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NY Premiere Event - Waking Buddha Live: Contemplative Immersive Cinema
Tibet House presents a screening and meditation with filmmaker/artist John Halpern.
When:
October 30, 2015 6:30pm to 8:45pm
Where
Waking Buddha Live is an interactive film experience combining audience participation and meditation with on-screen contemplative film content.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal, Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche, Tenzin Robert Thurman, Matthieu Ricard, Mark Epstein, Joe Loizzo, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Richard Gere, and others, speak about contemporary spiritual life, social engagement, altruism and global sustainability. The live audience meditations are directly related to the film's subject matter: our motivations for spiritual practice, such as pain and altruism; "obstacles" to practice, like conditioned mind and delusion; and benefits like, awareness, liberation, interconnectivity, love, joy and social engagement.
Immersive Cinema offers cinematic contact with evocative film media together with contemplative techniques to evoke and sustain prolonged states of meditative appreciation, awareness and non-conceptual experience.
SPECIAL THANKS
Joe Berlinger
Julia Miller and Jim Miller
Caryn Horowitz and Alexander Halpern
Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation
Buddhist Film Foundation
Bob Roth and David Lynch Foundation
Composer
Ysanne Spevack
Director
John Halpern
For more information, visit: www.wakingbuddha.com | www.mdsfilms.com
About the Presenter
JOHN DILEVA HALPERN is a documentary filmmaker and artist. His films Refuge and Talking With The Dalai Lama are about Buddhism and the West. Joseph Beuys / Transformer is a film portrait of German sculptor/co-founder of the European Green Party. John has also created interactive, award winning public art events, internationally. His new course, The Mindful Filmmaker recently ran at Pratt Institute, NYC. He has taught weekly meditation and retreats in the NY area since 2009. His film Waking Buddha, about meditation and sustainability is currently in development.
Cost:
Suggested donation: $18
Event Website URL:
Phone Number:
(212) 807-0563
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