I went out with the intention of shooting space - and photographed a lot of stuff that wasn't. I paused to synchronize, focusing on the breath, the air as it moved around me, the temperature, my posture. After I calmed down and went looking, I found all kinds of interesting things, but little that might be space, Perhaps I was too concerned with shooting physical space - openings between things. I think this is what happened in Japan the last time I did this exercise. I came away with some interesting images, but not perhaps what Miksang instruction intends.
The image above, for example, appears to depict physical space. Given the framing, the eye and mind seem to hover in the middle ground between the buildings and above the ground. But given many of the other images of space I have encountered at other Miksang websites, this doesn't seem to fit the bill. What does is something more like this:
This image would be classified, I believe, as dot-in-space. Eye and mind are clearly engaged with the dress. What might have made this a space image is its absence.
But how about something like this? It seems more to be an example of pattern, but from what I've seen of Miksang examples, it seems to fit their profile of space.
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