Generally speaking, there are two aspects to our experience: perceptions and projections. Normally, these are blended together to make up "our world". Because we mix perceptions and projections, we have trouble seeing either clearly. Our world is not the actual world, but a confused realm filled with hope and fear. Because of this confusion we suffer.

This might sound theoretical, but the practice of Miksang brings it to earth. Miksang is all about clear seeing. Using photography as the technique, we tune into the details of how we see. We learn to recognize the brilliance of direct perception. We learn to see how concepts obscure rather than clarify, and how projections overlay experience.

I have found this training to be wonderfully illuminating-both pointing out the richness of perception and the pervasiveness of projection. It is a great training to help see things as they are.

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Andy's first book, Contemplating Reality:
A Practitioner's Guide to the View in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, was published by Shambhala Publications in April, 2007.

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