Some Buddhist teachings for the holiday, enjoy.
Film The Beginnings of Chan (Zen) Painting and Muqi.
Read ‘A Buddhist Path’ by Ajahn Sumedho
Zen Film
From Academy to Chan: Liang Kai
This last of the four Southern Song Academy masters is shown as providing a bridge between that tradition and the new kind of painting associated with Chan (Zen) Buddhism: why it was preserved almost entirely in Japan and scarcely at all in China. Film 72 minutes
The Beginnings of Chan (Zen) Painting and Muqi
Beginnings of Chan (Zen) Painting and Muqi is a wonderful film exploring the highly problematic subject of Chan painting. 55 minutes.
Zen Principles and Practices
Documentary showing life in a Rinzai Zen temple. ‘Zen Principles and Practices’. Old Zen film 1986ish. Four parts of 29 minutes each. The film is not studio quality, but wonderful all the same.
Buddhism now 