Meet Chapman to
From a being a gangster in Hong Kong to playing one as a celebrated film actor, from seeking a Buddhist blessing for his career to teaching meditation, from being blacklisted for activism to surviving a deadly illness — with stops along the way as a radio personality, film producer, and businessman — Chapman To is full of surprises and no stranger to adversity and success. Yet humor and joy pepper all his conversations. In his own words, said with a twinkle in his eye, no matter what he does, he’s always in trouble.
Chapman To
And that’s a key to his success: finding strength and joy in the depth of difficulty, in concert with devotion to his Buddhist path. A longtime student of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, he leads weekly meditation classes at Nalandabodhi Taipei, which he calls his “most favorite job of all.”
Best known for playing Tsui Wai-Keung in the Internal Affairs trilogy, he also had a popular radio show on Hong Kong’s Commercial Radio 2, and is a renowned film producer and YouTube star of Chapman To’s Late Show. He currently is writing a movie script, and recently launched a business venture distributing specialty foods in Asia and North America, with plans to open dim sum restaurants in Taipei.
But his biggest trouble to date — a life-threatening condition and near-death experience — is what taught him about awe. Learning the formula for finding awe is easy, he said, while doing it is not: “You meditate and fight for your life by meditating, by doing nothing. Then you realize, you don’t have to fight for it. The most awesome thing in the world is we don’t need anything awesome.”
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Awaken Awe
Series of Talks
TALK 1: The Nature of Awe
Mitra Mark Power
What is the nature of awe? Mitra Mark Power will open our series with a teaching and exploration of awe, and methods to build a pathway into its nature.
TALK 2: Opening to Awe Through Storytelling
with Laura Simms
Stories have the power to heal and transform. Laura Simms will guide us, with her cutting-edge performance style, as we learn how storytelling can help us open our hearts to awe.
TALK 4: The Miraculous Fabric of Life
with Mimi Zhu
Sharing their own journey, Mimi Zhu will explore with us the intersections of love and fear through the healing power of writing and nature, and how to notice the miracles of intimacy and of everyday life.
TALK 5: Art and Awe: From Astrophysics to Quantum Mechanics
with Seffa Klein
Whether it’s looking at the vast sky or the tiniest of particles, visual artist Seffa Klein will invite us to view the world with wonder and reveal why looking at awe-inspiring art can uplift humanity’s future.
TALK 6: The Peaks and Valleys of Awe
with Matt Fioretti
As an alpine climber of the world’s highest peaks, and as a survivor of the depths of a life-threatening diagnosis, Matt Fioretti’s life story offers us a clear guide on how to turn the experience of awe into a pathway.
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