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Walk with Me (2017)
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If you're looking for a documentary ABOUT Thich Nhat Hanh, you will be disappointed. If you're looking for a documentary designed to immerse you in the experience of spending 90 minutes WITH Thich Nhat Hanh, this is a wonderful, moving film. I would advise treating it like a meditation practice, observing the beautiful moments throughout without the expectation of learning some new information, but rather apprehending through direct experience that to which the finger of Thay's teaching points...this is a film to be experienced rather than conceptualized and understood. Pausing and going into one's breathing during the bells, as one would on retreat with Thay, is equally suggested.
Becoming Nobody (2019)
Beautiful. Profound. And moving.
After seeing some other reviews of this film that I don't believe did it justice (based on my experience) I felt compelled to write this review.
Overall, I was coming to this film the way I would go to a dharma talk. To hear Dass share wisdom, and see some of him in the process. Didn't really know what to expect.
What I found left me very moved and at the end absolutely transfixed, and deeply in touch with my being and truth. One interaction in particular between Ram Dass and the film maker moved me so deeply that I could learn more of his teaching from the interaction than from the talks.
Other views are certainly valid. I felt the need to share because depending on the mindset and expectations you have going in, you may find this film speaking to you in a way the raw score would not suggest.
Blessings.