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Bodhi Oak Zen Movie Night

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Date(s) - 09/29/2017
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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Bodhi Oak Zen Center

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Our next Zen movie night will feature “Peace in Every Step: Meditation in Action: The Life and Work of Thich Nhat Hanh”, on Friday, September 29, at 7:00 PM.

If you are watching “The Vietnam War” series on PBS, you may find this movie very timely. In addition, you can see it as a prelude to the new movie about Thich Nhat Hanh, “Walk With Me”, which will be shown at a private screening in Clovis in October. I will give you more information about that when I have it.

“Author of many books (including the bestsellers Being Peace, Living Buddha/Living Christ, The Miracle of Mindfulness and Peace Is Every Step), Thich Nhat Hanh has had a profound impact on contemporary thinking and, importantly, social action. His efforts to achieve an early peaceful end to the American war in Vietnam earned him a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a forty year exile from his homeland. His ongoing work teaching reconciliation and meditation with war veterans, widows, orphans, refugees, therapists, activists, and ecumenical groups has gained him a large and respectful following around the world.
Filmed on location in Plum Village, France; Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, DC; and at retreats around the US
Plus: rare archival footage from Vietnam detailing the work of his School of Youth for Social Service in the 1960s
Appearances by Peter Matthiessen, Maxine Hong Kingston, Stephen Batchelor, Joan Halifax and other writers and activists
Narrated by Academy Award®-winner Ben Kingsley”
In English, 52 minutes, with a bonus feature of a talk by Thich Nhat Hanh = 90 minutes

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