One Mind (2015) - full transcript

You're back!

Get me your ordination ID.

Is this space free?

You can stay here.

- That space is taken.

Let's look next door.

- There's space next door.

I got here yesterday.

Here is good.

- Let me get you
some hot water.

I've got hot water here.



In ancient India
and ancient China...

people placed great
value upon their hair.

Especially the people
of ancient India.

Cutting someone's hair off
was almost worse...

Well let's just say,
he'd rather you kill him.

It would be too humiliating.

And in China
it was the same.

The ancient Chinese thought...

that because this body
comes from our parents...

...we don't dare defile it.

So they respected
hair and beard.

But a monk wants to
destroy his concept of "self".

Take the self and
break it apart.

Not a single piece of this
flesh and blood is "me".



The Buddha
wanted his monks...

to break apart this kind
of attachment to self.

So he made them
shave their heads.

Householders think it's very
beautiful to adorn their hair.

But Buddhists
don't think like this.

Beautiful or not...

when you die it's still
just a pile of bones.

There's nothing
worth holding on to.

It's okay, I used
to raise turtles.

This one
doesn't listen.

That one wants
to run off.

But those two
won't run off.

Just three?

Don't run off!

"Find refuge in the Buddha, refuge in
the Teachings, refuge in the Community..."

Don't kill. Don't eat
meat. Eat vegetarian!

The others are so well-behaved.
Why are you so naughty?

Be good. Find your enlightenment!

Have all three been blessed?

Put them straight
in the water.

No, no, over there!

Be careful with them!

Being Buddhist means
cultivating a kind heart.

But we aren't just
born with this kindness.

It takes many
lifetimes of hard work.

A kind heart must have
deep roots to grow strong.

This is the seed
of buddhahood.

You didn't plant
the squash yet?

- Not yet, I'm planting
the pumpkin right now.

Which way should
my group go?

Which way?

Wait for the team leader,
he'll take you up there.

A lot of monks are out working
today, so we need to coordinate.

Team leaders can show you
what's left to be harvested.

Everyone's going
up the hills today.

I'm going to split everyone
into two groups, okay?

You all will go up last.

I didn't learn to grow tea
until I came down south here.

I didn't know
a thing about tea.

This is a perfect leaf.

We call this
"two leaves, one bud".

This Zen tea...

you need a quiet
mind to experience it.

When you drink tea...

be mindful of the place
from where mind arises.

If there are thoughts there...

then when you drink the tea...

you won't taste Zen.

This tea, is mind.

But you don't
need mind to know it.

Wrap it up!

Let's head back!

Prepare for
evening meditation.

Look at all the tea we picked.

Pretty good.

Whoa, look at
this brother here!

He's up there all day and
this is all he comes back with!

Because I only
pick the best leaves.

Before becoming a monk
I was a salesman.

I sold health-care products.

To sell things I'd exaggerate
how good they are.

Then maybe I'd not
mention the bad things.

I think every salesman
exaggerates the truth like this.

And maybe they
hide something too.

Sleeping at night, my
conscience got the better of me.

I felt conflicted.

Everyone said
this is normal...

But I couldn't fool
myself any longer.

Come back!

Three days ago, I'd just
taken over this work.

The ox had run
into the forest there.

The next day he was running
all over in the fields here.

He fooled around there,
turning and lolling about.

I was asleep here.

I woke up and
chased him again.

But he'd disappeared.

You have to keep searching
after him and stay vigilant.

Soon as you look
away, he'll run off again.

It's tough
to be human.

You want to get
a grip on this mind...

But it's not so easy.

Just about ready!