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  Speaker 1: There are many extreme religious practices and rituals out there,
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  Speaker 1: but there may be none more extreme than the Buddhist
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  Speaker 1: monk practice of shokusan butsu. This brutal ritual was created
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  Speaker 1: in eight thirty five AD, and since then, over a
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  Speaker 1: thousand years, countless monks have tried to do it. However,
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  Speaker 1: only twenty four have ever actually been successful. Today, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to walk you through the three phases of this ritual,
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  Speaker 1: and at the end, I'm going to show you pictures
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  Speaker 1: of what a successful shokusin butsu looks like. However, be
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  Speaker 1: warned the images are very disturbing, so viewer discretion is advised.
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  Speaker 1: Buddhists believe that human life is a constant cycle of birth, suffering,
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  Speaker 1: and then death, and then you're reborn, you suffer again,
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  Speaker 1: you die again, over and over and over again forever
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  Speaker 1: unless you're able to achieve enlightenment, or nirvana as it's called. However,
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  Speaker 1: no one really knows what nirvana actually is, what it
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  Speaker 1: looks like, what it feels like, where it is. Buddhists
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  Speaker 1: will say that the only way to actually understand nirvana
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  Speaker 1: is to experience it yourself. It's kind of like trying
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  Speaker 1: to describe to someone what chocolate tastes like. You can
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  Speaker 1: use any number of superlatives to describe the flavor, but
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  Speaker 1: until that person bites a piece of chocolate, they won't
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  Speaker 1: really fully understand it. And so the goal of all
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  Speaker 1: Buddhists is to try to attain nirvana, and every day,
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of Buddhists all around the world try
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  Speaker 1: very hard to do just that. But within Buddhism, there
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  Speaker 1: is a small subset of practitioners who have effectively dedicated
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  Speaker 1: their entire existence to attaining nirvana, and these people are
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  Speaker 1: the famous Buddhist monks. It is extremely difficult to become
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  Speaker 1: a Buddhist monk because the sacrifice is enormous. You have
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  Speaker 1: to leave your family, your friends, society, all your possessions,
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  Speaker 1: your name, your status, everything and go live in a monastery,
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  Speaker 1: which is a kind of isolated place where monks live,
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  Speaker 1: and there you will spend your life living this very simple,
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  Speaker 1: very strict religious life where basically all you do is
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  Speaker 1: try to attain Nirvana. As a result of this extreme
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  Speaker 1: lifestyle that Buddhist monks live, they have developed a reputation
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  Speaker 1: for being some of the most disciplined people on the planet.
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  Speaker 1: But even by Buddhist monk standards their sacred ritual of
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  Speaker 1: our best to try to calm these beasts down and
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  Speaker 1: try to teach them graphic design to make the most
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  Speaker 1: Sokoshinbutsu was created over one thousand years ago up in
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  Speaker 1: the rugged mountains of northern Japan by a sect of
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  Speaker 1: Buddhists called the shin Gone, and the shin Gon believed
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  Speaker 1: that you could attain nirvana through physical punishment, and out
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  Speaker 1: of that idea was born the incredibly brutal Sukoshin Buttsou ritual.
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  Speaker 1: In short, Buddhist monks can choose to participate in this
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  Speaker 1: ritual and if they successfully complete it, they might attain nirvana,
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  Speaker 1: but they won't know until the ritual is over. Meaning
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of like a big gamble. Put yourself through
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  Speaker 1: absolute hell and maybe you have this huge payoff, but
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  Speaker 1: maybe not. However, trying to attain nirvana through other means
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  Speaker 1: was really difficult. There was no other really clear pathways
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  Speaker 1: to nirvana, and so having this one distinct pathway, no
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  Speaker 1: matter how difficult it was, was really appealing. And so
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  Speaker 1: since its creation, hundreds and hundreds of Buddhist monks have
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  Speaker 1: tried it, and maybe less than one hundred have actually
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  Speaker 1: successfully completed it, and then of that one hundred or less,
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  Speaker 1: only twenty four have actually attained Nirvana through this process.
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  Speaker 1: The instructions for sookashinbutsu are actually quite simple. There are
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  Speaker 1: three phases. Phase one is called moku Jikagayo, which roughly
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  Speaker 1: means tree eating training, and it's primarily focused on the
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  Speaker 1: monk's diet. It takes one thousand days to complete this phase, however,
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  Speaker 1: most monks go much longer than a thousand days. During
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  Speaker 1: the phase, monks will only eat byproducts of trees, things
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  Speaker 1: like seeds, nuts, tree bark, tree roots, pine needles, and
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  Speaker 1: they will collect all this food on their own. It
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  Speaker 1: should be noted, though, that some monks in this first
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  Speaker 1: phase will ingest small rocks. This is likely done because
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  Speaker 1: they are starving and they can't find food, and by
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  Speaker 1: eating the rocks, the rocks take up space in their
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  Speaker 1: stomach and kind of curb their appetite a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But because they don't actually digest the rocks, they're not
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  Speaker 1: technically breaking the Phase one diet restrictions, and so they
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  Speaker 1: can continue on with this ritual. Additionally, during this first phase,
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  Speaker 1: the monks adhere to a very involved and strenuous physical
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  Speaker 1: exercise routine, and then whenever they're not foraging for food
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  Speaker 1: or exercising, they are meditating. At the end of the
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  Speaker 1: one thousandth day of phase one, if the monk has survived,
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  Speaker 1: because sometimes Phase one monks do die, mostly from starvation,
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  Speaker 1: it is up to them if they are ready to
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  Speaker 1: move on to Phase two. This decision ultimately comes down
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  Speaker 1: to whether or not one the monk actually adhered to
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  Speaker 1: the strict rules of phase one, something really only that
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  Speaker 1: monk would know, and then two, whether or not the
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  Speaker 1: monk actually believes they are spiritually ready to move on
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  Speaker 1: to Phase two. Phase two is much shorter than Phase one,
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  Speaker 1: but it is significantly more challenging, and so the monks
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  Speaker 1: going into phase two they really need to kind of
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  Speaker 1: bring their a game and have no second thoughts. They
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  Speaker 1: need to be fully committed to phase two in order
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  Speaker 1: to successfully complete it. For reference, most of the twenty
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  Speaker 1: four monks who successfully attained Nirvana through this ritual repeated
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  Speaker 1: Phase one, two or even three times just to make
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  Speaker 1: sure they really were ready. Phase two is called nyojo,
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  Speaker 1: and it roughly translates to deep meditation. But a better
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  Speaker 1: way to think about what this phase entails is these
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  Speaker 1: monks need to enter into a sort of trance like state,
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  Speaker 1: almost like an out of body experience, because what they're
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  Speaker 1: going to go through in this phase is so physically
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  Speaker 1: uncomfortable that unless you're able to kind of detach mentally,
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  Speaker 1: there's just no way to go through with it. And
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  Speaker 1: so during the second phase, the monks will sit down
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  Speaker 1: and meditate basically constantly for one hundred straight days, and
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  Speaker 1: during that time they don't eat any more tree byproducts
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  Speaker 1: or rocks. Instead, they have a liquid diet. They drink
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of salt water and they drink a
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  Speaker 1: lot of a very particular kind of tea. The tea
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  Speaker 1: is made from toxicodendrum verniculum tree bark, which contains the
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  Speaker 1: same toxin in poison ivy. Meaning for Phase two, you
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  Speaker 1: basically just sit alone by yourself for one hundred days
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  Speaker 1: while simultaneously drinking a poisonous tea that causes a massive
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  Speaker 1: allergic reaction inside of your throat and stomach that causes
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  Speaker 1: an intense itching sensation inside of you that you cannot
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  Speaker 1: physically itch. Also, this poisonous tea gives you explosive diarrhea
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  Speaker 1: and it makes you vomit a lot. If you somehow
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  Speaker 1: manage to survive all one hundred days of phase two,
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  Speaker 1: and unfortunately many monks don't, you automatically move on to
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  Speaker 1: Phase three. Unlike Phase one, phase two never gets repeated,
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  Speaker 1: most likely because it almost certainly would be fatal to
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  Speaker 1: do so. Phase three is either the easiest or the
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  Speaker 1: hardest part of the sosokushin Bitsu ritual, depending on how
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  Speaker 1: you look at it. It doesn't have a name like
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  Speaker 1: the other two phases, perhaps because so few people make
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  Speaker 1: it to this part of the ritual, but regardless, phase
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  Speaker 1: three definitely has a strict set of rules. Like the
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  Speaker 1: other two phases, the phase three monk has a small
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  Speaker 1: pine box that has no windows built just for them.
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  Speaker 1: It needs to be big enough that they can sit
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  Speaker 1: inside of it in the lotus pose, which is how
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  Speaker 1: they typically sit when they're meditating. And then once it's
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  Speaker 1: all built, the monk climbs into this box. They put
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  Speaker 1: a lid over the top of it, but they put
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  Speaker 1: a bamboo shoot, like a bamboo pole, through the cover
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  Speaker 1: of this box, so there is a breathing tube for
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  Speaker 1: this monk inside of this box. And then they lower
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  Speaker 1: the monk inside of the small pine box ten feet
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  Speaker 1: into this hole in the ground. And then once they
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  Speaker 1: ensure the bamboo pole is going to be above ground
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  Speaker 1: so they can breathe, they fill the hole in with charcoal.
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  Speaker 1: Before we cover what happens next in phase three, you
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  Speaker 1: need some context about what this ritual is actually doing
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  Speaker 1: to the monks performing it. Phase one tree eating training
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  Speaker 1: serves two purposes. The first is it's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: a big gut check. It really shows who wants to
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  Speaker 1: do this ritual and who doesn't. It's kind of like,
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  Speaker 1: if you can't complete phase one, you certainly can't complete
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  Speaker 1: phase two or phase three, So it's like a filter.
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  Speaker 1: It weeds out the weak monks. The second purpose of
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  Speaker 1: phase one is to literally shrink the monk. The tree
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  Speaker 1: eating diet combined with the constant physical exercise, removes all
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  Speaker 1: of their body fat and a lot of their muscle,
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  Speaker 1: and so they're incredibly lean by the end of phase one,
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  Speaker 1: and this will be significant when we talk about the
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  Speaker 1: end of phase three Phase two. Deep meditation phase serves
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  Speaker 1: two purposes as well. The first purpose is that it
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  Speaker 1: puts the monk into that trance like state, and then
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  Speaker 1: the second purpose it serves is the toxin inside of
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  Speaker 1: this poisonous t kills off all of the naturally occurring
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  Speaker 1: bacteria and parasites inside of the monk. Again, that will
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  Speaker 1: become significant when we get to the end of phase three.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of which, so in phase three, the monk is
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  Speaker 1: put in their box. They're lowered ten feet into the ground,
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  Speaker 1: the breathing bamboo shoot is installed, the charcoal is dumped
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  Speaker 1: on top of them, and then for several days the
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  Speaker 1: third phase, monk will sit in total darkness and meditate constantly.
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  Speaker 1: And each day they have a bell down there with them.
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  Speaker 1: They ring the bell. That's the only thing they have
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  Speaker 1: to do besides meditate and above ground, there is a
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  Speaker 1: team of monks that are supporting this ritual and they're
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  Speaker 1: listening for that bell. And the first day they don't
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  Speaker 1: hear the bell, it means the monk in the box
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  Speaker 1: has completed the ritual and now it is time to
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  Speaker 1: see if they have attained nirvana. In Buddhism, someone whose
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  Speaker 1: body does not decay aka a mummy is someone who
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  Speaker 1: has cheated death. And to cheat death is to remove
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  Speaker 1: yourself from the vicious human life cycle of birth, suffering, death, repeat, meaning,
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  Speaker 1: becoming a mummy is a way to attain nirvana and
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  Speaker 1: Sookashinbutsu is a self mummification ritual. Phase one shrinks the
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  Speaker 1: monk's body. It removes their fat and muscle. It also
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  Speaker 1: removes a lot of moisture inside of their body, and
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  Speaker 1: their diet also withholds nutrients to all of the bacteria
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  Speaker 1: and parasites that naturally occur inside of their bodies, and
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  Speaker 1: so those bacteria and parasites that normally would play a
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  Speaker 1: big role in helping decompose your body after death begin
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  Speaker 1: to die off. And so the cumulative effect of phase
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  Speaker 1: one on these monks is that if they were to
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  Speaker 1: die at the end of phase one, their decomposition would
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  Speaker 1: be drastically slowed. It wouldn't be mummy status, but it
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  Speaker 1: would be close. The Phase two poisonous tea that toks
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  Speaker 1: in that they're drinking that kills off the remainder of
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  Speaker 1: the bacteria and parasites that did not die during phase one. Also,
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  Speaker 1: all the vomiting and diarrhea completely dehydrates them, which aids
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  Speaker 1: in slowing down decomposition after death. Finally, Phase three is
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  Speaker 1: the death phase. The monk goes into their tomb. They're
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  Speaker 1: buried underground, and they ring that bell each day to
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  Speaker 1: tell the people on the ground that they are still alive.
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  Speaker 1: And then when the bell stops ringing, it means the
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  Speaker 1: monk in the box is dead, at which point the
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  Speaker 1: crew on the ground removes the bamboo breathing pole and
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  Speaker 1: then lets the body sit in the box underground for
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  Speaker 1: another one thousand days, and then after a thousand days,
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  Speaker 1: they pull the box up, they lift the lid off,
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  Speaker 1: and if there is little to no signs of decay
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  Speaker 1: on their body, it means the self mummification ritual worked.
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  Speaker 1: They're a mummy. They've attained nirvana. And now their body
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  Speaker 1: is holy, and so they're brought out of the box.
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  Speaker 1: They're dressed in robes, they're placed in the monasteries, and
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  Speaker 1: they are worshiped. As for the unlucky monks who get
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  Speaker 1: to the end of sosokashan Buttsu but are found to
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  Speaker 1: be decomposing inside of their box, when they're brought back
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  Speaker 1: up again, they're just placed back inside of their pine
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  Speaker 1: box and buried, and they are not worshiped. Sokoshenbutsu was
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  Speaker 1: made illegal in Japan in the late nineteenth century, but
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  Speaker 1: we know monks continued to practice it into the twentieth century,
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  Speaker 1: and in theory today monks still might practice it in secret.
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