0:00 And then when my mom's not looking, then I'm doing it like kid's style, like ████ >> Like little s█████ ones? >> He's burning through those burpees those burpees. >> The way like the way Taika would do it like that? >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> I'm just I'm just ████ through them. My mom's like, "You're doing 108 ████ bows." I'm like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." >> How much about Do you know everything about Buddhism? >> Do I know everything about Buddhism? >> Say yes. Say yes. Say yes. >> Yeah. And we get >> Can you explain the basics of Buddhism? Um why >> And what's the difference between the Mahayana and then the the Sutrayana? >> got to say so I got to give a uh like a disclaimer. >> Is it Catholic Protestant? >> I thought you were making up words. >> No, you know like they have they have two kinds, Southeast Asian and the north kind. >> Yeah, I got to put a disclaimer.
0:50 Everything I know about Buddhism is through like Chinese lens. >> Uh-huh. >> Cuz I feel like they also practice it differently than what I've seen in even Thailand and India or whatever. >> Cuz you guys have Taoism. >> There's a lot of Taoists. >> What was the exact specific way cuz I think like you know if anyone wants to know they could just Google whatever. What's the very specific way that you were taught Buddhism and why did you have to follow it that way? >> The way that I was taught Buddhism so >> your mom was telling you? >> So the first thing like one of the first concepts is you learn about reincarnation. >> Uh-huh. >> And >> So you're a child learning this. >> Yeah. And there are three upper levels and then three lower levels. Three lower levels, one of them is hell. Another one is like demon. And then the other one I believe are animals.
1:40 Then the >> Animals is worse than demon? >> No, no, no. Same level. Same level. Uh um hell demons animal >> Oh, one above. One above. >> Yeah. >> I was going to be like animals are worse THAN DEMONS? >> THERE'S A cute ████ puppy and they're worse than a god damn ba- ball? >> But being re- reincarnated as a puppy is >> And then it goes >> human >> Yeah. >> then it goes heaven, and then I think there's like one more above it. >> Above heaven? >> Yeah, so like >> How could it get better than heaven? >> Mega heaven. >> Um and that's where I I heard that you actually get really tested because you have everything. So, how do you stay humble and still have morals and stuff? >> celebrity that gets unlimited ████ >> Kind of like that. >> Yeah. >> That's tight. >> so in hell >> Ted dancing. >> if you go to hell, you're not hell in hell forever. You're just going to >> suffer for like 10 million years. >> Okay. >> And then you go back. So, there's that concept. And then the other concept
2:30 would be that's why they are vegetarian because the cow that you want to eat could have been your mom in your past life. So, you don't want to be eating no family members or whatever. >> And you don't want to kill. >> Yeah. >> Cuz that's like one of the like I guess the 10 commandments of Buddhism. So, um uh >> Oh, so no living creatures. >> No. So, yeah. So, Buddhist vegetarian is way different than like uh I guess like hipster vegetarian. >> Yeah. >> So, my mom will eat eggs. >> But, your mom was Buddhist vegetarian as long as you've been alive. >> Um as maybe since I was 7. >> Wow. >> So, over 30 years. >> Wow. >> Yeah. >> But, she does love the potato wedges from KFC that's cooked in the chicken oil. >> Oh, yeah. >> She doesn't know that it's from there. So, I don't tell her. >> Let her pass.
3:22 >> Cuz she always goes, "I miss when we used to go to KFC and you get the fried chicken and I get the potato." >> Oh, okay. That's interesting. How come you got to >> do the same thing. >> How come you got to eat the fried chicken? >> So, I grew up um so, I guess like my mom was like at home we'll eat vegetarian. >> Yeah. >> And then at school like I don't want you to be weird or whatever, so you go eat whatever you want. >> Mhm. >> All of my breakfast and dinner meals were vegetarian. And then on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, cuz my parents are divorced, that's when my dad would go take me to eat regular stuff. Hey mom, you can actually eat at KFC, they have potato wedges. They're cooked in the chicken oil though. >> So your dad was not Buddhist? >> No. My dad's like the most atheist guy you could >> Yeah, wow. How did they get along with that? Like how did they >> got along very long.
4:14 >> But they never came to an agreement on how you would be raised. Were they like, "Okay, like when they were together." >> You know what? I think when they were together, my mom was probably more like low-key Buddhist. Cuz she would I remember her making me pork chops. And then it'd be like I think after they got divorced, then my mom was probably like, "Why is this happening to me? I MUST REPENT." >> OH. >> DOUBLE down on Buddhism. >> penance for that. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> How did you pray as a kid when you had to pray for like in Buddhism? >> So Buddhism sucks because uh it's very fun. >> video. >> physical. >> Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> So like we do this thing where there's like I call it Buddhist burpees. So you have to bow, right? You go like this. So do you You stand here, you go down to your knees, you go like this. Like put your hands >> Good lat stretch.
5:05 You stand up, right? >> How many times? >> So everything is in these weird numbers. You got to do it 108 times. >> Oh, there's a symbolism with 108, isn't there? >> I think so. I don't know what it is, but you got to do that a ████ 108 times. And when you're a kid, you're like, "What the f███?" >> lot. >> I'm like, "Dude, my ████ homies that are Christian, they're singing on a guitar and ████ Like why the ████ am I doing these Buddhist burpees at home?" >> all of them? Like you did 108 exactly or you just did however many you until it seemed like 108? >> I think if I try I I do try to be honest and I'll try to do 108. >> Damn. >> And then when my mom's not looking, then I'm doing it like kid style, like ████ >> Like little s█████ ones. >> He's burning through those burp those burpees. >> Like like way Tyco would do it, like that. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> Cuz I'm just ████ getting through them. My mom's like, "Did you do your 108 ████ bows?" I'm like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah."
5:55 >> And then did you guys have other family or friends that were also Buddhist that you could compare the practice to? >> ████ yeah. >> And they weren't doing things exactly the same way as you guys? >> No, because my mom was the one So everyone when they go to the temple, you know, that Shi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, >> everyone when they're at the temple, they usually do the Buddhist thing and you have the vegetarian meal, whatever. My mom is like living that lifestyle at home. She wakes up 5:00 a.m., puts on her robes and ████ ████ lights the incense, >> Uh-huh. >> does the whole thing and then she has her own like morning prayer, night prayer in the robes. >> Yeah. >> And she's going through like Like you know, um, when you go to like a church, there's a whole like Like especially like a Catholic church, there's the whole sermon. >> Yeah. >> And then usually at home it's a very abbreviated version of like you're like, "Oh, dear heavenly father." >> yeah.
6:45 >> My mom does the whole ████ temple ████ at home. >> How many hours does that take? >> Probably an hour or or hour and a half. >> Oh my god. >> Yeah, she'll sit there, read the whole ████ Bible thing, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. >> the Bible thing? >> So, um, there's different like manuscripts written by the different Buddhas. >> So is it Siddhartha's one of them? >> Uh-huh. Um, and >> Isn't Amida Buddha one of them? >> Yeah, Amida Buddha's another one. >> Uh-huh. >> So like if you go to the, uh, the Shi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, >> Yeah. >> when you go to the main hall, there's three >> Three Buddhas. >> They look like triplets, but they're actually different. So So Dar, so Amida is the one in the middle. >> Uh-huh. >> Um, Siddhartha, I forgot if he was left or right, and then the other homie is, um, ████ I forgot what that guy's name is. >> Yeah, I forgot what that guy's name is.
7:35 But yeah, they're all they're all >> Boo Boo. >> But they're like the they're like the the triple triple threat or whatever. But Amida >> Triple threat. >> But Amida is like the like >> Amida is the main one, right? >> Yeah, he's the most benevolent one like Yeah. And I so that's that's the one that she reads. It's called the uh like uh the Amida um And in Chinese it's Amitojin. And then the thing that in that thing I've read so many So it takes if you were to read it out loud >> Yeah. >> it'll take 30 minutes to recite it. >> Mhm. >> I read it so many times that I could recite it from memory. >> Shut up. >> Yeah. The whole 30 minutes of the >> Like do you still remember it? >> I only know the beginning which is like for so Amitojin which is like Buddha says >> Say as much as you can right now. >> No, that's it. I could tell you okay, I could I could recite I could recite a Sanskrit chant that I
8:26 probably still remember. This one is um Namo Amitabha Tathagataya Tadyatha Om Amritodbhave Om Amritodbhave Amrita Siddhe Om Amritodbhave Amrita Siddhe Om Amritodbhave Amrita Siddhe Om Amritodbhave Amrita That's something I memorized as a kid. That's just one of the ████ >> Why is it so Chinese-y sounding? >> I don't know. I tried my best. >> There's a little Japanese in there. >> Buddhism does the same ████ >> What? >> They make it sound like Japanese. >> Yeah, cuz they have to get the Sanskrit and then change it to Chinese words. Right? Like Chinese pronunciations. >> crazy. >> Yeah. >> So every time someone passes, you do that? At Is there like a ceremony? >> there's ████ roadkill, we do it. We're ████ Me and my mom would drive Oh, how was school whatever and we would see a ████ dead dead weasel. Namo Amitabha Tathagataya Tadyatha Om Amrita >> How long do you do it for? >> And then we go back to like Oh, yeah, at
9:16 school it was pretty cool. We played handball. >> What? >> Yeah. >> That's ████ long. >> My mom is still does it to this day. >> Wow. >> We should do a Chaka. >> Hell no. >> And now my mom she does it to herself. She just goes like this. While I'm ████ listening to 2 Chainz in the background or something. >> Do you think she ruined Buddhism for you because like coming from like a Christian background and studying Buddhism, I feel like it's pretty freaking awesome. >> Yeah, I like it, too. >> it's it's way more logical in my opinion than a lot of other religions which just like like yeah, it has its lot dogma and stuff, too, but it's it's more reasonable in a way where >> Just be a good person. >> Yeah, and then everything that they're doing here like mindfulness and all it's just Buddhism, really. >> Yeah. >> But then probably my mom ruined it. >> She's not explaining it right. >> Yeah, cuz it's kind of cool. It's like it's not like here's a god and they're
10:07 forever above you. It's like you two can become Buddha. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> So you can transcend if you do the right things or whatever. >> that? >> No, that's what she taught me, but she taught her in her way. >> a part of your life believing that you could transcend? >> Um I tried. >> Or were you always just like annoyed by it? >> No, I would try like I would earnestly try. >> really try to transcend? >> Yeah, I would try to like okay, I'm going to try to like I'm going to try to like be good and cuz you know cuz you know like I would do those like be a monk for a day or be a monk for a week, those things I'm like >> Cool challenge. >> with my mom, right? Yeah. 24-hour monk challenge. Mr. Mr. Beast monk challenge. >> Last one to take your hand off the monk loses. >> And I would I would do those and when I'm there I'm already I'm like ████ it, I'm already here for 24 hours. >> Yeah. >> as well just like >> You might as well try. >> Yeah, just transcend real quick. >> But you it's ████ hard. >> when you and your mom go to the temple, what do you have to do there?
10:57 >> Like a for a regular ceremony or for like one of those be a monk day ones? >> I guess either way. Like do you have to burn something? Do you have to like do you have to say a a specific kind of chant? Do you remember I was asking you if she did that thing where you put the sticks in a cup and you shake the cup and whichever stick falls out? Are there any things like that? >> That was the Chinese >> Okay. >> Like a typical ceremony if you go like on a Saturday or a Sunday, you would go and then you'd line up in the shrine >> Uh-huh. >> and then they usually start off with uh like everyone reciting that like Buddhist like I'm the the the Buddhist scripture. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> Then once you go that, then you go into like uh reciting the Buddha's name for about like 15-20 minutes. And you do this ████ like What's that video game? Is it like a centipede that eats things? >> Yeah, snake. >> Snake. So, everyone goes into the snake formation and they go all like in and out of the Chinese pews.
11:47 >> What? >> And then you go >> you are walking like that? >> All of you. So, there's like 300 people walking in in like a Chinese snake. >> Getting bigger and bigger? There's more people at the end? >> And then you go back then you sit and you meditate for like 10-15 minutes. Then then they end it and then the boot the Buddhist uh monk says like something like inspirational stuff. Everyone leaves. >> Always be closing. Burr burr burr way's the way to go. >> Yeah, yeah, so he just pay, yeah. >> You eat vegetarian food and you go home. That's like >> How? >> That would I would say already is like medium weight Buddhism. Cuz most people they don't want to do that ████ >> Don't do that, yeah. >> go in and they have like incense. Like, oh, like I hope I have a good life, whatever. >> people doing that as well when you're there doing your thing. >> Yeah, there's that. And then there's those people. >> Mhm. >> And then there's the hardcore ████ that want to be a monk for a day or 2 weeks or whatever.
12:37 >> Damn. Is there anything like that you honestly kind of miss about all of this? >> None of it. >> You're good riddance to every every possible. >> Yeah, a good riddance to all I feel I'm so uh repulsed by it. Like when my mom texts me anything like like >> Oh, okay. Okay, like >> I see now, yeah. >> I'm like, oh, you know what? Like Tyco did whatever is pretty good. I'm trying to share something human. >> Yeah. >> Oh, that's because you know, when you're uh when you're a kid, you you let fish into the pond. So, this is the karma coming back. I'm like, shut the ████ up, dude. Like, can Tyco just have a awesome day cuz he had a awesome day like >> Does she say any that stuff to directly to Tyco? >> Uh uh unknowingly. >> Oh, so it's as a reflex. >> Yeah, cuz she doesn't That's her language. She'll be like You have to You have to be a good son. Okay, if you have a good son, you are going to good future, okay? And then she like walks
13:27 away. >> like understand where she's coming from with all that? >> I think she I don't think so cuz she just like he's just getting lectured. Like, okay, be a good son, whatever. Like it's not like, "Hey, you want some cookies?" It's just always a lecture, non-stop. >> So, he's just kind of like going with it to like kind of humor her and like be polite? >> Yeah. >> And like, "Okay, cool." >> Like, "Okay." >> like he he's not like registering that she has a different belief system. >> I think she he probably just knows that uh Chinese grandma is kind of cold. >> Oh. >> warm like like uh >> Mexican >> Mexican grandma. >> Yeah. >> Wow. So, all every 100% of this you are so over you don't even care. >> Over it and I like I'm traumatized by it. I'm trying to stay as far away from it as possible. >> You don't want to >> don't meditate? >> use any of that. >> Wearing the quick color orange.
14:17 >> But what if you transcend? >> YEAH, WHAT IF THEY MAKE YOU BUDDHA NOW, DUDE? What if you have to be Buddha? >> Maybe when I'm like on my deathbed I might let be like, "Oh, ████ please, please, please." >> Maybe in a way the transcending could have been connected to the pole climbing slightly. >> I start busting nuts? >> Yeah. Transcend every night with my hands. >> hear. And it's so it's so sad I guess like cuz now I know you as how you really are. >> Why why is it cool to hear? >> Because like I'm imagining the way that you are as this goof kid that wants to have so much fun and be a rascal >> Yeah. >> subjected to that. That is the direct opposite of like like I've I've been re Yeah, exactly. Like I've been reprimanded in my life for being like a bad kid. >> Yeah. >> But I've never had to live like that.
15:07 That I don't think I could survive. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, it's crazy to know that you went through that. >> Dug deep. >> As like much of a you know, monkey guy as you are. >> My mom tried to ████ do a exorcism on me before cuz she thought I was so crazy. So, So like sitting in our kitchen so my mom had this giant Every house we we to she has a giant altar. >> Yeah. >> There's this giant altar I'm sitting there and she would like light incense and then she would like walk around me for like 30 minutes chanting all these things and then she has holy water she like sprays it on me. This kid is like possessed or whatever. Like let let the demon leave him. Meanwhile I'm like I probably just have ADHD or whatever. >> Yeah. She's just trying to like get the demon out of you. >> Misdiagnosis, man. >> Yeah, I'm like dude this is ████ crazy. >> It's nuts. That's That's why I think it's crazy because it's you. You know what I mean? Like because it's Bart. But like you you hear about strict households, strict religions but then those kids are not nearly as like I
15:57 guess like your potential to to go beyond that so high already. But you were forced to like stay within those boundaries is tough. >> Yeah. >> If you guys have worse experiences than that growing up in whatever religion or better yet if you have any Buddhist stories or ways to relate to this, please let us know in the comments below.
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