings (here in Seattle, 5 story wood-framed > structures are permitted) so long as the studs are spiked together > adequately > to ensure shear transfer at panel edges. Opinions? > > >> > > > > >
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