Miksang Programs

The Miksang Society offers a path of perception and photography through a three level course of training. No photographic experience or knowledge is required, although you will need a digital camera. You do not need a formal background in meditation - and meditation is not as part of the program - but some experience is, of course, helpful.

Miksang Photography

What is Miksang?

Miksang is a Tibetan word that translates as "Good Eye". The Miksang program of contemplative photography brings together the art of photography, the discipline of meditation and the Dharma Art teachings of the meditation master and scholar Chogyam Trungpa.

In contemplative photography, we work with the synchronization of eye and mind. When eye and mind are in the same place at the same time, the ordinary magic of the phenomenal world is appreciated fully.

Who Should Attend?

Although the experience of clear seeing is available to everyone, people come to contemplative photography with different motivations. Some want to give expression to what they experience through the discipline of meditation. Some have recognized some direct and vivid quality of perception in their own experience and want to explore and express that potential. Others have trained in photography or other arts and are curious about the contemplative approach. The common element is an interest in clear seeing.

For more information, visit the Miksang Ottawa blog .