فشرف بالشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا بدا بدا ويا له من شراف عظيم الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وشد الله إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهدي السبيل وشد أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعليه وعاله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسان إلى يوم الديل أما بعد إن شاء الله تعالى سوف نضع تعليقات لتفكير ورد من أي محاضرة أن الشيخ عبد الرزاق ابن عبد المحسن ابن عباد البدر في المملكة البحرين الشيخ رحمه الله أم حفظه الله when the Yahijriah was 1435 he did a talk in Bahrain and then what happened was it was a lecture which I listened to over YouTube and then I personally transcribed it and then it came out again as a book so this is the published version of the book so insha'Allah تعالى we're going to place explanation on this book and what this book is is that the sheikh is basically the advice is that the Salaf gave to the youngsters and the youth so I think it's something very important to show you that our pious predecessors were not heedless of our affairs and they were aware that we needed advices and their speeches is very summarized and very powerful and insha'Allah تعالى is something that we will benefit greatly from so I start by saying the stage among the period of the time of a person in which he's young and he's a youth it's a very important time in the human's life it's one of the most important times in your life that will come by it's the time where you you have something which you will never have again in your life and that is the strength and the power that you have the enthusiasm in which you have you will no longer have that once you grow the older you get you lose the ability and the power that you have now and what is left for you is what when you go old is experience and knowledge but the strength and the power goes right now what you have is you can easily move around and maneuver and you can easily endure long term hardship and you can do something for a very long time your body parts are very healthy and in good shape سلامة الحواس your hearing are very good your seeing is sharp masha Allah your smelling and all of these things when you grow older as a person حواسه وقواه your strength becomes weak even your hearing your senses they become weak as well and Islam as a religion is very important to this period of the human's life and there are many authentic hadith that have come in which the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم أجز the youth to benefit from this time على المبادرة اللي اختنامها to make sure that they benefit from this period of time and to be very cautious of what الحذرو to be very cautious of من إضاعتها to forsake it ولذلك الإمام الحاكم وقال وقال وقال وقال وقال صحيح الجامع حديث 1077 وقال وقال وقال رضي الله تعالى عنهم وقال وقال وقال وقال وقال وقال وقال وقال وقال وقال وقال وقال وقال وقال وقال وحياتك ويصبحتك قبل موتك قبل موتك فالمسئنج صلى الله عليه وسلم يتكلم مرحلة الشباب when a person is a youth the messenger mentioned it he mentioned it generally and he also mentioned it specifically because when the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم has said وحياتك and benefit from your life قبل موتك before death comes to you this is the benefit from every stage of your life but at the beginning what did he say he specifically specified the age in which a person is a youth شبابك قبل حرمك so the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was very generic but when it came to the age of the youth he wasn't صلى الله عليه وسلم a generic he specified it when it really enters into the statement of his وحياتك قبل موتك and the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم did that لعبة اهميتها because of his importance وكبير الشأنها and the affairs that it holds when you're young so it's required from each and every one of us التيقذ لذلك that we're aware of that that being young is an opportunity وعدم التهاون بها and that we don't forsake it and waste our time a person will one day say ليت الشباب يعود يوما فأخبره بما يفعله المشيب if only I could be young one day and do beneficial things عبد الله بن مسعودة رضي الله تعالى عنه يسدد the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم يسد وليس حديث الامام ترمي دي نريتد ان الشيخ محمد ناصر الدينة الالباني authenticator انه سلسلة حديث الصحيحة that the messenger said لا تزول قدم ابنه آدم a person's leg will not move from his position يوم القيامة the day of judgment من عند ربه next to his lord a person will not move from his position besides his lord the day of judgment حتى يسأل until he is asked عن خمسين five questions he's going to be asked no one's going to move from their position this interrogation this questioning will be put to everybody and no one will move from their position unless they answer this question the first one is عن عمره فيما أفنا you will be asked about your life how did you spend it وعن شبابه فيما أبلا and you'll also be asked about the age in which you were a youth how did you wear it out how did you use it how did you utilize that age that you were in وماله منينك تسبه وفيما أفقه and your wealth where did you gain it from where did you get it from and where did you spend it وماذا عملة فيما عالم and the knowledge you have attained how much of it did you implement and how much of it did you take serious now if you ponder on this حديث the messenger ﷺ he did the same thing again here he mentions life generally is something you're going to be asked because at the beginning of the حديث the Prophet ﷺ he said عن عمره فيما أفنا the person will be asked how they spent their life but then again he specified what وعن شبابه فيما أبلا and when you were a youngster a youth how did you spend your time is something you're going to be asked specifically so the messenger ﷺ he says it in two narrations and this is not a coincidence it shows that life is important but the most important مرحلة of an individual is مرحلة الشباب the time when the person is a youth and this is a time when you're going to specifically be asked and you will not be able to move from your position until you answer those questions and the answers that you give have to be sufficient or else what awaits you is not something that's going to be pleasing to you the reason why this time of the person's life is something that's going to be specifically asked is because what you gain here you never gain again in any part stages in your life again and I mentioned that before the strength and the power and you can easily move from one place to another you're also able to what you also have your body parts are at its pinnacle you're hearing you're seeing you're smelling you're feeling all of them are at a very strong stage of your life and the messenger ﷺ he told us to benefit from this time and to make sure that we take it very serious and the messenger ﷺ wasn't the only one who did also the people of knowledge the scholars of nobility those who gave importance to تربية cultivating the community and the people those who stood up to do دعوة and educate they gave a lot of importance to the youth and from the first are the noble companions of the messenger ﷺ they were like that they used to take it very serious when the youth would come to them he was one who if he saw a youngster a youth he would say to him مرحبا بوصية رسول الله ﷺ أوصانا أوصانا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أن نوسي علىكم في المجلس وأن نفهمكم الحديث فإنكم خلوفنا وأهل الحديث بعدنا أبي سعيد الخضري used to say to the youth when he would see him he would say welcome based on the bequest of the messenger ﷺ أوصانا رسول الله the messenger ﷺ gave us a fair well advice regarding you lot for us to أن نوسي علىكم في المجلس that we space out the gathering for you meaning we give you spaces to sit وأن نفهمكم الحديث and that we make you understand the narrations and the knowledge we make you understand it فإنكم خلوفنا خلوفنا here means you are the ones who are going to come after us in knowledge and you are the ones who are going to come after us in educating the people وأهل الحديث بعدنا and you are the people of Hadith after us he also used to turn to the youth and he would say to them يبنى أخي the son of my brother إذا شخكت في شيء if you are doubtful about a matter فسيلي ask me حتى تستيقنا until you become certain and you are 100% sure that you have understood فإنك إن تنصرف because if you leave the gathering على اليقيني with certainty أحب إليه is more beloved to me من أن تنصرف على الشكي that you leave the gathering in a state of doubt ask me if you haven't understood it's better for me that you leave my gathering in a state of certainty that you're aware of what I'm saying and you've understood the information that is more beloved to me than you leave in the gathering upon doubt عبد الله بن مسعود رضي الله تعالى عن who used to say that story of بيحقي narrated in كتاب شعب الإيمان إبنى عبد البر narrated in his book جامع بيان العلم وفضله عبد الله بن مسعود وعند صورة ينديفجل who was seeking knowledge يطلوبون العلم seeking knowledge he would say مرحباً بيانابيع الحكمة ومصابح الظلم خلقان الثياب الجدد القلوب حلس البيوت ريحان كل قبيلة وعبد الله بن مسعود رضي الله عن who would see a youngster going out يطلوبون العلم تعالى بيانابيع الحكمة ومصابح الظلم وعند صعب وعند بيانابيع الحكمة وعند صعب يطلوبون المصابح وعند يطلوبون المصابح وعند صعب الإجابة رحمة الله وخعلت لطبائي وخلقانهم لطبائي في هذا المنطقة كانت جميلة وهذا هو رسالة التي توجدنا في نفسنا وهذا يسمى من وصايا السلف للشباب المساعدة للسلف للبناء والبناء is what we're going to go through الشيخ عبد الرزاق ابن عبد المحسن العباد البدر انه يكتب 15 أضافة فإن شاء الله تعالى سوف نفعل هذه 15 أضافة one after the other بإذن الله الكريم and we'll take a portion every single day إن شاء الله تعالى الوصية الأولى the first advice أن السلف هذه الأمة the pious predecessors that they gave to the youth the first one is أبي الأحواص أبي الأحواص he said قال أبو إسحاق أبو إسحاق هي عمر السبيعي he said يا معشر الشباب our youngsters اغتنموا benefit means benefit from what benefit from this age that you're in this stage of your life that you're in benefit from it قال لما تمر بليلة little will a night go over أبو إسحاق السبيعي سينس he's saying it is very little that a night will go by إلا وأقرأ فيها ألف آية except I will read a thousand آية وإني لأقرأ البقرة في ركعة and I read صورة البقرة صورة البقرة in one raka'a وإني لأصوم أشهر الحرم and I fast the month of أشهر الحرم وثلاثة أيام من كل شهر and I also fast three days from every single month والإثنين والخميس and I also fast on Mondays and Thursdays and then he recited the verse وأما بنعمة ربك فحدث and speak about the favors of your Lord onto you the statement which أبيل أحوس said here was youngsters and youth benefit from your time because he أبو إسحاق السبيعي was at a very old age and he was trying to say to them I at this particular age was able to what I was able to what to do these things you should be ones who do it better than I can so he says I will read a thousand verses at night he doesn't mean that was the exact amount but what he was trying to say is that he would finish the Quran every week every week he would finish the Quran at least once and the majority of the Salaf who are the ummah the majority of the Salaf they're doing when it came to the Quran was that they would try to finish it once a week at least and we spoke about that in more details in the شرح of the كتاب التبيان في آداب حملة القرآن written by محي الدين النووي رحمه الله وعمر ابن ميمون he said أنه كان يلقى الرجل من إخواني فيقول عمر ابن ميمون he would meet a brother of his he would meet a Muslim individual and he would say to him لقد رزقني الله البارحة من الصلاة كده الله تبارك وتعالى he favored me last night to pray this much prayer ورزقا من الخير كده and also الله تبارك وتعالى he also favored me with other great things أبو عبد الله الحكم in his مستدرك after he bought those two statements those two advices those two أبو أحوس is one and when he mentioned عمر ابن ميمون فرحم الله عمر ابن عبيد الله السبيعي وعمر ابن ميمون للأودي ما يالله سبحانه وتعالى بيستوهيز never ending mercy onto عمر ابن عبيد السبيعي أبو سحاقة السبيعي أنا عمر ابن ميمون الأودي ما يالله سبحانه وتعالى بيستوهيز mercy on both of them فلقد نبها لما يرغب الشباب في العبادة ومساعدة للأطفال للأطفال الذين يجعلونهم يذهبون إلى عبادة ومساعدة الله سبحانه وتعالى وما يفعلونه هنا هو قدوة قدوة قدوة قدوة قدوة لأن الأطفال يجب أن يكون في حالة ان يحتاج لأحد يجب أن يضطر قدوة for them لذلك الشباب يجب أن يرغب ويقوم بعمل ما يفعل ولكن أيضا الشباب أن يكون بقوة ويجب أن يتنبه لأنه يجب أن ينظر بشأنه ويظهر أنه لا يتسلل ببعض because what he doesn't want is whilst he's telling his youth the youth what he does that he also becomes one who shows off so there's a thin line between the two الوصية الثانية the second advice of the pious predecessors towards the youth ما جاء عن حماد ابن زيد انه قال حماد ابن زيد انه قال دخلنا على أناس ابن سيرين في مرضه فقال we entered on to أناس ابن سيرين and أناس ابن سيرين was the brother of محمد ابن سيرين حماد ابن زيد انه he said we entered on to him أناس ابن سيرين and he's on his death bed فقاله he said اتقوا الله فيه الله and be conscious of him يا معشر الشباب يونكستز انظروا look من من تأخذون هذه الحديث look at who you take these narrations from فإنها من دينكم for verily this is your religion this advice of أناس ابن سيرين is a وصية عظيمة جدا it's a great advice and that is ان الشاب المقبل على طلب العلم that the student who is facing towards seeking knowledge and wants to attain a hadith of the messenger ينبغي ان يكون تحسيله له على ايد أهل العلم الراسخين الأثبات he should take that knowledge from the people of knowledge the people who are grounded اهل الدراية والبصيرة the people of insight and the people of understanding على كابير في العلم those who are those who are deeply rooted in knowledge and it isn't for the individual who wants to attain knowledge أن يأخذ العلم عن كل أحد that he goes and he takes knowledge from everybody rather knowledge is taken from who عن صاحب سنة a person of the sunnah رسخت قدمه فيها in which his legs are rooted in the sunnah ابن شودب رحمه الله he said a very powerful statement he said ابن شودب رحمه الله he said إلهي from the blessings of Allah على الشاب be a youngster is إلا ترسك أن يواخ يا صاحب سنة يحمله عليها that when the person wants to go and attain knowledge and he wants to understand the religion of Allah and that he becomes a student that Allah تبارك وتعالى he allows him to take that knowledge from a person of the sunnah who will take him to the correct methodology الله أكبر ابن شودب is saying this is from the blessings of Allah إن من نعمة الله على الشاب be it is from the blessings of Allah upon a youngster عمر بن قيس he said إذا رأيت الشاب بأول ما ينشأ if you see a youngster on his first early stages in his life مع آهل السنة he is with the people of the sunnah فرجوه hope good for him وإذا رأيته and if you see him مع آهل البداع if you see that he is with the people of innovation فأي أس منه then give up on that person فإن الشاب على أول نشوئه because the youngster is going to be what he was from his early stages in his life so this is very powerful and this is what this ummah would advise أنا سبن سيرين is on his deathbed he is about to die he is about to depart from this world but he saw it upon himself he saw that there was a need to remind the people of what انظروا look من من تأخدون هذه الحديث look at who you are taking this knowledge from فإنها من دينكم it is from your religion don't take your knowledge عن كل منهب ودب don't take it from every single body because if you wouldn't go to any random doctor and you wouldn't take medication from him if he doesn't know it then why would you take it from then why would you take from a person your religion which is it's your رأس المال your religion is your capital is why you are in this universe it's why you are here because if you do die from a wrong medication by a doctor then to be honest what awaits you hereafter has no effect with that but if you go to the wrong person you take the incorrect knowledge from them and they affect your religion خسرتاء you then become destroyed and lost and it's well then hereafter the third advice that we are going to take إن شاء الله تعالى is الوصية الثالثة مالك ابن دينار رحمه الله أنه قال مالك ابن دينار وليسد مالك ابن دينار وليسد إنما الخير في الشباب خير is in the youngsters and this statement of مالك ابن دينار which is narrated by ألمام الخطيب البغددي in his كتاب الجامع لأخلاق الراوي is actually تنبيه العظيم it's actually pointing out a very important thing which is أهمية هذه المرحلة the importance of this stage of your life that if a person والله he truly benefits from this time of his إذا أحسن استغلالها if he truly benefits from this time it will be something that's going to benefit you and you truly reap it's fruit when you're old الشيخ محمد ابن صالح العثيمين said nothing benefited us from our knowledge except that which we memorized when we were youngsters the knowledge that remained with us is what we memorized when we were young you will reap it's fruit when you're old and that is what will stay with you two things if it combines for the youngster قوة الشباب the strength and the power of a youngster وفراغ الوقت and the free time ووفر المال باليدي and also wealth then this can be either a destruction against you or it can be something that you benefit from and you reap it's fruits ونذلك the poet he said إن الشباب والفراغ والجده مفسده للمرء أي مفسده a youngster being a having قوة الشباب the strength of the youth and the free time and enthusiasm is a destruction for a person it's a great destruction قوة الشباب that strength that you have وفراغ الوقت and the free time that you have ووفر المال and wealth being around you if a fourth component adds onto it which is خثرة الفتن the increase of trials and tribulation then this opens a مهلكات a destruction to the youth which can actually just destroy him severely and that's why from the people who gained the shade of the day of judgment is a person who has fallen into these four things being around him and he still nurtured himself upon Allah's obedience from them is شاب النشأ في طاعة الله a youngster who nurtured himself upon the obedience of Allah because the same way the one who a beautiful attractive a high ranked in the society woman called him and he said to her إلي أخاف الله أعفى الله and there was everything for him to do intimacy with her and have sexual intercourse with her but he chose the obedience of Allah over that the same is with the youth he's got many factors that are pushing him away from obeying Allah his قوة الشباب is strong and powerful he wants to release this energy somewhere he has free time he also has the money and كثرة الفتن the trials and tribulations are in front of him the women are throwing themselves at him the social media everything كثرة الفتن then this can be a destruction for a person but if he remembers Allah and he turns his back then Allah سبحانه وتعالى promise him that he's going to make him from the what سبعة يضلهم الله في ظل يوم لا ظل إلا ظل that he's going to give him a shade the day when there is no shade except his shade سبحانه وتعالى and that person who is smart the smart one is the one who turns away from all of that and doesn't get fooled by it and if you benefit from that time that's what ماليك المدينار إِنَّا مَلْخَيُّوا فِي الشَّبَابِ the good is with this because that time which is your strength being there and the free time is something that's never going to come again and if you benefit from it there is no better better than that إن شاء الله وتعالى we're going to stop there anything which I have said that was incorrect or wrong is from me and Shaytan and Allah are free from it سبحانك اللهم بحمدك الشدوء لا إله إلا الله أستغفرك وأتوب إلي


Libraries across the country are encouraging teens, parents and educators to celebrate Teen Tech Week, a national initiative that takes place annually the second weekend of March. It's aimed to ensure that teens are competent and ethical users of digital media. The Brainerd Public Library has hosted events throughout the week today. Teens were able to create their own stop motion animation. Teen Tech Week was founded in 2007 in order to encourage libraries to connect with the millions of teens that do not have access to a home computer. The Brainerd Public Library hopes to attract a wide variety of teenagers and increase teen technology literacy locally. Libraries act as kind of a place where anyone can have access to anything regardless of income and I think that's really important in terms of providing programming for children and teens. It's somewhere they can go to be creative and learn something new and feel comfortable doing that here. Teenagers are invited to stop by the Brainerd Public Library this week to participate in a QR code scavenger hunt that's going on at the library through Saturday. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Why did you become a police officer? Well for me it was to do forensic science and the type of forensic science I wanted to do you had to be a cop It's just that I enjoyed both so it was a win-win. What's the best thing about your job? Well for us we get to specialise in a lot of different areas and we use science to do that one of my favourite areas is blowing stuff up. Have you got any advice for me going into the police? Well, I would just say don't give up, apply and if you don't get in first time apply again and there's so many different areas to specialise within the police that it's a career that you can have for the rest of your life. That could be me.


Hi everybody. Welcome to Barns Takeout. I'm Martha Lucy, Deputy Director for Research, Interpretation and Education at the Barns. And today we're going to talk about a painting by Edgar Doga called Jockeys and Race Horses. It was done probably in the early 1890s. Jockeys and Race Horses is one of 45 oil paintings that Doga made of horses and racers. He also did lots of prints and drawings and actually some sculptures of this subject. So it was a theme that really sort of concerned him throughout his career. Before we get into looking at this specific painting, I want to give you a little bit of context. Like the other Impressionists, Doga is known for capturing contemporary life in Paris during a time of massive change. You had the Industrial Revolution, the ballooning of the population of the city of Paris, physical changes to the city, the massive growth of the middle class, and with that growth, the explosion of all these new leisure activities all around the city that people would partake in. And this is one of the things that the Impressionists painted, the Cafés, the Ballet, the Café Cancerre, boating on the river, and this horse racing. But racing on a fixed track with a set of rules didn't take hold until the 1830s. And once it did, it became really popular. And by the mid-19th century, horse races were an extremely popular leisure activity, especially for upper class men. And Doga was very comfortable with that crowd. He was from a wealthy banking family. There were several racetracks in Paris at the time that Doga was working. The most famous racetrack of the day was Long Champ. And it was built in 1857 in the Bois de Boulogne, which is a large park on the west side of Paris. And it was and is a very, very elegant place. Race Day at Long Champ was a spectacle. So people would turn out in their, you know, their, the latest fashions and they would bring their very fancy kind of decorated carriages. And it was a thing to sort of go and to see and be seen, and to see, you know, the who's who in the crowd at the, at the horse races, just like at the opera or at the ballet. And Manet, Doga's contemporary, did several paintings of the horse races at this, at the track called Long Champ. And Manet's paintings show that crowd, you know, so you can sort of pick out some of the fashions. And they also show the horses, the actual race. So the horses kind of coming at you. And so what's, what's interesting, when we start looking at this is what Doga does. He does not show you that crowd. He doesn't show you the actual race. And this is very typical of, of all of his horse racing pictures. Only rarely does he show you the actual race. Mostly he's focusing on these sort of downtime moments, the kind of moment before the race where the jockeys are kind of lining up or starting to congregate. And so you can see three horses and jockeys here. There's one coming up here, it looks like, from the left.  And he's, he's choosing the moment where there, there isn't a lot of drama. And it, the horse racing scenes are often compared to his ballet scenes, I think with, with very good reason. Because with, with the ballet scenes too, you know, sometimes he shows you the ballerina on stage. And you can get a glimpse of the, of the audience. But most of the time in the ballet scenes, what he's showing you is the backstage, the, the sort of mundane moments, the ballerina is lacing up their shoes or adjusting their straps or stretching. And that's really so much of what his project as an artist was about, showing you the small, ordinary moments of life, you know, those moments that don't ordinarily make it into a painting at the time. And there was a certain amount of truth in these moments. The location of Duga's horse racing paintings are often vague. You know, I just spent a minute talking about Longchamp. But we can't say for sure where this, where this race, where this picture is, where this scene is located. He just doesn't give enough information. The background is very vague. These wisps of smoke coming up here, these are almost certainly smokestacks. There are other horse racing scenes that Duga made where you can clearly see the smokestacks. But having these smokestacks doesn't really help us with the location because they could be seen from multiple different locations and several racetracks. And he really doesn't tell us that much about the riders either.   So we don't get a sense of the sort of nervousness of the riders, any sense of emotion. He's just not interested in that. He's much more interested in the movement of the figures and in the relationships between them. So look at the movement that's going on here. You get there's movement happening in several directions at once. This horse is kind of moving forward as is the jockey. At the same time, this one is pulling back as is the jockey. And then in this one, the movement is in both directions. The horse is kind of going forward. This guy is going backward. Look down at the hooves. He's clearly interested in showing that these horses are not just stationary. He is studying the way that horses move. And he kind of paints this flurry of legs down here to kind of show you that movement. And then when you look over here at this section, these are this horse's front legs. And he kind of makes them very faint as if they are in motion, blurry. I think that also, if you look here, the musculature, he is showing you the musculature on the bodies of the horses or this horse at least. And I think that also helps to convey a sense of motion. And it's interesting that some of the heads are blocked because this is the way that things look in real life. In real life, things aren't perfectly framed all the time. So that's part of Doga's interest in naturalism. But at the same time that there's this kind of compositional chaos with movement happening in several directions, there's also this sense of harmony. There's a sense of balance. The horses are centered. They are sort of held by the landscape. There is a distribution of color, especially the white of the pants, like boom, boom, boom. Kind of holding the picture together. So the way that Doga worked, he actually, he went to the races, he made sketches there, and then he would come back to the studio and finish the works there. And often he would shuffle and the poses and kind of recombine them to make the paintings. But by the 1880s, he was also making use of stop action photography by Edward Moybridge, the English slash American photographer, that had famously captured frame by frame movements of a galloping horse, movements that couldn't be seen with the naked eye. And so Doga studied these photographs by Moybridge, which were published in lots of places, including in French publications. And he studied these photos and he actually made wax sculptures after some of them. And he also drew from or he sort of took from earlier art. So he studied Renaissance art. He studied Renaissance depictions of horses riding into battle. He went to the Louvre and sketched copies of them. He made a copy of one of the horses in the famous Parthenon frieze. And sometimes you can match up the poses of his horses with the poses in some of these older paintings. And so what Doga is doing here is he's taking a traditional subject horses with riders. You see them throughout the history of European art military pictures. And he makes that subject modern by recasting horses and riders as a very new and a very real part of contemporary life. And look then what he does technically when you look closely at this painting from a distance, it looks like things are sort of maybe kind of blurry but sort of neatly contained within their outlines. But as soon as you start to look up close, you can see how much is going on in every single inch of this painting. There the layers of paint that he is applying are so complicated and it gets really messy. So let's look see the paint just moving in all sorts of different directions. See the different layers this this orange kind of dabbed on top of the red. This sort of yellowish green sort of dragged through the others. He's often in these sort of scratchier parts. The paint looks kind of scratchy. He's using a dry brush. So I'm going to stop there. Please come see this painting. The barns is now open again. Yay. And if you're interested in learning more about Doga, I'm going to be teaching a course, an online course at the barns, a four week course starting in October. So please check out our website and thank you for listening. I'm Tom Collins, New Bauer Family Executive Director of the Barnes Foundation. I hope you enjoyed Barnes Takeout. Subscribe and make sure your post notifications are on to get daily servings of art. Thanks for watching and for your support of the Barnes Foundation.


what's up everyone welcome we have moved the simulation recording studio we are still in the beautiful Silicon Valley California but rather than being right in the heat of downtown San Francisco we are now in the beautiful San Mateo over near 280 by the Crystal Springs reservoir just walked around it today gorgeous more calm and spiritual out here also we are now without Ron Vagus who was the producer and director of the show for those first 500 or so episodes and we are now working together with this man right here whose name is Ori Shapira hi Ori hey I like it when you say it with your voice there Ori Shapira for those that have watched the episodes with Ori we did that episode with him when he was explaining what holding space was and then we did another episode with him where he held space for me on the show and we had a really nice transformation and consciousness that occurred nice evolution for me occurred there and Ori is not only coming on board to do things like produce the show and switch between cameras and whatnot and add really good ideas and also add his take from behind the set as we talk on the show but also we are now holding space with all of the guests that come on the show it's now an included part of the show experience it's beautiful because even while we do the co-creating of the outline with the guest we're mentioning to them as we're saying this is the intro this is what we have in your bio this is what we're gonna talk about do you have any thoughts about this and we tell them at the very end afterward after we ask you a couple last questions that we're gonna hold space with you we're just gonna be together and that we're gonna evolve consciousness together that way and it's great because it's like a massive pendulum swing from the interview energetically to just being afterward and Ori joins us and leads the holding space session afterward and we've now been experience experimenting with that for a dozen or more shows and it's been a lot of fun we've had people that have stuck around and just sat with us and had really deep emotional transformation spiritual transformations it's been quite nice and Ori's been teaching me a lot as well about just a myriad of critical things that I need to learn about human connection and about silence and about how deep we can get into the psyche and about the importance of what holding space and having a really strong container can actually do and probably one of the coolest things was was that in this grand massive experience of being alive together on this rock orbiting star this creation experiment that we're all a part of that we're all trying to make some sort of meaningful impact in we typically think that the faster that I talk and the more that I say I can compress and that the other person can learn much more that way but we're so socialized to just talk our asses off all the time that we forget that actually really powerful transformations can sometimes occur even more powerful transformations can occur from not socializing and instead from just slowing down and just being together and by doing that you can unlock really cool things and Ori and I will be showcasing that more and more with the evolution of the show over time Ori let's hear from you about this transition well I just feel right now like a kid in a candy store with new toys because this studio environment and creating things that may garner a lot of eyeballs I'm still coming into that and it's exhilarating and a little scary but I've never felt more aligned I also feel like a kid with new toys it's great that Ron was able to help teach a lot of the technical knowledge that we need to be able to operate the tricaster and robotic cameras just to get a multi-camera shoot flowing and I also feel like I have a bunch of new toys with what Ori's been teaching me and so it'll be cool when it's more evident for people to identify that Alan is now approaching things a little bit differently I think it was even on a recent show that we did that someone had mentioned something that was a little bit deeper about emotion or spirit and I was very welcoming for them to take a pause and to unpack that more about their life and I also feel like your your drive to be aligned right now with this endeavor and with the way that we could leverage the equipment and what's been formulating in our essences to to really showcase profound transformations and consciousness it's excellent it's excellent and just pumped to be able to leverage the equipment for that there must be there's even a whole there's even a whole thing called dead air that radio used to talk about all the time and video talks about now this idea of dead air like it's basically a sin to have long periods of time without saying anything and like that paradigm is so being changed right now by Ori and by so many others that are just like screw that I'm just gonna just be I'm gonna be with people and just be like we can you know like Ori taking time to see what came up for him to say next we actually had a decent amount of that on the on our show with holding space to where that was happening maybe an interesting idea to actually hold space right now I'd love to okay all right cool yeah let's see if I just turn here if I still I look at you like this how do I look on there turn a little bit more towards the camera that's better okay I can also use the mixed effect shot where we showcase all the cameras at the same time we can do that at another time or I could go do that right now why don't we give this a shot let's see let's give this a shot sounds good all right hey Alan yeah what do you think you're doing sharing your beloved show with this man feels like God is channeling through and the wind has moved in this direction and it feels more aligned with the divine calling of the North Star that is within this blueprint within this spirit meeting with this body for this artistic expression that our nodes collide for this portion it's like a chapter in the book but people don't know about me and they don't know about the stuff I do they know about you and that's proven the most important thing is that what content ends up being created from our interplays as well as the interplays of when guests come on the show for interviews as well as holding space as long as the content there that is being created is exciting and inspirational educational then the right work is being done and that's what matters this updated team at simulation what are we a recipe for for full-fledged spiritual evolution and for not only the the interviewees that come in for them to have more deep spiritual evolution but also for the guests to be able to feel like they come even more so from their hearts that they express themselves even better than before and then for the audience to for them to feel like whoa there's an even more spiritual transformation that's happening even better content is being made now and there's another component which is this holding space component that's happening on camera as well and it'll depend on if the guests will choose to bring that part on camera or not and we're excited for the ones that do so we can share that is a viral viewership in the cards of course the tree of possibilities all exists with harder and smarter work one can achieve those north star goals more effectively and a definition of what a viral viewership is is also very important because I prefer to have a couple people that have their consciousness transformed that go off and get inspired and go and talk to more people about the subject or go and transform even more people's consciousness or go and build things related to the field that we're discussed I'd rather have that than have so many more people that are just watching and then don't get transformed and don't do anything afterward so it's more actually about the transmissive property of the awakening than it is about just a count of people you talk so much about spirituality and words like that in your show is full of powerful minds in tech business entrepreneurship and more so how dare you do that yeah as many of the audience may know as well as as much as I know from about a year and a half ago or so approaching now two years ago that the intent of asking very thought provoking questions to different leaders in their fields was about that transmissive property of awakening to other people oh my gosh what are we going to do about wealth inequality what are we going to do about the democratization of exponential technologies how are we going to handle these things and bringing on the different leading scientists entrepreneurs artists spiritual leaders people in so many different pressing fields and blockchain and crypto and AI and robotics biotech neuro tech geopolitics geoeconomics emotional intelligence all these different fields it was so interesting bringing on the different people and talking to them about what they're building why it's important asking them poking questions about ethics and slowly but surely it started going more and more in the direction of like what is the meaning of life what is the purpose of the human experiment who or what created this what is source what is spirituality how do people feel when they tap in to thinking and feeling like that and how does it affect their what they're building in those other fields so that has been such a profound realization recently that if you poke and endeavor into the philosophical the moral the spiritual the religious the creationary the evolutionary aspects of what this human experiment is why we're here what this person's purpose is how they connect to a deeper more transcendent state those types of questions if you do that more with the guests then it actually drives their science and their business and their art and all the other endeavoring that they're doing with their families their communities with employees all that type of stuff much better those two things are not separate things they go hand-in-hand science and spirituality business and spirituality they go hand-in-hand art and spirituality so actually science business and art without spirituality is a disaster and you see it everywhere you look in our civilization super disconnected people that are building the future and that's why there's a lack of philosophers a lack of moral scientists a lack of ethicists that are supposed to be working with all the people that are building AI and that are working in the field of biotech or neuro tech there seems to be a lot of spirituality around blockchain and decentralization which is great a lot of spirituality around psychedelics and meditation and even some with neuro tech but it still seems as though there's people that want to just jam neuro prosthetics into your brain without even taking the time to reflect on their own connection to God their own connection to source to what's transcendent of humans and so then that's the goal if we can bring more and more of these brilliant minds in Silicon Valley and Shenzhen London Tel Aviv all these different cities around the world if we can bring more powerful minds that are so deeply building the future into a more spiritually communing state as they build then we have a much higher likelihood of positively affecting the trajectory of our world and then people at home can also or where they're tuning from can also tap more deeply into their spiritual essences as they're also building the future can these potentially potentially edgy ideas really touch people how can people be moved toward the way you're perceiving first is that it's not just about how I'm perceiving but also about how so many of the other people like you like Mama Nui Juwan like so many of these Bentinio Sadguru so many of these other leaders in spirituality around the world how they're perceiving we just had Sandy Hart Joyce Hart on our show the way that they're perceiving why are people perceiving in a way that it pieces together the most question marky areas of what is our purpose here and when when we start endeavoring ourselves into those question marky puzzle pieces of what we're doing here what is our purpose here that's what brings us the most meaning and fulfillment so these edgy ideas are actually the most important ideas if you are the person that continuously asks themselves what is my role here you will go so much further in life than those that never asked themselves that question and same thing if you do it not only to yourself but then you go and do it to everyone else if you are that person that is constantly talking to people about what is their role in this human experiment then they will constantly be thinking also themselves about what is my role the more people that are constantly thinking that the more awakened people are what did I come here to do what is my role here okay I endeavor a little bit more in this direction hmm that was pretty interesting I like that maybe I should do a little bit more of that in my life I endeavor it in here didn't really feel it so much okay maybe a little bit less of that consciously living life living life and feeling that I'm connecting more deeply with my purpose in the directions that I go worry how do you feel about the integration of spirituality more deeply into the show and what your role is with that and also what it can bring to others both the guests and the viewers I think that my role is to be something spiritual and even I don't know what that will look like but what else is more worthwhile is kind of how I feel well I'll also share that emotionally in this moment I'm feeling yes I'm feeling something that isn't cool it's it feels exactly like that it just feels like right now I'm being the opposite of cool like that's just the emotional experience that or belief that is present with my system what does the opposite of being cool mean uncool not just that um like not a good fit not a good fit for what like this show and whoever I'm imagining is watching it how do you feel that way because I don't feel entertaining or at speed um like my pace feels unusually slow and that's part of the change worry the mainstream culture or narrative of everything needs to be densely packed everything needs to be at light speed as fast as possible that is very quickly breaking apart that that we spend a dozen years of our lives learning language but we want to be spiritually enlightened in a one minute video that's a joke that we want to compete so hard at being the best economy in the world that we pillage and plunder and enslave and put all our ethics to the side to do so that's a joke we know that our connection to nature and our connection to each other at deeper levels and at slower paces is a massive key in unlocking the next evolutions of consciousness and that what seems to be uncool is actually cool I don't want to not shine I don't want to be boring every moment of our life is shining and one of the big keys of life is to realize that every moment of life is shining even me from a couple years ago first learning how to dive deeper into interviewing was it's funny to look back at now but that is still shining it's it's growth all I can think about is the eyeballs on the other side of the camera the care that you have for that is actually exactly what's needed right now when people sit down together on camera mostly people are thinking about how can I become more popular how can I earn more money how can I become more famous that is very quickly being sniffed out by people and they're saying that's not my ethic but when people that go on camera are obsessed with what other people are seeing and they want to care for those people that are watching care for every moment in time that those people are investing into watching what is being shown to them and discussed that's that is beautiful to care that deeply and to make sure that what is being communicated is enriching what if people don't feel called to slow down to this speed when they see us out of the distribution people out of the totality there are people that are disengaged at this speed and that is fine there are people that even in that group that are like why are they doing that and they become slightly more engaged then there are the people that are already slightly engaged that are like why am I seeing stuff like this more often and then there are the people that are already quite engaged and stuff like this that distribution is very important to keep in mind and our responsibility is to help make sure that for those that are even a tiny bit engaged all the way up to quite engaged are gaining further enrichment and inspiration yeah help yeah i feel better i feel like energetically you kind of held space for me which was nice we've been doing that for each other quite a bit with our families too which has been very interesting yeah actually for those that don't do this yet like please take your your newly found friends trusted spiritual sisters and brothers to your family take them there or have family come to you with them because it's transformative what happens with your relationship with your family members when someone else that is trusted that is already quite consciously evolved and spiritually evolved can partake in the dialogue in a three instead of just a two-person dynamic it's super life changing yeah yeah like we're stuck in like like a 25 year relationship with our mom or our dad or whatever person and like you're literally stuck and because you're you know each other's perspectives quite well on a lot of things and you're constantly on trying to you know kind of like nudge each other and all this other type of stuff when you add in that that third fresh perspective that's trusted and friendly and wants to help consciously evolve the two it's it's critical it's like it's mission critical to do stuff like that it's also interesting that whenever we like hold space we don't we never know what is gonna happen so we've been holding space with just Ori and I sometimes just three people with one other person and even recently we held space with seven people that was fire oh and it was all like close people in my life too and we just had a gorgeous evolution together like literally seven people if you think about it from a perspective of information theory in conscious evolution the idea would be how can you mathematically represent conscious evolution in the shortest amount of time and the answer lies in holding space it does not lie in I'm gonna talk to you 99.9% of our existence when we engage with another person is just talking and talking and talking and usually we're just waiting for other people to finish what they're saying so that we can say what we want to say and how much conscious or spiritual evolution is actually occurring that versus the .1% of the time and soon to be way more than that once things like this spread that when you're just there being with each other and you're tapping deeper into yourself that tapping deeper into the other and the relationship between the two or up to the seven or more that are there and Ori will also be explaining what it's like holding space for large events of hundred plus people what does it feel like to be in a stadium that's filled with 50,000 people when you're just there and you're just feeling what 50,000 people are feeling again you're not just watching the adventure it sounds like the next evolution of the human race you know what I'm saying bro 100% I was just feeling how like big of a load it is to take on it's huge and it's gorgeous I've seen the potential of it the feeling the potential of it you were pumped I'm so pumped that already for what tool what Ori is what always helped me add to this tool about also for what Ori's already helped with the guests that we've had on the show afterward how we're going to be starting to also be recording those and showing those transformations and consciousness after the shows together and I'm pumped to get to that vision where the next evolution of humans is humans that are more sensitive humans that are more deeply connected to source I'm so jazzed for that yeah shall we yeah all right let's do it thanks everyone for tuning in we appreciate it good fun updating you with what's going on so nice to be for those that really want to be sensitive for a moment think about the metropolises that a majority of you live in there are thousands if not tens of thousands of other humans that are all in extremely close proximity to you and there are also hundreds if not thousands of cars that are always constantly in proximity driving by you there's constantly electromagnetic fields that are all around you all the time the amount of just machines of all different sorts that are there are just constantly bombarding your energetic field now contrast that with how you feel when you're right next to the ocean or how you feel when you're in the middle of the wood contrast those two feelings because one feels like we are literally being scrambled as just worker bees and the other one feels like we're connected to something that is divine that transcends us so now the show being away from this downtown metropolis and more so in nature in a more conducive location to spiritual evolution and transformation is not only helping me as a host or as a producer and all the guests that come on the show it's also going to make it a better experience for you as viewers they get to see that and feel it yeah it's a huge huge thank you to everyone that's continuously been supporting us and continue to support the artists the entrepreneurs the spiritual leaders the organizations around the world that you believe in continue supporting them and helping them grow and keep supporting us our links are in the bio below try and slow down and hold more space with your family your friends co-workers people online do it do it more often that's an interesting one most to see what we receive a big difference between holding space in person and trying to hold space over video or yeah well that can be done too um and also uh if you're really curious um reach out to me you know alan is uh gonna be traveling for a few weeks here in august and so i'll have more time to do that with others yeah is uh email cool yeah cool um um or you can go to www.oryholdingspace.com there's contact there yeah or holding space.com contact ory and also our email simulation series at gmail.com and ory has access to that email so you can feel inquiries from there as well and you know that get in touches in the vibe of all the videos she just can be getting in touch with any of the other episodes and really do give that a go give holding space a go let us know your thoughts in the what are some of your thoughts in the comments below would love to hear from you things you talked about and ask yourself that question more often what is my purpose here what is my purpose here and ask other people what is your purpose here what is your north star get asking that more often and build that future everyone manifest your dreams into the world we love you very much thank you for tuning in yes yes


So in 2017 I just decided it was the year I was going to write a book and it was something I'd always wanted to do and so Baxter is my dog and he was really the inspiration for the character as you know and I just wanted to do something really fun that would help me learn about the publishing world. It was an aspiration I've always had you know I've always been a creative and wanted to be in different facets of art so you know being a designer and you know an illustrator and you know a writer all those things applied to doing self-published books. So I created the series and I did two books a coloring book and a recipe book. I remember that. I