Ethan Nichtern has just posted a link to a video speaking to the subject of  “The Enlightened Artist” 

Via Rod from The Worst Horse and Shambhala SunSpace comes this treasure from Pema Chodron

With all of the chaos going on around me in Montreal, I really needed this interview with ecoBuddhist Joanna Macy featured in Tricycle Magazine titled “Allegiance to Life”

Look at what you’re feeling. You may be feeling sorrow, you may be feeling outrage. You may be feeling dread and fear. You may be feeling futility and powerlessness. But whatever it is that you’re feeling, just take a look at where that’s coming from. It’s not coming from an attitude of “How do I get ahead as a separate person?” but rather from my caring for life itself. Those feelings of grief and despair or panic don’t come out of some personal craziness, but out of our caring for life. And that caring, in turn, comes from a sense of belonging. I care what happens to this Earth because that’s where I come from, that’s my larger body. I need the air to breathe; I need clean soil to grow food. I’m not just disembodied out there in outer space. 

Feeling alarm or devastation can guide us to a deep sanity, reminding us of who we are and what we need. It can remind us that we belong to this larger body and that we care for it. Our power to act, our power to take part in the healing of our world, our power to bring things back into balance, comes from the same source as that devastation. Our pain for the world, and our power to take part in the healing of our world, both come from the same place.

I read this and thought “Holy Buddha Batman!” This is what I’ve been doing all these years on this blog. Picking and choosing selected videos that resonate with me (although many of them are old punkrock or skate videos!)

So here for you dear readers is the day-long TMcG sponsored “Pixelated Buddhist Conference”. Please join in and create your own as I’d love to see what other great Buddhist videos are out there circulating on the web. Drop me a line if you decided to post your own “Pixelated Buddhist Conference”.

Venerable Robina Courtin – “Be Your own Therapist

The 4 Noble Truths – in Claymation

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche – Spiritual Materialism (2)

Noah Levine- “Anger”

Ram Dass – “on Experience”

Pema Chodron – Why I became a Buddhist

Ethan Nichtern – “One City: A Declaration of Interdependence” reading at Google

His Holiness the 17th Karmapa- “How can we deal with everyday distractions?”

Brad Warner – “Skillful Means”

Tonglen really helps me get into the crevices of my practice. I’ve found it useful in generating equanimity and in cultivating a greater sense of faith and vision in what I’m doing.

I’ve done the practice for me, for loved ones, for enemies, for everyone and at the end- it’s really the aspiration for all to be free from suffering, regardless of whatever form that suffering takes in each one’s life.

Tonglen- It’s powerful stuff.