Tag: zen

• The slow deep pull of silence.

  

  Become a child again.

  Ian Miller

  March 12, 2026

  Journal

  blackAndWhite, meditation, monochrome, photography, zen

• Seeing the host.

  Getting something out of zen.

  Ian Miller

  February 26, 2026

  Only Words

  meditation, mindfulness, quotes, zen

• Sit bone.

  

  “A Momentary Creed” by W.S. Merwin I believe in the ordinary daythat is here at this moment and is me I do not see it going its own waybut I never saw how it came to me it extends beyond whatever I maythink I know and all that is real to me it is the…

  Ian Miller

  February 16, 2026

  Journal

  blackAndWhite, meditation, photography, zen

• Meditation: what goes on between your ears?

  

  What exactly goes on in your brain when you meditate?

  Ian Miller

  January 24, 2026

  Journal

  blackAndWhite, brain, consciousness, health, meditation, mental-health, mindfulness, neuroscience, photography, science, zen

• Space.

  

  form is no other than emptiness, emptiness no other than form;Form is precisely emptiness, emptiness precisely form;Sensation, perception, reaction and consciousness are also like this. — from The Heart Sutra

  Ian Miller

  January 11, 2026

  Journal

  blackAndWhite, photography, zen

• What does it really feel like to meditate like a Zen monk?

  

  This is my experience of Zen

  Ian Miller

  January 7, 2026

  Journal

  blackAndWhite, Buddhism, consciousness, meditation, mental-health, mindfulness, photography, zen

• The numinous gift of ordinary things.

  

  Meditation on a pot plant.

  Ian Miller

  January 6, 2026

  Journal

  blackAndWhite, meditation, mindfulness, photography, zen

• The absence of noise.

  Why stillness can save the world.

  Ian Miller

  January 6, 2026

  Found objects

  consciousness, meditation, mental_health, mindfulness, zen

• Stormbuds.

  

  After the simmering anger of my last post, it was nice to step out into the release of an afternoon storm and take this simple photo of a flower in my backyard. I stood with rain splattering on my scalp and water seeping into my crocs… and I didn’t care, and it was perfect. My…

  Ian Miller

  January 4, 2026

  Journal

  blackAndWhite, flowers, photography, zen