Albert Herdianto Widjojo
One hundred and One.
That is the number I am achieving today. The number of days that have been stepping together with me in this challenge.
Symbolically as well as each nature (energy) contained in it, one hundred one has a great meaning.
101 = 1 + 0 + 1
Essence, Nature 1 = Allah, God, Divine, Sole, Creator; Life, Being, Animate, Eternal Ever;
Essence, Nature 0 = Silence, Fasting, Hunger, Patience, Stoic, Gratitude, Sincere, Sunyata; Dead, Not Available, Empty, Not lifeless, Perish.
One of the symbolic interpretations I can say is that the Divine always flank or keep or even in one with the sunyata which is the centre of peace. From the essence of its nature, it can also be interpreted as; from the Omnipresent, dead, and then back to Him, or from the soul (we, human and other living beings) enter into emptiness, sunyata, as the center of true peace and return to the common man, yet enlightened and with divinely conscious.
101 is also the same as 2 that has the meaning of Peace, Partnership, Diplomacy, and Spirituality, also Creatures, Humans, Servants, Obedient, Submissive, Kneeling in Worship, Soul/Spirit. After I count, my total birthrate is 10 = 1. Referring to a particular approach the implies the nature of life and death. That Life (1) and Death (0) merely belong to God/Divinity (1), not something else.
If I put a hammer beside a doughnut, I want to say jokingly that life is a joke indeed, life can be sweet but also hard or bitter. Many I want to say through this photo but you will be bored reading it because it is too long. Hope you can interpret it too, more than what I said here. Or you can think of it as an invisible part of the 101 Dalmatians movie…
Hey, this is just a joke about numbers, so do not take it seriously, but if you take it seriously, who knows there will be an enlightenment though. Ha ha ha…
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Nice post! very interesting …..
Hi Milena… Thanks a lot for your appreciation
You are welcome, Albert! It was my pleasure 🙂
The first thing that came into my mind when I saw the photo was…
“I hope you did use that hammer on that doughnut”.
Poor thing, you will surely break the plate in doing that. hehehe
Great post, my friend. A very meaningful one I might add.
Me, on the other hand, is still catching up on my own challenge. hehehe.
Hi John… thank you for your appreciation. Well, I think sometimes we need to make something a bit different, something that not only rely on the camera but also the creativity, including to create photos with very scary results like this… lol… Today I should have post to 104th, but I just posted the 103rd one and thankfully, it was directly approved by Natalie.
Since ancient times, numbers have played an important and multifaceted role in human life. Ancient people have attributed to them special and supernatural qualities – some numbers have brought happiness and success, others could cause a blow to fate. This idea with the hammer has taken me a lot.
Your feedback is always great! I am always happy with all that enrichment!
Is no-one seriously going to make a joke here about a hole being hammered?
I’m sure you’ve caught the impossible, have not you? How can we hit a big hole with a hammer?
Thanks for your vsit, my friend
Love your illustration Albert. You are getting very creative with this challenge!
Thanks a lot, Carol. I just tried not to bore you.
You never do, always the unexpected from you and that is a good thing. 🙂
Wuaww… What a great compliment! Thanks a lot, Carol
donut and hammer ….. what kind of combination … interesting
I have to compete with Freddy Krueger’s eeriness, and it seems to work… Hahahahaha…
Wonderful Albert, both in the presentation of a donut (making me hungry) and the philosphical treatise on numerolgy to feed the soul.
Now I can rest!
Pleasant words of comfort, Coach! If the donut and those words can make you rest, I feel grateful.
I love your posts Albert. Sometimes they make me review what I believe, sometimes they augment what I believe. BUt they always make me think!
I was thinking that must be one hard donut. : ) I know nothing about numerology…I should read more about it. At least then I would know what your talking about. Great post Albert.
I really want to show you the creepy atmosphere with this photo. Hopefully, this looks very scary. lol. Sometimes it’s more fun to chew a hammer than a doughnut indeed. lol. Actually, I don’t know anything about numerology but this is just a lure for I hope someone will teach me about it.
You want to attack a poor and innocent doughnut with hammer?!? ??? One day you said that Universe is but number; today you said not to take it seriously. Well, kind sir, can you please make up your mind? ??? I used numerology to sum up my name and see what it stands for — plus I read about my life path. Maybe it is something not to be taken seriously like astrology; but just like astrology, it is fascinating how it can hit the nail by its head somehow. ?
I am happy when you defend the sweet innocent doughnut, and I feel proud of the attitude of someone like that. Nevertheless, I also feel the need to show the reality honestly, that beautiful rain can also cause floods or landslides, or like the beauty of the sea that occasionally picks anyone, whether they are evil or kind by a tsunami.Those are the times when the universe speaks in a moment of truth.
According to numerology, what does it say about your name? Then, what does he say about my name?
Rain will not cause flood and landslide if we know how to live and cooperate with nature. Tsunami is another matter. I read something which Osho wrote — in essence, he said that nature has to collect more humans (in death) because we now have longer life expectancy than many of our ancestors. Whether that is true or not, I cannot say. Still, some calamities may also be the nature’s reaction to our actions. And yes, let me get back to you what your destiny number is ???. Why it didn’t occur to me to do just that, I have no explanation.
Whatever the reason, nature can look beautiful and friendly but also can show a decisive attitude indiscriminately. Uhmmm… If you already have the result of calculation of my destiny number I beg you to report ?.
Indiscriminately? My brother of old, didn’t you say that the story has been already written? ??? Then the nature just do according to plan ?
You are right! 100%. I just want to say that if we look only outwardly, everything has a pretty and creepy side. It is also written in the story, is not it?
So am I.
I have been trying to look inwardly this past 4 weeks — seeing nothing except for glimpses of my dark side — my meditation does not go in deeper bliss as when I was home — still I am hopeful I am nearing the curve of the circle and mayhaps something will change ?
I’m glad that you always meditate regularly, regardless of the outcome. I am sure you know that as we “do not need to hope for anything” in outward life, so does in meditation.
Oh but I hope! Because, dear brother, hope is idea and idea is ego — it must be fed else it will die ???. How many times does life recycle a maverick in rebirth before it accepts it will likely not change?
Probably will not be up to 1000 times.
1000 times?!? You just killed my hope! Tell me again, are you my brother for real? You seem to clip my wings every single chance you get ??
It seems like I have to admit that I have very very bad intentions…
If bad intention meant clipping my ego, then you are welcome to try everytime — altho with my current status, I am not so sure I am at the top of my game ?
I can not erode your ego, but maybe people who treat you unworthily, cheat, disrespect, entertain with insincerity, or… Well, who knows when I managed to insult you someday…
Maybe you should try and do it sincerely ???? being worthy or unworthy is perception and all rest in how you want to view the circumstance — victor or victim. It is difficult to erode my “I” as I learned to cloak myself with indifference. I dunno if it is a bad thing really — what I know is I survived the crazy world for not giving a heck if I am liked or not ?
How can I do it sincerely if I am a deceiver? ???? Are you sure that this crazy world never gives anything to you?
Never give what? Pain? Misery? Who does not taste any of those? Still, should that make me stay in the bottom – helpless and wallowing in self-pity? A maverick doesn’t handle things that way — we bite back and show life we can ride the wave ?. What? A Gemini who does not know how to insult sincerely? You are disappointing me, my brother ?
Hopefully, all that is not a form of complaint but mere a share of experiences with a deceiver. Gemini like me is fun to torture and disappoint. It is fun to hear “You are disappointing me!” as a melodious compliment!!!
Aha! Then I will torture you with complaint — I like giving people what they don’t like ????. Swindler — deceiver — does the bio gets longer? Does robbing a bank appeal to you? ???
Robbing a bank did not excite me because I was afraid of being caught, afraid of being tickled during interrogation, and scared to death. You know, I’m just an ordinary person.
Oh good. I will not rob any bank now or in the future. What does not belong to me does not appeal to me. And with people, I like laying my cards on the table – the good and the bad, with emphasis on the latter. Take it or leave it kinda way. If what they see turns them off, and so be it. But my credo remains the same regardless if I talk to 16 or 61. @complaint — anything we say can be taken any way by the receiver or listener — we have no control on the matter. At the end of the day, what matters is what is in our heart — and right now, robbing anyone is not in mine ?
So we both agree that we are ordinary people with open cards, right?