{"id":3396,"date":"2010-08-26T13:02:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T18:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=3396"},"modified":"2010-08-26T13:06:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T18:06:35","slug":"miksang-and-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=3396","title":{"rendered":"Miksang and flow"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an eMail\u00a0Alan Magayne-Roshak<\/a> said of my August 24th blog post, “I love it. \u00a0It’s easy to get lost in it (in a good way). This reminds me of a David Vestal column where he quoted Picasso as saying, “I don’t seek, I find.” ( The column is at home; I hope I got it correct.)\u00a0I would say this is a “miksang” photograph.”<\/p>\n

After searching the term (beyond\u00a0the wikipedia link<\/a> Alan provided)\u00a0I took it as a compliment; and felt surprise in finding that miksang has taken hold, as a sort of “school” of photography, around the world.\u00a0Miksang<\/a><\/strong><\/span>: <\/strong>a Tibetan word meaning “good eye” based on the Dharma Art teachings of\u00a0Ch\u00f6gyam Trungpa<\/a>, in which the artist’s eye perceives in perfect harmony with a contemplative mind. This type of visual perception, when applied to the practice of photography, produces a particular sort of photograph. Miksang photographs tend to bring the observer back into the author’s original state of contemplation; behaving, in my opinion, in ways similar to haiku<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mih\u00e1ly Cs\u00edkszentmih\u00e1lyi<\/a> posited that people feel most happy while working within a similar state; which he referred to as a state of flow<\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

While I have no idea if these photographs qualify as miksang; I certainly felt in a state of contemplative flow as I made them; and believe they do invite the viewer’s eye\/mind to return to that state.<\/p>\n

(click on images for larger view)<\/p>\n

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love marks on paper
\nheat becomes a memory
\nbeach remains in notes<\/p>\n

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Leica R8\/DMR, 65 mm Elmar on R bellows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an eMail\u00a0Alan Magayne-Roshak said of my August 24th blog post, “I love it. \u00a0It’s easy to get lost in it (in a good way). This reminds me of a David Vestal column where he quoted Picasso as saying, “I don’t seek, I find.” ( The column is at home; I hope I got it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[3,51,49,54,48,19,17,28,18,29,50,39,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-drawing","category-fawna","category-haiku","category-hand-made","category-photography","category-travel","category-poetry","category-self-expression","category-still-life","category-things","category-up-close","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3396"}],"version-history":[{"count":71,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3470,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions\/3470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}