you will what you imagine
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw
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Mind like water: Practice the art of Meditation
Mind like water is a visual metaphor for a state of being. A nugget I hope you gain from watching this video is quoted “choice is a function of awareness, awareness comes as a function of meditation.”
So if no-one has ever taught you the goal of meditation let me help you “observe things from a place of non-reaction, which does not mean detachment, but means not attached to an outcome.” And this is my personal favorite photographic mode, allowing my own choices to be fully aware and scooping creative power from the natural surroundings….I hope you begin a practice of meditation into your life to help you create with a watchful eye and this article blesses you with the inertia to start that practice.
YouTube - Michael Beckwith - The power of Meditation
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Mind like water: Tao 33
TAO - 33
Knowing others is intelligent.
Knowing yourself is enlightened.
Conquering others takes force.
Conquering yourself is true strength.
Knowing what is enough is wealth.
Forging ahead shows inner resolve.
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Mind like water: Tao 46
Tao 46
There is no greater calamity
Than not knowing what is enough.
There is no greater fault
Than desire for success.
Therefore,
Knowing that enough is enough
is always
Enough.
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Mind like water: Tao 12
Tao 12
The five colors blind the eye.
The five tones deafen the ear.
The five flavors dull the taste.
Racing and hunting maddens the mind.
Precious things lead one astray.
Therefore the sage is guided by what he feels and not by what he sees.
He lets go of that and chooses this.
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Mind Like Water - seeing games
I don’t really need to tell you that I don’t watch TV do I?
How about I challenge you to improve your seeing by escaping from the bombardment of your senses in front of the TV?
You see TV makes you a captive audience to 30 second intelligence aimed at motivating you to buy something or continue to be glued to the nonsense. Kill your TV and watch movies if you must, but kill your TV and play a seeing game!
Othello is a great option. In it, you must capture pieces by surrounding them with your color of chip. This game can challenge your mind to make strategy and predictive decisions, help you to see in B+W, and improve your pattern recognition skills. The game is pretty exciting and can go from win to loose in several moves. And as a strategy hint, win the corners!
Chinese checkers is probably my favorite board game. Maybe cause I hardly loose. Chinese checkers is unique in that it’s a positivist strategy game - no pieces die or are captured - it’s only who can get to the other side first. Chinese checkers will demand that you analyze a complex and changing system to make the most positive move within the current design. The game reflects the efficiency of nature and will help you see connections and act on them, this will transfer to your photographic and artistic endeavors.
I believe each of these games will improve your visual awareness, calm your mind, and give you some fun with your loved ones.
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Mind Like Water - Bruce Lee
“One does not accumulate but eliminate.
It is not daily increase but daily decrease.
The height of cultivation
always runs to simplicity.”
- Bruce Lee
Train your body, and your mind will follow.
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Mind like Water - Tao 8
Tao 8
The highest good is like water.
Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive.
It flows in places men reject and so is like the Tao.
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More music triggers
Here’s a lovely snippit from Pete Tong’s BBC Radio 1 show - the track is Mark Brown’s ‘For The Journey’ which I wish I could not find an MP3 download of, I can only find it on Vinyl! I heard it on the drive back from NYC’s Photo+ on Julie’s Sirius satelite radio.
Have you decided on the artist for your trigger? I’m also considering some tracks from LAGQ - The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet - on their Labryth album they cover everything from Led Zeppelin to Appalachian folk
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Music builds the trigger
What kind of music puts you in THE ZONE?
I find that the best type of music to edit photos to is something that has a strong rhythm, here’s one from KCRW’s Today’s Top Tune podcast. It seems that tunes where the melody carry both the rhythm and the tune strike a particular chord with my brain.
I haven’t yet chosen a song for my ZONE trigger, but I have a couple records that I’d pull from. The composer Yann Tiersen who’s music was featured in the film Amelie.
What are some great tunes you like for computer work or getting psyched?
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