gonna be the first channel that he will show you the secret painting never shown for
like foreigners before so we are here at the heart of chiang mai i'm right in front of the
three kings this is going to be an amazing video to watch we have tina and phil here from eat walk
talk tour and they're going to help me learn a little bit more about chiang mai and everything
to do with silver silver smith silver making we're going to meet a monk today all of those
things and surrounding the history of what it is to be in the heart of chiang mai so let's go okay
so we're doing something exciting we haven't been on a song tower yet and we're gonna go on one so
what was the reason of the two rose song songs and the name of the local people because this medieval
song tell song is mean to tell it means grow or to sit like this so you can see that there's seats
on either side it's two rows of sea yes and the location of always use this one because it's high
roof and very easy to smile to friends we're going to the silver temple um but like i said we haven't
been in a song town before so it's a day of first which is really cool and you're saying that
there's different colors so if you get in the red one that's usually local yeah in the city um and
then if there's yellow ones it generally takes you somewhere south to the south so a little bit far
look for the red one look for the red ones well that was a really cool ride when our king invaded
burma our chiang mai king took some silver smith from burma so after they worked as they were smith
right and then they're also arty culture so when the local people they get money from
selling their crops selling their sewer okay when they have money they want to share for community
okay so each family try to make their own silver piece and then they donate that to to the temple
to decorate the temple yeah okay so they make lots of silver yeah silver examples some aluminium so
we are walking to at the siever temple and there is a private home a family making silver on the
side of the road there's all about making silver around here and donating it to the temple and
doing all they can to give that back as well so while we're here i'll just quickly introduce
you this is tina by the way a bit late but this is tina and we've got phil over there hey phil
so this is where they're working you can hear it wow
this is cool this is where everyone's working on the silver
yeah normally is the decorations in the temples the part with flowers
it takes them a month to finish from beginning to end
just went and saw a sort of a community place where they
learned all the silversmithing there was a lot of noise in there so i'm not sure what we got but
they were learning and there was a girl in there who was only 17 years old and she let me try a
little bit but i didn't want to ruin her work very much oops but that was lovely and they work there
all day basically every day yeah it takes a month to finish those things from start to finish
yeah and it's under the guidance of like one like like master as well so there's one person there
who like teaches them all and like oversees it and that they kind of like it they're not just they're
helping they're learning a trade that's going they're learning how to do that this would be
their job wow yeah and we saw a sort of hindu one at the end and he had a he was eating the
world like the earth and that represented not wasting your time that's your time here and
we're on the way to the temple now have philosophy to be mostly the women dress property or for life
because if you dress like this you destroy concentration of the monk that's why you
have to death the third section we are walking now to see the monk working as silver smith
so the most popular ones are the elephant and what tourists normally think is a snake
but tina just told us it's not a snake it's a dragon yeah it's a mythical animal and it's
a mix between the crocodile the snake and the dragon so it's called naka he
is 18 years old and he's been learning how to do silverware for two years and now he's allowed to
come and do it on his own he is doing a hindu vod called kunesh which looks like an elephant
the truth of to the temple is mean to respect and to keep clean thai people who also respect hindu
sometimes they believe that their life gets suffered from something their life will get a
bad luck from something they come to this temple and sits on the chair and then they put this one
on the top of the head and then if you observe all the ply direct to the buddha for the
buddha to bless away from bad luck or away from suffering but this is from hinduism not buddhism
yeah yeah we call holy blast blasted or we call amulet keep you away from bad luck keep
you away from accident something that is mostly our tradition we keep in our hands
about three days three nights if that's the wrong distance she takes you can you help me
teach me how they're gonna teach me
monument of the king and the offering set that the loch ness you see red
red is the transportation of the garnish wow and you can see all the settings from the leaf
of banana oh banana leaf yes and you can see the dragon or the dragon or naka like naka or miss
so you have seen me go through an amazing ritual with a monk in the temple but make sure you stay
tuned because we are going to talk to a monk later on so make sure you stick around for that
one because that is going to be really interesting and really amazing to experience that is really
interesting so i knew that there were some temples that women couldn't enter but i didn't know
why um so that's really really amazing to learn from tina that you know they want to keep it
sacred and between the monk and the male we don't want to distract them from that so michael might
have to take you on this one not me so i'll see you soon that looks like the ocean right
yeah and over there you can see another building it's clearly it's look like a boat
because i would believe in the end of your life you have to take a boat to the heavens
but you need to cross the oceans working at seven years already before i worked
sherlock managed to eat the hotel yeah okay i volunteer i like to work to join this world
take care if the following night to come here yeah yeah recommend them you know english and you
know some yeah and in the thai people come here i chanting for ganesha yeah this is we have ganesha
beautiful yeah i like the master for chanting yeah awesome gps like um to the heavens very
interesting because during second world war this place related because the japanese searchers use
this place as a like base camp yeah okay and one thing that affects this buddha you can see here
you can see
that is effect with the bomb during second world war oh at this point
thomas is
many tourists they just wonder what part
of this building is a real silver can you guess which one you can see the parasol over there
and the tray close to the buddhas you're going to be the first channel that he will
show you the secret painting which is never shown for like foreigners before wow okay
this is the teachings from the buddha right they've seen mine
as we've seen the the master that's referred to our buddha
so michael's just come out of the temple and he said that they told him he was
this was the first sort of foreigner that has seen the back of the doors like that's really
exciting that like what were the first the first like youtube channel before another but
he actually said the first four and a half a few times wow so i think people might have seen it
but maybe we're the first people that they've sort of shown it to in some detail as well
it was incredible it was in like it was all image like imagery depicting like hell and what happens
not hell is in like a literal hell like the feeling of hell when you don't
make the most of your life wow yeah it was really cool really touching and apparently
you saw it here first because we got the honor of being able to do that and the monk we're
about to get visit was that guy's master oh really he was like oh that's my master oh wow
we've arrived here after the song tower and we're just getting ready now to talk to the monk
but there is a monk university here which is so interesting to me and this was the dynasty dynasty
what we call every temple in thailand what so every what you always see three
monuments the first monument we call praying hall yeah the second one we call ordination hall
like the one usually the women cannot go inside ordination hall is private for the monk and the
third monument call shading or pagoda yes i've heard have you ever heard about shady on pagoda
so shady and pakoda is the same meaning okay so shady there are four names
if you travel in southeast asia sometimes you see some country called shady pagoda super
bran if you go to cambodia sometimes they call cheddi bran same purpose to keep the arches of the
important people such as the king the queen royal family or monk we're here at the temple and he's
telling us how when thai people come to the temple they give a flower and they offer it to the buddha
so he's going to show us how thank you any type of flower yes any type of flowers we can go there yes
thai culture yeah so when people go to temple they bring flowers into stick and candles okay
because the candles are present the light of the candle represent the brightness
yes you know the flower represents the pure nature oh yes females is like this can i do
yes or you can see the mermaid stuff wish for your healthy peaceful happiness
for you from suffering you can dedicate your good deep good action to your parents family relatives
it was more like worshipping it's not called worship
we don't worship the buddha yeah we bow to show respect okay three times we bow yeah first time to
attempt to show respect to buddha as an enlightened or awakening or great teacher
yeah second times to his teaching third paratime to his disciples or followers
whereafter it's not called pray we don't pray to buddha buddha is not a god so we call it chanting
do at a certain time or is it just twice a day basically whenever they go to temple
if you want to address monk in thailand you can adjust prague
prague means monk p-h-r-a prague how does the process work to become one
well for the young boy most of them parents decided right and and they became a monk for
education because for the novices is the free education what about your uh dress so
it's different uh colors or because yours is like you know purple but normally yellow or orange or
what's the difference well different color of the rope has no significance that's why we are
allowed to restrict main color like orange red brown dark brown maroon and saffron and
the color up the road could be decided by an abbot of the temple but the core teachings of the buddha
is not a religion buddha did not talk about god or creator so buddha's teaching is more like a
way of life how to practice in your way of living way of life to balance by
moral training mental training wisdom training basically it means to train you moral to learn
how to avoiding doing that to you and to others so if you think right speak right
do right then you have a balance and a good life happy life if they follow in this world
no there will not be hatred violence killing war fighting not only physical suffering is true
mental suffering also true we don't want it we have to accept it first of all thank you so much
for your important times and sharing your kindness compassion love and respect so we just finished up
with the monk professor he was professor and that was an absolutely amazing experience and
insightful and enlightening and tina and we did our chinatown uh tour with eng as well we'll link
that in the description and on the page um so this is eat walk talk tour we love to say thank you
this is my our loving kindness when we have loving kind of we want to share for you and
you can stare for your people mostly to visit the temple the people come here only taking a photo
only visit the architecture but any no chance to talk with the man but if you travel with um
you have to have a chance to talk with the man directly yes and thank you until we see you
again thank you so much have a great time thank you thank you so we've just said goodbye to tina
and phil from eat walk talk to her and i just want to say that this was an amazing experience
and getting to actually speak to the monk and like converse with him and ask him questions
and talk to him with like so much better than just coming to this place and taking a photo so like
i said i'll leave their link in the description bar below and i highly recommend them as a tour
company this was done in collaboration but it was the best tour this was really enlightening and an
amazing experience to have so highly recommend them and it was just an amazing day so i know
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