BuddhaFest

Tara Brach: From BuddhaFest’s 9/11 Event

This past weekend, to mark ten years since 9/11, the organizers of the BuddhaFest film festival in Washington, DC put together an event featuring Sylvia Boorstein, Tara Brach, Lama Surya Das, Ruth King, Hugh Byrne, and…

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Sep 16, 2011

Sylvia Boorstein: BuddhaFest’s Weekend of Peace, Compassion, & Forgiveness

This past weekend, to mark ten years since 9/11, the organizers of the BuddhaFest film festival in Washington, DC (with whom Tricycle partnered not long ago) put together an event featuring Sylvia Boorstein, Tara Brach, Lama…

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Sep 14, 2011

BuddhaFest Teaching: Sharon Salzberg on Real Happiness (VIDEO)

This dharma talk by Sharon Salzberg is from the 2011 Tricycle | BuddhaFest Online Film Festival. Learn about this year’s festival, which starts on May 29, here. Sharon Salzberg has been an intensive meditator since 1971.…

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Jun 28, 2011

BuddhaFest: Filmmaker Christina Lundberg on For the Benefit of All Beings

For the Benefit of All Beings is the fifth film showing at the Tricycle BuddhaFest Online Film Festival, and is available for streaming. Below is a short Q&A with Christina Lundberg about the film. Join the…

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Jun 27, 2011

BuddhaFest Teaching: Enkyo Roshi on social engagement

There is a Zen koan that asks what does the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, the embodiment of compassion, do with all those hands and eyes? Since she began teaching 25 years ago, Enkyo Roshi has fostered the imperative…

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Jun 27, 2011

BuddhaFest: Filmmaker Johanna Demetrakas on Crazy Wisdom

In this (two-part) video Filmmaker Johanna Demetrakas talks about Crazy Wisdom, her documentary about the life and times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Crazy Wisdom will be showing at the Tricycle BuddhaFest Online Film Festival starting this…

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Jun 24, 2011

BuddhaFest Teaching: Lama Tsony on Crazy Wisdom

During the funeral for the 16th Karmapa, in Sikkim, India, Lama Tsony had a brief but significant encounter with Chögyam Trunga—a thunderbolt, as he describes it. Bolstered by the fearlessness of compassionate wisdom, Chögyam Trungpa moved…

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Jun 23, 2011

Magical Moments: BuddhaFest in DC

There was a magical moment at BuddhaFest in DC this past weekend. Actually there were plenty but one stands out in particular, for me personally. I was chatting with Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara before she was…

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Jun 22, 2011

BuddhaFest Teaching: Tara Brach on Love

Einstein writes that “the most important decision you will ever make is whether you live in a friendly universe or a hostile universe.” Is this true? What allows us to trust in the power and presence…

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Jun 22, 2011