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Dharma Talk for April: Pema Chodron DVD Night
American Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön is widely known for her charming and down-to-earth interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism for Western audiences.
As a beloved Buddhist teacher, author, nun and mother, she has inspired millions of people from around the world who have been touched by her example and message of practicing peace in these turbulent times.
Shambhala is fortunate to be able to screen rarely seen DVDs since one of its members is a close friend of hers.
Pema Chödrön has written several books including The Wisdom of No Escape, Start Where You Are, When Things Fall Apart, The Places that Scare You, No Time to Lose, and Practicing Peace in Times of War.
(Sounds True) Pema Chödrön reveals her journey to the time-tested antidote to suffering.
All are encouraged to attend, regardless of meditation experience or if new to meditation. These evenings feature a short period of meditation with instruction, often from Pema within the context of her talk, discussion, and light refreshments.More
WESTSIDE SHAMBHALA, April 10
3877 Grand View Bl., Mar Vista, 90066
$10-$15 donation gratefully accepted
No reservations/no one turned away for lack of funds
This is Irish comedian Aidan Killian's full DVD "Jesus versus Buddha" (aidankillian.com) All he wanted to create was a powerful, hilarious, yet conscious comedy show. But this is what happened. #AidanKillian:
Blockers (Rotten Tomatoes) comes out today, a controversial film about female sexual agency. These crazy girls are trying to get laid...but not if their parents can stop them. Enter, male chicken blockers, the hair pulling parents to these rambunctious youngsters. It's not easy raising kids, and it's not easy dealing with parents. We were all kids, many of us will be parents, so whose side will we take? Let's watch. Will it be a summer blockbuster in the spring or a premature spring break classic coming too soon to get enough adolescents [donkeys] in cinema seats?
Losing my virginity:Blockers teen sex romp movie clips (2018)
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Teen sex sells tix.
(Universal Pictures) Blockers arrives in theaters on Friday, April 6, 2018. Website: blockersmovie.com. When three parents stumble upon their daughters’ pact to lose their virginity at prom, they launch a covert one-night operation to stop the teens from sealing the deal.
I directed this $exploitation.
Ike Barinholtz (Neighbors, Suicide Squad), John Cena (Trainwreck, Sisters), and Leslie Mann (The Other Woman, This Is 40) star in Blockers, the directorial debut of Kay Cannon (writer of the Pitch Perfect series).
This is a comedy about sexual misconduct, so calm down. It's not like it's killing...unless someone gets pregnant and ends up committing abortion, which is murder (thought the Morning After pill may or may not be, depending on how it really works. Look into that detail, which is not on the label, before use or risk becoming a manslaughterer, which is terrible karma). Blockers (IMDb)
REVIEW: FilmWeek (4/6/18): A Quiet Place, Blockers, Chappaquiddick, 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's [I helped fake the U.S. moon landing] 2001: A Space Odyssey
Produced by [men like] Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and James Weaver, under their Point Grey Pictures banner (Neighbors, This Is the End), alongside Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg (Harold & Kumar series) and DMG Entertainment’s Chris Fenton (47 Ronin). Good Universe’s Nathan Kahane and Joseph Drake (Don’t Breathe, Juno) executive produce with Chris Cowles (Collide)
of DMG and Josh Fagen, Dave Stassen, and Jonathan McCoy. The film is
written by brothers Brian and Jim Kehoe, Hurwitz and Schlossberg, and
Eben Russell. Sex? Maybe. Contraception? YES!
When my parents said, "We want to talk to you about sex," I answered, "Sure, what do you guys want to know?" thinking they had to know that I knew more about the subject than they probably did. They were mad and shamed me. We never talked about it again. :/
Parent-child communication(Advocates for Youth) In a recent study, teens who benefited from perceived from parental guidance and who
reportedly had a “good talk” with parents in the last year about sex,
birth control, and the dangers of STDs were two times more likely to use
condoms at the last time they had sex than teens who did not talk to
their parents as often.
The Shambhala catalogue is available online. Browse through a virtual version of it here. Shambhala Publications offers books and material on Buddhism and:
(KD) Narrated by Harrison Ford, featuring Indian and Tibetan musicfor a "trippy" feel in honor of the Vajrayana leader's home-in-exile, Dharamsala, India
Our transformation is NOW, says the sequel's producer-director Khashyar Darvich. Come to a sneak preview, a special screening (prior to the official March 2, 2014 premiere of "Dalai Lama Awakening"). Fans of transformation will gather at Yoga Soup on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014 at 6:30-9:30 pm ($15) for an in person Q&A with Darvich following the screening.
This self-reputed "transformational" documentary has the 14th Dalai Lama sounding more like the character George Lucas ("Star Wars") created in his honor, Yoda, than he has ever sounded. (Or was it actually Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche? That unmistakable voice, wisdom, syntax... no, Yoda's modelled on this Dalai Lama for sure).
In the guise of wise
Yoga Soup will be screening Awakening, Volume 2 of the award-winning "Dalai Lama Renaissance" (available on DVD).
Harrison Ford narrates, and the film also features quantum physicists Fred Alan Wolf and Amit Goswami, radio host Thom Hartmann, revolutionary social scientist Jean Houston, Rev. Michael Beckwith ("The Secret"), and others.
NEURONS TO NIRVANA: UNDERSTANDING PSYCHEDELIC MEDICINES looks at ancient medicinals, new molecules, interviews with researchers in neurochemistry, neurotheology, shamanism, and psychotherapy. Ayahuasca (daime, natema), LSD (acid), cannabis (marijuana), psilocybin (magic mushrooms), MDMA (ecstasy) are all potent tools for getting to know who we are, who we can be, and for healing the trauma of a society that is addicted to greed and consumerism. This DVD is being offered for a $120 support pledge to Pacifica Radio, the last free speech station (network) on the dial.
This is a look at "ancient medicines" from researchers at
universities such as John Hopkins, UCLA, and NYU. In this new age such a film can be powered by the people. See how astounding plants, alkaloids, and
molecules can transform us and help liberate us from ignorance and repression. As a collective civilization and as
individual persons, we can no longer afford to lose the lessons plant spirits (bhumi-devas) can reveal. "Neurons 2 Nirvana" dares to break the taboo surrounding ENTHEOGENS, psychedelics, and plant examining and revealing their potential to
alleviate suffering and heal on a global scale.
The Sanskrit term nirvana is used here in its non-technical sense of "the best thing," ultimate bliss or unending happiness.
In fact, actual nirvana ("the end of all rebirth and suffering") cannot be brought about by any chemical (even exogenous DMT, the Spirit Molecule) but only by liberating-insight. Its realization comes about from the wisdom-and-compassion of a penetrating vision of things as they truly are: radically impermanent, impersonal, and unsatisfactory.
This quickening is brought about -- not by chance, random epiphany, or drug experiences -- but through systematic meditative contemplation of the 12 links of Dependent Origination to bring about insight assisted by the deep serenity and purification that follow the meditative absorptions (zens, samadhis, dhyanas, orjhanas).
Nirvana is much more than a blissful "trip." It is the joyful solution to all problems. Neurons, of course, are the physical base of our conscious experience, brain cells found throughout the gut, heart, and the mass of grey batter matter between the ears.
This five-CD pack contains five historical truths:
THE TRUE HISTORY OF MARIJUANA
THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY [9/11]
CANCER: THE FORBIDDEN CURES
UFOs AND THE MILITARY ELITE
THE SECOND DALLAS: WHO KILLED RFK?
(“From Pearl Harbor to 9/11: History Repeats Itself”)
Not only will these revelations reshape one's understanding of the world, copies of these DVDs can be copied and freely distributed to all -- with the full permission and blessing of the Italian director. Let the truth ring out and be heard far and wide!
Sometimes the truth is as close to us as the ground we are standing on. We fail to see it. Then it hits us in the face and it becomes hard not to see.
He is one of the foremost “truthers,” and the website currently covers the most important issues at
stake in the new millennium: from Big Pharma abuses to our declining world economy, from criminal spraying (“chemtrails”) to alternative energies.
After a career
as a
successful fashion photographer,
Mazzucco
wrote and directed several
feature films in the United States and Europe. But after
9/11 he chose to turn all of his efforts to producing digital format documentaries, releasing them on DVD and online.
Mazzucco’s “Global
Deceit” (Inganno Globale,2005) documentary exposes major flaws in
the official 9/11 story. It was broadcast on Italian TV (on Berlusconi’s
Canale 5) in 2006, launching a
full-fledged national debate, which makes Italy the only country
to date to have tackled the 9/11 controversy in the mainstream media.
Sometimes the truth hurts but it is always better to know than to remain ignorant
Mazzucco has also
participated in
several television debates, presenting his largely Italian audience with the
most up-to-date findings of the 9/11 Truth Movement.
His second documentary, “The New American Century”
(2007),
covers the political and historical aspects of an alleged
“inside job,” in particular the history of the American Neo Cons. (Hear
excerpts from a Pacifica Radio, KPFK Los
Angeles, interview recorded 9/23/09):
It was presented at the 2008 Sao Paulo Film Festival in Brazil and other
European film festivals. Supported by world famous filmmakers such as
Costa-Gavras, Wim Wenders, and Ken Loach, it premiered
in the US at the 2009 Oakland 9/11 Film Festival.
Mazzucco also produced a
documentary on the Robert F. Kennedy assassination (“The Second Dallas”),
which was broadcast on Italian TV in 2008, and a documentary on UFO's
(2009), focusing not on saucers and extraterrestrials themselves but on the undeniable military cover up that began in the 1950s.
Mazzucco released “Cancer: the Forbidden
Cures” (2010) a documentary that reveals a long history of
cover-ups on many apparently effective cures against cancer.
His most recent
documentary is “The True History of Marijuana”
(2011), which exposes the world-wide conspiracy, led by the
petrochemical
industry, that has outlawed one of the most useful plants known to
mankind.
Mazzucco is currently working on a new documentary on 9/11 called “Best Evidence - 10 years of public
investigation on 9/11,” which will summarize the results
obtained in the last 10 years by the worldwide 9/11 Truth Movemente.
Mazzucco has also written a
book on 9/11
and
one on the John and Robert F. Kennedy
assassinations.
Shambhala Meditation Center, Los Angeles (la.shambhala.org) Silence and Celebration: A New Years Eve Retreat (and Party) Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011: 4:00 pm - 12:00 amPrice: $15 (no one turned away for lack of funds) Eagle Rock SMCLA, Main Shrine Room 963 Colorado Blvd., L.A. 90041 (323) 255-5472 (la@shambhala.org)
Been meaning to meditate more or to learn to meditate this year? This is the chance! Everyone is welcome to join in a mini-retreat as we transition from the old to the new year. Come for the entire evening or any part of it. Meditate and celebrate with new friends and fellow readers of Pema Chodron.
Free meditation instruction available all night.
A newly released DVD of a talk given by Shambhala leader Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche (son of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche), "The Awesome Mind: Meditation and the Shambhala Path." He discusses how meditation practice can give the practitioner a handle on the mind and help us orient it the way we want:
"Our mind is our house. How do we want to arrange it? Do we want more compassion, more focus? Mind is as trainable as body. It has inherent power, clarity, and insight. Mind needs to be related to and respected."
Register to help the coordinators -- especially for those wishing to attend the celebration dinner portion of the evening.
“Fair Game” Blu-ray widescreen and DVD widescreen, 2010, PG-13 for brief language. Best extra: There’s only one and it’s a doozie -- the commentary with former C.I.A. operative Valerie Plame-Wilson and her husband, Joe Wilson.
“IT’S A SURREAL experience,” Valerie Plame says, reacting to the movie based on her assignment as a C.I.A. operative. Plame had been assigned to a special task force to investigate Saddam Hussein’s reported weapons of mass destruction. When results proved he had none, her identity was revealed by the traitorous Bush administration -- putting Plame, her family, and the informants she had worked with in jeopardy. It is assumed that many of Plame’s contacts died. More
(GoldRing) June 2007 to December 2012 is the completion cycle of the Mayan Calendar. The compression of time space energy fields increases the intensity of conscious awareness like an ocean wave moving on shore.
From your perspective everything is speeding up because you are a vibratory being. In actuality, the space wherein your vibration manifests is disappearing as time compresses into omni-centric singularities. Space and Time are inseparable and integral energies that allow forms to become physical, actual, and interpreted by particularized consciousness.
The metamorphosis, transition, or ascension can be analogized as an event horizon of a black hole wherein you are entering the zero point and preparing to move through the vortex of the singularity. The past and the future are compressed into the fullness of the Eternal Now.
I've been a less-than-successful meditator lately, finding myself caught in a session-ending swirl of thoughts every time I've gone to sit quietly for even a few minutes. So I think it's time to kick up my game and find an appropriate meditation CD, download, or even DVD.
Here's the thing: I have a lousy history with such products. The last one I had was a heart meditation that left me gasping for breath. My heart felt like it was going to fly out of my chest. Before that, I tried a chakra-cleansing meditation that got faster and more manic as it moved up the chakra ladder. I was laughing out loud by the end, which was entertaining but not exactly theta-wave inducing.
Other than enjoying my teacher's short, beautiful guided meditations in yoga class, I've always kept my own meditation counsel, until now. It's guidance time. My first stop might be one of the:
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American Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön is widely known for her charming and down-to-earth interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism for Western audiences.
