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0:00 - Introducing Tibetan Buddhism
1:06 - A Local’s Views on Monastic Life
2:36 - Meditation, Buddhahood, and Christianity
4:55 - Reincarnation and Supporting Monks

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Transcript
00:00Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, depending on the time and the country where you are watching this video. Welcome
00:07to a new video.
00:09Today we are here at the streets of the city again after quite a long time.
00:15We are back here. We've got some pretty spiritual content. We're going to do some interviews of a spiritual nature.
00:25We are here in a beautiful park. Today we are going to be talking about a branch of Buddhism, specifically
00:35Tibetan Buddhism, and we'll be talking about Tibetan monks.
00:39Who can you tell us about Tibetan monks? What do Tibetan monks live on? Where do Tibetan monks live? That
00:49is the topic we are going to be discussing today.
00:51What is Buddhahood for Tibetan monks? What do they do in their free time? What is the main mission of
00:58their life? That and many other questions are what we are going to be asking today.
01:03So let's get into the video guys and welcome.
01:06We are here with a new gentleman whom we are going to ask about what we promised you recently. So
01:11let's get to it. Hello, sir. How are you?
01:13Hello, I'm good. What I was going to ask you, sir, is about the Tibetan monks originally from Tibet. What
01:20can you tell us about this lifestyle, about this philosophy of life?
01:24What can you tell us about this, sir? Well, honestly, very little. I don't really know much about them. Very
01:30little, nothing.
01:31What do you think Tibetan monks live on? They live off what they themselves, from the land, from the earth,
01:42from the earth itself and what comes from it, nothing else.
01:46Besides that, they go out every morning with their Tibetan begging bowls to the village to ask for some alms,
01:51a bit of food, and they also live off what people give them.
01:55And besides that, they are vegetarians, as you mentioned. What do you think about this, sir?
02:00Well, it's a way of life. And this place has its own way of life, its culture, its people, and
02:08they live it in their own way.
02:10Yes. And most of the time, what do you think they do? Do they engage in spiritual practice? Do they
02:17meditate?
02:17Yes, to meditate, and like you said, mostly spiritual practice.
02:22And what do you think they are trying to achieve with meditation?
02:26An inner peace.
02:28Inner peace?
02:29That's right, because very few people lack it.
02:31Alright, that's it, sir. Thank you very much for your interview.
02:35No, thank you very much.
02:36Hello, good afternoon.
02:37Hello, good afternoon.
02:38What I wanted to ask you, sir, is about the Tibetan monks, originally from Tibet.
02:42What could you tell us about this style, this philosophy of life? You caught me off guard.
02:47What do you mean, about what?
02:48What do you think Tibetan monks live on, sir?
02:55I suppose, from their culture, I mean, they must have something that's like their food and the customs they always
03:04follow, I think.
03:07From the land, right?
03:08Yes, something like vegetables, from their own crops.
03:13Apart from that, they also go out to beg in the town, in the city.
03:17And with their Tibetan bowl, people give them offerings.
03:20What do you think about this, sir?
03:22It's fun, it's fun.
03:24And what do you think they spend most of their lives doing?
03:29If they're monks, I guess they spend their time praying, saying prayers.
03:34Meditation too, right? Meditation, yes.
03:37And what do you think is achieved?
03:38Or what do you think they aim to achieve with this meditation?
03:42It could be like a kind of spiritual peace, like being more immersed in their religion, I think,
03:48or sharing among themselves within their religion.
03:53Have you ever heard anything about Buddhahood?
03:57Yes, a little.
03:58What could you tell us about Buddhahood?
04:03Buddhahood is like what the Buddhas have, yes, yes.
04:10Is there another religion as well that would be about meditation?
04:15Meditation, right? Meditation?
04:16Yes.
04:17Okay, and on a personal level, sir, do you have any religious beliefs or follower religion you'd like to tell
04:22us about?
04:25No, I'm a Christian.
04:29Evangelical Christian, right? Number.
04:31And about the message of Jesus Christ, what could you tell us?
04:35About the message of Jesus Christ, that Jesus Christ is the Son of God,
04:40and that the Creator loved us so much, that He sacrificed His Son for all of us, for all our
04:48sins,
04:49that He loves us all equally.
04:52He loves us all equally, right?
04:54Yes. Hello, how are you?
04:55Hello, good afternoon.
04:58Hello.
04:59Well, girls, what I wanted to ask you is about the Tibetan monks originally from Tibet.
05:03What do you think their lifestyle is like, or what are they trying to achieve, or what can you tell
05:07us about these monks?
05:08I would like to know more about the life of Tibetan monks.
05:13Okay, what do you think they spend most of their time doing?
05:17Meditate, for sure.
05:19100%. Meditation, right?
05:20Meditation and spiritual retreats.
05:22Spiritual retreats.
05:23And what do you think they are trying to achieve with this meditation? What do they do?
05:29After this life, to be able to reincarnate or something like that.
05:35Okay. Do you believe in reincarnation?
05:38A number?
05:39No.
05:40And do you girls think that reincarnation is a reward or a punishment?
05:43It depends on what you reincarnate as.
05:46It depends on what you reincarnate as, right? And what can you reincarnate as?
05:50Anything you want, right?
05:51Well, I mean, it's whatever you want, right?
05:54Whatever you end up as, of course you don't get to choose.
05:56Whatever you end up as.
05:58And how do you think they feed themselves? Or how do you think these Tibetan monks support themselves?
06:05Do you think they leave off the land from what they grow themselves?
06:08They have a vegetable garden.
06:11And what do you think about Tibetan monks going out in the morning to ask for arms with their Tibetan
06:16bowl and leaving off charity from what people give them?
06:19How do you see this?
06:22Like the nuns and religious people too, right?
06:25Yes.
06:26They have to support themselves somehow.
06:28Right, of course.
06:29Okay.
06:30Well, if there's anything else you'd like to add, any advice for all the young people watching us, or anything
06:35at all?
06:36Nothing, just that they should learn about Tibetan nuns.

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