2003
A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.
80 min
CLEAR ALL
How to love yourself and others.
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Mother Teresa. The Dalai Lama. Nelson Mandela. Gandhi. Some admire such figures from afar and think, "How special they are; I could never be like that." But, as John Makransky has learned, the power of real and enduring love lies within every one of us.
bell hooks meets with Thich Nhat Hanh to ask: How do we build a community of love?
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The practice of love, says bell hooks, is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination. She traces her thirty-year meditation on love, power, and Buddhism, and concludes it is only love that transforms our personal relationships and heals the wounds of oppression.
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For many of us, opening our hearts to ourselves may be the hardest part of the path. John Welwood on how and why meditation helped him do it—unconditionally.
Dalai Lama Renaissance Film Director Khashyar Darvich interviews Tibetan Buddhist nun Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo about the release of her new book, "Into the Heart of Life." The interview was filmed in the Himalayan Mountains of India.
Tenzin Palmo Jetsunma interviewed about romanticism that makes us confuse genuine love with attachment - and how it causes suffering in relationships.
Pema Chödrön reveals her journey towards becoming a Buddhist nun and discusses the time-tested antidote to suffering.
We all yearn for connection, yet often feel trapped by our sense of isolation, anger, envy, and other forms of aversion. Ultimately, our minds get in the way of this yearning, as we spin stories and assumptions around in our heads that keep us feeling alienated from one another.
In this eye-opening guide, Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh offers timeless insight into the nature of real love.