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(Pema Chödrön) ... start where you are

I made this shot last evening on a hill just to say "Hello!" from where I live in Berlin. In front of this photo you see the Funkturm (Radio Tower) with the exhibition halls and behind it on the left side the TV Tower from Berlin and the skyline from the Potsdamer Platz.

I made this shot on a hill. It is not a geological hill ... it is a hill with all stuff from the World War II, all scrap and junk, broken stones, through the World War II. The name of the hill is Teufelsberg ... if you like to translate it in English you can call the hill Devils Hill. The people in Berlin who are afraid of devils call it rubble mountain or mountain of rubble. It is fantastic place for romantic sunsets and you can practice Yoga there as well. Enough free space on this hill and it is also a very good place for Lojong Meditation ... the meditation practise in which you visualize and bring to your mind all suffer in the world, breath them in and clean it through your body with new fresh and clean energy. If you do not know Lojong I recommend you the book "Start where you are" by Pema Chödrön (in German: "Beginne wo du bist, ISBN 3-591-08374-7).

All the best and may all beings be happy! Yours Jens

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Permalink Reply by Lalita Devi on April 11, 2009 at 3:37pm

nice!

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Permalink Reply by Jens on April 11, 2009 at 4:45pm

Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Céline Callender on April 12, 2009 at 11:20pm

Thank you for sharing this.
Blessings,
CECE

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Permalink Reply by maryse on April 13, 2009 at 3:13am

Namaste

Thankyou for this reminder of meditating on the suffering of others and sending good energy. We who have computors, practice yoga, have pennies in our pockets and food to eat are very fortunate. It is humbling to think that most of the world goes without. This hill should be called peace hill. like peace park in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. All war memorials are not necessarily to remind us of the horrors, though that is necessary as not to repeat them, but the overcomming of our ignorance and pain. Devil in Japanese is akuma, just another part of the human psyche that we must learn to control. Love and Peace to you

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Permalink Reply by Jens on April 13, 2009 at 8:19am

Thank you Maryse ... to call this hill Peace Hill is a good idea. "Trümmerberg" or "Teufelsberg" are names with a perspective view in the past. "Friedensberg" sounds very optimistic. By the way Berlin was a center of terror but we haven't any places which called Peace Place, Peace Memorial ... but we have a Room of Silence near the Brandenburg Gate where you can sit in silence and pray for peace