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Johannesburg Screening
Cave in the Snow
The official film on the extraordinary life of Tenzin Palmo
Inspired by the international best-selling biography
Cave in the Snow by Vicki Mackenzie
produced by Ellenor Cox for Firelight Productions, Australia, 2003. Friday 7 November at 6.30pm Sage Healing & Training Centre 5 Geers Ave, Greenside, 2034 Tel 011 486 1096 / mobile 083 325 8495 (Belinda Peralta) Email belinda@iburst.co.za Cost: R35 includes refreshments afterwards Running time: 52 minutes.  | Why and how did an Englishwoman Diane Perry, daughter of a fishmonger from London’s East End, become a Buddhist legend and a champion for women to attain spiritual enlightenment? What was it she was looking for?
“From a very early age I believed we were inherently perfect. I asked everybody: What is perfection? How do we attain it?” This deep yearning for perfection led her to commit her life to attain enlightenment in the body of a woman. Enlightenment: the highest state of evolution humankind could ever achieve.
The second westerner to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun (“the biggest blessing of my life”) Tenzin Palmo secluded herself in a cave in the Himalayas where she spent 12 years doing intensive spiritual practices. She faced unimaginable cold, avalanches, blizzards, wolves, grew her own food – and was very happy.
Since 1999 she has taken on the daunting task of establishing a nunnery in northern India for the indigenous young women who seek spiritual and intellectual realisation. | | As international fund-raiser for the Dongyu Gatsal Ling nunnery, Tenzin Palmo has become a burgundy-and-saffron-clad globetrotter. "I had planned to stay in my cave," she said, “but life has a way of serving you up with what you need rather than what you think you want." |
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CAPE TOWN
Labia on Orange
Last Sunday of every month at 6.15pm plus some additional bonus screenings.
Tel 021 424 5927
www.labia.co.za |
PLETTENBERG BAY
Sat Chit Anand Retreat Centre
2011 dates still to be advised.
Longstone Road, Plett.
Tel 044 533 0453.
satchitanand@global.co.za www.satchitanand.co.za |
SIMON'S TOWN
Screenings
at Simon’s Town Museum
Bookings: 021 786 3046
Screening every second Thursday of the month.
Two screenings: at 11am and 6.30pm with glass of wine.
Book to ensure a seat: 021 786 3046.
To be on the Simon's Town mailing list, please email your name and address to:
exploring@icon.co.za
SOMERSET WEST
Screenings now also in Somerset West, at the Golden Eye on the R44 just outside town. First Monday and Tuesday of the month in the early evening. Please contact Helga Steyn to be on mailing list and for info:
helgasteyn@telkomsa.net
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- Please click here for info on films screened previously by Exploring Consciousness.
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