Andy Karr

Miksang is about seeing clearly. Using photography as the technique, we learn to recognize the brilliance of direct perception. This shows how concepts can obscure things, rather than clarify them, and how our projections can distort our experience. I have found this training to be wonderfully illuminating—both pointing out the richness of perception and the pervasiveness of projection. It is a great training to help us see things as they actually are."

Andy Karr is a writer, photographer, longtime meditator, and Buddhist teacher. He trained intensively with two of the great founding teachers of Western Buddhism: Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, and Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and has been a student of Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche since 1993. He has also been a Miksang student, and contemplative photographer since the late 1990s.

He is the author of Contemplating Reality, a series of investigations into the nature of mind and the phenomenal world, that was published by Shambhala in 2007.

Andy is also the co-author of The Practice of Contemplative Photography - Seeng the World with Fresh Eyes, due for release by Shambhala Pulications in April 2011

Go to Andy's Miksang Gallery

Andy's Flickr Site