Dear Memebers of Spiritual/Conscious Movies & More,

Our Next movie night W I L L B E this Friday, May 16th at 7:30pm. Our featured film is:

"10 Questions for the Dali Lama"

Please join us for a timely look at one of our times most influential spiritual figure.

Review ~

When the filmmaker Rick Ray arrived in India to direct a travel video, an interview with the Dalai Lama was supposed to be part of his compensation. When he discovered that he would have to arrange it himself, he did, by e-mail.

The result is 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama, a tedious title for an anything-but-tedious film. Expertly merging the mystical and the mundane, Mr. Ray presents a warm and well-rounded portrait of his subject, his Buddhist philosophies and the painful circumstances of his exile to a modest monastery in Dharamsala, India.

Though it touches on Tibet and China's discordant political history (with amazing archival film and an interview with a former Chinese political prisoner), the movie is more charmed by the Dalai Lama's personality than by his politics.

Impish, self-deprecating and an infectious giggler, he is an unorthodox spiritual exemplar with an insatiable scientific curiosity. (When science contradicts faith, he's prone to choose science, Mr. Ray marvels.) This 14th incarnation of the Dalai Lama would rather be reading about neuroscience than enduring a festival in his honor.

As for Mr. Ray's questions, his interviewee doesn't hold back, whether discussing his environmentalism or the outmoded Indian caste system. He even ventures onto the thin ice of birth control.

Quality is more important than quantity! - is his emphatic opinion. Mother Teresa might have had something to say about that.

Jeanette Catsoulis, NY Times

Feel free to bring friends and refreshments (non-alcoholic)
show up promptly at 7:30!

THIS IS AN AMAZING FILM, SHOWN ON OUR LARGE SCREEN (8x5 FT) AND GENERATES GREAT DISCUSSION. WE HOPE MANY OF YOU CAN ATTEND.

Blessings, Rev. John

Friday, May 16th, 7:30 sharp, non-alcoholic refreshments welcome.
824 Glenside Ave. (see our yellow flag and blue light in lamp post!), Wyncote, PA 19095 ~ call for directions (even if you are on the way and get lost!)
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