My Amazing Crazy Lunch with the Dalai Lama
Circa. 2009 I’m sitting in my little cubicle at the University of Tasmania working on my PhD dissertation when the head of the philosophy faculty…
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CINEMA — CARTOGRAPHY OF THE HUMAN CONDITION
As a Writer I strive to find meaning in the moments between the words—there is always more meaning in these moments. This is important because…
We Carry with Us
We all carry with us the potential for being wild. Is this a good thing? Well, if we are creators then why not?! Why is it…
Getting Stuck
I’m sitting in front of my computer trying to find something to write about. I’m feeling blank. Slept badly, I guess. Is this writers block?…
Silence is a Practice
Silence is something I’ve cherished over the years. It was hard to find at times. Something I longed for when I could not find it…
Finding Time to be Quiet
Going to Update this blog post at some point because I like the title and feel it is important to say something about it. Today…
Soul Searching
I heard someone recently use the phrase, “it was a period of ‘soul searching’ in my life.” It struck me then….right then, that my entire…
Longing for Silence
A tell-tale sign I’m overworked is a deep deep longing for the silence and solitude of mountains. Taken in 2010 above my apartment in McCleodGanj
A Better Place Starts Here
I’m not sure my art can change the world but I know it can change me. I’ve long struggled with what, and how, I can…
Into the Given Part 3 — A choice the premise
Love. What is Love? When we say, I love you? What does this mean? And how could it possibly be a choice? As part of…
Into the Given Part 2 — Embracing Failure
As part of the pre-production process for my upcoming film, A Thousand Moments Later, I put together a document for the actors and crew to…
What is Needed is an Experience Part 1
As part of the pre-production process for the upcoming film, A Thousand Moments Later, I put together a document for the actors and crew to…
Dream Learn Plan—A Life
I dream. I learn. I plan. Or should that be I plan, learn and dream? We started out to get a computer in the hands…
Anthony Minghella on Morality in Cinema
When I heard Anthony Minghella had passed away I shed a tear. Quite literally! For I knew the world, and in particular the world of…
A Year of Light and Shade
Although I continue to tell myself I enjoy sharing I seemed to have gone almost ten months without updating the blog…Shame on me! Despite that…
Losing Your Way Finding Perspective
Now let’s face it, even though all of us, all sentient beings, want happiness this is not news, and it is obvious on reflection that…
Silent Mind Open Heart – the Art of Being
In the Buddhist tradition it is said that all thing are illusory but, if this is true it can only be so if there is…
My Story A Life A Journey
Today we have a lesson in history! Or perhaps I should say some personal history that contains a lesson. As I am naturally loquacious however…
Norbulingka Institute
Last Sunday I went to Gyuto monastery to shoot a narrative film with two young monks. On my way home I stopped by Norbulingka Institute.…
Saving Zanskar: A Short Documentary
Saving Zanskar: A Short Documentary is the story of a Tibetan Buddhist monks vision to save his dying culture by providing the children of his…
Does Buddhism Need Science In Order to Be Legit?
1. Introduction Does Buddhism need science? That is to say, does Buddhism need the validation of science? Perhaps not, however, in order to lift the…
Is Wisdom Really Necessary In Order To Generate Compassion?
It seems that my assertion from the article Philosophy as Practice raised some eyebrows among Buddhists. Here is the section of in question: …without the…
Thank You Geshe Thubten Loden
This is a copy of a letter I wrote to my teacher – Geshe Thubten Loden – a few days before leaving for Tasmania. I…
Be Like a Meditator, Think Like a Meditator – Embrace Failure
However, every meditator at some point has to deal with the restlessness that arises from boredom. If you can make it through this point in your me…
Dharamsala Field Trip 2009
In 2009 as part of my PhD research I took a trip in India, Dharamsala the home of the 14th Dalai Lama where most of…
The Twisting of a Phrase For Clarity
A pithy turn of phrase, a quip engendering insight, all these linguistic devices are the tools of smarter men (and women) than I. Philosophy, for the …
News, Updates and a Timely Message – December 2009
It has been a while since the last post. I promise this one will be less obscure. Since we last spoke His Holiness the Dalai…