MF 12 - Javier Perez-Karam Film Maker and Meditation Instructor

Interview with Javier Perez-KaramJavier Perez-Karam grew up in Venezuela, and relocated to New York in 2002 to pursue a film-making career. In the process he discovered Meditation and Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy, and as he started incorporating the practice into his life, he has gained a new purpose with his film career as well as his recent found drive to teach and share his experience with Meditation within the framework of Buddhist Philosophy and it's applications to the modern life.This is a summary (not a full transcript) of the interview What brought you to a meditation practice?His relationship started "non-spectacular", he was chasing a lady! That's how it started. He liked this woman, and she invited him to a Buddhist meditation class. He couldn't say no, so he went. It was Geshe Michael Roach, from the Tibetan Gelugpa tradition. He's a very polarizing person. He became his first teacher, put the seeds of meditation into his brain. Learning about karma, mindfulness. and emptiness. He had already grasped these concepts before from his own experience, but didn't have a framework for understanding.Meditation can lead them to the best version of yourself. He liked the promises of what meditation leads up to. His parents were going through a divorce, and he had broken up with his girlfriend, so that further encouraged him. His fiancee calls him an "experience junkie", so he gave it a try about 8 years ago. It took some time to make it part of his daily life. But it radically changed his way of seeing his reality. But also has a new view of Buddhism.Read more on the web site