Rev. Danny Fisher

Via TMcG: The trailer for Johanna Demetrakas’s documentary Crazy Wisdom: The Life & Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche is now available at GritTV. It’s embedded below.

As you will hear GritTV’s Laura Flanders say at the end of the clip, the film is still in production and requires further funding to be completed. You can donate to the production at the International Documentary Association’s website (the I.D.A. is one of the film’s fiscal sponsors) or by emailing Demetrakas and her producer here.

At her podcast Gaialogues, Joanna Harcourt-Smith recently interviewed Buddhist teacher and filmmaker Cynthia Jurs. Back in May, she also posted a brief talk by Upaya Zen Center’s Joan Halifax Roshi (who I interviewed last month). Both are worth a listen–just follow the links.

Zen Buddhist priest and board-certified chaplain Judy Seicho Fleischman, who serves as Staff Chaplain at Housing Works’ West 13th Street Adult Day Treatment Center in New York City, authors a piece in the most recent issue of PlainViews: A Publication of The HealthCare Chaplaincy on “transforming trauma” through relationships and community. Do take a look.

Via Integral Options Cafe:

The great Sujatin Johnson over at lotusinthemud has statements from Tassajara Zen Mountain Center abbott (and teacher with the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies’ Chaplaincy Training Program) Ryushin Paul Haller, San Francisco Zen Center president Robert Thomas, and others about the wildfires in California and their effects on Tassajara. Take a look.