Peace is Every Step
Screening daily at Labia on Orange from Friday 3 July to Thursday 9 July 2009
Peace is Every Step
Meditation in action: The Life and Work of Thich Nhat Hanh
Narrated by Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley. A film by Gaetano Kazuo Maida.
Filmed at Plum Village international retreat centre in France;
Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, Washington DC;
at retreats around the US and with rare archival footage from Vietnam in the 1960s.
Meditation in action: The Life and Work of Thich Nhat Hanh
Narrated by Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley. A film by Gaetano Kazuo Maida.
Filmed at Plum Village international retreat centre in France;
Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, Washington DC;
at retreats around the US and with rare archival footage from Vietnam in the 1960s.
Daily at 12 noon and 6:15pm At Labia on Orange Book with Labia at 021 424 5927 Ticket R25 / R20 Running time 52 minutes “The real miracle is walking on the earth.” “You get out of the meditation hall in order to help people. And that is called meditation in action. Deep looking is meditation and deep acting is also meditation.” |
Peace Is Every Step is an intimate and direct portrait of a wise and gentle monk who has lived through war and, under fire, fought back with meditation, love and grace. Testimony to the faith that simple practices and insights drawn from (but not by any means limited to) the Buddhist meditative tradition can help change conditions for the better: on a personal level, in the family, in the community, in a nation and in the world.
| Leading Vietnamese Zen teacher and author of many books (including the bestsellers Being Peace, Living Buddha/Living Christ, The Miracle of Mindfulness and Peace Is Every Step), Thich Nhat Hanh has had a profound impact on contemporary thinking and, importantly, social action. His efforts to achieve an early peaceful end to the American war in Vietnam earned him a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize by Dr Martin Luther King, Jr and a forty-year exile from his homeland. |
| Wisely centered around the quiet words and serene presence of Thich Nhat Hanh himself. His words resonate long after the film stops. – Yoga Journal . . . homage to one of the great peace activists and Buddhists. It tells his story accessibly, lyrically, and simply. – Tricycle Magazine |