PhotoTao Card #44 - Mysterious Virtue

Mysterious Virtue

The simple meditation of turning 

your attention inward is the key

to experiencing Tao.  Let it

become a daily practice. 

- Exercise -

Contemplative photography is a form

of meditation.  It encourages you to focus

your attention on the details of life and

then turn inward through you reflections.

Create a series of "Meditations" based on

a simple concept like wind, symmetry or

joy.  Let the images inspire a piece of

writing...a poem perhaps.

Monthly Meditation - January, 2014

   This year I decided to look through my images and create a monthly meditation calendar for 2014.  This is the image I chose for January.

   In December, I will upload all twelve images which you are welcome to download and print for yourself.

   I encourage you to create your own series next year.  I make a small desktop CD case calendar that I can keep next to where I write each morning.  Each month I will  have an image and an idea to think and write about in my journal.

   Spending a whole month on one idea may seem like a lot of time but if you pursue it as an evolving process, where you read what you wrote before and build on it, it is actually a very fluid and interesting exercise.  You may actually end up in a totally different place at month's end!