I love the soft focus
In Vipassana Meditation, it is called the peripheral vision
or 360 degrees of sight
Its when you can softly focus on the breath
but still be open in awareness to all other phenomena
as they appear in the stream
of consciousness
gently
without attracting anything
without rejecting anything
without commenting anything
without attaching your I-dentity to any of it
In art, i love the soft focus of some Impressionist painters
the touch touch touch pointillism
expressing more the feeling and atmosphere
rather than the exact form of something
Or the unobtrusive and undramatic rivers of sounds and tones
that make up the ambient music
Even in cinema there are a few directors who know this art
to escape the dictates of a narrative story
they gently dance around instead
a central message
poetic pictures
dreamlike
Like Andrei Tarkovsky, like Terrence Malick
I know, it is not everybody’s cup of tea
it seems to play against our habitual tendency to control things
to do something with something
to act
we are not really used
to let go
to BE
But hey! No problem.
We can always learn : )
