Experiences with Mahamudra: Notes from a Personal Journey by Michael Erlewine (photos and text)

By Michael Erlewine (photos and text)

The Lama of Appearances offers an creation to a tremendous Tibetan educating that's little recognized right here within the West, and that's that nature herself, the area of appearances, is an ideal mirrored image of the brain, and will be a relied on advisor to studying and working towards dharma, specifically the place there isn't any dharma instructor on hand. This full-color publication includes a hundred thirty hi-res close-up images of nature in addition to 3 dharma-related articles. the 1st, pointed out above, is an advent to utilizing the flora and fauna for education within the dharma. the second one article is the private heritage of ways the writer went via initial and complex practices in Tibetan Buddhism and accomplished a few initial popularity of the genuine nature of the brain. this can be a own tale of studying meditation and different Tibetan practices, with all in their joys and trials. specifically, this tale is ready the author's adventures studying Mahamudra meditation, and the way to perform it. And final, "The Seven issues of brain Training," one of many key texts in Tibetan Buddhism, is gifted, with all fifty-nine of its slogans, observed by means of full-page colour pictures.

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These extraordinary lenses pushed the idea of sharpness beyond simple resolution and into aspects of highly defined color. By this time I was working with the most advanced DSLR camera bodies on the market like the Nikon D3x and D3s, both full-frame cameras that employed sensors the size of traditional 35mm film. I had by that time some forty different lenses, most of them designed for macro or close-up work. And I found when I pushed these lenses to their limits looking for sharper resolution that sharpness itself began to relate more to color.

And in what was perhaps also a symbolic gesture, I got out of my office. For years, I had been afraid to leave my office lest I miss an important phone call or whatever next thing I was waiting for. As mentioned, my wife had tried just about everything to get me out of my stick-in-the-mud office, but to no avail. But now I just 60 walked out into the fields. It was dramatic. Each morning would find me out in the meadows and woods at sunrise, lugging my camera equipment around. There in the mist and dew-covered fields I would be photographing all that was beautiful or, many times, just sitting there in the grass as the first sun rays peeked over the trees, and simply doing nothing.

I hardly looked at them. Instead, it was the process that had me spellbound, the clear looking at the subjects and the seeing. It was the seeing! And it was the resting. Ostensibly I was looking through finer and finer lenses at nature. In reality, I was learning to look at my own mind through the process of photography, and I had managed to confuse the two. Yeah, “Zen and the Art of Photography” is a book I could probably write now. I was learning to rest my mind in the moment and allow whatever natural beauty there was to present itself to me, to show itself, to appear.

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