To be in the moment, with an open heart and mind, expressing and enjoying my self fully- this is my intention. This is my experience of Miksang.
By opening our mind’s eye, and aligning it with the heart, we truly see what is there and intimately show through our photos what is here, inside us. It is the exercises that prepare us and create the discipline from which the eye and heart can align leaving the mind still. The intention, a grounding force in the exercises, allows the seeing to come more freely from what is, rather than a projection of what we want or what should be.
Miksang Teacher Michael Wood
Photographed by Danielle Hougard, 2006
Being in the moment is not creating the moment but recognizing the completeness of the authentic self and enjoying meeting it anew with an element of surprise. The camera is the tool, that with a simple understanding of how to use it, can help express the art, the heart, the quality of the person in the moment. I am grateful to my teacher Michael Wood, for helping me to see myself and love all that I see.”
Danielle Hougard