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Zen is an East Asian form of Buddhism that emphasizes meditation, introspection, and intuition as means of achieving a state of spiritual enlightenment, a sense of self-control that leads to selflessness and identification with the spiritual world. Zen also offers a simpler yet more profound way of life and a unique way of seeing. Photography utilizes Zen ideals regarding this different view of seeing, such as clarity, reality, and the magic in common, everyday situations. ... Zen insights seem to help photographers capture and interpret different, new directions of viewing ordinary surroundings. ...
Being awake and truly seeing are tenets of Zen teaching, focusing only on the present, relegating everything else to memory or expectation. ... The clarity searched for in photography is akin to the Zen concept of right mindfulness, or waking up to the present, also part of the eightfold path. ...
The eventual goal of Zen practice is to reach nirvana, at which point we can truly be awake to reality, not as we would like it to be, but as it is in the moment.
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