Buddhist Nun Speaks After 45 Years of Solitary Retreat

this is a clip from National Geographic's Light At the Edge of the World

the Buddhist monk wearing red robes in the video is Matthieu Ricard, who has some videos online and some books and cds.

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[makespeaches]

i started saying 'om mani padme hung' every morning after i saw this video. i think that if somebody has 45 years practice doing something, and then recommends a specific practice, then there must be some merit to doing that practice. nowadays we know through science that there is in fact changes in the brain due to meditation and prayer.

[RafaelDeLaCastilla]

I'm an atheist. I think Buddhism is the most peaceful religion in the world.

[RochecousteML]

Maybe we are the ones wasting our lives!

[UniverseOffspring]

That's messed up. That second dude wanted to lean against her head and pray as-well, but she was like " you pray with that, I don't want to do that with you, you're not cool enough". At least that's what I understood, I watched a commercial with monks on it once- I'm pretty good at understanding the language they speak.

[UniverseOffspring]

@RafaelDeLaCastilla So you don't think cheesus is the way to go?

[ChicagoZenith]

@RafaelDeLaCastilla I love Buddha’s teachings also. I also love Jesus’ teachings as well, not people’s interpretations necessarily. Indeed, in Luke (6.27-36), Jesus says you must love everyone, including atheists.

[restlez2002]

@TheNewAgeOfDubstep more accurately, you can still practise what the buddha taught without being deeply attached to religious organisations. Spiritual freedom is not won by religious affiliation, it is through the working with your heart.

[restlez2002]

@graycam a good question. one has to decide (constantly when conditions change) which actions would be most effective. A person more or less has an idea about his/her own abilities and what they can do best. Taking mother theresa's life as an example, we can say this nun grew up in a very different environment and was equipped with very different skills. They both chose paths where their determination could bring them to dealing positively with the suffering of others although the routes differ.

[Mazurka1001]

Why disturb her, you evil fucks...

[TheNewAgeOfDubstep]

@RafaelDeLaCastilla you can be atheist and buddhist too!

[Rosedeclemence]

@graycam 1. Vajrayana Buddhists believe that instead of merely combating the superficial manifestations of suffering (war, mental illness, rape, poverty) this woman is destroying the root causes of these things within herself. Also, her prayers may generate of supernatural help so that she is able to remotely do more for sentient beings in that little hut than Mother Theresa. Or, in my view, she is not separate from Mother Theresa; they're like two hands of the same body.