A Dharma Movie Night

Doors open at 7:00 pm, film begins at 7:30 pm

Place:  Dharma Zephyr Center at Sierra Foot and Ankle

2350 South Carson St,  #3

Corner of Curry & Rhodes Streets

Carson City, Nevada

Due to the fact that the facility holds no more than 35 people, we ask that you indicate you are coming by contacting Christy@DharmaZephyr.org

There is no charge for this movie.  Dana offerings are gratefully accepted in order that Dharma Zephyr may offset the costs of offering the film.

If you have Covid concerns please view Dharma Zephyr’s Covid policy on our website www.DharmaZephyr.org.

Together we will view  “Wandering But Not Lost”, an award winning documentary recalling the four year “retreat” of   Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, who escaped into “solitude” from his duties as Tibetan Buddhist teacher, best-selling author, abbot of multiple monasteries, and leader of an international network of meditation centers.

Solitude is hard to find. That is the problem facing the Rinpoche.  His plan was to have no plan. Following in the footsteps of the great meditation masters who sought to deepen their practice through solitary retreat, Mingyur Rinpoche absconded from his monastery in the middle of the night. With only a small backpack, a few dollars, and the robes on his back, he eluded the watchful eyes of the many aides, minders, and assistants who had tended to him since his youth. Over the next four and a half years, Mingyur Rinpoche wandered  throughout India and Nepal, stopping at many of the region’s holiest sites: Varanasi, Kushinagar, Rishikesh, Vaishno Devi Shrine, the Boudhanath Stupa, and Lapchi Mountain. Each day he welcomed the physical and psychological challenges of the wandering life (like the lack of food, water, money, and shelter) as opportunities to develop mindfulness and nonattachment.

Some of the greatest shocks early on during his retreat journey were quite mundane: having to buy his own train ticket (previously, assistants had arranged all his travel), navigating lines in a crowded station, not finding a seat on the train, buying simple food on a tight budget.  His journey was perhaps half spiritual retreat, half coming-of-age story.  As he emerges from his sheltered existence in his monasteries to existence in the world he begins to see that solitude, paradoxically, is consummately social.

Further description and information about this excellent film can be found here:  https://www.ajoyfulmind.com/

https://tricycle.org/magazine/mingyur-rinpoche-wandering/?fbclid=IwAR0y45Iz3ZuxFbUiJJ9EY1pjuRZ1mPqjl_cTKUCNY_ThxynSNG9fPQBwW6g

Mingur Rinpoche’s book about his journey is “In Love with the World:  A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying”.