‘At Breakfast’ by L. A. Ring (1898) Lauritz Andersen (L.A.) Ring [Danish Painter, 1854-1933] RIng was one of the foremost Danish painters of the turn of the 20th century, pioneering both symbolism and social realism in Denmark. OIl on canvas National Museum, Sweden (by Plum leaves) (via lilacsinthedooryard:)
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‘At Breakfast’ by L. A. Ring (1898)

Lauritz Andersen (L.A.) Ring [Danish Painter, 1854-1933]

RIng was one of the foremost Danish painters of the turn of the 20th century, pioneering both symbolism and social realism in Denmark.

OIl on canvas 
National Museum, Sweden

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☯ Tao: The Water Way ☯ Taoism is known as “the water way” because the Tao is often spoken of in terms of flow, the flow of events and the flow of energy through the matrix of space time. Like waves in water or other media waves within the Tao react to one another and diffract and diffuse. In all wave forms there is the passive portion and the active portion. The yin and the yang.  In physical waves the active portion is the breaking edge of the wave otherwise known as a “cusp”.  This is where things happen.   However, they happen based upon the flux of the passive portion so one can predict what will transpire in any given circumstance by studying the wave where it is NOT breaking. The same goes with life.  Know where the lines of force are and use them to your advantage and avoid directly opposing them. We can draw another example from martial arts.  When an opponent attacks we do not meet his force directly with our force; instead, we deflect his force and momentum and use it against him.  In this way a smaller opponent can best a larger foe. Harmony not opposition. This is the way. This is the Tao. (via samsaranmusing:)
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☯ Tao: The Water Way ☯

Taoism is known as “the water way” because the Tao is often spoken of in terms of flow, the flow of events and the flow of energy through the matrix of space time. Like waves in water or other media waves within the Tao react to one another and diffract and diffuse. In all wave forms there is the passive portion and the active portion. The yin and the yang.  In physical waves the active portion is the breaking edge of the wave otherwise known as a “cusp”.  This is where things happen.  

However, they happen based upon the flux of the passive portion so one can predict what will transpire in any given circumstance by studying the wave where it is NOT breaking. The same goes with life.  Know where the lines of force are and use them to your advantage and avoid directly opposing them. We can draw another example from martial arts.  When an opponent attacks we do not meet his force directly with our force; instead, we deflect his force and momentum and use it against him.  In this way a smaller opponent can best a larger foe.

Harmony not opposition. This is the way. This is the Tao.

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  • A Night AwayPat Metheny & Brad Mehldau

Metheny Mehldau Quartet - A Night Away

Pat Metheny — electric guitar

Brad Mehldau — acoustic piano

Larry Grenadier — acoustic bass

Jeff Ballard — drums

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Osaka Maiko with a Butterfly Obi 1913 (by Blue Ruin1) “In Osaka there are pastime houses called the ochaya, which are the tea-houses literally, but entirely different from those in Tokyo. If you want to engage a geiko [geisha], first you have to go and give order to one of the ochaya, then the ochaya makes announcement to the misĕ, or the office of the geiko guild (equal to the Kemban in Tokyo), and the office despatches a man or maid-servant to the girl’s house, which is called the yakata…” From “The Nightside of Japan” by T. Fujimoto, first published in 1914
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Osaka Maiko with a Butterfly Obi 1913 (by Blue Ruin1)

“In Osaka there are pastime houses called the ochaya, which are the tea-houses literally, but entirely different from those in Tokyo. If you want to engage a geiko [geisha], first you have to go and give order to one of the ochaya, then the ochaya makes announcement to the misĕ, or the office of the geiko guild (equal to the Kemban in Tokyo), and the office despatches a man or maid-servant to the girl’s house, which is called the yakata…”

From “The Nightside of Japan” by T. Fujimoto, first published in 1914

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  • Youn Sun NahIndia Song

Youn Sun Nah -  India Song

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  • September In The RainDinah Washington

Dinah Washington - September In The Rain

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