Every week we choose a photo submitted to Andy Karr’s contemplative photography site seeingfresh.com that really exemplifies the practice. This week’s photo, by Petra Schlitt, is a tribute to the perception of visual space (sometimes called negative space). It’s a fine example of fresh seeing. For more about contemplative photography, and lots of other great photos, visit seeingfresh.com. [...]
By Suzanne Harvey It’s hard to know which was more surprising: that I would run for political office at all—and then win—or that I would become a Buddhist. Politics happened first… or maybe not. A recent return visit to the New Hampshire State House served to remind me that I’ve put dharma teachings to work [...]
Every week we choose a photo submitted to Andy Karr’s contemplative photography site seeingfresh.com that really exemplifies the practice. You wouldn’t think that a drippy, fogged up window would make a luscious photograph, but this week’s photo, by Zsolt Zsoló Kóté, shows that it can. It’s a great example of fresh seeing.
A guest post by Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald, author of Pictures of the Mind: What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are. I saw my dad a month before he died. We went for breakfast at the restaurant where he liked to meet when I came through town — a place by the highway with [...]
Our friends at The Pema Chödrön Foundation invite you to join them in celebrating Pema’s 77th birthday by taking part in their second annual “birthday retreat.” Pema has filmed a teaching just for this occasion, offering advice, encouragement, and meditation instruction. All you need to do is register online and the Pema Chödrön Foundation will email you [...]
Every week we choose a photo submitted to Andy Karr’s contemplative photography site seeingfresh.com that really exemplifies the practice. This week’s photo, by Seeing Fresh user Kevin, is a luscious combination of color and texture, a completely magical glimpse. It’s a perfect example of fresh seeing.
Every week we choose a photo submitted to Andy Karr’s contemplative photography site seeingfresh.com that really exemplifies the practice. You couldn’t think up the image in this photo, by Brian Schorn — that’s where the magic of perception comes in. It’s a great example of fresh seeing.
Zen teacher John Tarrant, along with Polly Young-Eisendrath and Anyen Rinpoche, will be leading”Getting Off the Emotional Rollercoaster,” this summer’s weekend program co-presented by the Shambhala Sun Foundation at Omega Institute. These are wonderful teachers and so we’re sharing pieces from each of them here on SunSpace. For example, here’s a helpful article by John [...]
Every week we choose a photo submitted to Andy Karr’s contemplative photography site seeingfresh.com that really exemplifies the practice. Color is the most basic element of visual perception. This week’s photo, by Seeing Fresh user Kevin, has color in spades. That the color is reflected in an otherwise dark, uneven surface gives it that much more allure. [...]
April 10, 2013 – 10:15 am
Every week we choose a photo submitted to Andy Karr’s contemplative photography site seeingfresh.com that really exemplifies the practice. This photo, by Seeing Fresh user Moki Rim, brings a complex perception together in one coherent image. It displays ordinary objects in the midst of visual space, brushed with dabs of sunlight. It’s a lovely example of fresh [...]
Every week we choose a photo submitted to Andy Karr’s contemplative photography site seeingfresh.com that really exemplifies the practice. This week’s photo, by J. W. Simonds, is as fresh as newly fallen snow. It’s also elegant and delightful. It’s a fine example of fresh seeing.
March 28, 2013 – 10:59 am
Made by Canadian filmmaker David Cherniack, the new documentary film Retreat follows thirty-five Westerners — some who are beginners at meditation — “as they attempt an intense, eight-week, silent retreat in Thailand with the American Buddhist teacher, B. Alan Wallace. The meditation practice they’re learning is shamatha, or calm abiding, stilling the mind with sustained, one-pointed, [...]
March 27, 2013 – 10:18 am
Contemplative photography is a method for working with the contemplative state of mind, seeing the world in fresh ways, and expressing this experience photographically. Each week we choose an image that’s been submitted to seeingfresh.com that really exemplifies this practice. This week’s photo, by a Seeing Fresh user named Kevin, is an amazing collection of organic forms, which are [...]
March 22, 2013 – 10:22 pm
Josh Korda — teacher at New York’s Dharma Punx since 2005 — knows he is not cured, and that he never will be. But through honesty and diligence he enjoys a daily reprieve from depression and addiction. Josh tells his story in “Every Day a Reprieve,” one of four “Tales of Trauma and Transformation” recounted [...]
March 20, 2013 – 10:24 am
Contemplative photography is a method for working with the contemplative state of mind, seeing the world in fresh ways, and expressing this experience photographically. Each week we choose an image that’s been submitted to seeingfresh.com that really exemplifies this practice. This week’s photo, from username Flounder, is an example of what happens when light meets moving water. It’s a [...]
