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20th Anniversary of Buddha Mind Monastery in Oklahoma City

11/11/2024

Buddha Mind Monastery is the Oklahoma sister temple of Atlanta’s Dharma Jewel Monastery. Both offer Zen meditation classes in English and in Chinese, Children’s mindfulness class, and more as part of Chung Tai Chan Monastery.

Venerable Abbot Jian Ying visited from Chung Tai Chan Monastery in Taiwan in October 2024 to help celebrate the 20th anniversary of Buddha Mind Monastery and Chinese Buddhism in Oklahoma City. (He also went to Chung Tai Zen Center of Houston and Texas Chan Pagoda Monastery, Great Dharma Chan Monastery in Boulder Colorado, and other American branch temples.) He gave a Dharma talk and teaching to help attendees celebrate this grand occasion! Go OKC!

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One Mind Zen Movie set in China

10/27/2020

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ONE MIND
"Incredible footage. To be any closer you’d have to shave your head."
— Bill Porter (Red Pine)

Online Film Screening: ONE MIND is a cinematic meditation on life inside one of China’s most revered and austere Zen Buddhist monastic communities.

About the movie: http://www.commonfolkfilms.com/onemind
Can't join us? Buy or rent it here online http://onemindmovie.com/

ONE MIND is a rare cinematic portrait of life inside one of China’s most austere and revered Zen communities. The monks at Zhenru Chan Monastery continue to uphold a strict monastic code established over 1200 years ago by the founding patriarchs of Zen in China. In harmony with the land that sustains them, the monks operate an organic farm, grow tea, and harvest bamboo to fuel their kitchen fires. At the heart of this community, a group of cloistered meditators sit in silence for 8 hours every day. Suggesting a Zen version of the critically acclaimed film Into Great Silence, ONE MIND offers an intimate glimpse into a thriving Buddhist monastery in modern China.

Director Edward A. Burger (Amongst White Clouds) has lived and studied with Buddhist communities in China for over 15 years, and is the first Western filmmaker to be granted such unprecedented access to the daily rituals and traditions practiced in this remote mountain monastery.

But more than a portrait of life within this monastic community, ONE MIND is an experiment in Buddhist filmmaking. A markedly quiet and contemplative film, Burger has set forth to craft a documentary that is not ‘about’ Buddhism, but rather a ‘Buddhist film’. Taking inspiration from traditional Zen stories and lessons told to him by elder monks and teachers at Zhenru monastery, each chapter of the film explores the trials and challenges we all must face when we set forth to become wiser, kinder human beings. In ONE MIND we learn that this journey begins when we turn our gaze inward. That no matter how far we have traveled and how many mountains and valleys we have crossed, the true adventure awaits us within the landscapes of our own mind.

One Mind Chinese Zen Buddhist Movie Meditation Film

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