Now Showing: Dalai Lama Renaissance

Warmest Greetings!

Please go here for more information about a documentary called Dalai Lama Renaissance: http://www.dalailamafilm.com/. After taking several years to complete, this film is now on tour in different cities across the country. The director and producer, who is touring with the documentary, states that the film will also be available for purchase in November. Dalai Lama Renaissance is playing in Portland at the Hollywood Theater on the weekends of June 28-29 and July 5-6. Please check listings for other cities where this film will be shown.

I just had the great pleasure of seeing Dalai Lama Renaissance and highly recommend this film to others. On the outside and at first glance, it can appear to "simply" be about 40 people - including Thom Hartmann - who gathered together with the Dalai Lama to discuss issues deeply important to humanity and the planet. Upon looking a bit deeper, it can appear to be more of an expose of the egos and humanness of some great American thinkers as they gather together with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Yet, upon truly going deeper yet, this documentary powerfully highlights a process that is perhaps important to us all - how to recognize and embrace our egos with sufficient awareness and understanding that we then become empowered to move beyond our more surface selves and into our deeper hearts. And it is from that place that we are empowered to ACT in ways that truly make a difference.

I found this film powerful, moving, beautiful, and illuminating. Yes, I deeply love the Dalai Lama for his wisdom, his profoundly deep and loving heart, his absolutely delightful laughter and sense humor, his humility, and the role model he is for us all. Yet, this documentary is much bigger than even His Holiness. The Dalai Lama's invitation and encouragement is not to worship him, but rather he speaks to all of us as individuals and what it is that we are all capable of. The Dalai Lama asks that we each do the work of opening our own hearts and from there - from this open-hearted place in which we have moved beyond the smallness of our limited thinking - that we then learn to care about all of humanity. It feels very timely that this documentary is finding its way to screens across this country and in other countries across the world at this time. Dalai Lama Renaissance is an important film that deeply touched and opened my heart. It may do the same for you...

Namaste,

Molly

From Dalai Lama Renaissance:

There is always that question of the people who watched the trains going by with the Jews inside. And we all think that we wouldn't have done that, we would have done something. But what trains are going by - Right Now - that we are just watching go by? ~ Fran Korten, wife of David Korten

Each human being has the moral responsibility to think about humanity.

~ the Dalai Lama