Jesuit Superior General on understanding Buddhism and Islam – Video
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Jesuit Superior General on understanding Buddhism and Islam
Fr Adolfo Nicolas SJ, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, talks to Timorese scholastic Rui Muakandala SJ about how an understanding of Buddhism and...
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Mind Creates Everything: Won Buddhism Dharma Ta – Video
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Mind Creates Everything: Won Buddhism Dharma Ta
Mind Creates Everything: Won Buddhism Dharma Tal Mind Creates Everything: Won Buddhism Dharma Tal The Dharma-Door of Mindfulness of the Buddha Won Buddhism, ...
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Citta / Mind / Spirit in earliest Original Buddhism. Its important in doctrine. Very Important – Video
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There Was No Buddhism Before Buddha
There was no Buddhism before Buddha. He found Enlightenment by simply following his heart. That #39;s all you need to do.
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Celia Keenan-Bolger Grows Up: Playing a Mother to Sarah Ruhl’s Oldest Boy
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Celia Keenan-Bolger Grows Up: Playing a Mother to Sarah Ruhl's Oldest Boy
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Sarah Ruhl and Celia Keenan-Bolger, the playwright and star, respectively, of The Oldest Boy, chat with Playbill.com about meditation, motherhood and different ideas of love.
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Meditation is nothing new to Sarah Ruhl and Celia Keenan-Bolger, the playwright and star, respectively, of The Oldest Boy, Ruhl's new play in performance at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre.
"We meditated every day before rehearsal. We've sort of fallen off during tech," Keenan-Bolger said during a dinner break from tech rehearsals."I was thinking the other day, we should have really been meditating during tech," added Ruhl.
The drama opens with the Mother, played by Keenan-Bolger, meditating while using an iPhone app. But her inner peace is quickly disturbed when a monk and a lama appear at her door, claiming that her three-year-old son is the reincarnation of a revered Buddhist teacher. Per Tibetan Buddhism tradition, she is faced with the decision of whether to place him in a monastery in India.
The concept is something Keenan-Bolger's character, a Cincinnati-born woman who marries a Tibetan man, struggles greatly with.
"I think Buddhism has brought an enormous amount of peace to this character. It's explained some things and made decisions in her life easier," Keenan-Bolger said. "And then she gets to a point with the religion and turns around and is like, 'Now I'm going to ask the greatest thing of all from you,' which is the hardest thing she's ever had to go through. And I think that's a very real way to go through life. You can't just pick and choose the parts of something that are helpful to you. You generally have to take the whole package, and that often means it will be uncomfortable."
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Peaceful living
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Throughout the ages, certain cultures have bestowed a mystical sense of peace upon their homes through their spiritual connections with nature. When Columbus came to the New World in 1942, historians estimate that there were approximately 15 million native Americans in North America. Depending upon their tribal ways, their shelters were either temporary or permanent, and were made of earth, willow, reeds, bark, wood, stone, straw, animal hide, or other natural materials. Hive-like pueblos in the Southwest were built from clusters of adobe brick or stone; while portable tepees were made of bark or animal hides and designed to open up to the rising sun. Inside their homes were the necessities of life, such as food and cooking utensils, hunting tools, religious objects, back rests made of willow, warm buffalo robes, personal belongings, and little else. To the native Americans, home with its circle of fire traditionally has been a holy place. Mother Earth is a divine source of materials, tools, and beauty. The Great Spirit speaks through river and sea, forest and hill, buffalo and salmon, gentle winds and fierce thunderstorms, and, indeed, all creation.
While native Americans believe that all human life is intertwined with nature, the ancient Japanese people believed that natural objects such as rocks, trees, waterfalls, streams, and mountains were dwelling places of kami, or spirits. The spiritual paths of Shinto (the indigenous religion of Japan) and Zen Buddhism continue to inspire a strong affinity for the outdoors among the Japanese; in fact, the people perceive their homes and gardens as one harmonious entity without boundary. Japanese interior design respectfully celebrates the splendor of the four seasons through such items as delicate paintings, colorful screens and banners, and translucent sliding doors that open onto nature. Also, the home or garden tea house is the center for the tea ceremony, often described as the heart of Japans traditional culture. Introduced to Japan by Zen monks in the twelfth century, the tea ceremony is an intricately orchestrated ritual designed to spotlight beauty and hospitality and to inspire a serene state of mind. The ceremony invites appreciation for simple pleasures: enjoying artfully prepared tea and cakes, admiring perfectly arranged flowers, caressing cherished old pottery, sitting on tatami mats made of woven rice straw, and sharing quiet reflection among friends. While crowded conditions make compact apartments and homes the norm in modern Japan, the Japanese devotion to cleanliness, order, nature, and ancient traditions leads them to create intimate and calm living spaces. Today, we read much about the ancient Chinese art of feng shui in relation to the harmony of our homes, offices, and gardens. Feng shui, which means wind and water, offers us specific ways to select appropriate sites for building our dwellings and to arrange our interiors to create optimum environments for happiness, creativity, growth, health, and success. Feng shui suggests that everything in the universe is represented by five elements: Water, Fire, Earth, Wood, and Metal. The natural environments in which we live can be classified by their main element; for example, if you live in an English country cottage surrounded by a garden and trees, yours is a Wood environment. Our office and home interiors are also ruled according to their primary element; for example, an office featuring steel storage cabinets and a window that overlooks a river spanned by a metal bridge has a Metal landscape. While our interior environments are a mosaic of all five elements, if one element overpowers the others, there is imbalance. For example, an unruly garden that reminds us of the overgrown thicket around Sleeping Beautys castle has far too much Wood element, and needs to be pruned in order for us to feel in control. Another aspect of feng shui is the concept of chi: cosmic energy. Chi is all around us and, according to Taoism, the ancient religion of China, it is either yang (lively, positive,bright) or yin (calm, reflective, soothing dark). The complementary forces of yang and yin must be in balance for us to have a sense of serenity. If we spend the day at the beach, actively collecting seashells and building sand castles, we experience good yang energy. But if we are Christmas shopping in a crowded department store with few clerks and long lines of customers, we would likely be frustrated by excessive yang. When we take a bath by candlelight, we soak in a velvety atmosphere of soothing yin. Yet if we spend our weekdays deprived of natural light in a dismal office cubicle, we experience the dark side of yin. Inside our homes, if our rooms are overburdened with too much yin or yang, they make us feel uncomfortable. An abundance of yang contributes to crowded and littered spaces; while too much yin creates a negative, hostile, even deathly ambiance. We know there is imbalance if our rooms feel too cluttered or bright, or too gloomy or chilly. The key is to allow chi to flow through our rooms in one entrance and out another, like shafts of sunlight that stream through the living room window to the floor and down the hallway. Many things can influence the movement of this energy, including color, shape, texture, fragrances, sounds, icons, running water, and wind chimes. Removing obstacles that block the flow of chi (such as large or badly placed pieces of furniture) is said to bring harmony and balance to our rooms and our lives.
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The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra Goes Silent…for 4’33”
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Newport, KY (PRWEB) November 11, 2014
The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra has performed a mountain of repertoire in its 22 years, yet still hasnt played some of the best-known works in the orchestral repertoire. This seasons All-20th century theme has allowed music director James Cassidy to narrow the focus and add to the orchestras bucket-list of famous works. Keeping with the KSO's flair for truly unique concert experiences, the audience will see the orchestra up-close and personal as several on-stage cameras will offer audience members various shots of the musicians simulcast live on three video screens suspended in the back and above the stage. Cassidy has often described the traditional orchestral setting as a sea of penguins (referring to the conventional black and white concert attire). Allowing everyone to see performers close up offers a different perspective of the teamwork required of 70+ individuals to paint a sonic canvas that we call symphonic music, said Cassidy.
The evening opens with Jean Sibeliuss turn of the century Finlandia. The work written in 1899-1900 features rousing and turbulent music, evoking the national struggle of the Finnish people under Russian oppression. At the end Sibelius writes a calming hymn that was later adopted as the melody to the Christian hymn Be Still My Soul. The Finlandia hymn today remains a popular Finnish national song (much like our America the Beautiful). The general populace may recognize the piece from its prominent use in Bruce Williss 1990 Die Hard 2: Die Harder, or perhaps as the name of a premium vodka.
The 1952 work 433 by John Cage for any instrument or combination of instruments will receive the full orchestral treatment. The work in three movements offers exactly four minutes and 33 seconds of complete silence. The performers turn pages (quietly), but no notes or sounds are emitted. John Cage was an experimental composer and likely took a cue from Theatre of the Absurd (i.e. Beckett, Pinter)." said conductor James Cassidy. Cage studied Zen Buddhism in the late 1940s, and believed that any ambient sounds may constitute music. In a 1982 interview, and on numerous occasions, Cage stated that 433 was, in his opinion, his most important work.
Ithink, for the orchestra, avoiding eye contact with each other and the conductor will be essential to rendering a convincing performance of the work, said Cassidy. It will be a different experience for all.
In 1920 Maurice Ravel conceived La Valse as a choreographed poem and tribute to the waltz form and its champion Johann Strauss II. Originally titled Vienna the work, in one-movement for large orchestra, is often described as a metaphor for the predicament of European civilization following World War I.
Following intermission the KSO crosses Igor Stravinskys 1947 edition of the puppet ballet Petroushka off the Symphonys bucket-list, completing KSO performances of all three of the composers large ballet scores The Firebird (performed in 1999) and The Rite of Spring (1997). Given the variety and one-of-a-kind presentations that have distinguished KSO programming for 22 years, the opportunity to simply perform some of the greatest works in the orchestral repertoire makes a rare and exciting event.
Put on your discerning eyes and ears and enjoy an evening of 20th century classics and KSO premieres 8:00 p.m., Saturday, November 22 at Florence Baptist Church at Mt. Zion. Tickets are $19, $27, $35 (children 6-18 receive 50% off) and are available online, by phone or at the door. http://www.kyso.org / (859) 431-6216.
About the KSO: The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra takes the phony out of symphony through thematic concerts that culturally enrich, educate and entertain the residents of Northern Kentucky and Greater Cincinnati. The KSO performs throughout Northern Kentucky performing three series of concerts, for the schools, in the parks and at various indoor venues.
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ZEN BODI exclusive to Jeunesse – Video
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Zen Gardens – Video
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Zen Gardens
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Zen – Golden You {Original song} – Video
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Zen - Golden You {Original song}
my first song i #39;ve wrote but i relase it now.
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