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.”
Learn more about Chapman To…