Miksang I - Looking and Seeing : Introduction to Contemplative Photography
Dates : November 5, 12, 19 and 26
10:00am - 12:30pm (EST)
Online sessions on Zoom, four Sundays for 2 ½ hours each.
This workshop offers a window on a new way of seeing our everyday world. We learn to recognize our fresh perceptions, so we can stay with the perception. Still and calm. not being swayed by the winds of conceptual thinking and the reasoning mind. We feel what we see and act upon the vivid experience of perception instead of what we think or associate about what we see. Something out of the blue comes to us, we let it in, fully, we connect fully and then we express our experience of seeing directly and vividly with our cameras or smartphones.
When eye, heart and world are in the same place at the same time, seeing is clear and intimate, and your images are strong and vivid.
Pre-Requisite: None
All levels of photographic experience are welcome. Participants can use a digital or a smartphone. The Nalanda Miksang contemplative photography teachings are directly based on the Dharma Art and Shambhala teachings of Chogyam Trungpa.
Maximum Number of Participants: 15 participants. Cost: 200 $CAD