Recently I attended a talk by Thich Nhat Hanh, and while looking for material to post here I came across his 10 Mindful Movements, which are very similar to the practices I have developed myself.
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 Earlier this month I showed a film made by Yann Arthus-Bertrand called HOME. Today I am showing an extract from a video made of some of his stills photography taken from the air in both hot-air balloons and helicopter. Read More: Earth from Above  Here is an animated video in the sumi-e style of painting. The film is inspired by Toaist thought and includes drawing of the Yin and Yang symbols as well as the I-ching. Read More: Animated Film: The Way  I doubt if there are many people around who haven’t seen the beautiful photographs of our universe taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope camera measures not only visible light, but also the infrared and ultraviolet spectrums.  A video of a talk given by Thich Nhat Hanh in Penang, which I attended together with around 2,500-3,000 other people! It starts with some chanting before the talk proper begins. Read More: Thich Nhat Hanh: This is A Happy Moment  In this wonderful video of Sumi-e ink and wash drawing of the Buddha we see both the tension and the flowing movement of the young artist Kazu Shimura as he manages to bring a Buddha to life on his canvas. Read More: Kazu Shimura: Buddha Meditation Ink Drawing  The video is made from three murals from the East Wall at Bayon at Angkor Thom. Scenes: the 1st mural shows the Khmer army marching from East to West; the 2nd from West to East; and the 3rd shows the Chams marching to meet them and engaging in battle. Read More: Mural Walls at Bayon 3: Soldiers and Elephants at War  The video is a scan of photographs of more than 2,500 out of the nearly 3,000 people who died on that fateful day in September 2001. Read More: Metta for the Victims of 9-11  Here Ajahn Suthep discusses how he has taken Luangpor Teean’s original technique and extended it to include many other things. Read More: Ajahn Suthep: The Development of Dynamic Meditation  Here is a short video I made last year of Ajahn Suthep demonstrating the practice of Dynamic Meditation. Read More: Ajahn Suthep: Demonstrating Advanced Dynamic Meditation  Here are four magical sand animation films by Ferenc Cakó set to Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, which is one of the most evocative pieces in the Western Classical repetoire. Read More: Ferenc Cakó: Sand Animation of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons  Ajahn Suthep explains how he was living in the jungles of Thailand in the 70s fighting with the communists. And how it was that he eventually became interested in Dhamma, met Luangpor Teean and ordained. Read More: Ajahn Suthep: From a Revolutionary to a Buddhist Monk In this video Ajahn gives an introduction to Basic Dynamic Meditation showing how to get started with the technique. Read More: Ajahn Suthep: Introduction to Basic Dynamic Meditation  Here are 10 minutes of magic on the Bansuri (Indian Bamboo Flute) from Prasad Bhandarkar, one of the leading disciples of Hari Prasad Chaurasia, accompanied by some friends on the Mood India series. Read More: Prasad Bhandarkar: Bansuri Raga Shivranjani  In the second of this series Ajahn talks more about his teacher, the great Thai master Luangpor Teean and the influence he has had on Ajahn’s life and work. Read More: Ajahn Suthep: On Luangpor Teean (2)  Recently Ajahn Suthep gave a retreat here at Vivekavana, and during that time we had a chance to record a series of videos in which he talks about the influences on his life and the development of his teaching. Read More: Ajahn Suthep: On Luangpor Teean (1)  This is a wonderful evocation of the spirit of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshwara! The performers are from the China Disabled Peoples Performance Art Troupe in Hubei, and all of the dancers are deaf and mute. Read More: Avalokiteshvara with a Thousand Arms Dance  In earlier posts I have shown some of the tools I am using to output panoramic photographs and make videos out of them. Here I will show a great software that can make “paintings” out of your photos. Read More: Photographic Paintings of Tonle Sap: FotoSketcher  I had used the Digital Clip Factory to scan from one end of a photograph to another in order to make viewing of the long murals as Bayon presentable. I also have another video made this time of the East Wall. Read More: Ta Phrom: Gods and Angels in Ruins: Digital Clip Factory  Doing long scans in this way is really an imaginative extension of what the software was meant for. A more usual way of employing it is to animate still photographs to make them more interesting. This is called the Ken Burns effect. Read More: Mural Walls at Bayon 2: Digital Clip Factory |
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