Monday 28 December 2009

Today's photies!






Monday 8:00 p.m.
Two photies taken in the Botanics and two from the hut.

The whatever opened further tonight about seven. Whao! But I've had enough of this hibernating meditating malarkey and I went out for four beers. Back to the jobbie tomorrow. Dearie me!

Oh, and the other photie is of the Kalacharka Mandala. I try to visualise that several times a day. Is it impossible?

9 comments:

Marie Rex said...

It will be a challenge to get all that detail into your head. My practice is about building a temple. It is very slow.


Beautiful pictures. Despite the sn*w. We have that this morning.

Anonymous said...

I say!

What lovely snaps you take. Was there any heat in the sun, or was it all inner heat?

MM III

Hotboy said...

Marie! I haven't got anywhere near visualising that thing!
Mingin'! When the sun comes out here, you need to get the shades and sun blocker on tout suite! Hotboy

Hotboy said...

Marie! They used a mnemonic (?) trick in the middle ages which allowed messengers to memorise documents. This involved attaching sentences, I think, to part of the cathedral structure. Don't really know how that helps. Hotboy

Marie Rex said...

I think a document would be easier. Words don't have so much in the way of shades of color and shape. Just content.

The temple building I'm working on is very complicated. I expect I'll work the rest of my life and I might get half the first step built. Good focus for concentration.

Hotboy said...

Marie! Where did you get the temple idea from?In deity yoga you're supposed to be envisaging a deity's palace. I've never had direct instructions on this, so I'm sticking to a two dimensional image, but it should be a palace, I think. Temple, palace? Are we talking about the same thing? Hotboy

rob said...

This is unfair! Photies 2 and 3are unreal. What kind of trickery are you using? They look like Constables or something. I've got a proper camera and I couldn't do these. The world's all wrong so it is.

Marie Rex said...

I got it from one of my books. With pretty detailed instructions.

The Practice of White Tara. The Wish-Fulfilling Wheel. Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche

You start with a crossed vajra. It is very complicated and I am a long way from having it down. But it is a good focus for my practice.

Hotboy said...

Albert? If you live in a nice place like Scotland, you just point your phone. You don't even look into it or anything.
Marie! That sounds a bit like deity yoga to me. I'll have to remember to check that out. I've had a Green Tara empowerment. Hotboy