You like the weather?
No! Fuck...
Hello...
Hey! Where are we going today?..
We are going to do what is called a... (turn around)
A "Templestay"!
We are going to pass the week-end in a temple
You remember we've already did
an activity which was baseball and then another which was the visit of
the k-pop thing. And now this is another activity offered by
the university : so 2 nights and 3 days in a buddhist temple
which is at 3 hours from here by bus so it is early in the morning...
Too early for fred... Yes...
The temple is called the JIKJISA Temple
And as I said earlier, it is pretty far away from Seoul, around the center of South Korea
near Daegu
Yes
We are dispatched in teams
We are team two and each team has 4 members
And we also have team leaders
10H11 : let's go !
12H29 : time to eat!...
How is the Korean food Fred?
Bad...
Why? Explain!
The sauce taste awful... And they put too much of it...
Which makes the thing disgusting...
Fuck!... You're disturbing!
11H41 : arrival at the temple
We've just arrived at what will be our house for the next days and nights
So Fred you show us around?
So there is rooms for each teams
we are team 2
Put off your shoes before entering!
So we live here in...
4 squared meters... 4 men...
It will be fine, it's just for a few nights!
You're right, just for sleeping
What a big room! Yep!
You saw everything...
Can you make a tour of the room fred?
Yep follow me...
Annnnnd... Done!
Here we are now in traditional outfit!
Composed of large pants, polars
and of... jackets?...
Learning how to do the "3 bows" in front of buddah
Constructed in 1735 : the main temple is a national treasure
So now they are going to explain to us the temple etiquette
What we must and mustn't do during the week-end
SUNIM : means the elder monk responsible of the temple
HAPJANG : joining hands in a respectful way
CHASU : join hands this way while walking around the temple
Meditation position
legs crossed / hands joined / harms sticked to your body / straight back / head up
AGAIN THE 3 BOWS
17H04 : food
Fuck... Fred... Oh my god you're such a kid...
Your plate is prettier than mine...
True
Each day, monks play 4 instruments
They play for the elements and everything that lives
In the air, on the ground, in water...
The camera has very bad nightshot quality so I corrected the image (so what you will see is not daylight)
"Singing" mantras
Debriefing of the dayyyy!
*Jingle*
20H02 : debriefing
We discovered our rooms
Then we made a tour of the temple
They explained a bit about temple history Then we turned around joining hands
There is two pillars in front of the
main temple : these two pillars have a signification
for buddhists and you have to walk around them
You can do this in two different ways : either 3 times or 108 times
So why 108?? 108 because we have 6 senses
(counting consciousness)
6 senses times 3 sentiments it gives
18 emotions possible
Then you multiply these 18 emotions by 2
Can't remember why...
And 36 times 3... 108!
That's why 108...
So either you choose to turn 108 times for a deep buddhist meening
either 3 times
And so the second most important number 3, why?
Because "past, present, future" and that
is why we multiply 36 by 3 by the way
So we turned 3 times joining hands
each time bowing in front of the pillars
They explained the temple rules to us : what we must and mustn't do
how do we practice meditation, how to pray, how to bow...
That is etiquette
Then we went to have a meal Was great!
When you eat here there should be no leftovers
You must finish everything : you take, you eat
You can have some more but don't spoil it
And we made the dish washing ourselves
What you saw in the video when we bow with pearls...
We made this 108 times ! Each time putting a
pearl on a thin rope (so there is 108 pears on it)
This is what monks use to make
prayers, and while reciting mantras they pass their fingers on the pearls
to count how many mantras they do. So there is 108 of them
to do : 108 pearls Anyway this si a beautifull
souvenir that we built ourselves, and not without pain!
Because 108 bow is very long and it huts!
Now we are back to our rooms With heating floor
Hell yeah heating floor!... So great !
So now we rare going to bed
It's 8pm We have to sleep at 9pm
And we have to wake up at ...
Basicaly we have to be in the temple where we did the necklace at 5:40am
No, 5:30am
No 40
Well, OK
Good night and see you tomorrow
Early and good mood...
So, how bad was your night?...
5:16 : hard to wake up
8:51 : walk in the mountains
Oh it's a GoPro ?
Yes, you know what it is ???
Debriefing of this morning! We woke up early
Then we ate lunch There was 4 bowls : in the first one (the bigget one)
There was rice In the second one we had soup In the third one we
had our chopsticks and the spoon and in the forth one we had the accompaniments
And then, wich was a bit strange
first the soup was cold and spicy Yeah weird taste ...
It was really hard to ingest Knowing that you can't let anything in the plate
You have to ate it all : event if you don't like it
And after there is water in the third bowl
with the chopsticks and the spoon This water,
once you ate everything, you use it to clean the
bowl in wich you have the rice, aliments, etc
first you put the water in the first, in the second, in the third and in the forth
and we then we asked : "but, where do we put the water once we finished?"
And, at this moment, we saw the monk drinking
the water from the cleaning and we realised that we
had to drink the water in wich we did the dishes and everything... And it was a moment really weird
It was not really good... And after we went
cleaning the temple and after we did a walk around the temple...
We climbed the mountain To see an other temple
Taking a walk in the park near the temple
Show to our viewers how comfy this bus is!
We just finished this experience, a week end lived in
buddhist temple. We hope that you liked
the video and you discovered a bit what it is
It was really good : I recommend it !
Honestly it was really cool : a good experience to do so
do it if you can, DO IT !
You say goodbye... You never say anything...
GOOD BYE
We will meet in an other video : good bye ! <3
No but ... I will let it like that ! That's it !
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