Watch the Dalai Lama receive the Templeton Prize live online Monday

Watch the Dalai Lama receive the Templeton Prize live online Monday

Watch the Dalai Lama receive the Templeton Prize live online Monday

Posted: 11 May 2012 08:00 AM PDT

As we reported in late March, His Holiness the Dalai Lama is the recipient of the 2012 Templeton Prize — an honor bestowed upon those deemed to have made an "exceptional contribution to affirming life's spiritual dimension, whether through insight, discovery, or practical works." He will receive the award on Monday, in a ceremony that will be freely broadcast on the Templeton Prize's website.

Organizers said the Dalai Lama was chosen for the award because of his encouragement of scientific research and his engagement with people from many different religious traditions. Valued at £1.1 million (about $ 1.7 million), the Templeton Prize is the largest monetary award given annually to an individual. At the ceremony, held at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, the Dalai Lama will announce his chosen recipient of the prize money.

"When I heard your decision to give me this quite famous award, I really felt this is another sign of recognition about my little service to humanity, mainly nonviolence and unity around different religious traditions," he said.

His Holiness will receive the honor Monday, May 14, at 1:45 PM (GMT), during a ceremony at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. You can view the ceremony online at www.templetonprize.org from 8:45 to 10:00 a.m. EDT (5:45 to 7:00 a.m. PDT). For more information on the Templeton Prize and the Dalai Lama, watch this video on YouTube.

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RSA Animate -- Crisis of Capitalism

In this short RSA Animate, radical sociologist David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism, towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that could be responsible, just and humane. View his full lecture at the RSA.

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Video: New online program makes Zen accessible to everyone

Posted: 11 May 2012 06:00 AM PDT

Eshu Martin

The Victoria Zen Centre, based on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, now offers an online training program to help practitioners develop a consistent and stable Zen practice. Their new "Online Orientation to Zen" program offers a combination of videos and training resources that are accessible for free to the public, with an option to pay for personalized support, via Skype, with a trained Victoria Zen Centre practitioner.

"One of my primary motivators in developing the Victoria Zen Centre has been an effort to make Zen practice accessible to as many people as possible," says Zen Centre's Eshu Martin.

"It's easy to forget that at the beginning it's tough for a person to sit still and straight for even 5 minutes. Far too often I have seen newcomers tossed into a regular practice session at a Zen centre, which often features multiple 30-plus-minute periods of zazen, without anything more than a quick 'sit down and do your best.' What a shame!"

The full Online Orientation to Zen program can be found on the Victoria Zen Centre's website by clicking here.

Here is the first video in the series, with instructions on how to sit.

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Pema Chödrön on “lightening up”

Posted: 11 May 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Time now for a little meditation inspiration, by way of Heart Advice, Weekly Quotes from Pema Chödrön:

"Discipline is important. When we sit down to meditate, we are encouraged to stick with the technique and be faithful to the instruction, but within that container of discipline, why do we have to be so harsh? Do we meditate because we 'should'?

"How we regard what arises in meditation is training for how we regard whatever arises in the rest of our lives. So the challenge is how to develop compassion right along with clear seeing, how to train in lightening up and cheering up rather than becoming more guilt-ridden and miserable."

Ready to get started? Then visit our special Spotlight page of Pema Chödrön's best teachings from the Shambhala Sun, as well as our How to Meditate Spotlight, for plenty of helpful, plain-language guidance.

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Video: Tonight on PBS, “Summer Pasture” shows Tibetan nomads at a crossroads

Posted: 10 May 2012 06:00 PM PDT

Making its television premiere on PBS's Independent Lens tonight, Summer Pasture is a documentary about the rapid changes happening in the Dzachukha grasslands in eastern Tibet. Locally, the area is known as "the five-most" — it's the highest, largest, coldest, poorest, and most remote area in Sichuan province.

The film focuses on Locho and Yama, a young couple living a traditional nomadic lifestyle herding yaks and horses. But as Dzachukha becomes increasingly modernized, many people in their community have been moving to cities and towns to find work.

"It's become a different place, a desperate place," Locho says in the film. "It's changing so much it's hard to recognize." According to Locho, Yama, and their community, the herders have entered duegnan — "dark times."

The filmmakers spent several months with Locho and Yama as they grappled with a difficult decision: they want their  infant daughter, Jiatomah, to have the best opportunities in life, but  they worry that if they send her to school, she won't choose to live the traditional nomadic life her family has been living for countless generations.

Directed by Lynn True, Nelson Walker, and Tsering Perlo, Summer Pasture has been screened at numerous film festivals, garnering nominations at the Independent Spirit Awards and the Gotham Independent Film Awards. It was produced by the Kham Film Project, an association of American and Tibetan filmmakers working to share issues and experiences from inside Tibet.

Independent Lens screens tonight at 10 p.m. on most PBS stations. Check pbs.org for local schedules.

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“The Buddha was an ‘action’ kind of guy” — Michael Stone on mindfulness (Video)

Posted: 10 May 2012 01:00 PM PDT

What does it mean to be in the moment? What does it mean to be mindful?

In this brand-new video, yogi and Buddhist teacher Michael Stone, author of "What's the Music All About?", found in our current issue, breaks down the oft-used term and shows how it relates to being mindful about what's really going on.

Find lots more from Michael Stone on SunSpace here.

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Video: Tonight on PBS, “Summer Pasture” shows Tibetan nomads at a crossroads

Posted: 10 May 2012 12:00 PM PDT

Making its television premiere on Independent Lens on PBS tonight, Summer Pasture is a documentary about the rapid changes happening in the Dzachukha grasslands in eastern Tibet. Locally, the area is known as "the five-most" — it's the highest, largest, coldest, poorest and most remote area in Sichuan province.

The film focuses on Locho and Yama, a young couple living a traditional nomadic lifestyle herding yaks and horses. But as Dzachukha becomes increasingly modernized, many people in their community have been moving to cities and towns to find more stable work.

"It's become a different place, a desperate place," Locho says in the film. "It's changing so much it's hard to recognize." According to Locho, Yama, and their community, the herders have entered duegnan — "dark times." [More, with video trailer, after the jump.]

The filmmakers spent several months with Locho and Yama as they grappled with a difficult decision: they want their infant daughter, Jiatomah, to have the best opportunities in life, but they worry that if they send her to school, she won't choose to live the traditional nomadic life her family has been living for countless generations.

Directed by Lynn True, Nelson Walker, and Tsering Perlo, Summer Pasture has been screened at numerous film festivals, garnering nominations at the Independent Spirit Awards and the Gotham Independent Film Awards. It was produced by the Kham Film Project, an association of American and Tibetan filmmakers working to share issues and experiences from inside Tibet.

Independent Lens screens tonight at 10 pm on most PBS stations. Check pbs.org for local schedules.

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Blessed One by Thich Nhat Hahn

Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love. Thich Nhat Hanh

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