Covent Garden (2) (by the Lens)
All the photos in this post were taken by, most of them were by
the 18mm Zeiss Distagon for Nikon, on D810. But few of them
were by the Homemade Toy Camera Lens on the Sony A7R.
Covent Garden IS the place the most changed its guise in London.
When I came to London, here was a vegetable market. Still, for the
planned move of the market, some businesses were started to move.
When the wholesale market kind of business moves, they leave
huge stock space behind.
Then, the people who needs huge space moved in. = Photo studio kind.
And the related business, such as film processing etc. =
That’s how I came here = to have my E6 film developed.
What a bad taste. Is this what they call Spiritualism ? ? ?
Simply because of a Film, My fair Lady (Audley Hepburn’s Flower girl !)
the tourists started to come Covent Garden, so, the area has been changed
to a “Fashionable Tourists Place” —– still, it’s interesting to see why the
area attracted occult / spiritual shop = quite few of them are here.
In 1974 (?) probably the first vegetarian restaurant in central London
“Food for thought” opened here. (I was taken there by a vegetarian
friend who does the Buddhists Meditation)
(thence, he started to have the troubles on his leg).
—– it was a well-known story, that the all the High Priests
of Zen end up on wheel chair.
Gautama Buddha left a rank of hard astir monk, thinking that to
torturing the body wouldn’t bring any High Awareness to him.
(But, my friend didn’t convince and said, that the trouble on his leg
was nothing to do with Zen practice, instead, need more effort for
the meditation to save his life.) ! ! !
So, may be those stubborn vegetarianism was the origin of
“Spiritual Covent Garden” (Food for Thought twisted the belief ! )
And a corner of the Covent Garden, Neals Yard became a holy place
for the vegetarian. — By the way, vegetarianism came from Hindu.
Lord Buddha eat anything offered and died for food poisoning of fish.
Buddhism doesn’t have such arrogance, “Killing the plant is OK”.
Killing and eating animals, plants are part of unavoidable Karma.
Round the corner, two pictures above, were in fact, China Town.
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