“Perception can be categorized into three levels: experience, emptiness and luminosity. At the first level, experience, perception…is the experience of things as they are…The second level is the perception of emptiness…things provide their own space within overcrowdedness…The third level is luminosity…in terms of ordinary experience we have a sense of clarity and sharp boundary and a sense of things as they are, unmistakenly”

Chogyam Trungpa, True Perception

  The Nalanda Miksang contemplative photography pedagogy and path of training is based, in part, on these Three Levels of Perception as taught  by Chögyam Trungpa in his Dharma Art  presentations.  Each level of training involves various explorations of perception, photographic assignments, and the presentation of corresponding images. 

  The first level works with visual forms such as color, light and texture. The second level works with subject matter from the phenomenal world. The third level works with ‘non-reference point’  and the spontaneous manifestation of the visual world as orderly chaos. 

This one day workshop will work through all three levels in a simple, direct way. The workshop includes teachings, assignments and assignment review. No photographic experience  is necessary but you will need a digital camera. (a smart phone camera would  be fine!)

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