Texture
Contemplative photography encourages one to look at the world in a fresh way. There are many beautiful things to see but, as busy humans, we spend our days thinking, running, jumping, shouting, driving and seldom stop to simply look and…
Category Thoughts
Colour II
“We are talking about experiencing reality, as real as possible in your own existence. In order to experience that reality, you have to tame your mind.” “Introduction to Practice” 1985 Seminary Transcripts, Chogyam Trungpa
Colour
Contemplative photography encourages one to look at the world in a fresh way. There are many beautiful things to see but, as busy humans, we spend our days thinking, running, jumping, shouting, driving and seldom stop to simply look and…
Dharma Art and Elegance
“Dharma art refers to art that springs from a certain state of mind on the part of the artist that could be called the meditative stated.” “Dharma art is not showmanship, or having some talent that nobody had before…Instead, the…
Ordinary is Extraordinary
?The Shambhala approach is to befriend what is there, the everyday occurrence, which is real, obvious and constant. …It may be the same blue sky and the same Volkswagen car that we drive to work every day. But that ordinariness…
More thoughts from ‘The mind’s eye’
“As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one’s originality. It…