After a lively discussion the previous week around the benefits of the arts (film in particular) and how this can support our practise and meditation (by exploration and understanding of human emotion and experience) and how our meditation practise can support participation in the arts, we decided to have a young buddhists film night.

We had some dinner together and watched Pasolini's Teorama ('Theorum') (1968) on a big projector screen in the Buddhist Centre. The film is apparently highly rated by Sangharakshita and Subhuti, and sees Terrence Stamp having a profound effect on an apparently repressed borgeouis family, largely by seducing them and challenging their most fundamental views of themselves and the world. We mostly agreed that it was a challenging (and pretty wierd) film but we felt we had learned something from it. Exactly what Im still figuring out - anyone else who was there or has seen it do share your thoughts! 

It was great to do something more 'social' though - we usually focus on our monthly discussion meetings but hoping to do more social stuff from now on, inspired by the Annual Retreat.

Thanks to those who came!

x Kara x