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Early morning Dipper foraging on the banks of the River Derwent.

Clouds seen in the atmosphere over Mars, captured by the Mars Express orbiter in July last year

【京都・東寺/五大明王像(839年)】国宝。ヒノキの一木造。木造乾漆併用。彩色。講堂向かって左側に安置。五大明王とは、大日如来の化身とされる不動明王を中心とし、四明王がこれを囲むもの。

今日の月は「二日月」です。 日が沈んだあとに浮かぶ、糸のように見えることがある細い月。 別名「繊月（せんげつ）」とも呼ばれます。 ▼美しい「月の呼び名」ぜひご覧ください.。.:*・゜ 543life.com/content/moonna…

今夜は二日月が見えます。 日没40分～1時間後ぐらいに、西北西の空が開けた場所での観察がおススメです。 月の左上には金星が明るく輝いています。 今夜晴れの地域が多そうです。ぜひ美しい月を眺めてみましょう。 (写真は以前撮影した二日月です)

A breathtaking view of Mount Fuji from space Soaring above the clouds, Mount Fuji looks almost unreal from this awe-inspiring perspective.

Blackbird in the daisies. 😀 Taken at the weekend through my cat flap... 😁🐦

Ocean sunset

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears. Clarity doesn’t come before action. It comes from action.” — Rumi

🗻 朝焼けの吊るし雲〜山中湖 Morning glow and hanging clouds at Lake Yamanaka

“Accept everything. All that happens to you, accept and welcome it. Nothing is wrong, nothing can be wrong that should be the basic attitude. Everything is holy.” — Osho

🚨: What If Everything You See Is Only a Tiny Fraction of Reality? You think the night sky is endless, filled with countless stars and galaxies? Think again. What you see is only a tiny corner of the universe. Beyond the reach of our eyes, telescopes, and even the fastest light, lies a realm we may never touch—the non-observable universe. Scientists tell us that the universe is expanding faster than light itself. That means there are places so far away that their light will never reach us. Imagine billions of galaxies, each with billions of stars, floating in silence, forever hidden from our view. What’s out there? Could there be worlds like ours, or entirely strange realities we can’t even imagine? Even more mysterious, our universe might be just one bubble in a vast multiverse, with endless “other universes” beyond. The more we learn, the more we realize how tiny and fleeting our place in the cosmos really is. The universe we see is just the tip of an iceberg. Beyond it lies the unknown, a hidden ocean of stars, galaxies, and cosmic secrets. And some of these secrets may remain forever out of reach. Are you ready to imagine what’s out there… where even light itself is trapped?

雲海輝く夜 櫛形山で先日撮影 #富士山　#雲海　#夜景

⏳ What If Time Is Lying to You… and the Past Isn’t Fixed at All? We grow up believing time only moves one way—past gone forever, future not yet written. Tick. Tock. End of story. But new quantum research is quietly shaking that belief… and what it suggests is unsettling. Scientists are now finding hints that time doesn’t flow straight forward. Instead, it may fold in on itself—like a crumpled map where “now” can brush against “then.” At the smallest levels of reality, particles don’t seem to care about before or after. In some experiments, choices made later appear to influence what already happened. Let that sink in for a second. This isn’t sci-fi. In quantum labs, researchers have observed effects where light and particles behave as if the future is reaching back, gently shaping the past. Not changing memories. Not rewriting history like a movie. But quietly adjusting probabilities—deciding which version of the past becomes real. Think about it: what if your actions today aren’t just building tomorrow… but also locking in yesterday? What if certain “mistakes” only become mistakes because of how things turned out later? In this strange view of time, the past isn’t a solid wall—it’s more like wet cement, slowly setting as the future unfolds. That eerie feeling of déjà vu. Those moments where life feels like it “loops.” The sense that some events only make sense after they happen. Quantum physics may be hinting that time itself is part of that mystery. For everyday life, nothing suddenly breaks. Clocks still tick. Cause and effect still work. But underneath it all, reality might be far more flexible than we were taught—less like a straight road, more like a woven fabric. And if that’s true… then every choice you make now matters more than you think. Not just for where you’re going—but for where you’ve already been. Time may not be watching you move forward. It may be watching you fold it.

Greylag Goose at RSPB Greylake in Somerset recently. 😍😊🐦

今朝富士　5/15 櫛形山で撮影 #富士山　#日の出　#雲海

⚠️ The Universe Has a Secret Connection You Can’t See… In the strange world of quantum physics, there is a mystery so shocking that even Albert Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance.” It’s known as quantum entanglement—and it suggests the universe is far more connected than we ever imagined. Imagine two tiny particles born together. Once they become entangled, they remain linked forever. Change one, and the other responds instantly—even if it’s on the other side of the universe. No signal travels between them. No time passes. It happens at once, as if distance simply doesn’t exist. Scientists have tested this again and again, and every time, reality behaves in this unbelievable way. What makes this even more fascinating is that entanglement isn’t just a theory anymore. It’s already shaping the future. Researchers are using it to build ultra-secure quantum encryption, powerful quantum computers, and exploring communication methods that seem to break our traditional limits of space and time. But here’s the part that stops you cold: many scientists believe that during the Big Bang, everything in the universe may have been entangled. That means distant stars, galaxies, and maybe even you could still be connected through invisible quantum threads formed at the beginning of time. Quantum entanglement forces us to question everything we think we know about separation, distance, and individuality. Maybe nothing is truly isolated. Maybe the universe, deep down, moves as one connected whole. Once you understand this… it’s hard to look at reality the same way again. 🌌✨

Wisdom alone does not save the soul. After death, the soul enters a world flooded with overwhelming spiritual wisdom — just as the earth is surrounded by air and nature, the dead are surrounded by cosmic intelligence. But this wisdom is too vast to simply “receive.” If the soul cannot transform it into living force, it becomes submerged in spirit itself. Dr Steiner says that the task after death is to darken wisdom into life-force; to turn pure spiritual knowledge into something living, active, creative. And this requires something far deeper than intellect: inner strength, moral power, creative spiritual activity,.. Otherwise the soul is “drowned in spirit.” The spiritual world is not passive contemplation. It is creation. “The important thing in the spiritual world is that we should have the impulse, the power, to make something out of this wisdom, to produce from it reality.” And this is exactly where Christ enters the picture. Steiner is very clear: Christ is not a mere teacher or symbol - Christ is the Living Divine Being at the center of Earth evolution. Philosophy can reach the Father-God, the realm of order, causality, cosmic law. But Christ cannot be reached through logic alone. Why? Because Christ is not an abstract idea. Christ is a real divine Being, the Sun-Spirit, who must be recognized inwardly through freedom, faith, moral awakening, or spiritual perception. This is why Steiner says Christ “proves Himself” only through spiritual knowledge. Christ awakens the exact force the soul needs after death: the ability to remain awake, individual, and creative within the ocean of cosmic wisdom. Without this force, the human “I” risks dissolving into spiritual vastness. With Christ, the soul remains itself while expanding into the cosmos. “We provide ourselves with the right impulses to pass through the portal of death when we find the true relationship to Christ.” And also: “God the Father we can find during life; we find the Christ when we understand dying in the right way.” “In Christo Morimur” — In Christ we die. Not as defeat => but as passage. Christ is the guide through the threshold. The Being who: - meets the soul after death - carries it through the Midnight Hour - prevents it from being overwhelmed by spiritual forces - helps transform cosmic wisdom into the life-forces needed for rebirth There are two dangers after death: 1. Being drowned in spirit — losing oneself in overwhelming cosmic wisdom. 2. Being hardened in matter — losing the capacity to transform spirit into living creative force. Christ stands between both extremes. He keeps the soul: awake, free, individualized, morally upright,.. The strongest souls are not the ones who know the most; but the ones who can transform wisdom into living reality.

The object to be realized is the true state, or in other words, suchness, the way all phenomena actually are. This is emptiness: the nature of mind, the element, or the sugatagarbha. ~ Arya Maitreya, Buddha Nature: The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra