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An overcrowded maximum-security prison is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. Behind high security towers and a double row of barbed wire and electrical fence dwells a host of convicts who may never again know life in the outside world. But for some of these men, a spark is ignited when it becomes the first maximum-security prison in North America to hold an extended Vipassana retreat, an emotionally and physically demanding program of silent meditation lasting ten days.
Palden Gyatso is a Tibetan monk who has spent 33 years of his life in Chinese prisons and labor camps and survived thanks to his mind training. When the Dalai Lama asked him if he had been ever scared, his replied: “I have often been scared to hate my executioners, because by doing so, I would have destroyed myself”.
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February 19th, 2010 - Screenwriting - Fabrice Renucci
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When a heartbroken, egocentric young man driven by attachment discovers the journals of a man who experienced a lifechanging experience practicing mind training in a temple, he relies on the virtues of a similar journey to overcome his suffering and reach a piece of mind.
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