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Eastham Ferry
A good hour or so waiting for the sunrise before work. Happy to be rewarded with a bit of colour just as the sun came over the horizon. And the debris and foam flowing in the incoming tide on the Mersey looked good with a long exposure.
I thought i'd lost this photo after having PC problems last Friday! Fours hours spent trying to troubleshoot a "BSOD"(Bad System Config Info) because my PC wouldn't boot up. I tried everything but no luck so i got an expert to look at it, turned out to be a faulty hard drive. Happy ending though, all my files were recovered and now i had a super quick 2TB SSD 👍 Just need to reinstall everything now.
I had my computer upgraded in November (professionally) and I have been getting the BSOD screen and shut downs. Having spent weeks trying to fix it myself It has to go back to the shop for them to sort out.
I have a small lap top but I find it fiddly to use, takes ages !!
I leave you with this Red Arrows shot .
Bye for now, could take a while.
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Here's another macro bug taken during a photo meetup I attended to last Sunday. Noticed the red-eye? I guess the flash not only causes human-eye to turn red, even with spiders'.
My new PC is giving me BSOD. I have 2 weeks to decide whether to keep it, return it or get it replaced. It's really pissing me off. *sigh*
Anway, thank you for dropping by my friends. Have a blessed day and good evening. G'nite
En smuk BSOD på en kiosk PC med Microsoft Windows i et apotek i København.
The wonderful BSOD - Blue Screen Of Death - at a kiosk computer at a pharmacy in Copenhagen running Microsoft Windows.
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Toa Kohungaru's mind has been trapped into a Great Spirit Robot's RAM bad sector during a suddent bsod. He is since living a simple life, listening to good music and vibing around with his loyal parrot friend.
Kohungaru litterally means "vaporwave" in Maori
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This MOC was made for the #Bionicle20ans collaborative project.
As Bionicle turns 20 this year, the Bionifigs community will celebrate these two decades of biological chronicles through all of 2021.
Each month will be dedicated to a year in the history of Bionicle - in January we focus on 2001.
FIND THE POWER !
If only DkS II could load up in 8k, but it still hangs for too long, then crashes to desktop. In the worst case scenario it even goes into BSOD... *sigh*
Since the image was originally taken from the depth buffer visualization, it had heavy aliasing, but jaggy-free image wasn't my aim anyways, tbh.
I was too inspired by the latest track, 'Mythmaker' by Christopher J Gilbert (aka Mild Peril aka Paladin) to bother about tech stuff. And I highly recommend this track (actually, I recommend his music in general) to all the retro', fantasy' and 80s-90s aesthetics' lovers out there!!!
I hope you don't mind. :))
REPOST
Won't be posting photos for a while on Flickr. My computer has the BSOD [blue screen of death]
I will use my phone to try and view contact's photos
Flickr is SO SLOW!
Almost one and a half months I did not have Flickr, because I had computer problems and preparing for exams and thesis work, etc.
It was impossible to respond to comments with the mobile version, so I want to say thank you all for the congratulations! :з
This never used to happen in the days of paper posters. It’s a bit like these new fridges which break down and you are told it’s a software problem.
This was supposed to be uploaded yesterday, but I had some issues with Silver Efex Pro 2 for some reason, which result in a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD. At as result, the finished photo was not saved and had to be redone all over again. Luckily, there was not too much to be done in the first place.
Anyway, this rather well worn and rusted bicycle here, with its wheel missing, is a good indicator of the urban decay slowing creeping into Dakota Crescent. Quite a few other bicycles like this here were also seen around other parts of the estate as well.
The late Tibetan-American lama, H.H. Jigdal Dagchen Rinpoche's hand holds a vajra drawing lines that close the Hevajra Mandala, after the empowerment, Tharlam Monastery, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal. 78 years of age (as of 2007) the senior Tibetan Lama Dagchen Rinpoche co-founded The Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism, in Seattle, Washington, the first Tibetan Monastery in the United States in 1976. The original Sakya Monastery was founded by his forebearers more than 900 years ago.
H.H. Dagchen Rinpoche received the Hevajra Anuttarayoga initiation in an unbroken Khon Lineage transmission from the great founder of the Sayka School, Sachen Kunga Nyingpo (1092- 1158), through the last Sakya Throne-holder in Tibet, His Holiness Trichen Ngawang Tutop Wangchuk (1900-1950), Rinpoche’s father.
Hevajra is the most important meditational practice in the Sakya tradition. It matures disciples through planting seeds for the realization of the four bodies of the Buddha, empowers one to practice the Shri Hevarja Sadhana, and is a necessary prerequisite to receiving many other teachings such as the Vajrayogini Initiation.
This is the physical plan for the dieties' palace, just like a blueprint.
Somehow this looks like the world from outer space to me ... where the circles are in the sand mandala - vases of victory have been removed.
The additional light is coming from another person's flash which fired similtaneously; I try to avoid using flash because it is disturbing to the eyes.
Two senior lamas - monks are holding Dachen Rinpoche's hand up above the mandala so that the technical requirements of the closing are upheld.
This is a huge sand mandala, and was actually used for the intiation - those fortunate few who view this image are very blessed. He gave permission for this image to be made public. Anyone who sees this is said to be granted blessings. It was taken just as he began closing the door, so some of the holy vibration is still to be felt.
So congratulations! to you fortunate ones.
'jigs bral ngag dbang kun dga' bsod nams
sa skya phun tshogs pho brang bdag chen rdo rje 'chang ngag dbang kun dga' bsod nams
My first two planets. I got lucky, and they're both quite pretty. I can't bring myself to leave because there's so much to explore. I'm sure I'll grow out of that though.
I managed to bsod playing in 4K. Only after a few hours though. Maybe I just need to give it a rest now and again. There's a new driver coming out for it next week, so maybe that will help a bit. Plus whatever optimisations Hello Games push out.
How resistant is digital resistance? Some blue pixels resembling a paper airplane quickly jotted over the provocatively angled digital shot of entirely innocent water pump station - has it made any changes in real life any closer?
I just KNEW those blues screens had to be good for something!
Got some old computer components laying around? Get the free “blue prints” for your own electronics shack here: We’re Here!. The theme today is Recycle, Reuse, Repurpose, Rejoice!
The Windows error screen courtesy of Akhristov at English Wikipedia [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Windows_9X_BSOD.png
All other photographic elements are my own.
Entered:: Surrealart challenge "Computer"
150/365
Having glass wings is my gift and also my burden.
My computer is buzzing out on me now, and I need a new harddrive cause I've been getting BSoD frequently which is causing the late uploads.
I've been getting cool responses from you guys and it really means a lot to me, thank you for all the support and motivation even though sometimes its really hard to continue sometimes!
After yesterday's announcment that Windows 10 ("The last version of Windows") will be replaced by Windows 11, my insider build decided to semi-update itself. And then died. I guess the "BSOD" term will be replaced with "GSOD" from now on ... and why the f**k have you centred the taskbar? Zillions of Windows users will be cursing MS for that.
If it aint broke, don't fix it. Hang on - Win 10 was always broken, and whenever they fixed thar, something else broke. Sigh.
My first two planets. I got lucky, and they're both quite pretty. I can't bring myself to leave because there's so much to explore. I'm sure I'll grow out of that though.
I managed to bsod playing in 4K. Only after a few hours though. Maybe I just need to give it a rest now and again. There's a new driver coming out for it next week, so maybe that will help a bit. Plus whatever optimisations Hello Games push out.
My first two planets. I got lucky, and they're both quite pretty. I can't bring myself to leave because there's so much to explore. I'm sure I'll grow out of that though.
I managed to bsod playing in 4K. Only after a few hours though. Maybe I just need to give it a rest now and again. There's a new driver coming out for it next week, so maybe that will help a bit. Plus whatever optimisations Hello Games push out.
Que tiempos aquellos en los que el "pantallazo azul" era como de la familia.
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El azul que se refleja en las ventanas del Hotel Silken Grand Domide Bilbao es el azul ultramar con el que están pintadas las oficinas del Guggenheim. Un azul que patentó Yves Klein (1928-1962) como IKB (International Klein Blue), un azul ultramarino profundo que Klein desarrolló con la ayuda de un amigo químico, un azul que encarnaba los motivos más abstractos de la naturaleza tangible y visible como son el cielo y el mar.
El azul que se refleja en la única ventana que se ve entera, la que tiene la "firma", la que está entreabierta, refleja el azul del cielo, un cielo atípico en la capital vizcaina, un cielo habitualmente cubierto por nubes grises.
another commission down
my windows install got fucked up after DAO's constant ctds (tbh never thought a game can cause such problems, even when i got bsod once playing dxmd... it wasn't anything serious) and messed up windows updates, soooooooo 5 dozens of files inside system folder got corrupted, thus i can't launch any damn app, including nmm, srwe, daemon tools, etc :\ tried to fix it, buuuuuuuuuuut it doesn't work. gonna reinstall whole os next week probs, win10 this time.
In Piccadilly Circus suddenly the Coke ads stopped to work. Why? Just because it's running on a MS platform, maybe. Best viewed large.
Thank you for all the visits.
To whom it may concern, I shot twice, first with zoom at 18mm then at 70mm.
This is the secon shot with 70mm zoom:
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This was taken a while back. I have quite a few macros in my archive. I'll start posting them once in a while. A small jumping spider I found in our backyard, where my macro days all started lol!
My new PC seems to be working great today! Thank goodness.
edit: i had 2 BSOD while catching up to your streams. that's it! i will get this PC-of-crap replaced this weekend. i spent all in all a day to get everything the way i want it and this sh!t happens. oh well! ..... g'nite everyone. see you tomorrow!
Hi everyone! Just a quick update on the state of the photostream, my personal affairs which affect it in a direct way and some really bad news (at least for me).
UPD: Oh, yeah, probably SPOILER ALERT! 'Cause, you know, the picture surely was not taken from the beginning of the game. :P
-So I took a break from shooting racing games (in fact, I still have lots of unedited stuff on my drive. I blame my lazy for it mostly) and I tried games of other genres.
Of course I couldn't miss the upcoming Epic's Paragon in particular. And I had a few quite fun matches here and there, I got used to its replay editor and took some shots of its AMAZINGLY DETAILED world along with STUNNINGLY CRAFTED characters and effects.
These shots were made on the last days of August, before I went to the University to find out I was set to work on announcing students' science projects, conferences and other research activities. And it's quite an appointment, I must say.
"Everybody has his/ her own part in the teaching/ working process, so will you", just like that - even though I still work on my PhD thesis with my science instructor on the background. Ok then!
After all, it turned out to be a quite interesting to work on. Now I regularly meet people who are deeply interested in bringing new ways of researching and scientific thinking to the industry, not just my typical ecological stuff I'm heavily involved into when attending various annual conferences.
I forgot to mention how I actually got Win10 this July, how I almost completely got used to its UI (which is of course isn't as good as in Win7, but it's still nice nonetheless!), and how it appears not just to "boot faster" but work faster as well. At least in some apps that I use too often.
And I shot in Forza: Apex, too. Quite a delicious graphics engine, yup!
Last week I saw that infamous "Anniversary update" ad browsing Microsoft sites, and I decided to give it a try. It felt kinda weird, since Start Menu had lost its "Show All [Programs and apps]" option, and "Search in Web" wasn't there, too.
After a few days the system showed me 2 or 3 updates, I downloaded 'em without any second thought.
And then. THEN! The system couldn't boot up, showing this "Blue" screen of… sad smiley emoji (?). I guess. Also there was a QR-code completely useless for a man like me who haven't got any mobile connection (besides laptop "HostedNetwork" before the bed). And there was some text message, something about "NTFS ERROR", I haven't remembered what was there exactly.
Well, I tried to reboot the PC, but had no luck - the error message appeared again. Then I booted into my Win7 HDD, and got BSOD there as well! Reboot, CHKDSK and there we go, log in screen.
Then I probably committed the biggest mistake of my life: I didn't log in but rebooted PC again to see if CHKDSK fixed Win10 instead. Brilliant!
Shortly after that my PC entered endless loop of rebooting w/out even showing a thing on screen, it wasn't just "black", it didn't turn on, like, at all.
And I spent the whole weekend desperately trying to fix it, ending up removing both HDDs and inserting 'em into my old rig (thank god I didn't move it somewhere else!). It's slow, it has only 4GB of RAM, GTX 260 and I still feel it in a bad way (e.g. Chrome loads pages excruciatingly slow!), although it works!
And now I'm stuck between
*actually attempting to recover the data from the faulty Win10 HDD with MANY screenshots I love so much ['Cause, you know, "an artist puts a piece of his/ her soul into the work of art he/she's working on" kinda stuff]
AND
*one heavily time-consuming task related to students and their graduation works.
It's truly super sad to realize, I was just about to share my Paragon shots with you, I was so excited about it, and now I can't even see them, and lots of other unreleased works! I was painfully stabbed in the back by that monster that Win10 Anniversary Update surely is.
Word of advice: DO NOT INSTALL WIN10 ANNIVERSARY UPDATE BY ANY MEANS! It's still so faulty I just can't imaging how MS let it hit the users' update schedules and download queues.
Of course, it might be just my fault all the way, but I guess a little bit of a warning wouldn't hurt anyone.
P.S. Sorry for low shot quality, it was taken in this January when I was on my 1st playthrough trying to beat the game's stutter and other graphics problems, didn't even think of screenshooting it because of low amount of VRAM (* 2GB = only Low Textures, Medium ones take ages to stream correctly) and 1080p resolution (*because again - I was just playing it without any intension to shoot it, may be take some pics just to remember the finest moments of it. While now I decided to choose this particular shot is because I felt it's pretty fitting to the themes I explain here, below it).
I'm really sorry for both having that tragedic event happening (* I really, really-really loved those shots that are probably lost forever on Win10 HDD) AND for having you read this long-a$$ wall of text. I love you all! Stay positive people!
V. Vorsin @polyneutron
My first two planets. I got lucky, and they're both quite pretty. I can't bring myself to leave because there's so much to explore. I'm sure I'll grow out of that though.
I managed to bsod playing in 4K. Only after a few hours though. Maybe I just need to give it a rest now and again. There's a new driver coming out for it next week, so maybe that will help a bit. Plus whatever optimisations Hello Games push out.
My first two planets. I got lucky, and they're both quite pretty. I can't bring myself to leave because there's so much to explore. I'm sure I'll grow out of that though.
I managed to bsod playing in 4K. Only after a few hours though. Maybe I just need to give it a rest now and again. There's a new driver coming out for it next week, so maybe that will help a bit. Plus whatever optimisations Hello Games push out.
Desafio Segura a Coisa 2016 -5/10- uma make
Comprei este esmalte pelo vidrinho (foto nos coments) e pelo nome, que apesar de me dar nervoso - já perdi um desktop assim - é muito legal uaheuh, mas apesar de amar azul, a cor que eu queria era outra e estava indisponível na época. Hoje, enquanto esmaltava, tive certeza de que não gostaria tanto dessa outra cor como gostei dele. Que esmalte leeemdo!
Ele tem base jelly azul royal e é lotado de brilhinhos em duas cores: um tom mais claro de azul e um dourado esverdeado (mas estes últimos só aparecem no vidrinho, nas unhas não vi nem sinal deles).
A fórmula é fluida e o pincel fino, mas o esmalte é ótimo de trabalhar. Cobriu bem com duas camadas, porém as fotos com flash me mostraram que seria melhor ter passado outra.
Secou rápido e o brilho dispensa top coat.
O rímel eu comprei pela cor da embalagem, e na segurada achei que super combinou com o BSoD, pq além das cores serem bem próximas, as letras tem o mesmo tom dos brilhinhos do esmalte ahahah.
Usei:
1x base Foundation II, NailTek
2x Blue Screen of Death, Pomegranate
In the past 30 days or so I've been tagged by a couple friends to do either a 16 random things or a 25 things about me post. I haven't done ANY of them until now... so here goes. (Dang I wrote a lot!)
Oh, for those who have never seen this, you basically write a number of little known facts about yourself and ask your friends to do the same.
1. I don’t eat beef or pork or seafood – not for any particular reason
2. The only meat I do eat is boneless chicken/turkey or fish. (if I find a bone, the party is over!)
3. I’m left handed and so is most of my family on my Mother’s side.
4. I want to be married and have children, but I feel like I’m nowhere close to being ready to do either.
5. I went to school for 7 years full-time and still don’t have my degree (please hold all your ‘go get it’ comments… you won’t be the first or the last to remind me).
6. I project confidence when I’m most insecure. I only have begun to realize that in the past year or so.
7. I talk ‘in my head’ a lot. There’s a huge internal dialogue going most of the time. People who think out-loud just about confuse me!
8. I was born pre-mature and given a very bleak outlook on life by my doctors. Mom was a trooper and made the doctors second guess themselves on numerous occasions.
9. On the health theme, I have a scar near my eye that most people never notice. I had a tumor (non-cancerous) behind my left eye that undetected could have caused permanent blindness in my left eye.
10. My computer just had a blue-screen-of-death (BSOD) error because of my USB drives… so I lost 2 random facts! :-)
11. Creativity and Performance run in both mom and dad’s sides of the family. All of us at some point have sung, acted, danced, written, directed, photographed, modeled, or played in some way or another. My grandfather was a well-known Jazz musician.
12. I’ve been using computers since age 3, had my first e-mail address in 1994, and first web page in 1996
13. I’ve had a job or my own business since the 5th grade. I was always saving for and buying the things I wanted and then selling them to get other stuff.
14. I was ordained as a minister in 1999 and did full time ministry several years.
15. I tend to keep everything… I’ve got belongings in storage in 3 difference places right now.
16. I rarely pick up the phone to call people. Even with clients connect most fluidly with those who communicate well via e-mail and text.
17. I can be myself better on a stage in front of thousands than in a small room full of complete strangers.
18. Around 18 years old I was coloring my hair for a season… very dark reddish brown.
19. This is my second time locking my hair… the first time I was totally on my own and it wasn’t going very well.
20. I’m known for giving hugs, but I’m taken by surprise when someone is physically affectionate toward me.
21. I can spend hours in a store deliberating over making a purchase on anything above $100. I always want to make sure I’m making a good investment and for the right reasons.
22. My unconscious auto-response to stress/anxiety is sleep. Before I was aware of this, there were times where I would sleep 16 hours a day.
23. In an emergency, I often have taken the lead and even done first-aid until the paramedics arrived – however if you tell me about how you nicked yourself or some other minor injury, just hearing the story will make my stomach do flips.
24. Most barbershops make me uncomfortable.
25. I’ve been in therapy with a Christian councilor for several months and it’s one of the best choices I’ve ever made.
Not saying Windows was at fault here... but something sure was.
See more random stuff at The Ranger's Blog
See closer image on next photo.
Vajrasatva Mahaa Aakasha Pushti Nama Yogenii Tantra, rDo rJe Sems dPa' Nam mKha' Che rGyas Pa Shes Bya rNal 'Byor Ma'i rGyud
Vol: Kha P. 595 Line 3
In the Language of India:
Vajrasatva Mahaa Aakasha Pushti Nama Yogenii Tantra
In the Tibetan Language:
rDo rJe Sems dPa' Nam mKha' Che rGyas Pa Shes Bya rNal 'Byor Ma'i rGyud
I fold my hands to the One Who Transcends Dominion and Possession, the Glorious Bearer of The Stone of Transformation!
On one occasion I spoke out these words:
He who transcends dominion and possession, the true Master of all those who leave behind dominion and possession and conduct themselves accordingly, whose personal character is physical, vocal, and psychological, and who is Supreme Bliss (bDe ba'i mChog) was, naturally, engaging the Lotus of Great Bliss, his honored wife. He erected a crystal palace from the powerful waves of tremendous happiness, a happiness that comes from working towards happiness, for his honored wife. Its architecture and dimensions were beyond measure.
The entire audience entered [the crystal palace], including:
Vajra Maker of All Vision
Vajra Stability
Vajra Glory of Supreme Rarity [596]
Vajra Endless Life, and
Vajra Accomplishment Free From Demonic Consumption
Their Honored Wives:
Wide Eyes (Yangs pa'i sPyan)
Feminine Stability
She Who Splendors in Jewels
She Whose Life is Unending
She who's Accomplishments Are Free from Demonic Consumption
Furthermore, there were the Enlightened Ones of Strong Mind:
Heart of the Land
He with the Power of Transformation in His Hands
Heart of the Sky
Dominator of the World
Kind
Polite Voice
Cleanser of Darkness
Goodness in All Things
And Their Honored Wives:
Dancer
Flower Garland
Singer
Actress
Perfume Lady
Flower
Candle
Sweet Water
The Honored Tylers were:
Killer of the Lord of the Dead
Victory in All Things
He Who Takes the Lotus to the End
He Who Puts the Soup of Life on the Stove (Thab or Thabs?)
Their Honored Wives:
She Who Kills the Lord of the Dead
She Who Wins at Everything
She Who Takes the Lotus to the End
She Who Puts the Soup of Life on the Stove
An audience of those already mentioned, and many others, all came together there, with no disparity between any of them. What is more, they came together just like sesame seeds, filling the whole place.
Their light made the dominions of the world visible. It filled [the world]. It pervaded [the world]. Suddenly it was there, looking like a glowing shimmer. [597]
Then, from the waves of the power of that great happiness, which comes out of working for happiness, there emerged Grand Masters numbering three thousand great thousands. All the dominions of the world were shaken by their might (mThu). Very Shaken. Totally shaken. They were wiped out. Very much wiped out. Totally wiped out. Totally and completely wiped out. They were blasted. Very blasted. Totally blasted. They crackled. Crackled loudly. Crackled all up.
Then the periphery was equalized with the center. All living beings were brought into submission. They also used the power of prayer to bring all the many kinds of physical realities, the many kinds of speech, and the many kinds of psychological realities into submission.
Through physical submission one manifests oneself in the work and deeds of a human being. One is born, studies, does things that are difficult to do, turns the wheel of truth, and so on. There are also methods of submission by which one does the work and deeds of a lion or the work and deeds of an elephant.
Submission through speech is an act of submission in which divine beings use divine language and dragons use dragon language.
Psychological submission is the act of submitting in the shining light of absorption as well as through magical ritual. [598]
This is the First Chapter of The Vast Tantra of the Magnificent Sky: The True Character of All Those Who Travel through Reality. It is called "The Topic under Discussion."
II
Then He Who Leaves behind Dominion and Possession smoothly moved into the absorption of Great Happiness which comes out of working towards happiness. It is called "Generous Royalty." He smiled with his face to those in the audience.
Then all those who had left behind dominion and possession, travelers through reality, addressed, in a single voice, the Master of those who leave behind dominion and possessions, travelers through reality, with these words:
Aye Ma Oh!
O Supreme Master of physical, vocal, and psychological realities!
Allow us, through your compassion,
To utilize a physical writing implement
To retain the methodology of your wisdom!
Then the Master of those who have left behind dominion and possession, those who travel through reality, took on the body of Goodness in All Things. All the Travelers through Reality saw him as having three faces and six arms.
Then those Travelers Through Reality, including Maker of All Visions, made a very pure sacrifice, an offering of what is external, what is internal, and what is secret, to Goodness In All Things, The Master of all those who have left behind dominion and possession, who travel throughout reality. [599]
They held their hands together and said these words:
"We request that the Master of all those who have left behind dominion and possessions, those who travel through reality, perform for us the transmission of empowerment into the Secret Mandala, and after that turn the wheel of the truth for that which has no symbol!"
They said this.
The Master of all those who travel reality, who leave behind dominion and possessions, listened to this, and said: "So be it!"
He gave instruction with these words:
Aye Ma Oh!
All of you want to request this Tantra,
For it is difficult to understand!
Good! Good! O Great Enlightened Ones!
Good! Good! Listen with respect!
Then all those who travel through reality repeatedly folded their hands, their eyes full with the greatest joy. They addressed him with these words:
Aye Ma Oh!
O Buddha, What a Buddha!
Aye Ma Oh!
The Buddha's announcement is Good!
Aye Ma Oh!
We request that you,
The one who has left behind dominion and possessions,
Explain to us the Supreme Magnificent Enlightenment!
Aye Ma Oh!
We request you,
Most Direct One (gZu bo che),
To explain that supreme secret word that,
When properly applied,
Consolidates a strategy
For bringing about the Great Enlightenment of All Living Beings!
Then the Master of all travelers through reality, those who have left behind dominion and possessions, [600] gave instructions to all those who travel through reality with these words:
You, The Unsurpassed,
Wish to quickly acquire
The perfect Ati Yoga,
The strategy for bringing about
The enlightenment of living beings.
So listen!
I will give you an explanation.
Then the Master of all those who travel through reality, those who have left behind dominion and possessions, smoothly moved into the absorption that is called "The Bedazzling Stone of Transformation." He positioned the audience in a Secret Mandala. Then he performed the transmission of the empowerment. After that he explained the truth of it, from the very beginning:
Reality itself is the true identity of everything.
Everything has been worked out to make this real.
The strategy is to engender wisdom.
This cannot be seen through perspectives based on differentials.
The true identity of all things
Cannot be seen by anyone whosoever!
Even the Buddha cannot see it!
The wisdom of enlightenment has no visible abode!
This is the real reason it has no true identity!
Nothing brings a harvest of Nothing!
A duality of Something and Nothing does not exist!
This is called "The Inconceivable Center."
The only thing real about a true identity
Is that there is nothing whatsoever to say about it!
Anything that can be an object of sensory perception
Cannot be proven to exist!
The true identity of all things [601]
Has no beginning and no end.
It neither lasts nor does it stop.
It is not plural nor is it single.
It does not come nor does it go.
Speculation is pacified through recognition.
Respected intentions have no substance!
This cannot be perceived by the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body or mind (yid)!
The attitude that one is perceptive is a deception!
True purity cannot be understood!
There are no superior attitudes with regard to Samsara and Nirvana.
When one dwells in the way things really are
Stability and instability are both fine.
When what is taken in and what is saved are clear,
There are no specifics or generalities,
No endings and no beginnings.
The unspeakable is completely inconceivable!
Words that are not written down are the best.
(Yi ge Med pa – This is the Title of key tractate in the Great Sky cycle)
If you give up on words
The delusions of the mind will stop!
This is the second chapter of the Vast Tantra of the Magnificent Sky, the true nature of all those who travel through reality. It is called "Dwelling in Reality,"
III
Then the Master of travelers through reality, those who have left behind dominion and possessions, considered the previous request that had been presented by the audience. He intentionally spoke out the following intentional statement:
The truth about dwelling in reality
Is that there is no peace
Through acquisition or rejection.
It is difficult to determine,
And difficult to teach. [601]
It stands apart from linguistic conventions.
The physical aspect of the Stone of Transformation
Is not a compound.
The physical aspect of the immutable (gyung drung sku)
Has no birth or death.
It is not compounded in tripartite temporality.
That which is called "This,"
Magnificent and permanent,
The light of all things,
Cannot be taught symbolically.
I myself am incapable of seeing it.
It is not something that can be directly perceived.
It pervades all things.
It is actually a treasure that does not decay.
The true identity of all things
Is none other than their true potential (stong pa nyid).
There is no differential or difference whatsoever
Between Samsara and Nirvana.
There is not even a single thing to distinguish these two.
Things like conglomerates (phung po), domains (khams),
and generative forces (skye mched)
Along with their interdependent origination,
Are nothing but potentialities.
Those who are born into the true reality,
Which is their own potential,
Cannot see it.
The true reality
Is therefore known as "Travelling Through Reality."
It is as if all things move through bliss.
You will not find it by looking anywhere else.
No one who looks for true purity
Will be able to see the purity.
Some of those who are blind
Have a great insight into this.
Those who cannot see Nirvana
Or the position of the Buddha
Instantly achieve genuine enlightenment
Through Lotus Wisdom (Padma'i Ye shes).
The true Master has a single identity
But appears in many different ways.
The Master of distorted designations
Deceives living beings,
As if he was sticking them into a trap.
The transcendence of dominion and possessions
Is a magnificent occurrence.
The minds of those who do not make conceptual designations
Remain clear,
For they leave behind dominion and possessions.
Just as every living being dwells in reality,
Every Buddha is his own true origin.
Living beings bring themselves into life.
This [life] does not come from anything else.
It is on account of their ignorant designations
That all sentient beings,
Beings that [already] have Buddha Hearts (sangs rgyas snying po),
Come to experience all kinds of sorrow,
Both subtle and gross.
.
The Bhaga,
Which is the domain of what is true
Is the real condition of all sentient beings.
This is the sky.
It pervades everything.
Those who do not see this
Do not see it.
It is a serious error for them to put shadows over it.
It is vast, tremendous, and profound in depth.
It is understood by the wise (she rab can).
That which comes from nowhere, goes nowhere.
It has nothing to do with coming and going.
The heart of pure intent
Will not be found,
No matter where one looks,
No matter how many approaches one takes.
Purity is unshadowed self awareness (rang rig).
There is no origin
To all those material things.
They are not pure;
They are complete fabrications.
There is no difference whatsoever
Between the real domain of truth
And the heart that turns away from it.
Reality is without attachment.
It is not born and does not die.
It cannot be imagined nor conceived of.
It is bliss.
This is the Third Chapter of The Vast Tantra of the Magnificent Sky, a realistic paradigm for all travelers through reality. It is called "Teachings on the Unchanging Truth."
IV
Then the Master of all travelers through reality, those who have left behind dominion and possessions, longed, most delightfully, to manifest his own greatness. The Master of both the corporeal and of wisdom proclaimed the following:
Even the Buddha does not see
The reality that pervades all things.
It is not available to direct awareness,
While it pervades all things.
This comprehensive Light
Is not a compound.
It is actually permanent.
It is the corpus of the Stone of Transformation.
This, from amongst all pure embodiments,
Is the supreme body.
The explanation of the truth
Is called "The Corpus of Truth."
This is clearly understood by means of
A grand self-generated wisdom.
The One with the Lotus (Pad ma can) has put together
A series of tactics
Involving an inclusive basis (kun gzhi) as essential elements.
The corpus of actual enlightenment is not conceptual.
How, then, is this perfect corpus put together?
The actualization of perfect enlightenment
Is instantaneously realized
Through the Wisdom of its own potential.
This is the Corpus of Truth.
There is no other.
The Magnificent Mandala of what is real [605]
Becomes evident by virtue of its waves of power.
Attitudes based on conventional intentions
Give birth to tactics that do not prevent apparitions.
The field that is a Mandala for the Stone of Transformation
Has it dawn with the true instructions on Mantra and Mudra.
The Corpus of Enjoyment,
Supreme in its interconnectedness,
Is stationed, with its symbol and allegories,
In the massive collections of Letter Wheels (yi ge 'khor lo).
The corpus of good deeds (bsod nams)
Maintains the purest wisdom
With the continuity of a river.
The Lord (mgon po), The Grand Master,
Turns the wheel of the stone of transformation.
He uses his tongue's powers to send forth
The turning of the wheel of truth.
There is interconnectedness between prayers
And the magnificent Aware Ones.
They appear in manifest embodiments
Throughout every domain in the world.
Utilizing impermanent things,
They demonstrate a way
To get from birth right up to Nirvana.
They bring everyone that has distorted ideas
Into the fields of those with Great Hearts.
Through the stages of the physical, the verbal, and the psychological,
They bring fulfillment to the lives of living beings.
This is the forth chapter of The Vast Tantra of the Magnificent Sky, a realistic paradigm for all travelers through reality. It is called "Teaching that the Master of the Harvest has a Physical nature along with his Wisdom." [606]
V
Then the Master of all travelers through reality, those who have left behind dominion and possessions, spoke out a strategy on the Mandalas of the corporeal, the vocal, and the psychological so that they should be realized.
The reality of any truth
Is not masculine, nor feminine, nor neuter.
There is something essential
About bringing in the harvest.
Do not talk about the various sorts of Mandalas!
They are made from shapes,
Which pervade all things.
The corpuses of truth and of perfect enjoyment,
Along with their innumerable manifest embodiments
Are dispersed [everywhere],
But are not elaborated upon.
That which is pure is not a potential.
It shows itself to every living being in the three spheres
[of Desire, Form, and Formlessness]
In a physical form that will be suitable
For the purpose of making them submit.
Potentialities cannot be removed from shapes.
The Masters,
Who are not spoken of,
Have the power to make them submit.
They send out all kinds of sounds and words
To control all kinds of conjectures.
I have taught the single transport (theg pa),
The dual transport, the triple transport,
The five transports, and inconceivable others. [607]
This was to prevent the separation of the center
From the periphery.
The purity of the Sonic Mandala
Is the inconceivable way that it spreads out everywhere.
There is something about the supreme Sonic Mandala
That makes the eighty four thousand bounteous worlds
Melt into Sonic Spaciousness.
He said this.
Then the entire Sonic Mandala melted into the spaciousness of truth, and became invisible.
Then he spoke on the Magnificent Mandala of the Heart.
The Mahamudra shines out
From the mudra of reality.
The clan of the real (de bzhin)
The clan of the Stone of Transformation (rdo rje)
And the clan of Precious Things (rin chen)
Blaze in the light of the Mahamudra!
Just like the blazing Udum flowers
That are sometimes found on lonely pathways.
You alone perceive all the Mandalas of Illusion.
For others, there is nothing there at all.
Thus he spoke.
Then all the Mandalas of the Heart were transformed beyond the imagination.
This is the fifth chapter of The Vast Tantra of the Magnificent Sky, a realistic paradigm for all travelers through reality. It is called "A Non-conceptual Teaching on the Physical, Vocal and Heart Mandalas." [608]
--
Peace on Earth
Translated by Christopher Wilkinson
She allowed W10 update and got the BSOD and asked if I knew how to fix it.
Well, yes: Ubuntu. Fedora. Mint. Redhat. Slackware. Gentoo. Arch. And many more. I don't know how to mess with Windows. I am a Linux girl. I' can do Puppy or Madriva and I can even do Kali linux I have it on a thumb drive. I haven't opened it, but it can't be that different.
*** Lots of text here, mostly on why haven't I upload stuff in a while. Or more like "Why I upload so inconstantly lately?" ***
Well, long story short: suddenly my 2nd HDD (*where all the games I shoot in are located, sadly) appears to be in very bad shape, showing me BSODs of all kinds even shortly after a reboot w/out any input at all. First "BAD_SYSTEM_CONFIG_INFO", then "KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR" right after a failed CHKDSK attempt on startup. Unreadable blocks, Victoria (*an HDD testing program) failing with THOUSANDS of "Err" blocks...
I don't know, honestly -- I had similar problems before, but either CHKDSK, Windows repair or Victoria helped to fix 'em. Now it looks like it's slowly dying. *sigh*
I try to save as much data as possible, though there are probably 500+ GB of valuable things, including unedited pics of course.
So while I can (*and I do) use my another HDD with Win10 installed for edits and stuff, I can't shoot new source material. Thankfully I have enough stored, but still -- most of the time I copy, upload in clouds and try anything to prevent the HDD from "bricking". So I apologize for the recent lack of uploads.
Now don't worry, I'm pretty sure everything will be (somewhat) fine. *wink*
Have a nice day (and great upcoming new week)!
P.S. BTW, "Atomic Blonde" is fantastic. If you hesitate to watch it or not, just take my word: you'll definitely enjoy this smashing movie!
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ASIAN HIGHLANDS PERSPECTIVES 58
Articles, Perspectives, an Essay, a Translation, Perspectives, Profiles, Cartoons, Literature, Book Reviews, and a Dissertation Review 2019 bit.ly/2S7NNKX
ARTICLES
"No Receiving Without Giving"
A mdo Tibetan stong mchod
'Thousand-Fold Offering' Practices
Sangs rgyas bkra shis སངས་རྒྱས་བཀྲ་ཤིས། (Sangjiezhaxi 桑杰扎西)
14-78 pp
Reading Tibetan in the Original Chinese:
Tibetan Sinophone Authors and Translation
Duncan Poupard
79-113 pp
ESSAY
The Wutun Language and Modern Diversity Linguistics
Erika Sandman
115-121 pp
TRANSLATION
ཙོང་ཁའི་རི་རྒྱུད་དང་འབྲེལ་ཏེ་ཨ་མདོའི་ས་གནས་འགའ་ཡི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་གླེང་བ།
Gray Tuttle
ཀླུ་ཐར་རྒྱལ་གྱིས་བསྒྱུར།
123-171 pp
PERSPECTIVES
The Rdo rje Phur pa Ceremony at Mi nyag Ri khud Monastery
Bsod nams dbang phyug བསོད་ནམས་དབང་ཕྱུག
(Yang Haiyu 杨海宇)
173-216 pp
Aasi Nadi 'Bull Play' in the Ledu Tu (Mongghul) Area,
Qinghai Province, PR China
Limusishiden (Li Dechun 李得春)
217-233 pp
Ra rgan tshang: An A mdo Tibetan Herders' WeChat Group
Pad+ma rig 'dzin པདྨ་རིག་འཛིན།
234-238 pp
Beloved Animals
Pad+ma rig 'dzin པདྨ་རིག་འཛིན།
239-247 pp
Communicating with Yaks: Shouts and Whistles
Phun tshogs dbang rgyal ཕུན་ཚོགས་དབང་རྒྱལ།
248-251 pp
The Pace of Change: Reflecting on the International
Graduate School North-South 2018 in Nepal
Dkon mchog dge legs དཀོན་མཆོག་དགེ་ལེགས།
252-258 pp
PROFILES
'Brug lha rgyal - Tibetan Dancer
Sgrol ma yag སྒྲོལ་མ་ཡག
260-288 pp
Salt Collection and Trading in A mdo
Sangs rgyas tshe ring སངས་རྒྱས་ཚེ་རིང་།
289-306 pp
"Our Chimney Still Smokes" Jiraxji (b. 1926) –
A Huzhu Mongghul (Tu) Woman
Limusishiden (Li Dechun李得春)
307-320 pp
A Huzhu Mongghul (Tu) Woman's Life: Qixinsuu (1924-1982)
Limusishiden (Li Dechun李得春)
321-338 pp
TIBETAN NIGHTMARES
FORTY-FIVE CARTOONS
339-363 pp
LITERATURE
Mosh-K
Pad+ma rig 'dzin པདྨ་རིག་འཛིན།
365-367 pp
Veneered Elegance
Skal bzang tshe brtan སྐལ་བཟང་ཚེ་བརྟན།
368-370 pp
Expelling a Demon
Skal bzang tshe brtan སྐལ་བཟང་ཚེ་བརྟན།
371-377 pp
Saturday
Gu ru 'phrin las གུ་རུ་འཕྲིན་ལས།
378-382 pp
An Unclean Bloodline?
Gu ru 'phrin las གུ་རུ་འཕྲིན་ལས།
383-387 pp
Love at Dream Lake
Gu ru 'phrin las གུ་རུ་འཕྲིན་ལས།
388-395 pp
No Escape
Gu ru 'phrin las གུ་རུ་འཕྲིན་ལས།
396-402 pp
Preparing Clothes for a Bon Tantric Practitioner's Afterlife
Klu thar rgyal ཀླུ་ཐར་རྒྱལ།
403-404 pp
Fake Sheep
Klu thar rgyal ཀླུ་ཐར་རྒྱལ།
405 pp
A Balloon
Klu thar rgyal ཀླུ་ཐར་རྒྱལ།
406 pp
Smell
Blo bzang བློ་བཟང་།
407-408 pp
Cleanse Evil From My Mind
Chos skyong skyabs ཆོས་སྐྱོང་སྐྱབས།
409-410 pp
Educating a Son
Chos skyong skyabs ཆོས་སྐྱོང་སྐྱབས།
411-412 pp
Lethal Imagination
Klu thar rgyal ཀླུ་ཐར་རྒྱལ།
413-414 pp
Gullible Compassion
Klu thar rgyal ཀླུ་ཐར་རྒྱལ།
415-416 pp
Warm Blood, Blue Sky
Klu thar rgyal ཀླུ་ཐར་རྒྱལ།
417-418 pp
Sugar
Blo bzang བློ་བཟང་།
419-420 pp
Best Friend
Blo bzang བློ་བཟང་།
421-422 pp
A New Life
'Jam dbyangs skyabs འཇམ་དབྱངས་སྐྱབས།
423-424 pp
Best Brothers
Klu thar rgyal ཀླུ་ཐར་རྒྱལ།
425-426 pp
A Bolt of Lightning
Klu thar rgyal ཀླུ་ཐར་རྒྱལ།
427-428 pp
Safe with Mother
'Jam dbyangs skyabs འཇམ་དབྱངས་སྐྱབས།
429-430 pp
Nine Rivers
Blo bzang བློ་བཟང་།
431-432 pp
It Doesn't Matter
Klu thar rgyal ཀླུ་ཐར་རྒྱལ།
433-434 pp
"No Doubt!"
Klu thar rgyal ཀླུ་ཐར་རྒྱལ།
435-437 pp
"This is Not What I Want"
Chos skyong skyabs ཆོས་སྐྱོང་སྐྱབས།
438-440 pp
Broken Promise
'Jam dbyangs skyabs འཇམ་དབྱངས་སྐྱབས།
441-443 pp
Conceivable Inconceivables
Chos skong skyabs ཆོས་སྐྱོང་སྐྱབས།
444-445 pp
A Stitch in Time
Rdo rje dpal 'byor རྡོ་རྗེ་དཔལ་འབྱོར།
446-449 pp
BOOK REVIEWS
Review: Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in
Tibetan Buddhism by Karl Debreczeny
Reviewed by Rob Linrothe
451-470 pp
Review: Beloved Tibetan Children
by Lha byams rgyal
Reviewed by Kelsang Norbu (Skal bzang nor bu སྐལ་བཟང་ནོར་བུ།
Gesang Nuobu 格桑诺布) bit.ly/38APpDk
471-499 pp
Review: Paper Airplanes by Yan Yingxiu
Reviewed by Li Xiuhai李绣海
500-520 pp
Review: The Beloved Children of Tibet by
Lha byams rgyal
Reviewed by Tshe dpal rgyal ཚེ་དཔལ་རྒྱལ། (Caihuajia 才华嘉)
521-531 pp
Review: Jie by Ciren Luobu
Reviewed by 'Brug mo skyid འབྲུག་མོ་སྐྱིད། (Zhoumaoji 周毛吉)
532-542 pp
Review: Cultural Changes at an A mdo Dge lugs
Monastery by Lhun grub rdo rje
Reviewed by Klu thar rgyal ཀླུ་ཐར་རྒྱལ།
543-553 pp
Review: China's New Socialist Countryside: Modernity Arrives in the Nu River Valley by Russell Harwood
Reviewed by Duo Dala (Stobs stag lha
སྟོབས་སྟག་ལྷ།)
554-557 pp
Review: The Way of Khams-pa by
Chiangyong Tsering
Reviewed by Lhamodrolma (Lha mo sgrol ma
ལྷ་མོ་སྒྲོལ་མ། Lamaozhuoma 拉毛卓玛)
558-563 pp
Review: How to Write a Lot by Paul J Silvia
Reviewed by Lugyal Bum (Klu rgyal 'bum
ཀླུ་རྒྱལ་འབུམ། Lijiaben 李加本)
564-567 pp
DISSERTATION NOTICE
Review: The Phonetics and Phonology of Nyagrong Minyag, an
Endangered Language of Western China by John R Van Way
Reviewed by Sami Honkasalo
569-574 pp
I hadn't told you all, but my old computer was really starting to fail me :P The power jack kept malfunctioning further after we fixed it and inevitably the LCD began to fail while the overall performance declined. I guess that BSOD from a while back marked the starting point for the decline of that computer. I had to use an external display for a while, but things will run much smoother from now on with this new PC!