True to Life: Seeing Beyond Thought
Six Day Workshop on Sundays
Pre-Requisites: None
In contemplative photography, our inspiration is to establish a relationship with unconditional visual perception. Sometimes we have experienced moments of seeing which are vivid, brilliant and mind-stopping. We want to see our world this way, pure and genuine, unconditioned by our previous ideas and thoughts about what we see.
We call this experience of seeing, direct or unconditional perception.
Unconditional perception does not arise from thought. It arises from a gap in our mind’s stream of endless thinking.
In fact, the birthplace of direct perception is this gap in our thinking mind.
Through the essential practice of Recognizing Direct Perception, we connect with our visual world as it is, free from the filters of expectation, preference, and manipulation. We can shift our orientation from our usual ways of categorizing what we see, to staying still in a state of non-thought as the perception occurs.
Assignments train us to bring eye and mind together in a single moment with clarity of intention.
The visual practices and assignments in this course have been developed over forty years of teaching and refining the essential nature of the journey of Seeing Beyond Thought.
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Michael Wood is the founder of Miksang Contemplative Photography, and with Julie DuBose has shared these teachings and written numerous books to support this way of seeing and being in our lives.
