see dali48 and "I think - therefore I am" etc. (Descartes)
Each day is our whole life - from sunrise to sunset etc… (dali48)
see dali48 and "Zen finds religion in the daily activities." (I-tuan)
Let go of something you like, and realize how fleeting it is by living without it... (Ayya Khema)
Buddha realized that all living beings suffer because they desire and cling ... - Peace is an inner attitude to life that consists of letting go and renunciation (see e.g. nuns & monks etc. - d.48) ... (Buddha)
„Das Leben im Daseinskreislauf ist leidvoll: Geburt ist Leiden, Altern ist Leiden, Krankheit ist Leiden, Tod ist Leiden; Kummer, Lamentieren, Schmerz und Verzweiflung sind Leiden." (Buddha)
see dali48 and own experiences and reading & writing about Kübler-Ross, Moody, NDE, LAL etc.
Hands that help are holier than lips that pray! (Robert Green Ingersoll)
see dali48 and Climate Change since Copenhagen 2009 etc. - "Uncontrolled capitalism is producing evil - as bees are producing honey" etc.
see dali48 and reading & writing about peace etc. - see e.g. Zen and Buddhism & Peace & Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ayya Khema etc, and St Nicholas, St Hildegard, St Francis etc. (dali48)
see dali48 and eating less meat, and more fruits & veggies since the 80s etc.
Homeopathy of S. Hahnemann (ca. 200 years old) should be updated, - i.e. for me more Mother tincture & less shaking, and why is there no homeopathic vaccination? - see "similibus" principle etc. (dali48)
see dali48 and "I hope that Biontech (formerly in Mainz, now in London) & #mRNA #vaccines etc. - will develop a vaccination against cancer etc."
see dali48 and Vollgeld-Initiative & Basic Income in Europe etc. - instead of Banking Crisis 2008 etc.
I also like weeping willow trees - e.g. when I was on camping vacation in the 80s in France & Spain, I had my lunch (fish soup) under such a tree (that was like a tent) in the park of Bordeaux etc. (dali48)
see dali48 and "flora & fauna" since ca. 2000, and deforestation instead of planting trees etc
see dali48 and trees and "flora & fauna" and healthy air etc..
see dali48 and Bread - instead of fire-works harming animals, pets etc.
see dali48 and Democracy & human rights & gender justice etc.
"Respect for life - should be the only religion in the world!" - "Religion is a journey inside - and meditation is the way there." ... (Osho)
see dali48 and health and suitable shoes & foot hygiene etc.
see dali48 and “If the Trees disappeared off the face of the earth - mankind would only have little left to live healthy,” see e.g. Amazonas forest, Indonesia etc, see e.g. @CGShanghaiAir Shanghai - 2023-03-06 4PM - PM2.5 - 103 AQI - Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups ... etc.
see dali48 and trees & photo synthesis and fresh air and health and cooling and biodiversity etc.
see dali48 and "flora & fauna" and reforesting etc.
siehe „Eine Gesellschaft ohne Gott, ist wie eine gut organisierte Räuberbande“, hat Papst Benedikt den Bundestagsabgeordneten ins Stammbuch geschrieben (see e.g. Cum-Ex etc. - d.48)
see dali48 and demand for the repayment of 300 euros of self-approved inflation compensation for politicians at the taxpayer's expense etc.
see dali48 and demand for the repayment of 300 euros of self-approved inflation compensation for politicians at the taxpayer's expense etc.
see dali48 and health and herbs (see e.g. M. Mességué), and e.g. kidney-tea, gastrointestinal tea, tea for colds etc.
see dali48 and "Words have no direct reference to life, are only a pale echo or image of something that itself is no longer there" ... (D. T. Suzuki)
see dali48's mother Gabriele and playing piano in Steinbach in the 50s, see dali48 and playing piano for 1 year with Mrs Kirsch in SHA in the 50s, and Christmas songs with Mrs Takahashi in Erkrath in the 80s
Interpretation of dali48
Curiosities about the tramp: 1916 Charles Chaplin was the highest paid film artist. The Film Society "Mutual" offered him for 12 "Zweiakter" the fabulous salary of 670,000 dollars. Chaplin always worked without a script. - He improvised and often filmed for months with no visible result. - 1952, at the beginning of McCarthyism, Chaplin was refused re-entry into the United States. - He was spied in exile in Switzerland because of his sympathy for communism by the Swiss security. - Adolf Hitler was a big fan of Charlie Chaplin. He let his mustache grow so as Chaplin wore it. Chaplin once won the 3rd Prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. - He was married 4 times and had a total of 11 children. - A walking stick of the world star was auctioned for 47.800 pounds at an auction in London in 2004 ... (ARTE, 12/2009)
Interpretation of dali48
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin (1889 – 1977) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. - He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I. - Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s. - His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914. - From the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was also producing them, and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them. - With Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, he co-founded United Artists in 1919 ...
Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities of the silent-film era. - He was influenced by his predecessor, the French silent film comedian Max Linder, to whom he dedicated one of his films. - His working life in entertainment spanned over 75 years, from the Victorian stage and the music hall in the United Kingdom as a child performer, until close to his death at the age of 88! - His high-profile public and private life encompassed both adulation and controversy. - Chaplin was identified with left-wing politics during the McCarthy era and he was ultimately forced to resettle in Europe from 1952! ...
In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Chaplin the 10th greatest male screen legend of all time. - In 2008, Martin Sieff, in a review of the book Chaplin: A Life, wrote: "Chaplin was not just 'big', he was gigantic. - In 1915, he burst onto a war-torn world bringing it the gift of comedy, laughter and relief while it was tearing itself apart through World War I! - Over the next 25 years, through the Great Depression and the rise of Adolf Hitler, he stayed on the job! ...
It is doubtful any individual has ever given more entertainment, pleasure and relief to so many human beings when they needed it the most! - George Bernard Shaw called Chaplin "the only genius to come out of the movie industry"! ...
At the time of his birth, Chaplin's parents were both entertainers in the music hall tradition: Hannah, the daughter of a shoemaker, had a brief and unsuccessful career under the stage name Lily Harley, while Charles Sr., a butcher's son, worked as a popular singer ...
Chaplin's childhood was fraught with poverty and hardship, -prompting biographer David Robinson to describe his eventual trajectory as "the most dramatic of all the rags to riches stories ever told." - His early years were spent with his mother and brother in the London district of Kennington; Hannah had no means of income, other than occasional nursing and dressmaking, and Chaplin Sr. provided no support for his sons. - Because of this poverty, Chaplin was sent to a workhouse at seven years old. - The council housed him at the Central London District School for paupers, which Chaplin remembered as "a forlorn existence". - He was briefly reunited with his mother at nine years old, before Hannah was forced to readmit her family to the workhouse in July 1898. - The boys were promptly sent to Norwood Schools, another charity institution! ...
In September 1898, Hannah Chaplin was committed to Cane Hill mental asylum! — She had developed a psychosis seemingly brought on by malnutrition and an infection of syphilis. - Chaplin recalled his anguish at the news: "Why had she done this? - Mother, so light-hearted and gay, how could she go insane?" - For the two months she was there, Chaplin and his brother were sent to live with their father, whom the young boy scarcely knew. - Charles Chaplin Sr. was by then a severe alcoholic, and life with the man was bad enough to provoke a visit from the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. - He died two years later, at 37 years old, from cirrhosis of the liver! ...
By age 13 Chaplin had fully abandoned education. - He supported himself with a range of jobs, but said he "never lost sight of my ultimate aim to become an actor"! ...
Chaplin was the subject of a backlash in the British media for not fighting in World War 1. - He defended himself, revealing that he had registered for the draft but was not asked to fight. - Despite this campaign Chaplin was a favourite with the troops, and his popularity continued to grow worldwide. - The name of Charlie Chaplin was said to be "a part of the common language of almost every country", and according to Harper's Weekly his "little, baggy-trousered figure" was "universally familiar"! ...
"Something is wrong. - Things have been badly managed when five million men are out of work in the richest country in the world!" - He felt that capitalism and machinery in the workplace would lead to more unemployment, and professed support for Roosevelt's New Deal. - It was these concerns that stimulated Chaplin to develop his new film ...
Chaplin's first talking picture, The Great Dictator (1940), was an act of defiance against Nazism! - It was filmed and released in the United States one year before the U.S. entry into World War II ...
Paulette Goddard filmed with Chaplin again, depicting a woman in the ghetto. - The film was seen as an act of courage in the political environment of the time, both for its ridicule of Nazism, for the portrayal of overt Jewish characters, and the depiction of their persecution. - In addition to Hynkel, Chaplin also played a look-alike Jewish barber persecuted by the regime. - The barber physically resembled the Tramp character! ...
During Chaplin's legal trouble over the Barry affair, he met Oona O'Neill, daughter of Eugene O'Neill, and married her on 16 June 1943. - He was fifty-four; she had just turned eighteen. - The marriage produced eight children: Geraldine Leigh (b. 1944), Michael John (b. 1946), Josephine Hannah (b. 1949), Victoria (b. 1951), Eugene Anthony (b. 1953), Jane Cecil (b. 1957), Annette Emily (b. 1959), and Christopher James (b. 1962). - They were married until Chaplin's death; - Oona survived him fourteen years, and died from pancreatic cancer in 1991! ...
"Since the end of the last world war, I have been the object of lies and propaganda by powerful reactionary groups who, by their influence and by the aid of America's yellow press, have created an unhealthy atmosphere in which liberal-minded individuals can be singled out and persecuted"! ...
Following his exile from the United States, Chaplin made his home in Vevey, Switzerland. - His final two films were made in London: A King in New York (1957) in which he starred, wrote, directed and produced; and A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), which he directed, produced, and wrote. - The latter film stars Sophia Loren and Marlon Brando, and Chaplin made his final on-screen appearance in a brief cameo role as a seasick steward. - He also composed the music for both films with the theme song from A Countess From Hong Kong, "This is My Song", reaching number one in the UK as sung by Petula Clark ...
His health started to decline more rapidly in the early 1970s. - He suffered several strokes which left him with a difficulty communicating! - His ability to walk was also impaired, and he had to use a wheelchair! ...
Chaplin died in his sleep from the complications of a stroke in the early morning of 25 December 1977 at his home in Switzerland! ...
Chaplin's "tramp" character is possibly the most imitated on all levels of entertainment. - The influence of his 'Tramp' character could be seen on other artists and media providers. - Beginning early on there were many tributes, and parodies made! ... (Wikipedia)
Vevey, Switzerland:
Vevey, Schweiz
Following his exile from the United States, Chaplin made his home in Vevey, Switzerland...
