Synopsis: During the Q&A of the youth retreat 2010 in Plumvillage, Thich Nhat Hanh answered the following question:How do we find strength to love ourselves?

Synopsis: The Maha Cundi Dharani Sutra, a Mahayana Buddhist scripture, states that out of great compassion for sentient beings, the Buddha revealed the mantra:

namaḥ saptānāṁ samyak-saṁbuddha koṭīnāṁ | tad-yathā oṁ cale cule cundi svāhā

The Maha Cundi Dharani Sutra promises many seemingly fantastic benefits for those who piously recite the Cundi mantra.

“If a person always remembers to recite this mantra diligently, he will develop immeasurable roots of goodness.” - The Maha Cundi Dharani Sutra

Synopsis: Venerable Guang Xing is an Assistant Professor at the Centre of Buddhist Studies, The University of Hong Kong and Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation visiting professor in Buddhism and Contemporary Society at the University of British Columbia expound on chanting as a form of meditation.

Synopsis: A wonderful rendition of the Great Compassion mantra by Ani Choying.

Translation of Phoolko Ankhama-
“In the eyes of a flower, the world is flower.In the eyes of a thorn, the world is a thorn.
The shadow resembles, how the object is.In the eyes of a thorn, the world is a thorn.
May my heart be pure and my speech like Buddha,may my feet never even kill any insects.
Beautiful eyes shows you beautiful samsara,in the eyes of a thorn, the world is a thorn.”

Buddhism & Science Symposium III - The Enlightened Brain By Dr Zoran Josipovic from KMSPKSMEDIA on Vimeo.

Synopsis: Research scientist and adjunct professor at the Psychology Dept. and Center for Neural Science, New York University- Dr Josipovic is a long-term practitioner of meditation. He has also worked as a clinical psychotherapist and a bodyworker and has taught meditation for many years. Dr Josipovic’s main interests are the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain and the functioning of anti-correlated neural networks.

Synopsis: Vajrasattva (Diamond Mind or Thunderbolt Mind)is a bodhisattva in the Mahayana and Vajrayana buddhist traditions. In Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist practice, Vajrasattva is used in the Ngondro, or preliminary practices, in order to “purify” the mind’s defilements, prior to undertaking more advanced tantric techniques. The ‘yik gya’, the ‘Hundred Syllable Mantra’ -supplication of Vajrasattva, approaches universality in the various elementary Ngondro sadhana for sadhakas of all Mantrayana and Sarma schools bar the Bonpo. The above ‘Hundred Syllable Mantra’ is recited by Mingyur Rinpoche.

Like the lotus we must all rise, heed to Buddha’s advice,
Soon we’ll all be free and slips into the sea where it can be free.

Synopsis: Buddhism & Science Symposium III - Panel Discussion by neurologists, clinical psychologists, scientists and monks on how mindfulness practices can improve our quality of life.