Miksang is about seeing clearly, out of the blue and enjoying these vivid moments. I experience this very often, why would I then want or need to take a picture?
- We are expressive beings. To give expression creatively to a vivid sensory experience is part of our human expression, and is simply a healthy thing to do - every time we express ourselves in a creative and genuine way we touch in with our basic sanity of human goodness. However, we suppress these impulses of direct perception and we reason away many of these impulses. Continuously! "I have already seen it and that is enough, and it is now in my mind as a reminder" or "I have no time" is a form of suppressing our natural need for creative expression. In the longer run this will not make us happy, it makes us feel unfulfilled.
- Our inherent ability of pure perception and to see clearly is something we are born with. But we do not always experience this! By consciously practicing uninhibited non-judgemental viewing, wondering and photographing our vision remains clear, and we clear our vision. We think so much that our seeing gets clouded and our vision is blurred. What we actually see and what we think about what we see is not the same.
- By connecting to something which you see out of the blue, allowing it in and expressing it, you start noticing and recognizing these moments of unexpected fresh seeing and you become more precise in what you really see. The actual photographing also slows you down, not rushing to the next thing, and helps you take the time for what you have seen initially and generally. You connect further and it becomes clear what you have seen and this makes it a complete experience, a whole. Experience learns what you have seen freshly is getting less precise, as you do not actually commit to take a picture. And a common pitfall in the arts is that the most beautiful images are stored in the head, and so what you share now has become an intellectual wording.
- Every time we commit to giving an expression with our cameras, we also train ourselves into alignment of being awake, open, aware and curious all on the same axes. Every time we see something from the heart, and as we come to a full stop, look, and look further until fully understood and then we give expression from the heart: we bring out the best version of ourselves which we already are.
- For me personally, sharing my Miksang photos is a joyful, light-hearted and easy way to contribute to the world; sharing sparks of timeless brilliance of the mundane world, the extraordinary of the ordinary reflected in the images. The audience can experience the brilliance of the mundane as well, simply upon viewing. Seen from my heart, through the camera, on to the picture, right to the viewers heart.
