Coming home...

Homecoming means coming home to what is in your heart. 

~Author Unknown~

Hi my friends,

I hope you had all a great weekend and a good start in this new week.

Thank you for all the wonderful comments!

Susanne

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ZEN Photography III

Zen is a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism, translated from the Chinese word 禅 Chán to Japanese. This word is in turn derived from the Sanskrit dhyāna, which means "meditation"

Zen emphasizes experiential prajñā, particularly as realized in the form of meditation, in the attainment of enlightenment. As such, it de-emphasizes theoretical knowledge in favor of direct, experiential realization through meditation and dharma practice.

The establishment of Zen is traditionally credited to be in China, the Shaolin Temple, by the South IndianPallava prince-turned-monk Bodhidharma, who came to China to teach a "special transmission outside scriptures" which "did not stand upon words". 

The emergence of Zen as a distinct school of Buddhism was first documented in China in the 7th century AD. It is thought to have developed as an amalgam of various currents in Mahāyāna Buddhist thought—among them the Yogācāra and Mādhyamaka philosophies and the Prajñāpāramitā literature—and of local traditions in China, particularly Taoism and Huáyán Buddhism. 

From China Zen subsequently spread south to Vietnam, and east to Korea and Japan.

Hi my friends,

thanks for all the wonderful comments from yesterday. Today we'll learn a little bit about "What is ZEN". The text is from Wikipedia - not from me :))

See you again visiting tomorrow too? Where? Here....see you (t)here!

Susanne 

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Yellowstone Lake

Scene at Yellowstone Lake, captured in May 2009

Yellowstone Lake

is the largest body of water in Yellowstone National Park, The lake is 7,732 feet (2,376 m) above sea level and covers 136 square miles (352 km²) with 110 miles (177 km) of shoreline. While the average depth of the lake is 139 feet (42 m) its deepest spot is at least 390 feet (118 m). Yellowstone Lake is the largest freshwater lake above 7,000 feet (2,133 m) in North America.

In winter, ice nearly 3 feet (1 m) thick covers much of the lake, except where shallow water covers hot springs. The lake freezes over by early December and can remain frozen until late May or early June.

Read more about the Lake here




Hi my friends,

Thanks for your comments on my post a day before.

Dave and I, we had not such a great day yesterday. We spent again some hours in the emergency room. Dave felt VERY bad again. Now, we got new pills, new inhalers and I know, it will be better for the next some days - if there would be no nights. In the night his terrible cough came back again and he could not breath well. And, I ask myself if this will be good ever one day at all? I cannot see my husband suffering so much and it seems no one of the doctors are able to help him!!!

Have a wonderful weekend!
Susanne



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Reflections on human nature?

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
James Madison


Hi my friends,
thanks, thanks, thanks for all your comments from yesterday.
I have not to much to say today, everything is good, life is good to me!

I'm working hard on my new calendars for next year, just be in the finish of the next one, the "Las Vegas Calendar 2010" with photographs from my travels trough this
exciting and beautiful country AMERICA!

So stay with me, have a CLICK on my blog into the Calendars and make someone happy with a gift - and you'll make my day too :)
Thank you in advance!
Susanne

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The Ashley River, SC

The Ashley River is a river in South Carolina, rising from the Wassamassaw and Great Cypress Swamps in Western Berkeley County. It consolidates its main channel about 5 miles west of Summerville, widening into a brackish, tidal estuary just south of Fort Dorchester. The much wider Ashley joins the Cooper River in Charleston to form the Charleston Harbor before discharging into the Atlantic Ocean.

The river was named for Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury and chief Lord Proprietor of the Carolina Colony. Charleston was founded on the western bank of the Ashley in 1670 (at Charles Towne Landing), before moving across to its current peninsular location ten years later.

My Wordless Sunday #5 - in Charleston

My Wordless Sunday #3 - In Charleston, SC

Reflections II

I got so many nice compliments on my post from yesterday, "Water Reflections," so I decided to bring another similar picture, which is interesting too. What do you think?

Water Reflections

I like this little poem and I think it matches very well the idea about a unknown boat and its reflection in the water:

Sailboat, rowboat, motor boat, too.
Moving through the waters so clear and blue.
Tugboat, lifeboat, kayak and canoe
With so many types of boats,
Which one will you choose?

(by Melanie Mazurek)