《清淨心》｜Pure Mind
溪流蝦虎魚，使用vivo手機和Divevolk防水殼
深山裡有一個水潭，我已經很久沒去了。這次重新上山，是因為一個緣分的延續。
在 UPY 頒獎典禮上，我拿出手機給 DiveVolk CEO Luise 看我拍的溪蟹作品——我跟他說，溪流攝影其實非常適合用手機。他看了很有興趣。回台灣沒多久，一個包裹寄來了：防水殼、dome port，還有藍牙快門。
藍牙快門，我必須特別說——非常非常推薦，可說是不可或缺。拍水下微距，手不抖、不碰觸機身，那個穩定感完全不同。裝備到位，我立刻安排上山測試。
潭裡的 goby 和螃蟹，完全視我為無物。不是漠然，是真的不怕。牠們甚至湊過來，對著手機東張西望，好像在想——這個黑色方塊是什麼東西？
我在海底見過太多生物對人的反應：不逃，但迴避。眼神裡有一種學來的謹慎。那是被干擾久了之後，野生動物對人類建立起的預設立場。但這裡不一樣。這裡的牠們，還沒有學會懷疑。
佛法裡說「清淨心」，不是指什麼都不在意，而是——不預設立場。牠們不認為我會傷害牠們，我也確實沒有去碰牠們。就這樣，一種信任就發生了，沒有言語，沒有契約。鏡頭靠太近，反而對不了焦，哈哈——但那個靠近本身，已經是禮物了。
白天來，只是測試器材、重新熟悉這片水。我還要夜裡再來一次。因為我記得，入夜之後，goby 背上的旗子才會升起，在手電筒的光裡，那會非常非常美麗。那面旗子，或許就是清淨心開花的樣子。
📷 George Kao × DiveVolk
🐟 Freshwater Goby｜溪流微距｜手機水下攝影
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Pure Mind
When you come without harm, the world opens itself to you.
Deep in the mountains, there is a pool I hadn't visited in a long time. This return was the continuation of a chance encounter.
At the UPY Awards Ceremony, I pulled out my phone and showed DiveVolk CEO Luise my freshwater crab shots. I told him that stream photography is actually a perfect match for mobile. He was genuinely intrigued. Not long after I returned to Taiwan, a package arrived: an underwater housing, a dome port, and a Bluetooth shutter remote.
The Bluetooth shutter is highly recommended—truly indispensable. When shooting underwater macro, not touching the phone body makes a huge difference in stability. Once the gear arrived, I headed straight up the mountain to test it.
The gobies and crabs in that pool treated me like I wasn't even there. Not indifference—genuine fearlessness. They even drifted toward me, peering curiously at my phone, as if wondering what this strange black rectangle might be.
I've seen how marine animals respond to divers in so many places: they don't flee, but they avoid. There is a learned wariness in their eyes—a default suspicion built up over years of human disturbance. But here, it was different. These creatures hadn't yet learned to doubt.
In Buddhist teaching, pure mind does not mean detachment from everything. It means coming without preconception. They didn't assume I was there to harm them, and I truly didn't touch them. Just like that, trust happened—no words, no agreement, no negotiation. I got too close and couldn't focus anymore—ha—but that closeness itself was already the gift.
Today was just a test run: calibrating the gear, reacquainting myself with the water. I'll be back at night. Because I remember that after dark, the goby raises the flag on its back. Under torchlight, it will be breathtakingly beautiful. That little flag, perhaps, is what pure mind looks like when it finally blooms.
📷 George Kao × DiveVolk
🐟 Freshwater Goby｜Stream Macro｜Mobile Underwater Photography
