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Script: Defining Dharma

 – A Journey to the West

# Introduction > [On-screen title: *Defining Dharma: A Journey to the West*] > [Cut to a slow pan across ancient stone carvings, manuscripts, and cultural rituals from various parts of the world. Soft ambient music plays.] The word *dharma* is one of the most enduring—and yet most misunderstood—concepts in human thought. In the Western world, it often arrives as a borrowed term, loosely associated with Eastern spirituality, karma, or moral law. But this is a distortion—an oversimplification of a far more complex and adaptive idea. Dharma is not a singular doctrine. It is not confined to any one religion, region, or historical period. It is not merely a rulebook, nor is it a metaphysical abstraction. It is a way—a path, a framework, a structure—that holds together the ethical, social, and existential dimensions of human life. > [Cut to black-and-white portr

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2017: a return to kyoto

this is a video from a point-of-view perspective that i took while walking around the kyoto imperial palace grounds. it was during a solo visit to japan at the end of 2017. it was cold and snowing. i had visited japan in the [northern hemisphere] spring of 2013; during the cherry blossom season. though i was not solo at that time. my supposed purpose in going to kyoto in 2017 was to undertake the rakuyo 33 pilgrimage route. to this end, before i went, i roughed up a little web site to help guide me around the densely packed city of kyoto (rakuyo33.info if you are interested). i completed this pilgrimage, on foot, and often in snowy conditions, over a period of six days. however, my actual reason for going to kyoto was a bit different. i wanted -- or perhaps, needed -- to revisit the grounds of the kyoto imperial palace. in search of someone. i guess. thi

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Beringharjo Traditional Market, Yogyakarta

 – a way of trading that will soon disappear

A walk through the Beringharjo traditional market on Jalan Malioboro in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, using a chest height POV camera.

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Circumcision Celebration for Rama Dean

This is a video of a circumcision celebration for my son Rama Dean, which took place on 19 December 2014 at Graha Okusi, Jakarta, Indonesia.

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