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BuddhaFest 2010
This weekend Buddhists and film lovers will converge in Washington D.C. for BuddhaFest, a four-day festival of Buddhist films, teachings, and entertainment sponsored by the Kay Spiritual Life Center at American University and the Insight Meditation Community of Washington.. Last night BuddhaFest kicked off with director Dorris Dorries' movie Cherry Blossoms—nominated for fourteen international film awards—and today the festival presents a screening of Fire Under Snow followed by a program by Lama Surya Das and Tara Brach. More » -
Open Focus with Philippe Petite, Man on Wire
On Monday night, a few of us from Tricycle headed over to the Rubin Museum to attend an interview with high wire walker Philippe Petit, conducted by photographer Tom Wool. Wool's photographs of Tibet's Rongbuk Valley are being shown at the Rubin in an exhibit entitled "In the Shadow of Everest." The photos are breathtaking portraits of a remote part of the world---portraits of young school boys, Buddhist nuns and monks meditating, and the contents of his guide's pocket which included a half-dozen photos of the Dalai Lama, an image forbidden in the area. With Wool's striking photographs of the Rongbuk Valley projected behind them, the two artists entered into an inspiring conversation about their lives and work. More » -
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Joan Oliver interviews Christopher Queen on the Symposium for Socially Engaged Buddhism
From August 9th to 14th, 2010, the Zen Peacemakers will be hosting “The First Symposium for Western Socially Engaged Buddhism”, in Montague, MA. More » -
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Watch: Om in! BuddhaFest Om Flashmob
From the BuddhaFest DC youtube channel, What if we could make a difference by doing something simple? A bunch of us walked into a bookstore in downtown Washington, DC, sat down and started chanting OM. Here's what happened. More » -
World Cup 2010
Back in 2007, three years before professional soccer teams were set to descend on South Africa's cities, 2010 World Cup fever was already taking hold. In Cape Town, where I was living at the time, billboards, posters, and television ads encouraged South Africans to keep the cities clean and safe in preparation for their 2010 visitors and hotels and restaurants had begun remodeling in anticipation of the hordes of fans. It will be the first World Cup to be held on the African continent, and South Africa—whose political, social, and financial troubles are well documented—has a lot riding on the month-long event. Now, two days before the ref's whistle signals the start of the first game between South Africa and Mexico, World Cup madness has reached a hysterical pitch—both within the host country and in the far-flung corners of the globe. More » -
A flying kick at enlightenment
Whenever we post about martial-arts movies (or when Phil posts about Kill Bill) we get a few kneejerk criticisms for being sympathetic to—or at least tolerant of—representations of violence on the screen. There's a pretty basic formula for these films—flying kicks and extraordinary violence cut with shots of meditative practice or scenic recapitulations of spiritual lessons from the protagonist's early years with the master (remember Kung Fu?). Video games, too: I posted about the Karmapa's use of violent video games as "emotional therapy" and plenty found that practice pretty distasteful. More »
