{"id":1738,"date":"2006-04-29T22:25:50","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T01:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=1760"},"modified":"2010-05-08T19:59:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T22:59:02","slug":"miksang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2006\/04\/29\/miksang\/","title":{"rendered":"Miksang"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve uploaded a couple more pictures to my Flickr page<\/a> and added a new tag to most of what’s there – Miksang<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Miksang is a Tibetan word meaning “Good Eye” and represents a form of contemplative photography based on the Dharma Art teachings of Ch\u00f6gyam Trungpa<\/a>, in which the eye is in sync with the contemplative mind.<\/p>\n

…Miksang involve nothing fancy, no special setup, just a visual capture, in the proper state of mind, of everyday’s reality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, I’ve been interested in Buddhism – especially Zen and Tibetan Buddhism – for many years; I have several of Trungpa’s books; and I’ve even visited Karm\u00ea Ch\u00f6ling<\/a>, the Trungpa-founded meditation center in Vermont, about a decade ago.<\/p>\n

But I’d never heard of this Miksang thing until a few days ago, when I visited a friend and showed him my Flickr photos, and he exclaimed “but that’s Miksang!”<\/p>\n

Well, after reading up on it, I have to agree that most photos on Miksang galleries<\/a> remind me very much of my own photos, and the descriptions I’ve read on the process are also quite familiar. Not that I want to claim undue credit or extra specialness for these pictures… but I feel they belong somehow.<\/p>\n

There’s a Miksang class<\/a> in Berkeley which, unfortunately, partially overlaps WWDC<\/a>, which I can’t miss. Drat. I’ll try to e-mail the organizers and and see if I can attend the first days…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve uploaded a couple more pictures to my Flickr page and added a new tag to most of what’s there – Miksang: Miksang is a Tibetan word meaning “Good Eye” and represents a form of contemplative photography based on the Dharma Art teachings of Ch\u00f6gyam Trungpa, in which the eye is in sync with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1q3Zc-miksang","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}