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Dharmabyte: Prajna as Aesthetic Appreciation

By Rijupatha on Mon, 20 Oct, 2014 - 18:40
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In today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “Prajna as Aesthetic Appreciation,” Padmavajra offers a little insight into seeing not-self. From the fourth talk in his wonderful series on the Dhammapada, the most popular of early Buddhist texts.
'In the Seen Only the Seen'
'In the Seen Only the Seen'

In the Seen Only the Seen - Photographs by Vidyasiddhi

By Windhorse Evolution on Thu, 15 Nov, 2012 - 11:35

In the Seen Only the Seen - Photographs by Vidyasiddhi

By Windhorse Evolution on Thu, 15 Nov, 2012 - 11:35
I make photographs because my eye observes a pattern of shape, colour, light and form, an abstract arrangement, a design. I involve my calculating mind as little as possible. If I can see the world as it is, I may move beyond views of it and find its emptiness. When I am shooting I try to let go of intellectual searching and questioning, and allow the image to come to me, looking with the interest and openness...

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