How Did Japanese Monks Mummify Themselves? | Legendary Locations
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2022
- Josh Gates explores Sokushinbutsu, the practice of Buddhist monks observing asceticism to the point of death and entering mummification while alive. How did these religious devotees achieve what they believed to be the highest form of enlightenment?
From Season 2 Episode 2.
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who is here after mrballen video?
Edit : Wow! 104 likes. Thanks for the attendance you guys, I never had that many likes and replies in my comments on RUclips so thanks for showing your love.
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😂u funny
Japanese understanding of immortality: YOU WON’T DIE IF YOU ARE ALREADY DEAD 😂
"What is the mind and soul but foreign agents of the body? If the body is disposed of in a useful but preserverved state, but without the consciousness aware of its earthlty demise, it can host it virtually forever."
@@glidershower The body is only useful with all the biochemical processes going on. That functionality ceases to be when you marinate yourself like that smart arxx
@@glidershowershut your Buddhist bullshit, why don't you give a try to shokoshinbutsu .
Seems like a good idea when older monks know their time is coming
Are you kidding me? Do you know the suffering this procedure involves?
@@Dennis-nc3vw Ikr? Starving yourself & then poisoning yourself to death. Suicide, but you don’t rot. 🤔 To each their own. And none of them know if they live on or whatever it is reincarnation. Because no one can tell them. Intriguing & very disturbing. ✌️
I appreciate you picked up on this. However, the practice is not limited in Yamagata or small a sect, in fact you can even find one at temple in Inagi city, Tokyo.
They're in games as well.
Zelda and others.
Shrines with mummified being.
not gonna lie. you gotta respect their dedication and determination.
There is nothing to respect, this is just self-harm via religious fanaticism. The only difference between this and suicide bombers is the monks are only harming themselves.
i.e. we shouldn't necessarily condemn the practice as they are not hurting other people but to say this is worthy of respect makes no sense.
Once religion starts to inspire death it ceases to become a tool of self help, Buddhism is no exception.
There are far more worthy things in life to put that kind of dedication and determination towards than self-destruction.
This is pure stupidity
@@Roy-ts9nvtypical materialist response 😂 😂 there’s more to existence than corporeal life, and these guys truly believe that. It’s not nonsense to respect these men for this act, and comparing this to suicide bombers is complete nonsense. Apples and oranges.
@@jusrome2037thank you ❤❤❤materialists will never understands
That's kinda like saying "I respect the Pain Olympics guy" who cut off his own junk on camera
Imagine meditating so much you mummify yourself.. I don't have patience for it..
This isn't Buddhist teaching, Bhudda tried this before enlightenment and proclaimed it was useless. And taught of the middle way.
@@hz9253 I didn't claim it was..
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing... Ecclesiastes 9: 5
It’s not to the brink of death…. It is death.
Now what would really be messed up is after the monks died they woke up in hell and realized that huge sacrifice they made was all for nothing but seeing that none have ever come back to tell what the afterlife is like we just have to assume that they really did achieve a new state of enlightenment.
Literally
@@GuardianAngel.. they burning in BBQ right now
@@GuardianAngel..why would they be in hell
But why do they think he is a living Buda if he is clearly dead? He became a living buda when he died? I dont get it...
They are religious extremists. Once religion starts to inspire this level of self-harm it is pointless trying to make any kind of sense out of it. The only difference between these people and suicide bombers is they are only killing themselves.
It is believed that he is still meditating even as a mummy
The Middle Way
"There are these two extremes that are not to be indulged in by one who has gone forth. Which two? That which is devoted to sensual pleasure with reference to sensual objects: base, vulgar, common, ignoble, unprofitable; and that which is devoted to self-affliction: painful, ignoble, unprofitable. Avoiding both of these extremes, the middle way realized by the Tathagata - producing vision, producing knowledge - leads to calm, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to Unbinding. - Majjhimāpaṭipadā" - The Buddha
Thank you 😊
I don't think encasing yourself is the middle way tbh
@@Paul....... I think that's the point, i.e. this practice is a distortion of Buddhism principles that comes from obsessing over self-affliction to the point it becomes a meaningless act of self-harm.
@@Roy-ts9nvit’s meaningless to you. good things you’re not the arbiter of what’s meaningful or meaningless in this world, and it’s clear that you have a personal issue with the practices that these people participate in.
This monk was old when he started his process, therefore we should consider a possibility: When he started, he may have had cachexia, the wasting condition that makes it difficult for cancer patients and some heart patients to eat solid food.
In that case, eating would've been very unpleasant in the first place. Cachexia patients frequently "starve" because their system can no longer tolerate and process food effectively. Cachexia agrees with the known facts of the scenario. A pathologist might be able to analyze the corpse to know for sure.
It is true that many of the monks are old like in their 80s, but some are 30s and 40s. (Yes, we have records of their ages)
So he was weak and frail to begin with.
And made it worse by starving for 3 yrs. (1000 days)
And then drinking poison for 3 months (100 days)
Then finally being in an upright coffin where he could sit till he died.
They forgot to mention the part of the tree he drinks from is where posion ivy/posion oak comes from.
different tree and its a tea made from its needle. its a tree used in Japanese furniture since the lacquering is very gorgeous
Its amazing how they know all this
While the world is dying of disease and war, most kids don't ever become adults, man's 96 and lives for over 400 years now
Nah, he been dead.
"Most kids don't ever become adults" - That's not true. In fact, child mortality rates have been steadily declining since the 90's, thanks to advancements and greater availability of modern medicine all over the world. Check The World Health Organization or other reliable sources if you want to see for yourself or learn more.
Fantasy Island 😂
I'm here after reading the book "How to make a mummy talk" and Tetsumonkai was included among other mummies featured in the book. He's a Japanese Buddhist who mummified himself despite still living.
Wait what? Was he some kind of Lich or undead?
@@rootfish2671he's very much human just like us.. the process of mummification is not just limited to intended embalming of the dead or the natural aid with nature preservation but also practices where they prepare their own still living bodies for mummification and can only be completed with the help of others too. In the buddhist's case, he prepare himself by slowly starving himself by drying himself out with candles, until he passes away from either dehydration or starvation, be sealed away for some time, brought out and dried by candles one more time.. or at least what I can recall from the book.
Stop trying to be spiritual & REALISE you are the #Spirit... Stop trying to meditate & REALISE you are the #Meditation... Stop trying to chase Enlightenment & REALISE #Enlightenment is you(consciousness) and everything around you.
Asceticism is the extreme opposite of Hedonism/Overindulgence...They both try to achieve a Higher state of being by putting their bodies through extreme pain/pleasure. However, if you are persistently doing things to the extreme your days are numbered. Too much food=death, No food at all=death..
Hence, many ascetic monks have died attempting sokushinbutsu & inversely many people have died of drug overdoses attempting to achieve extreme ecstasy/euphoria. Both paths are unconscious(unaware) extreme opposite sides of the same coin and they are both spiritual mirrors of one another's intention☯️. Balance/the middle way is key.
Stop trying to sound wise when nothing you said made any sense!
Hence why the only person who liked your comment was yourself.
If you think an enlightened person gives a fuck about death, you’re dead wrong 😂
In Ang Hueh Province of China, there's a Monastery dedicated to Kstigahbar Bodhisattva becomes the displaying gallery of mummyfied monk. All of them treated as proper bodhisattva plated with gold paper.
Who's here because they saw the Mr Ballen video? He made it so interesting to me
Nuts and seeds for the 1st 1000 days
Barks and roots for the 2nd 1000 days
Tea of erushi tree sap
Mountain stream of arsenic composition
Now I'm curious did anything change after they passed and did they spirit regret what they did
Mystical Monks
Gee, Josh, you really have the talent of being irritatingly exaggerative.
“Oh no, my village is falling apart, perhaps killing myself is the best way to solve all the problems”
That's how Christianity Was born....
Whatever works
“Still looking good-ish” hahahaha
Listening in English and hearing Yudono by this dude I cant not-hear "Mount You Dont Know."
The re enactment and dramatization is to cringe.. gonna find another resource to research this
It seemed pretty tasteful and historically accurate to me. The only thing that made me laugh a bit was the "whoosh whoosh" sound effect they'd play when zooming in on the mummy.
So this is the inspiration for Senpou temple in mount Kongo from Sekiro.
ma man
What are you guys trying to do poison me I tried this diet for 5 days and I almost died.
No one told u to do that no one
@@asiaticoasis😂😂😂😂😂
Monks made of wax is less scary😂
Clearly tho host and moderator of the Earth server we are all iliving now!
It's called sokishonbutsu or something like that
If dead serious was a person
Love it🤍
How did that help the community?!
he left all the food for them🙃
You think this is the most dangerous practice? What about the guys flying planes into towers and blowing up cars?
3000 days for that process. Famine issue already solved by then 😂😂😂😂
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I'm a fan of Sokinatzibutsu 😎
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sokushinbutsu is a kind of interface to dead life
Fukuma Mizushi
So, 3000 days, right?
How many years is that?
3000 ÷ 350 = 8.57
That's almost 9 years, 8 and a half years.
Makes you wonder how the participants might feel about removing those bamboo pipes and burying him.
It is reasonable that there had been so many athiests lately.
A year is 365 days.
Number 3
“Did”? They still do it lol
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0:12 you forget war crimes, nuke, and h*ntai.
The first 2 is what the US is known for
@@manal9514when I think of nuclear disasters the first two places that pop into mind are Japan and Ukraine lol
And why not!
Weird
Hilltop Hermits
We are all immortal anyway ..silly monks
Wooah 🙄
This reminds me Sekiro
First one
Second one
For me this culture mentions just being patient, hurt your self. Nothing good for life. Now Japan is no thrives, hard work life style makes depopulation.
2nd
immer derselbe Mist: theatralische Musik soll was bewirken??? Das ist keine Dokumentation sondern Event. Nach 2 Minuten habe ich abgeschaltet.
The democrats did this to Ruth Ginsberg
You're actually disturbed.
Lol
To joe Biden too, isn’t it ?
There is one major difference: instead of arsenic the Dems use adrenochrome
I hate myself for laughing out loud at this.
But that's still like self-inflicted death because you know what you're doing and going for, a.k.a. a form of suicide which is not enlightenment in the slightest.
I thought keanu reeves is the only living buddha
Actually that's not what religion makes u. U have to work and then pray. Those guys were wrong. Many God believers work u know.
Biden is a living Buddha. 😅
Gross...
I think buddhism is a real deal..now i'm scares for karma 😞
Sorry but this is ridiculous how did things turn out did it help his village this world will be so much better off when humanity embraceses the fact that we are on our own just animals on a pale blue dot in space going about our lives there is no god of any religion we can be good to one another protect one another without having to go thru this nonsense or pray to something y that will never answer
Biden must be slowly reaching this point.
The red beard guy is really annoying! Also, most ppl dont understand this type of lifestyle. Life is pain, a consequence of physics, which is why ppl go to great lengths to find the creator. Mountains are sacred and these guys know how use it for its intended purpose..."drops the mic"😎
You really think you did something…
@@flyingrover9022 thank you yet still YAH has asked us to live righteously repent but no that's to much but this yes
Well let me correct you
The people doing this is trying to achieve nirvana
It's not lifestyle and all
The red beard guy is doing the best to give us the glimpse of what the process of that
So fuck you mic and I'll throw it back to your face
Super hero??? Kinda disrespectful 😒
They live in abodes filled with objects made by an advanced civilization and yet they claim to be abandoning it to experience 'enlightenment'. Pure BS. They're going bareback on the mountain. That's their real 'enlightenment'.
They go up in the mountains to a cave.. their bodies have been brought down to be worshipped...
@@einienj3281 it's smarter to worship God not a man corpse
Alxadulilah Allah has plessed us Islam ☪️
This is wrong and disgusting
yudono 😂