Happy New Year!

There's a belief that what you do on New Year's Eve, you'll be doing next year.

So, I'm putting this little congratulation here, because I want to blog in 2014 as well. :))

Happy New Year everyone!!!

Changing my personality

Changing my personality or personalities of those around me is as difficult and unnecessary as trying to turn a chair into a fridge. 

Why not make it a better chair instead?

Buddha of Healing Palace - Medicinal Flora and Fauna

The blue Medicine Buddha, Bhaisajyaguru, sits centre in the first of the medical thangkas. This placement illustrates his vital importance to the practice and study of Tibetan Medicine. This painting consists of a walled 'City of Irresistible Beauty' where a host of deities reside alongside the Medicine Buddha. The city itself is square with four gates opening up in each of the cardinal directions. Outside the palace's walls lie four mountains where medicinal plants grow and animals roam.

Growing in the Snow Mountain to the north of the city are white and red sandalwood, camphor, arecanut palm, chiretta along with many other plants and trees. Although it is not clearly visible in this photograph, the moon is located in the center of the top row of the north mountain. The east, south and west mountains each contain different plants corresponding to their climate.

The figure in the top left of this painting is the Fifth Dalai Lama (1617-1682) who was responsible for communicating the teaching of Tibetan medicine to Sangye Gyamtso. The figures that follow are a variety of medicine Buddhas.

Source.

Snow on Cypress - Full Moon

Snow, Moon, and Flowers

Good King Wenceslas

This is one of the warmest songs in a cold snowy night. I often hum it when I go to work in winter. 

It's already dark at 4 o'clock, the snow is crisp, the frost is cruel, and the best place to be is home. However, the warmth of the saint's footsteps keeps me happy and going.

The Fire Wheel

The ancient symbol of the wheel of the year is the wheel of fire. 

What goes up must go down.

The Winter Solstice

The darkest time of the year is the time to explore my dark side, to celebrate my gratitude for the gift of darkness and death. 

This time calls for vigilance and cleaning out the old junk. Lighting a fire or a candle will help clear the air and warm up these three days at the bottom of the year cycle.

Floris Claesz. van Dyck, Still-Life with Fruit, Nuts and Cheese, 1613

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

If you have a trait mocked by others, chances are this trait is indispensable elsewhere in the world.

Watch the 1948 cartoon

Two owls

Willem Claesz Heda, Breakfast Table with Blackberry Pie, 1631

Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Fight Between Carnival and Lent

Holbein's allegory of the Bible

Inner landscape

The clouds are always changing.