Buddha has always fascinated me how he looked, felt and observed the powers on the Earth, which for us, they might be considered mostly as normal elements. as I remember; when I watched the movie Little Buddha (1993) I was very impressed by the scene:  Tree of Life – “Little Buddha” movie scenes.

I wish You dear Friends a Happy & Peaceful New Year with full of Love and Freedom for all of us ❤ ❤

here is somthing like a pray; Amasing!

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C.G. Jung & Wholeness with a very best Thank to Craig Nelson

All things, O priests, are on fire. And what … are these things which are on fire? The eye, O priests, is on fire; forms are on fire; eye-consciousness is on fire; impressions received by the eye are on fire; and whatever sensation, pleasant, unpleasant or indifferent, originates in dependence on impressions received by eye, that also is on fire… With the fire of passion, say I, with the fire of hatred, with the fire of infatuation; with birth, old age, death, sorrow, lamentation, misery, grief and despair are they on fire. The ear is on fire; sounds are on fire; … the nose is on fire; odours are on fire; … the tongue is on fire; tastes are on fire; … the body is on fire; things tangible are on fire; … the mind is on fire; … ideas are on fire; … mind-consciousness is on fire; impressions received by the mind are on fire; and whatever sensation, pleasant, unpleasant or indifferent, originates in dependence on impressions received by the mind, that also is on fire. And with what are these on fire? With the fire of passion, … with the fire of hatred, with the fire of infatuation; with birth, old age, death, sorrow, lamentation, misery, grief and despair are they on fire. 
[his prescription of how to escape being on fire]: 
The learned and noble disciple conceives an aversion for the eye, conceives an aversion for forms, conceives an aversion for eye-consciousness, conceives an aversion for the impressions received by the eye; and whatever sensation, pleasant, unpleasant, or indifferent, originates in dependence on impressions received by the eye, for that also he conceives an aversion. Conceives an aversion for the ear, an aversion for sounds, … conceives an aversion for the nose, conceives an aversion for odours; . . . conceives an aversion for the tongue, conceives an aversion for tastes, . . . conceives an aversion for the body, conceives an aversion for things tangible …. etc

A Russian Affair

by elisabethm with Thanks ❤

After reading the nice and interesting blog post of An Argumentative Old Git , I decided to write a # 6degrees blog post. On Kate’s literary blog, Books are my Favorite and Best , each month a different book of inspiration is presented, from which you then have to connect six other books.

A Christmas Carol (1843) by Dickens is the starting point this month .

Scrooge is visited by three spirits, who show him the past, the present and the future. He soon understands that he needs to improve his life. 

In Pushkin’s The Coffin (1831) we find an on-Dickensian coffin maker with a Scrooge character. He is also visited by ghosts, in large numbers, they celebrate him at night in the living room. He recognizes his deceased clientele and is accused of having scammed their relatives. In contrast to Scrooge, Prokhorov is not impressed enough the next morning to improve his life; he calls his daughters and brings tea. And we hear him thinking: “Bah! Humbug!”

Those festive ghosts remind me of De Meester and Margarita (1940) of Bulgakov. In this satirical novel, the devil himself visits Stalinist Moscow to organize a ball during Walpurgis Night. The guests are all dead and they all have something on their faces, so they went to hell. Among the guests are celebrities and criminals. They arrive at the party through the fireplace. This is familiar to the reader, but we do not go that way. The most famous quote from the book is “manuscripts do not burn”.

In 1852 Gogol burned the manuscripts with a large part of the second part of Dead Souls in a fit of bewilderment. Shortly afterwards he died under extremely sad circumstances. Contrary to what the title suggests, Dead Soul is a cheerful novel. Or rather, a cheerful satire about an aspiring landowner travelling through Russia and about the people he meets. Chichikov is accompanied by his faithful servant Petrushka, who smells quite apart, but is completely devoted to his lord.

And that brings us to another devoted servant: Zechar. Zachar! The meddlesome, lazy, grumbling and gossiping servant of Oblomov. Oblomov was written in 1858 by Gontsjarov as an example of a surplus person. Oblomov has postponed procreation into art, and the first 150 pages of his bed do not come out. He simply refuses to worry about things that are already bothering him, and he hates it when ‘things’ are expected of him. His house is his safe haven.

From the safe harbour in the Gorochovajastraat, we take a ten-minute walk to the Stoljarnisteeg, to the humble home of another Petersburg literary hero: Raskolnikov. The protagonist of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (1866) does not stop at plans and dreams; he adds the word to the word and kills old usury. He wants to help the poor with her money and thus make a useful contribution to society, the witch is dead and her money is used for a good cause, but he is consumed by feelings of guilt.

Crime and Punishment were published in episodes in the Russian literary magazine De Vjestnik. If you had a subscription to that, then around 1866 you were eagerly looking forward every month to the postman because there was not only a new episode of Crime and Punishment, Tolstoy’s War and Peace was also published in De Vjestnik for the first time. . Of course, the reader knew perfectly well that the Russians finally defeated Napoleon, but how did it go with Natasja? Would she finally be reunited with Andrei? The novel is full of cliffhangers, and that has everything to do with the monthly episodes.

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Dickens was extremely popular in Russia and both Tolstoy and Dostoevsky were influenced by him and admired him. 

Text and photos © Elisabeth van der Meer 2018

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Intersting analyse about the masters of psychology. of course I admire Freud for his Ideas about the human’s sexual problems!

Sex, religion and envy – how Freud and Jung’s frenetic friendship tore itself apart

In 1906, the young Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung received a collection of essays from none other than the founder of psychoanalysis himself, Sigmund Freud. When the two met in person a year later in Vienna, their first conversation lasted more than 13 hours, according to Jung’s account. And so began a collaboration that would blossom into an intense, albeit brief friendship between two titans of psychology. The duo toured the US together, giving lectures on psychoanalysis. They analysed each other’s dreams in depth. Twenty years his senior, Freud called Jung ‘the Joshua to my Moses, fated to enter the Promised Land which I myself will not live to see’. Their bond was so deep that at one point Jung wrote to Freud: ‘Let me enjoy your friendship not as one between equals but as that of father and son.’ Despite their shared interests and mutual admiration, in 1913 their relationship abruptly ended. But what caused their dramatic estrangement? And which one can lay claim to greater influence?

Freud versus Jung is the second instalment of ‘Philosophy Feuds’, Aeon’s original series of short animations, each of which tells the story of a famous – or not so famous – spat, break-up, falling-out or fracas. More than just revealing the hilarious and all-too-human pettiness of the world’s greatest thinkers, ‘Philosophy Feuds’ is about the fascinating ideas behind each of these rifts – and how these ideas continue to matter today.

Director & Animator: Andrew Khosravani

Producer: Kellen Quinn

Writer: Sam Dresser

Sound designers: Eli Cohn, Ben Chesneau, Maya Peart

Narrator: Travis Brecher