Miksang

Talia Casey
Julie Dubose, Miksang principal teacher and Co-Founder of the Miksang
Institute for Contemplative Photography, has devoted her life to the art of
Miksang Photography. Miksang is a word that mean good eye from Tibet.
Miksang is a form of contemplative photography that asks us to see our
world in a new way. It comes from the Dharma Art teachings of Chogyam
Trungpa. Julie Dubose has travelled throughout North America and Europe
teaching students since 2000. Miksang has become the focal point for what
has been called perception based photography which makes direct
perception and its expression the central object.
In 2009 Julie Dubose Co-Founded the Miksang Institute for
Contemplative Photography alongside of founder Michael Wood. This was just
a small step for Dubose in the Miksang world, in 2012 she wrote her first
book; Effortless beauty: Photography as an expression of eye, mind, and
heart. Through her book she wants to show photographers a new
perspective when taking photos, to show our experiences with our cameras.
This is our world. It has a heartbeat and our blood runs through it, like
a river of life and feeling, with qualities of hard, soft, wet, smooth, full,
empty, lonely, and joyful. We can express the experience of direct living with
our camera. The images will be real, the genuine article. They carry within
them our heart, our mindthe blood of our experience. - Julie DuBose, from
Effortless Beauty

Miksang
Talia Casey
Miksang gives us a new way of living, a new way to see the world we
live in not as moving but as a frozen memory. Miksang is a calming tea for
our soul, yoga for the mind, and meditation in a photo. Miksang is
everywhere if you just open your eyes and clear your mind.