Toronto photographer Maxine Sidran - a teacher in the Miksang Society of Contemplative Photography - is featured in a recent Shambhala Times interview, I am Miksang.

Maxine recounts how she first learned about Miksang:

I first saw the word Miksang on a calendar at the Toronto Shambhala Center. My response was to the word that followed it: photography. I have practiced photography my entire adult life, and the fact that it had showed up at a meditation center was exciting.

Miksang is a Tibetan word that translates as “good eye.” The Miksang Society of Contemplative Photography offers a number of programs in Toronto. As a contemplative school of photography, it joins photography together with the discipline of meditation and the Dharma Art teachings of the meditation master and scholar Chögyam Trungpa.

This spring, the Miksang Society is offering two courses at the Toronto Shambhala Centre: Looking and Seeing: An Introduction to Contemplative Photography on Saturday May 9 and Ordinary Magic and the Way of Seeing on Saturday and Sunday June 13 and 14.

Be sure to check out Maxine’s Flickr website.

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