In The Greening of Heart, Mind and Body, I like to show how a contemplative meditation practice, like zazen, can lead to a fundamental shift of one’s perspective on the environment. Environmental issues have become a football we kick around endlessly. At the same time, experts warn us of a catastrophe in the making. Self-interest …
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Perceiving Directly is Seeing Without Effort
Perceiving directly or seeing without effort happens when we are one with our perception, when we are “all eyes and ears,” and when our sense of self (often referred to as the ego) no longer blocks our view. We refer to it as “the flash of perception.”1 It is a moment of wholeness, the basis …
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From Contemplation to Integration
The execution of an action by no means proves that we know, even superficially, what we are doing or how we are doing it. If we attempt to carry out an action with awareness – that is, to follow it in detail – we soon discover that even the simplest and most common of actions, …
My Journey to Contemplative Photography
My Journey to Contemplative Photography is about the growing conflict with the contemporary approach to photography. 1 The strong desire to find a way out of this impasse motivated me to explore new horizons. Let me tell you how it pushed me along the way and helped me to embrace a new way of image-making. …
Beginner’s Mind, Creative Mind
Beginner’s Mind, Creative Mind¹ is an exploration of what it takes to apply a beginner’s mind to photography. Introduction Creativity has no form or shape. Being formless is beyond experience, knowledge and defies any attempts to describe it. What can be known, described and analyzed are the experiences that are associated with it, often referred …