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Old Dog Documentaries is a non-profit 501c3 video production company. Our mission is to create films that  inspire dialogue and action on social, economic and environmental justice.

Our current project explores the
terrain where Christian and Buddhist paths connect.

 


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Jesus and Buddha -- practicing
                                          ascross traditions the movie

Our Latest Project:

Jesus and  Buddha
Practicing Across Traditions

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                                                    and Buddhe DVD

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Jesus & Buddha
Practicing Across Traditions

Maybe we don’t need to enter a monastery or go to the desert, but some form of discipline may be necessary if we are to move beyond the self as the center of identity and into the liberating vastness of the “Buddha-field” or the nourishing wholeness of the “Christ-reality.

This film explores how three prominent Christian theologians found that Buddhist teachings and Buddhist practice brought an unexpected depth and richness to their Christian faith.  We learn what brought them to Buddhism and what they discovered as when they combined Buddhist meditation practice with their Christian spiritual practices.
During the course of their interviews, we see that the struggles and anxieties that motivate them are our own.  What’s more, their reflections throw the light back on us.  We can see better the prison of our ceaseless preoccupations, our obsessions, our animosities.  Perhaps our own notions of the spiritual path have been limited by our need for answers and our desire for comfort?

In the end it becomes clear from these witnesses that this is not a journey that depends on concepts and abstractions -- and definitive answers are beyond our grasp.  The journey is rather one of “practice” and insight. The path these travelers are pointing us to is infinitely spacious and ultimately fulfilling -- it can hold all of the contradictions and the questions as it leads further and deeper into the “incomprehensible mystery” that is this life.




Jeasus and Buddha
photo by Ben Robbins


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