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The Dhamma Brothers is a documentary film released in 2007 about a prison meditation program at Donaldson Correctional Facility near Bessemer, Alabama.The film features four inmates, all convicted of murder, and includes interviews with guards, prison officials, local residents and other inmates, and reenactments of their crimes.
Larry Rosenberg (born December 15, 1932) is an American Buddhist teacher who founded the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1985. [1] He is also a resident teacher there. Rosenberg was a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago and Harvard Medical School.
Walk with Me is a 2017 documentary film framed around Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh and his Plum Village monastic community. Directed by Marc J Francis and Max Pugh, supported by Oscar-winner Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, [1] and filmed over three years, [2] the film focuses on the daily life and rituals of the monastics, accompanied by teachings from Thich Nhat Hanh's early journals ...
The Students' International Meditation Society (SIMS) incorporated in 1965/1966 and focused on offering the TM technique to students and faculty at schools and universities. [23] The UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) chapter had 1,000 members and was co-founded by researcher and physiologist, Robert Keith Wallace, the first president ...
March Mindfulness is an annual Mashable series that explores the intersection of meditation practice and technology.From an expansive point of view, the first video game to promote mindfulness was ...
David Wants to Fly is a 2010 German documentary film that follows its director, Berlin-based, film school graduate David Sieveking, as he interacts with his film hero David Lynch, and explores the Transcendental Meditation movement.
Jim Jones and his wife, Marceline, in an image taken from a pink photo album left behind in the village of the dead in Jonestown, Guyana. Jones led more than 900 members of his cult to a painful ...
In the United States, the approach has been dubbed the American Vipassana movement or Insight Meditation Movement. This includes institutions like the Insight Meditation Society and contemporary American Buddhist teachers such as Joseph Goldstein , Tara Brach , Gil Fronsdal , Sharon Salzberg , Ruth Denison , Shinzen Young , and Jack Kornfield .