2 Films Review on Buddhism Insight Meditation By Sun and Planets Spirituality AYINRIN The Dhamma Brothers- Directed by Jenny Phillips - A remarkable documentary about inmates at an Alabama prison who do a 10-day silent meditation retreat. - Film Review by Sun and Planets Spirituality AYINRIN

2 Films Review on Buddhism Insight Meditation By Sun and Planets Spirituality AYINRIN 

The Dhamma Brothers-

Directed by Jenny Phillips -

A remarkable documentary about inmates at an Alabama prison who do a 10-day silent meditation retreat. -

Film Review by  Sun and Planets Spirituality AYINRIN 

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Donaldson Correctional Facility is located in Alabama, southwest of Birmingham. There are 1,500 men housed in this overcrowded, maximum-security prison behind high security towers and a double row of barbed and electrical wire fences. Jenny Phillips, a cultural anthropologist and psychotherapist, began a documentary film in 2002 about a remarkable experiment in this very rough Southern prison. She convinced two meditation teachers — Bruce Stewart and Jonathan Crowley — to lead a 10-day silent meditation course for a group of 36 prisoners.

The film includes interviews with some of the men, their families, the warden, guards, and other staff members. Everyone involved realizes that the meditation program is an alternative to the heavy emphasis upon punishment over rehabilitation. Although some prisoners have been practicing meditation on their own through outreach programs for years, this experiment would mark the first time that an intensive retreat was held in the United States in a high security prison.

The filmmakers show the inmates preparing for the retreat by setting up cushions and sleeping mats in the gym and starting the process of silent meditation. It is almost like they are turning their space into a monastery where they will eat, sleep, and meditate apart from the rest of the inmate population. The dhamma brothers (referring to the dharma, a term for the teachings of the Buddha) share their experiences of working with mindfulness and encountering their feelings of anger, stress, anxiety, guilt, and other volatile emotions. Stewart and Crowley, the mediation teachers, express their delight in the transformation they see in a number of the prisoners who talk about a fresh sense of community and their interest they have in continuing the program.

Unfortunately, the 2002 experimental program was shut down after the chaplain at Donaldson began to worry about inmates becoming Buddhists and abandoning Christianity. The authorities failed to see that no proselytizing had been going on and also this kind of silent meditation is practiced in the Christian tradition.

Years later, Phillips received a call from officials at Donaldson and was told that the Vipassana courses would once again be welcomed there. The homecoming is a sweet one for the inmates who maintained a meditation practice on their own and for the teachers who had high hopes for continuing this program. The Dhamma Brothers is a convincing documentary that proves the cathartic value of meditation in the lives of these prison inmates who share their experiences of inner peace and growing compassion.

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Doing Time, Doing Vipassana

Directed by Ayelet Menahemi, Eilona Ariel

An extraordinary documentary about the transformations brought about in prisoners after they practiced meditation in India's Tihar Prison.

Film Review by  Sun and Planets Spirituality AYINRIN 

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Imagine the largest prison in India with 10,000 inmates. Out of this number, 9,000 are awaiting trials. A young man caught on the streets as a pickpocket could wait as long as six years for a trial and sentencing.

Tihar Prison had a reputation for being a breeding ground for crime with its unhealthy mix of overcrowding, corruption, violent criminals, and petty offenders. Then Kiran Bedi, an enthusiastic and idealistic inspector general of prisons in New Delhi, arrived to take charge of things. She wanted to make her mark on the system by changing how criminals were treated and finding ways to rehabilitate them so they would not be inclined to return to crime when they left prison.

This remarkable documentary directed by Eilona Ariel and Ayelet Menahemi, two Israeli filmmakers, deals with Bedi's reforms brought about by meditation programs for prisoners. This film includes interviews with inmates and jail officials, the inspector general, and Buddhist meditation masters who taught Vipassana.

According to Kyabje Kalu in Luminous Minds, meditation practice fosters mental stabilization: "In order to develop a stable mind, it is necessary to begin by abandoning attachment to sense objects and distracting activities. To do this, we enter into retreat, restraining our desires and learning to be satisfied with what we have. We sit down in the meditation posture and observe perfect silence; this way the mind can learn to abide in single-pointed concentration." While searching for a tool that would help bring about a transformation in the prisoners' lives, Bedi was told by a guard about Vipassana, which had been tried years ago in some Indian prisons. She brought in S. N. Goenka, a meditation teacher, to try it with a small group of inmates. The results were more positive than anyone expected. In interviews, those most affected by the 10-day Vipassana session talk about the challenges to stay focused, the experience of peace that came over them, the subsiding of anger, and the feelings of compassion for those they had wronged.

In April 1994, one thousand prisoners at Tihar took part in an 11-day Vipassana course: it was the largest event of this kind in history. This was followed by the establishment of a special center offering regular meditation for inmates. An Englishman serving a sentence for drug trafficking describes how his life was changed by participating in the program at the center. Can making your mind a clear pool change your life? Yes, it can as proven in Doing Time, Doing Vipassana.

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