Maze-ike (Mix) (交生, 生花變化型)

今天的生花別傳：船

下面這艘船正要出航，前方伸出的snow berry 是㯭槳.

Mom's 90th memory album

This is for Mom's 90th birthday souvenir album, from 2006 until today. 

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MASTERING THE MIND by Gyalwa Shamarpa

Once, Milarepa entered into a yak's horn to illustrate a point to his disciple Rechungpa. Milarepa was able to do this without shrinking his body and without the horn growing any bigger. This was possible because Milarepa had dissolved all dualistic grasping. 

Smallness and largeness, or any size for that matter, are all produced by duality, i.e. the result of grasping to phenomena as if they were really existing. Once this dualistic grasping is dissolved, "large" and "small" no longer have the same meaning and are no longer so fixed. As long as there is duality, large remains large and small remains small : everything is solidified, and we cannot change anything. But once we have dissolved this grasping or fixation, there are no longer any limits. The relative reality is no longer solidified and anything becomes possible. 

That is how Rechungpa was able to see Milarepa entering into the horn of the yak. Milarepa did this in order to help Rechungpa understand the mastery of phenomena. This example is used by numerous masters to illustrate this aspect of teaching and notably by Gendun Chöpel. It demonstrates that when the grasping of reality as truly existing ceases, phenomena can then easily be manipulated.

西洋花：

300: Rise of an Empire (Movie, 2014)

Themistocles: "Better we show them, we chose to die on our feet, rather than live on our knees!" This is an entertaining historical fantasy, based on the second Persian invasion of mainland Greece, under Xerxes I. It is a followup to "300", which was an account of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, where a small Spartan army under King Leonidas fought against a much larger Persian army under Xerxes. "300" was a fairly accurate historical account and a better film overall. The events of "Rise of an Empire" take place before, during and subsequent to the Battle of Thermopylae, concluding with the Greek victory at the Battle of Salamis. While her portrayal is mostly fictional, the character of Artemisia as played by Eva Green certainly adds to the entertainment value...and she delivers the standout performance. 

Nowhere near the visually stunning level and gravitas of the original '300' movie, this "sidequel" has little character development and comes off as one dimensional as its original medium of a comic book.  '300' was epic, sweepingly dramatic and full of eminently quotable lines, with each frame a piece of artistic genius. About the only thing 'Rise of an Empire' has in common with its progenitor are the endless slow motion shots of blood splatter. 

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