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gary
There are dozens of Buddhist films from Japan. Who can forget Rashomon (1950), in which a monk hears of one event told from different points of view. Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (1956) is... More »
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having explored movies AS buddhist let's now explore buddhist movies Is Gone with the Wind About Impermanence? There isn't an Oscar for Spiritual Cinema, at least not yet, but tens of millions of people enjoy... More »
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3 Quotes " ... the metaphor of movie for life is an interesting one. The frames go by so quickly that we retain the illusion of continuity and are distracted from the light that shines... More »
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... continuation / If we stop to think about this further, we see that when we're engrossed in a movie our ability to exchange our self with others* reveals the basic insubstantiality of self.... More »
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Here's another meditation. Watch actors in groups of two or more, when they're not saying or doing anything, and see if they're (compassionately) making the other actors look good, and providing skillful means to play... More »
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Cinema provides another metaphor: for reality's Eternal Now. I remember once sitting behind a five-year-old and an adult at a matinee, and every ten minutes or so the kid would ask the adult, "What's happening... More »
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in good-old serial fashion, here's the first part of my survey of the interface of cinema and the Way of the Buddha, reprinted [with permission of the author and the publisher] from The Complete Idiot's... More »
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am new at social networking (have never used face book my space etc) wonder if my post (herein) about spiritual cinema ought to be a pod, for greater discussion (no one's commented to the post);... More »
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like i say, i'm new at the online world of social networking. as you can see, my primary form of writing is ... books. (inksmeared deadtrees) SO ... ... i thought i'd start a blog... More »
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