Miksang Contemplative Photography
Image Gallery - September 2026
How often do we really experience what’s happening? This question shapes how I live my life. How I see the world, and engage in it directly, beyond hope or fear – whether at work, at home, or the spaces in between.
Sample Gallery
Below is a sample gallery of some perceptions and moments that stopped my eye, heart, and mind over the past few months in Malta.
If you want learn more about Miksang Contemplative Photography and my experience of incorporating it into my life, please see several opportunities below.
If you have any questions, please reach out. I’d love to explore those together.
UPCOMING COURSES
True to Life: Seeing Beyond Thought
A Seven-Week Online Introductory Workshop (Nov. - Dec. 2026)
Can you recognize the truth of your own experience of seeing, free of concepts and preferences?
Miksang photography rests on authentic visual experience, expressed exactly as it is seen — "True to Life.”
When we learn to recognize perception beyond thought as it happens, we begin to develop confidence in the fact that unconditional perception exists, and that it arises from neither self nor other.
Seen this way, Seeing Beyond Thought is not a struggle. It becomes self-evident that we can become fully available to see, and to express our perceptions with a mind of effortless equanimity.
As part of this seven-week online workshop on Sundays, you will learn a series of visual practices developed by Michael Wood called "Settling into Awareness." As we say in Miksang, "Seeing is a State of Mind." These practices are the way into direct seeing, and have proven to be remarkably effective for developing visual awareness.
Class meetings are 2 hours on Sundays for 7 weeks (November — December 2026).
Participants: This course is limited to 8 students
Schedule: Nov 1; Nov. 8, Nov. 15, Nov. 22, Nov, 29, Dec 6; Dec 13, 2026 (classes start 12pm — 2 pm ET)
Cost: $500 USD for the entire workshop (VAT included); Please note: Refunds are not available unless the workshop is cancelled.
Publications
Georgetown: An Exploration of Our Everyday Visual World - Brian Sano
“There’s nothing to see there.” That’s what I used to think of the Georgetown area in Washington, DC. Over time, his perspective changed. My Miksang Contemplative Photography practice helped me see this neighborhood – and life – in a more curious and intimate way, with fresh eyes and an open mind.
Over four years, starting during the COVID-19 pandemic, with my camera, mask, and the mindset I learned from Miksang, I walked around Georgetown, practicing almost every weekend, resulting in hundreds of photos. This book captures my experience.
Reflecting on what I learned, I observed, “Visual perceptions, like those I’ve shared here, can happen anywhere – they are always appearing – always available. In our own neighborhood, our office, our car, our home, our bathroom, or even our kitchen sink.”
108 pages, PDF