Turtle

"Imagine that the whole earth was covered with water, and a man was to throw a yoke with a hole in it into the water. Blown by the wind, that yoke would drift north, south, east and west. Now, suppose that once in hundred years a blind turtle would rise to the surface. What do you think? Would that turtle put his head through the hole in the yoke as he rose to the surface once in a hundred years?"

"It is unlikely Lord."

"Well, it is just as unlikely that one will be born as a human being; it is just unlikely that a Tathagata, a Noble One, a fully enlightened Buddha should arise in the world; and it is just as unlikely that the Dhamma and discipline of the Tathagata should be taught. But now you have been born as a human being, a Tathagata has arisen and the Dhamma has been taught. Therefore, strive to realize the Four Noble Truths."

Sunday, April 24, 2005

Picture of My "Lotus in My Backyard"

No play play, the picture of the lotus in my profile was taken in my house's backyard on 21st August 2004. Notice the tiny black dot in the centre of the lotus? It's supposed to be a bee... which was one of the reasons I wanted to take that shot at that time.

Until now I am still fascinated by the speed the lotus stalk shoots up from nowhere, blooms, and then the petals would just fell in less than 24 hours, especially when there is strong wind.

I love this picture, it took me a long time to figure out why my Olympus camera shutter wasn't clickable. I started moving the camera further and further away from the lotus and suddenly can click. Then only I realised that my camera can't take picture of objects positioned too near to the camera...

The reddish and purplish leaves in the background, is now no longer in existence because of our hot weather, too much for the poor plant, "tie shu" in Chinese, I do not know what it's called in English.

And I just figured out how to use my scanner again. Last time I scanned from PhotoShop but uninstalled that program when I realised I didn't need to use it much (only once in a bluemoon) and it was taking a lot of space from my 4GB hard disk. So now I learned that I could actually scan pictured from any photo editor program, a bit late to learn, but better late than never?

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