Broward Lotus Sangha

We will start the celebration with a delicious international Vegetarian Food Tasting provided by Sublime and other local restaurants, followed by Peace Is Every Step, our evening’s Main Feature. Venerable Brother Thich Huong Hue will provide a Dharma Talk describing his experience living and working with Thây Thich Nhẩt Hạnh in Plum Village, France. We will end the celebration with a Bonus Screening of Each of My Steps is a Prayer, a Documentary film about Zen Master Thich Nhẩt Hạnh’s 2007 return to Vietnam.

Main Feature: Peace Is Every Step is a documentary film narrated by Ben Kingsley about the life and work of leading Vietnamese Zen Master, poet, and author Thich Nhẩt Hạnh. Throughout his career, Nhẩt Hạnh 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. He is the author of many books including the bestsellers Being Peace, Living Buddha/Living Christ, The Miracle of Mindfulness and Peace Is Every Step.

Peace Is Every Step is an intimate and direct portrait of a monk who has lived through war and fought back with meditation, love and grace under fire, 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.

Produced and directed by Gaetano Kazuo Maida. Filmed on location in Plum Village, France; Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C. and at retreats around the U.S. Includes rare archival footage from Vietnam in the 1960s and appearances by Joan Halifax, Claude Anshin Thomas, Stephen Batchelor and other well-known authors and activists.

Special Guest Speaker/Dharma Lecture: After the main feature, Venerable Brother Thich Huong Hue will provide a Dharma Talk about his experience living and working with Thây Thich Nhẩt Hạnh in Plum Village, France. Brother Huong Hue was ordained as a Buddhist monk by Thây in Plum Village, in 1989. He currently serves as the Abbott of Tu Viện Hương Hải, a Vietnamese Buddhist Monastery in Florida.

Bonus Feature: Each of My Steps is a Prayer. Following the Dharma Talk, the audience is invited to the South Florida Premiere of Each of My Steps is a Prayer, a Documentary film about Zen Master Thich Nhẩt Hạnh’s 2007 return to Vietnam (Thich Nhẩt Hạnh was exiled from his homeland until 2005).

This event is open to the public and provided at a very low cost in the Buddhist tradition of generosity or Dana. Thus, your kindness in providing an additional donation for the goods received is gratefully accepted and encouraged. Your kind donation is greatly appreciated as it helps support the activities of our non-profit organizations including feeding and educating underprivileged preschoolers in Vietnam, offering free meditation and mindfulness programs, and helping defray the costs associated with events such as Peace Is Every Step. Donation boxes will be located at the theater during the duration of this event. You may also mail your contributions to: Treasurer, Broward Lotus Sangha, 841 North Rainbow Drive, Hollywood, FL 33021.

SPONSOR A MONASTIC: Attendees are also invited to express their generosity by purchasing a ticket to sponsor a monastic to attend this event. Please let us know that you have purchased a ticket for a monastic by e-mailing strega_flies@earthlink.net and leaving the ticket at the theater’s will call box in an envelope under the name “Monastic”.

Cinema Paradiso is located at: 503 SE 6th Street, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301. There is FREE PARKING available across the street at the County Courthouse Parking Garage. For map and directions to this event, click here

To purchase tickets to this event, ($10.00 in advance; $15.00 at the door) please call (954) 525-FILM (3456) or click here.

To learn more about the Broward Lotus Sangha, click here and here.

To learn more about Zen Master Thich Nhẩt Hanh, his work, and his tradition, click here.

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