Waching daily May 7 2017

This is going to be a very important video, not only for you, but also for me because

it is going to summarize my findings or understanding about the most important concept in life which

is Karma.

I'm going to talk about Karma and money.

The topic was triggered through a conversation that I had with a student of mine who came

to see me yesterday in London.

The person asked a very important question during the dinner.

She asked, " there is a point of view that Karma should not be interfered with.

For instance, you suffer because of Karma or you prosper because of Karma too.

If you prosper through Karma, that is good.

And then you can keep it and then don't do anything bad to sabotage that, but what

about a bad Karma?

Should you try to change it, or just — you just live through that?"

It is a very important question – the question is – should you accept the Karma, a bad

Karma, which is lack of money, lack of relationship or some problems in life, - diseases and so

forth are some of the examples of bad Karma.

Should we do something about it?

Or just suffer?

And this question was raised by someone, a saint, a month ago.

And the saint told me that he has chosen to suffer the Karma.

Although this saint happens to be one who is also married and has 3 children — all

of them are suffering.

And he told me that he has chosen to suffer because he was advised by a top guru who said,

'You have an option.

And the option is: You either suffer and finish all your bad Karma from past lives and end

this life.

Or we can give you remedies."

"But what will happen is — The Karma will be altered and then you will have a break.

And you will have money; you will have relationship or whatever.

Not totally a great life, but somewhat a better life than what you are now living."

And this is a question that everybody will have to ask — whether to suffer or to change

the suffering?

My answer to the question, to the person who put this question was — I think the best

way is the middle path.

You cannot just let the Karma completely destroy you — the bad Karma to destroy you.

If it is a disease, to allow yourself [to fall] a victim to the disease and death.

But you can do something to treat the disease and then live.

But then you should not totally interfere with your Karma.

So, accept the fact that the suffering is due to bad things that you have done in your

past life but then, do remedies to change it somewhat.

So this made me to think more deeply into the question of Karma and Money because this

is a central problem for most people.

Money comes to you as a result of good Karma.

So you have a great life with no financial problem.

And having said that you have to careful about understanding the concept of money as a reward

for your good Karma.

But money also can lead you to commit to doing a lot of bad things, [thus] leading to accumulation

of bad Karma that will result in a very bad life.

So what have you to do — what you have to do is be very careful about dealing with money.

Money is dangerous because it can create [in] you greed.

You know, if you look at people who are wealthy, 99% of the wealthy people, super wealthy people,

are greedy.

And then, they don't care about how they make money.

It is not only true of people who are extremely wealthy or super wealthy, but also everyone.

Everyone is willing to compromise the way they make money.

They want to close their eyes about how the money is being made.

As a result what happens is they are accumulating bad Karma.

And the most important question is — since everybody is interested in money and even

including the departed spirits also like money, because the money lust or desire never leaves

a person.

So the important question is, 'Why do we need money?

Why everybody is after money?'

For more infomation >> Your Money Karma : Part 1 of 3 - Duration: 7:55.

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Sunset value study - Pastel painting course - Duration: 19:10.

hi welcome to the studio I'm Lindy Whitton

and today I'm just going to

talk about a couple of different things

people often ask me about the paper that

I use so today I thought I would

demonstrate on a different sort of paper

than I usually use a click here you will

go to a video on different papers but

this one is just a piece of mat board which

I then painted with color fix

primer so you can get this an all sorts

of colors this is just a clear one so I

first of all painted on some apricot

kind of background color and then put

the clear primer over the primer makes

the pastle stick to it. It's a gritty

sort of thing. This one cost me about

thirteen dollars australian dollars

quite a lot of years ago. It lasts for a long time.

so different sort of paper today, different

surface that i'm usually using . it's a

prepared surface by me. In here I've got

the pastels i'm going to use for the

painting. Here is the reference photo i'm

using and you can see it's a sunset. I

don't think I've done any sunsets for you before

and they're quite tricky to

do but I'm just going to do a little one

to quickly demonstrate that and over

here is just a piece of paper that I've

already been playing with the pastel

colors. One other thing I want to talk

about quickly today was value that's

something that people sometimes struggle

to understand and it's very important in

your painting . I've chosen this

painting because it's got such a big

strong value shift from really really

dark strong values to very light up

here . We want to get the whole range

and in the middle of this sort of some

mid tones in the grays and the peachy

colors. so over in my little pastel

palette ,where I've got some rice to help

clean the pastels off, I've got a very

dark value of colors the mid value

colors and some more light and mid values

and the very light here. When you're

trying to decide what value to use or

what color to use it's probably more

important to think about what value you

use again if you just squint your eyes

up you'll find that all the darks look

pretty much the same , the

same strength ,the same value then

mid-tones up about the same and the

lights

about the same these lights here. I've

split them up into sky sea and the

darks of the land and the mid-tones of

the sky and the lighter ones of the

sunset colors in the sky. just got a

little bit of paper here's to wipe my hands as I need to so let's get started

I'm just going to start by setting up

the difference between the highest

strongest darkest values and the

lightest values so go just go in here

with the that land mass there I'm just

going to rough it in just by using a

very dark pastel and rough in the

landmass there. Over here there's a sort

of bit of a land mass of sticking out with a

some sort of tree in there I'm just

roughing it in because that's probably going to

get smudged when I do the sky. just

to give me an idea of the value shift in

here and then behind there there's a

life once I'm going for a lighter color

and my palette here and that's the

second headland out here that's a little

bit lighter so I'm just going to rough

that in a lighter value. it's

more important to get your value rights

than your color right. that value is pretty

much the same value as the sky cloud out

there and the water down there so I'm

just going at this stage rough in that value

through there as well roughing it in and

roughing it in in the sky there . you can

see that the peachy color on the

background is going to help me

tremendously with setting up the

painting so now I've got those in the

very lightest part of the painting is up

here so I'm just putting in a really

light color around the edges there of the

the clouds. it's just going to be the

base eventually . now I've got

the value shift in that painting. very

dark mid tones and very light and

then there will be other values I'll be putting in . I'm going to now

work a bit on the clouds there so I'm

just choosing some more

of these mid tones I've got some purple

colors there which I'm putting in and

just bringing them in over there

adding a bit of deeper tones down here,

values down here and because I've

already split them up into my value

grouping it it makes it a bit easier to

to work it out do I care if I'm showing

through some of those are under colors

of that peachy under color. not really.

i'm just going to give that painting a

little bang into my tray there just to

get the dust off. now at this stage i can

decide that I'm going to blend that a

little bit and I'm just going to take

the side of my fingers and give it a

little blend in the clouds.

Push the paint a little bit

into this I'm not pushing it too much

I'm just blending it off a little to

help. I'm also going to do that little

bit down here but I'm going to add in

some of those blues. this is a night

scene it's a on the Cinqua Terra

and

we just thought we'd catch the train in from

where we were staying . when we got

to the first little town it was just

such a lovely evening we thought "let's

go for a walk" and we walked all along

here in the dark and it was just

beautiful and very fortunate evening

really. I've been there during the daytime and I

really enjoyed this even more. okay. so now

i'm going to go back into here and just

strengthen up that headland pulling in

some other colors but all in the same

sort of value so that I don't lose that

value there.

but I'm adding in a little bit of

interest by putting insome

different color . That was probably slightly too dark.

and I'm not only too picky about the

head land. I quite like that purple in there

that just gives a bit of there's more

interest. okay. so I've got the one head

land in now I'm just going to go back

into this headland.

I'm going to take

some of that blue I just used.( not doing very

well am I'm just chucking them back in here wherever I like

and that's just not very good)

I'm going to take some of that blue and

put up here into the clouds

and I'm also going to deepen up those

clouds at the top there. you

can see they're a little bit stronger

in value than elsewhere in the

painting so we'll just make those clouds a little bit stronger in value

I'm giving it one more tap

over here just to get rid of some of the

loose pastel dust. and now i'm just going

to establish at this point my very

strong orange color in there.

it's a very bright patch and

within the bright patch there's a bit of

a lighter patch there. i'm not sure that

this is going to be right colour but it

might just work to give it that bit of a

glow. now are along the edge here there's

a little bit lighter sea. tSo I'm

putting that in quite a light value a

bit lighter than the head land and maybe

it's just a wee bit too light but that's

okay if I can come back in with a little

bit of a darker color over the top just

a hint of a darker color that's in

the head land there and eventually going

to put a little bit of that purple in the head land

for some variety to

tie it in with the sky. here we go again.

and going back with the deeper blue. that

far color there I'm just going to smush

with my hand. Just a little smoosh along there because

it's quite smooth towards there. and then

there's a much lighter .you're just going

along there, and in fact I'm going to

take my yellow and rub that along there

because it's a bit lighter than

behind it. it's where it's starting to

come down to this more orange peachy

color. so now I'm going in with the peach

and round the headland here it's got

dark oranges so I'm going back in with

this dark color.

you can see I'm just skimming that

across the surface which gives it a little hint of the darker color amongst what is

going to be the brighter colors.

skimming that across the surface

and even though this is a very bright

color that I used up here because I put

that blue color underneath and

lightly skimmed it across when I skim

across the orange it doesn't retain all

that brightness and that's good because I

didn't want it to be as bright as that

very bright area

there. i'm getting that nice variation .

I really need to go back up into here now

you can see around the bottom edge of

that cloud it's a more peachy sort of

color before it actually comes into the

really light color so I'm just adding

some of that in around the edges . There's

actually a patch of it up here peeping

through too and so I'm going to pop that

in with a little bit more orange . let me

go back over it with a peachy color and

then the top of the clouds are having a

bit lighter too . they sort of have a halo

around them. so kind of moderating that

very light area.

going to go back into there. there's a

little bit of extra cloud coming across

here that's quite light so I'm just putting

a very light skin of a purple sort of

color across there and then I'm going to

smoosh that with my finger. very technical

term smooshing. and just around the edges

of the clouds there too. cleaning off my

fingers a little bit as I go. and I'm not

really happy with this, the very lightest

light there, I'm going to go back in

again put that in again making it

really bright. part of the problem is

it's picking up some of that very dark

color underneath and I may just give it

a spray with some fixative which is

not something i usually do but in this

case it would just restore that surface.

of it we could get out of these picking

up some of that dirt cup I'm going to

use the spectra fix that sad a gap

pestle fixative and I'm going to give a

little little quick spray over there sir

you can see it starting it I just want

to let it settle now and dry and then

I'll go back over that again it's just

going to energy into it so very is a

moral lemony sort of yeah that'll just

give a milk as it add a bit of vibrancy

around those clouds there and here and

you can see it's going on right better

now over that where I put these put the

Atheneum fixative so fix it inhabits has

its place even if I don't use it very

much it can be very useful for that kind

of thing just moderating that again so

again these are pretty much the same

sort of values very light value and

that's helped me get both colors I'm

putting in a more peachy color now it

just sort of tying it through into the

background here southeast edge here it

gets a bit deeper someone pushed for you

in a deeper with orange color and then

I'll go back in that peachy color just

not a sec slightly and back into the

water he lives

peachy color and I home you go back in

with that's right that's right spots of

orange a little bit of it over the water

hearing it you just get a lovely Ripley

effect there where that darks belong to

listen because I've got very sandy

gritty paper they're going to take that

a lift it back into there and I'm also

going to tell a little bit of purple

because it's going a little bit darker

and I smooth it sandspit to some until

the colors add a little bit fear in

places now back in for that sky I just

need to give us a few little moderating

kallithea a lot enough to do because

that when I pop ting li excessive eat

dark and it up i'll leave it more than I

wanted it to so I'm just putting in

some variation in the total values in

the clouds just to make it slightly more

interesting and back in here at this

little touch of speech as well so they

see is really defensive i'm going to pop

in i remember us at the beginning i have

to reduce everything so here's that

little land mass here and if there's

some bits of vegetation so they're going

in with a very dark values and i'm just

going to put that plant up there and

it's one of those be grasped in Jersey I

don't know what it calls I've got my own

garden but I don't know people that have

very big seed heads up less flour and

that's what I'm just putting in there

and there's a few indications of the

foliage around the edge there and

putting it adding with my deepest

darkest value just going in a little bit

with a few spots of lighter and learn

some ugly colors that are in the

headland just to give a little bit of

variety pencil so there we have it a

quick sunset you know when I look at it

it makes a bit more of the darker colors

in along with it yes I always good to

have a quick check when you think you're

finished because it might not have

really finished and it's a little bit

brighter around the edge there than I've

allowed for to sort of halo effect

around the clouds so I'm just going to

put those in

and I wonder does already established

that little touch of bright live in

there is a little smooth off and maybe a

touch up from there okay so then we have

sunset and I've mixed up those values

again but you can even see him here just

looking down to the palette very dark

against very light think about your

values when you're painting and try and

establish your darker values first

against some lighter values so you know

which reigns are using and if you're

choosing your palate before you paint

and it's a good idea to separate them

into the values so it's very easy

anything I knew something like just

going and get from your color and value

groups of color and the values that you

need hope you've enjoyed that little

demonstration and I look forward to

seeing you next time in the studio bye

for now

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