Publication
Sausalito, California : CEM Productions, 2005. One disc, 55 min.
Call number
DVD / Front Desk
Original publication date
2005
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Description: Lunch With Bokara explores the frontiers of religion and metaphysics, of science and spirituality. Join host Bokara Legendre, as she brings together an engaging group of well-known scientists, thinkers, and spiritual teachers from around the world. Be a part of a unique, spontaneous conversation as fascinating guests who have often never met are brought together for the first time to share their insights, knowledge and wisdom.
ZEN AND THE ART OF AFRICAN INITIATION with Malidome Some and Joan Halifax, 55 min. Discover the secrets of African initiation and the power of Buddhist bouts with two people who walked between the worlds of East and West, of magic and meditation.
Joan Halifax, Buddhist teacher, author and Zen abbot meets African shaman and diviner Malidoma Some. Malidoma suggests that people in the West suffer from “sickness of the soul.” He joins Roshi Joan in a fascinating conversation about the ways we can heal this sickness, as well as the unexpressed grief in our culture.
“The purpose of life is not something that you 'find', it's more like something that finds you. You and your purpose meet half way. The culture I come from the shores that you cannot be born in this world without a purpose. And so every baby that is born, we start to look at what IT that she or he is coming here for?” -- Malidoma Some
“in Buddhism it's not so much about finding the kind of magic that fascinates us all, it's actually about finding the utter magic or miracle in this glass of water. That's really when our life opens up. The magic is in the ordinary things, in the miracle of this moment.” -- Joan Halifax
FY2006 / jvsy
ZEN AND THE ART OF AFRICAN INITIATION with Malidome Some and Joan Halifax, 55 min. Discover the secrets of African initiation and the power of Buddhist bouts with two people who walked between the worlds of East and West, of magic and meditation.
Joan Halifax, Buddhist teacher, author and Zen abbot meets African shaman and diviner Malidoma Some. Malidoma suggests that people in the West suffer from “sickness of the soul.” He joins Roshi Joan in a fascinating conversation about the ways we can heal this sickness, as well as the unexpressed grief in our culture.
“The purpose of life is not something that you 'find', it's more like something that finds you. You and your purpose meet half way. The culture I come from the shores that you cannot be born in this world without a purpose. And so every baby that is born, we start to look at what IT that she or he is coming here for?” -- Malidoma Some
“in Buddhism it's not so much about finding the kind of magic that fascinates us all, it's actually about finding the utter magic or miracle in this glass of water. That's really when our life opens up. The magic is in the ordinary things, in the miracle of this moment.” -- Joan Halifax
FY2006 / jvsy
Physical description
4.75 inches
Language
Original language
English