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3-day Miksang Module 2

True Connection & Fields of Perception
New dates for2025: April 7-9 in Zandvoort, Netherlands

Meditation in Action

Experience calmness in heart & mind with visual exercises and Miksang assignments

Photographic Art

Successful pictures with your camera; with & without a lot of photography experience

Mindful in Action

Learn easily how to be mindful in the now with looking, seeing and photograping

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Relaxing 'this'

You relax even more 'this'; as 'this' is 'what I want to see', 'what I want to photograph', 'what I do like and don't like', 'what I don't think is worth photographing'.

The Richness of 'that'

When you relax 'this—all kinds of mental filters— you will discover 'that'. You now explore further all kinds of qualities of endless fields of perception: the richness of 'that'.

Surrender to Presence

The true nature of things as they are is the ever-present presence, which is always and already there. You full embrace the permanence of is-ness, thatness.

Seeing Deeply

Isness and thatness are at the base of things as the are. From a state of openness, openness, still and being receptive you're able to see deeply.

Intentional Photography

In the Miksang approach to photography, setting deliberate intentions is for the purpose of uninhibited looking. The more you commit to any intention, the easier it is to truly relax.

Your Pictures as a Mirror

Not only will your pictures improve. You gently and kindly learn to embrace obstacles in your proces of pure perception and pure expression. As each picture shows either your purity or your obstacle.

A Tender Heart

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Hèlen Vink

When you relax 'This', you start to see 'That' - from a state of stable inner calmness and equanimity.

True Connection starts with making contact, and making contact is about stabilizing your expanding awareness and receptivity. The emphasis is on getting to a state of true receptivity. In these 3 days you surrender to 'that' and you don't give in to the tense 'this': 'what 'I want & what I don't want'. You allow yourself to dissolve your mental projections, your feelings about what you want and don't want, and your thoughts about what you know.

Dissolving the push and pull, and wearing out habits, opinions and beliefs is relaxing 'This'.

When you relax 'this' - 'I want', it is possible for you to break through the barrier which consists of what you know and what you think about your see. The dissovling and relaxing creates space within where you can experience things as they are.

When you see things as they are, you discover 'THAT'. 'That' is the ever-present presence, that is always and already there. 'THAT' can literally be anything; sand-ness, tree-ness, person-ness, hair-ness, water-ness. You begin to see and feel the richness of visual qualities, the nature of your perceptions.

True perception, true connection and deep, unbridled seeing is on the other side of hot boredom.

Let your tender heart speak instead of giving in to restlessness and boredom. No matter where you are, when you feel you have seen it all, instead of detaching yourself from resistance and avoiding the discomfort there is a quality of waiting, forcing yourself to just stay with it and stay with yourself until you give up wanting anything special or entertaining. You give up your interest in the highlights. The invitation for you here is to become open and raw. You give up your ideas and beliefs about your favorite version of the world and let your tender heart speak.

Mindful Photography

Mindfulness and photography come together nicely here. I found it special to experience that it doesn't matter so much where you are, but that there are fresh observations everywhere that can be converted into a beautiful picture. In addition, it is nice to experience that if it doesn't work out, I can calmly let go. There are truly infinite observations.

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Yvonne van Sprang

Seeing from my Heart

It was a great experience to perceive reality in a different way with "Miksang", to be guided by what stops me, touches me, then to experience that intensely before I grab the camera and see the image or impression capture. I have found the effect of the visual exercises on “seeing” surprising and valuable.

Conny

With Fresh Eyes

Photographing without having started my stream of thoughts about the why, what I think of it and how I can make a nice picture of it. A special experience of relaxation and experiencing the beauty of everyday things around me. Not only looking, but also really seeing with a fresh eye.

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Sylvia

3-day Deepening Retreat | Miksang 2

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€ 595

€495 | Now with Early Bird discount: €445

3-day Retreat Miksang 2—True Connection | April 7-9

Deepen your Miksang Photography in this 3-day retreat, develop confidence in genuine photographing and elegantly exploring 'thatness', 'isness'. Discovering the permanent nature of things as they are, with fields of perception, such as street-ness, sand-ness, tree-ness, cloud-ness, person-ness and more.

Every day with talks, Q&A and new visual exercises from which you go out and about from the open space within, being available. With your camera, instructions and new photo assignments as mindfulness meditation-in-action you'll explore thatness.

Simultaneously you will be able to develop visual equanimity through wearing out old patterns of mental projections such as naming, labelling, associations, and transmuting hot boredom into coolness. As you further relax your awareness going out, the sense of 'this' —me & I —dissolves, and seeing 'that' becomes the delight of feeling the living visual presence all around you.

• Pre-requisite: completion of the 3-day Miksang 1

• Including: 1 free online Miksang Masterclass (after completing 3-day Miksang 2)

• Location: Zandvoort, Netherlands

• Program price is exclusive accommodation, meals and travel.

Yes, I am in

Would you like to consecutively immerse yourself in Moments & Visual Haiku, in the 3-day Miksang 3 Retreat, with a combination discount? Go check it out here >

Relax into reality

"If you are able to relax—relax to a cloud by looking at it, relax to a drop of rain and experience its genuineness—you can see the unconditionality of reality, which remains very simply in things as they are, very simply. When you are able to look at things without saying, “This is for me or against me, I can go along with this”, or “I cannot go along with this,” then you are experiencing a state of wisdom.

You may see a fly buzzing: you may see a snowflake; you may see ripples of water; you may see a black widow spider. You may see anything, but you can actually look at all of those things with simple and ordinary, but appreciative, perception! There are sights and colors that you have never seen. There are feelings that you have never experienced before. There are endless fields of perception."

Chögyam Trungpa

The Program

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Miksang 2 - Day 1

After your Miksang Introduction where you have experienced how you can look uninhibitedly and recognize your personal experiences of 'fresh' seeing' you further explore the richness of the visual word and with 'thatness' and 'present presence'. With visual exercises oriented towards deep looking you stabilise your unbiased looking, and availability becomes a choice.

With new visual exercises 'Deep looking' and 'What is a thing?'

Miksang 2 - Day 2

Further processing of boredom into waking up to the thing as they are, without shying away, wanting to see something else or be somewhere else. You develop equality and equanimity about what you see, surrendering to the only moment you have: now. dwells and dissolves. You are there, you notice it, you have your camera and you know how to express genuinely, and elegantly.

Stepping on any thoughts of doubt, ignoring photographic ambition and returning to gentle appreciative looking. A new photographic assignment and new intention of 'thatness', exploring in-depth another field of perception.

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Miksang 2 - Day 3

Tuning in to the delicate visual world and knowing you have the choice to either align your heart and mind, or keep on thinking. Each moment you have the choice to either wake up, or go back to 'sleep'.

Forgetting the instructions and remembering the instructing while further exploring isness with fields of perception..

Corona Proof

Miksang Photography is Corona-proof partly because we are outside most of the day. The morning program takes place in side 1.5 meters is guaranteed and all necessary measures are taken.

For risk reduction, there is an air purifier with a HEPA filter, VC lamp and ionizer (ozone-free).

If the COVID-19 guidelines change and the training cannot continue, the course fees will be returned and we will plan a place for you at the next Miksang Photography program.

How to get to Zandvoort

Zandvoort is a beach town situated at the coast, next to Amsterdam

• By plane to Schiphol Airport > train or taxi to Zandvoort

• By car •