you see this a lot in buddhism, too, also, when we get there. but that moves you along the path with equanimity so that you're not building up new karma - you're moving along the path, you're growing. and of course, through ultimately, through the various yoga practices, sometimes following a guru, devoting yourself to a guru, these are the kinds of things that release you from the cycle of birth and death, which is your ultimate goal. so we're collecting a lot of interesting answers, but not so far out, really, when you think about it, because they're grounded in identity and grounded in relationship. if you believe your soul is actually eternally one with god, with the divine, and because of maya or illusion or karma or whatever, you live in this dream of separate existence. then, quite naturally, through the various paths in teaching the sacred text over many millennia, you want to find ways out of that entrapment, or illusory entrapment, back into oneness - back into your state of oneness. i mean, there's just so many beautiful analogies. i

a priest decides he is going to show the powers of mystic buddhism and he appears and on the alter with different sorts ofornmen of owns and then progresses through profound things and all of these are tongue twisters but it's the first round of tongue twisters nothing happens and the priest is very upset and blushes extraordinary red and he tries again. the second time the chants are much shorter and he begins to lose his patience and again nothing happens. third time nothing happens and he basically says how much time to turn to the wonderrous powers of the lotus set raand he does chanting and the parody is something like if anyone is old enough to remember and the mouse before vatican two and you don't understand anything and it's mumbo jump bow and this is a parody of that. the second and third pieces before the intermission i will not introduce. i think the program notes are sufficient and rather than lecture i would much rather you enjoy the performance. the one thing i would like to emphasize about the first piece this is indeed a comic piece and in most instances westerners have

for me it's an incredibly strong symbol of buddhism and shintu and awareness of transience. and important of beauty and culture and community and the way the blossoms frame important moments in life i think is something very nice to talk about in the film. >> reporter: through the film, the director offers a message from the survivors of hope for a better future. >> it's not cliche or corny to say there is hope and renewal. even after such great tragedy as human beings it is so impressive to me that the people can get up and carry on. a very eloquent guy says one day you want to give up, but the next day it's like i'm going to decide i keep breathing. i'm going to move forward. that is the movement of the film. it starts with the tsunami and destruction and ends with the sakuru, the new hope a moving into the future with a lot of beauty and grace. >> lucy walker will find out if she has won the oscar for documentary short this sunday at the academy awards in los angeles. >> an earthquake that jolted a nation. a tsunami that swallowed a coastline. a nuclear plant that spirall

. >> this is, some yoga, buddhism. >> john, we have our hands busy -- in america, kids are encouraged to eat junk almost from the time they're born. they see junk food ads on television from the time they're 2. they're fed sugar frosted flakes, they go to school and eat salty foods in the school lump program. there are 3 million soft drink vending machines. >> we're into a commercial problem, that's his area. what kind of avalanche of junk food have your market years exhibited that is demonstrable in your studies? >> i think looking at the schools and things like that there has been a grassroots movement within the schools to get rid of a lot of the vending machines and replace them with things like bottled water, yogurt type drinks, fruit drinks and bottled water, things of that nature. and even snacks, you've got organic type snacks, natural snacks, snack bars which are replacing things like candy bars and potato chips. those are some products we're seeing a lot of. a lot of the snack bar-type products. and the diet is getting more healthful. things like smoothies, for instance, are

she practices buddhism, planning to pray for her mother for 49 days. mother was one of an estimated 2000 people who joined a self help group called concerned committee members. members paid $35 a month on a promise when they die their survivors would receive death benefits. some have been paying since the group launched since 2000 but we found beneficiaries gathered and wondering if they'll ever see the money. andy's mother-in-law died in july and cnc told his family they would get $10,000 by last november. he's waiting. >> i called. nobody answered. i come here. and i see, office closed. >> she suspects they'll never get paid. >> i feel disappointed. i feel angry. i feel betrayed. >> members claim he disappeared. he's been evicted for not paying rent. >> i was very upset i was very hurt. >> david lee was raised by his grandmother, a member of the vietnamese-chinese mutual aid and community center in chinatown since 1986, paying $11,000 into the fund. when she died the center only offered to pay him $1400 of the promised $9,000. >> i didn't know how el

relidges on versions, thanks to the amendment which includes but not limited to, christianity, islam, buddhism try ex-plaining that to parents. >>> the big news is the super bowl. the game is on sunday. indianapolis is filled with fans, players, republicans have been trying for weeks to pass a bill to strip union rights and they had wanted to get it done before the game. the thousands of pro-union rights protesters who would be protesting that decision wouldn't get their case to make their case to an audience that couldn't get a chance to mick their case to an audience of several dozen million americans. legislators in indiana have been boycotting that vote off and on, pushing the vote closer and closer to game time. long enough for the country to see the protests, long enough for the union members who play in the super bowl to register disapproval of union stripping plans. today, the indiana legislature finished passing this bill to strip union rights in indiana. governor mitch daniels used to say he was against the policy, but today he signed it right away. almost as if he was in some kind o

>> i've done it most of my life, studied meditation, studied buddhism, just been around the world learningid people were naturally attracted to him and ego was beginning to show. >> and immediately started finding people attaching to me and wanting, you know, basically to pay me for my services to help fix things in their lives. >> lane said he was about to enter a monastery when he met ginger. >> i was going to study for six months deep meditation and ginger said can you come over to vegas, because she's got many, many problems which she's now sorting out and going through of her own accord. >> he spoke as though ginger were still alive. >> right now she's in mount shasta at a retreat which i recommended to her so she can find her inner self more. >> could he be trying to make the detectives think he really didn't know what happened? >> she's a spiritually very well developed. she's writing her book, i'm writing my book right now. so we had a lot in common. we met at a book launch here in anaheim. >> boucher and kisner wanted to know if ginger thought the relationship would lead to romanc

but i continued to chant, but this time, i was chanting for her eternal life, because in buddhism, weternal. >> and tell us a little bit about -- i mean, i can only imagine -- i saw the little clips of clive davis at that party, but the mood must just have been so somber, because she was someone who you really rooted for. you know, there are stars who get into trouble, and frankly, we're done with them. but i think for whatever reason, whatever force of her personality as well as her gift, whitney houston was somebody you really wanted to see come back. >> there's no question about it. and she has a new movie that's coming out, too. >> that's right. >> i mean, so much was happening for her at this particular time, and it's a strange kind of synchronicity that she died on the night of the person given by the person who really found, you know, established her global career. but at the point, our thoughts were really about how can we make sure that we truly honor whitney and make this party a celebration of her life. even though she lived only for 48 years, she gave so much to humanity a

dozens of monks have been killed or injured because buddhism is intrinsically linked with the royal thai government. today, the army has 30,000 troops and rangers here, checkpoints are everywhere, bases have been set up in temples. dogs sniff for bombs on city streets. >> ( translated ): they want the muslims worldwide to know that the thai authorities are weak and not legitimate to govern the people in this area. >> reporter: major general acra tiparoj says the stakes are high. >> ( translated ): they attack people who practice other religions and attack monks so that buddhists will get angry with the muslims, and that will lead to a religious war. if that happens, they will have successfully upgraded their battle to the international level. >> reporter: and so, the government is pursuing a two- pronged approach, according to longtime regional governor grisada boonrach. >> ( translated ): we use military action to control the area, to prevent the violence. meanwhile, we use civil action. for example, we use personnel to communicate with youth and community leaders, religious leaders, to

know, rip people's hearts out so the sun would come up and you think about the demons of tibetan buddhism and in christianity, don't tell me that gogatha was a dark space. our culture prefers to be on the light side. now, it even happened in the military. i remember that i was on a hill in vietnam. it was christmastime. and i wrote about this in the book. and we had been isolated there. we'd been -- my platoon was left to guard what was left of an artillery battery and we were the infantry trying to keep the nva away. and no one could get to us because monsoons, they were just shrouded in fog and we couldn't get any resupply. we could hear a chopper way down below. we were probably about 6,000 feet. it gets up to the hill. it had flat headed right up to the treetops to get underneath the fog and out steps the battalion chaplain and i thought, wow, this is amazing. and he comes up and he was just cheery and wonderful and he handed me a bottle of southern comfort and told me a couple of dirty jokes. i'm a 23-year-old lieutenant, you know, i've been fighting and dealing with death and i got

here in america, people are free to practice islam, christianity, buddhism, hinduism, aetheism, so long as it doesn't threaten this nation as a whole. we were told by the president there is no chance that any federal money would ever go for abortion. and some of our friends actually bought into that representation. turns out wasn't true. some of us tried to explain back then, you can't bind with an executive order what the law says specifically. it sets out requirements for health care providers, clinics, insurance policies and there are those that will provide abortions and ultimately there will be tax dollars since dollars are fungible that there are will be dollars used for abortions under obamacare. if obamacare is constitutional and the mandates in obamacare are constitutional, there is nothing the federal government cannot dictate. as i have said from here many times, this obamacare, 2,400 pages was about the g.r.e. it's what it's all about. this bill is about the gmple r.e., the government running everything, because if the government has the right to control everyone's health ca