Dharma is all about expounding the dark and samsaric natures of our true mind, staying present in this very moment to just be with whatever may arise - no matter what it is or where it takes us. Meditation is the key that allows us to tap into this nature of mind, this present moment, to look deep within.
This is after all - all there is, for after this first leap it is up to us to continue the journey, to be willing to risk it all, to fail miserably and lightly brush it off and return to the breath for another try. Photography is much like meditation practice; we must always stay present, to try to be aware not only of what is around us, but what may appear through the din of obstructions if we wait long enough. To risk it all by letting ourselves be completely open to what is really there. We must meditate with an open heart, we must see the world with fully open eyes. We are looking deeply at the world around us. We are shining a light of awareness into the shadows of doubt. We are looking into the crevices and canyons of thought, armed only with the hope that we may be brave enough to see what we find there. What we are searching for may never appear, and we must train to be content with that as well. In a complex and crowded frame there can be a single point of beauty that overshadows the rest, and the exact moment we stop looking - it is then that it appears. The desire to sharpen our minds makes them dull, let your mind, let the world, just simply be. The first thing we discover in emptiness is that it is brimming with a surplus of things. All we have to do is let this pass, and for a brief and inconceivably rare moment we may gaze directly into that emptiness, and then be genuinely content when it vanishes again as quickly as it arrived.
