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I just watched this video about the meeting in Moscow between Merkel, Putin and Hollande. They were talking about the crisis in Ukraine. Let’s hope the Europeans are finally about to find a peaceful end to the crisis!
I just reblogged a post by Pethan about Nan Tien Temple. I want to reblog now also this post by Berlioz to show some more of these beautiful pictures of the temple and surrounding gardens.
Here in the Illawara, not far from Dapto, where we live, there is a beautiful Buddhist Temple. It is on a small hill overlocking the plain towards the escarpment.
Last year I wrote a post for my German blockabout it. Today I will post something on this blog.
We always like going there as we find it very peaceful there. The people, mostly worshippers, are not the hectic tourists. The pagoda greets the visitor .
From up there one has a beautiful view of Mount Kembla and the escarpment.
We had beautiful sunshine today and therefore many people from Sydney were making the trip down the highway. Some go to the temple proper some relaxing in the well kept gardens and enjoying the little Buddha figures, spread all over the gardens, doing their Tai Chi.
Walking along the path we found a sitting Buddha who looked at us with…
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I just came across this blog by Pethan35 aka Berlioz1935 aka Peter. I like these pictures so very much. Looking at them makes me want to visit Nan Tiem for we have not been there for a while. I want to reblog this for some of my blogger friends would perhaps like to have a look at these beautiful pictures! 🙂
Wie ich in meinem vorherigen Blog berichtete, wollten wir nach unserem Buschspaziergang, am letzten Samstag, für eine Tasse Tee zum Nan Tien Tempel fahren. Vom Mount Keira ist es nicht allzu weit. Einen Pass hinunter und dann über eine Autobahn und schon ist man da.
Am Parkplatz angekommen empfing uns Buddha mit einer einladenden Handbewegung, das Varada Mudra. Es symbolisiert Nächstenliebe, Mitgefühl und das Gewähren von Wünschen. Es wird immer mit der rechten Hand ausgeführt. Der, der es ausführt, hat sich entschlossen, der Menschheit auf ihrem Weg zur Erleuchtung zu helfen.
Wo er steht schaut er direkt auf eine Pagode. Es schaut zur Zeit alles sehr herbstlich aus, und das mit Recht, denn den Spätsommer haben wir hinter uns gelassen.
Das Empfangskomitee war auch schon da.
Ein schöner Weg führte uns vorbei an zwei lustigen Gesellen direkt zum Teehaus
Das Teehaus
Auf dem Weg dort hin sahen wir zwei Bonsai…
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May 1935 in Berlin
Baby Uta with her Dad
This is a reflection on my parents. Their marriage their frequent separations, their divorce, how they related to us children, their interests, their friends or partners, Dad’s second marriage.
When I was about fifteen, Mum introduced ‘Bambi’ into our lives. ‘Bambi’ was Herr Burghoff aka Tomscick. Of course only Mum called him ‘Bambi’. To us children he was ‘Herr Burghoff’. We did not have any problem with this. Later on I found out that Dad had a problem with calling him by his adopted new name. Dad insisted on calling him ‘Tomscick’.
Here is a conversation I had with Dad when I was about eighteen:
It was June 1953. I was on a one week leave from FLEUROP and had used this, my very first vacation, to visit Dad in Düsseldorf.
‘The boys told me that Tomscik never shared his…
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In the above article on Immigration I found this link to an article in the Sydney Morning Herald from Sep 2014:
\http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/scott-morrison-strikes-deal-with-clive-palmer-to-reintroduce-temporary-protection-visas-20140924-10lpui.html
It says in this article that Under the Safe Haven Enterprise Visa, asylum seekers who are found to be refugees would have to live and work in a regional area.
It says: ” . . . . the federal government will also introduce a new five-year visa – called the Safe Haven Enterprise Visa – that will allow asylum seekers to eventually apply for other onshore visas.”
Alex Reilly asks:
“However, how this visa will work remains unclear. Where will refugees be able to work? What support will they get to settle in regional areas? Will they require sponsors to work, or will they be free to enter the regional job market unrestricted, alongside working holidaymakers and international students?”
I have one question: Why does the government not explain to us how this visa is supposed to work?
I think this is a very interesting blog about the political parties in USA.
It seems to me…
“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte.
Our political parties have fundamentally different visions of what kind of country we should have and neither is feeling sufficiently politically weak to agree to the other side’s vision; there remains essentially no room for independent thinking within the conservative movement.
There has been a move to the right in U.S. political leadership where measures frequently are discussed or proposed that would have been anathema to conservatives under the Eisenhower or even the Reagan administration. This shift to the extreme right cannot be characterized in any way other than as a development of a radical political movement that threatens the very stability and character of the U.S. as we have known it. Isn’t it time for common sense and reason to return to political discourse? The radical right attempts to label the Democratic Party…
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