dharma movies with good messages of Peace and Love and Wisdom

A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water at the end of the long walk from the stream to the masters house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water in his masters house. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect to the end for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do. After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you." "Why?" asked the bearer. "What are you ashamed of?" "I have been able, for these past two years, to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your masters house. Because of my flaws, you have to do all of this work, and you don't get full value from your efforts." , the pot said. The water bearer felt sorry for the old cracked pot, and in his compassion he said, "As we return to the masters house, I want you to notice the beautiful flowers along the path." Indeed, as they went up the hill, the old cracked pot took notice of the sun warming the beautiful wild flowers on the side of the path, and this cheered it some. But at the end of the trail, it still felt bad because it had leaked out half its load, and so again the Pot apologized to the bearer for its failure. The bearer said to the pot, "Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of your path, but not on the other pots side? That's because I have always known about your flaw, and I took advantage of it. I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back from the stream, you've watered them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate my masters table. Without you being just the way you are, he would not have this beauty to grace his house." Each of us has our own unique flaws. We re all cracked pots. But if we will allow it, the Lord will use our flaws to grace His Fathers table. In Gods great economy, nothing goes to waste. Don't be afraid of your flaws. Acknowledge them, and you too can be the cause of beauty. Know that in our weakness we find our strength.

.	The Movie	The Review (they are coming)
.	Eyes Wide Shut	"Eyes wide Shut". I loved it. It is definitely a Satsang movie. So much about inner vasanas and denial of samskaras to live what seems like the perfect life, but really it is just denial and not real. The way Kubrick the director shows the inner mind of Tom Cruise is brilliant. The haunting masked demons of desire and the masked masks of who he thinks he is. So cool. Dream desires or 'real' life, both the same, the same pain is generated, the same veils are torn down. The writing and directing is brilliant but the acting is not 100%. The last line of the Movie is so perfect. Cruise wants to live forever with Nicole, instantly falling right back into pollyanna dream projections and the trap of futurizing. Nicole on the other hand is much more in the moment and simply says: "There is one thing we have to do right now: Lets _ _ _ _!" Om (prashanti June 99)
.	The Matrix	It is very violent, and many times I had to plug my ears and cover my eyes, but the message is this scintillating Buddhist-Advaita-dZogChen Dharma of the nature of mind and reality. It is a fabulous satsang movie. The movie has an incredible ability in showing the awesome power of the 'matrix' verse the power of Love, Wisdom and Devotion. In terms of the Ramayana, Cypher (Lucifer-Doubts) blackmails Zion (Inner abode of Being) and tries to kill Morpheus (Vashishta-Hanuman Combo) who orchestrates the deal to protect Zion by finding and training the messiah who can truly destroy the Matrix. After receiving a shot of Love-Devotion from his Beloved Trinity (Sita-Goddess), Keanu Reeves, playing the messiah warrior role (Rama Chandra), rises to the occasion of diving headlong (Lakshman-onepointedness) into the Matrix (Demon-mind-maya) and exploding it with Light (Kundalini-Tejas). Om (Prashanti May 99)
.	The Devil's Advocate	Al Pacino plays the Devil whose angels are Lawyers in the Big Apple. Near the end of the Movie he describes his relationship with God which sounds like a page out of the Bhagavatam describing the Sankhya view of the creation of the Universe, from Purusha through Shakti via the mind's outward going tendencies (devil) juxtaposed with the Stillness (God) behind the scenes, and the grand joke (illusion) that 'he' allows. The speech is one of the great moments of cinematography, Al Pacino in his glory, and worth wading through all the violence and creepiness of the movie. (prashanti Aug 98)
	Pleasantville	ch, ch, ch, ch changes. Let go Let go Let go. Light and Life is coming your way, in fact, it is here, coloring your existence, how good can you take it, and how tightly will you hang on to the pleasant past of predictable black & white status quo. Let go Let go Let go. Includes one of the all time great lines: "Thank God we are in a bowling alley" (prashanti Apr 99)
	The Truman Show	Life is an Illusion, Nothing is real, it's all a movie!
	Seven Years in Tibet	A beautiful and poignant tale of Tibet in the 1940's, a stanchion of such heartful Dharma, right before the demonic Chinese came in and started their murdering and rape and pillage and genocide of the glorious and peaceful and righteous and beautiful Tibetan People and culture. Brad Pitt does a pretty good job.
	What Dreams May Come	We were taking a walk the other day on Mount TamalAchala and stumbled onto the set of this movie as they filmed it on Pheonix Lake. It was beautiful.
	Abre Los Ojos	Abre Los Ojos.(open the eyes) A Spanish production which exalts the interlacing dance of illusion/maya, what is real/unreal, time/out of time continuum. The plots appears to pertain to the egoic mire in which the rich, spoiled puer protagonist is embroiled. Yet the point of view shifts so subtly, and frequently, that the viewer, or at least this viewer, never truly knows if anything that ever happened on the screen ever happened at all, or did it? The director repeatedly reminds us that we can be in his dream if he can be in ours. For viewers who enjoy the prolonged after affects of the "grand illusion," taste this one and keep those Ojos Abiertos!! (H.L. Sanjay 7/99)