The Australian Broadcasting Corporation‘s Eric Campbell managed to get a rare interview with His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, for the Foreign Correspondent program, as shown in this piece entitled “After the Dalai Lama“.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation‘s Eric Campbell managed to get a rare interview with His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, for the Foreign Correspondent program, as shown in this piece entitled “After the Dalai Lama“.
Crazy Wisdom – A film about the life and times of Chogyam Trungpa
SYNOPSIS
Chogyam Trungpa, renowned Tibetan Buddhist leader, shattered notions about how an enlightened teacher should behave when he renounced his monk’s vows & eloped with a sixteen year-old aristocrat. Twenty years after his death, Trungpa’s name still evokes admiration and outrage. What made him tick? And just what is enlightenment, anyway?
Thanks to Tenpa for pointing out this wonderful gem.
I think my taste in music is changing… I honestly prefer this or Trololo to Lady Gaga or Lily Allen.
During the last few months I’ve really been enjoying some of the music videos produced by Nataly and Jack of Pomplamoose. They use a technique dubbed ‘production-as-performance’ whereby the music video shows pretty much everything that goes into the music.
Here are some more links to their work:
Today’s video is Seth Godin at TED2009 and in it he gives an inspiring talk about ‘tribes’ and ‘creating a movement’. Seth’s Blog is one I try to read everyday, I suggest you go check it out. And if you don’t know what TED is you should go there too.
You might have noticed that I have been tinkering away behind the scenes and there are a few new things here on the rossbennetts.com blog:
There are more changes coming… just you wait… I hope you enjoy…
From Talking Trash with Captain Charles Moore at TED2009:
http://video.ted.com/talks/embed/CharlesMoore_2009U-embed_high.flv
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At this year’s TED, Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation gave a short talk on how plastic waste is choking the seas, killing birds and poisoning fish. Anyone who has been inspired by Sylvia Earle’s talk and wish will not want to miss this devastating presentation.
7min 20sec
Click the fullscreen button or the link above if you want to see it in the correct aspect ratio.