do not give money he's fake do not give
money his being here's the fake month
he's not a real man
take that you damn fake monk I'm gonna
explain to you what happened in that
video in a minute and also gonna explain
to you what this is all about in a
minute too
but let me start by saying that if
you're ever approached by monk no matter
where you are in the world a so-called
Buddhist monk on the streets he's fake
they are 100% fake Buddhist monks don't
go out and ask for money and try to sell
things Buddhist monks stay in the
monasteries of course you can see them
in public but they're very pious they
stick to themselves and you know they
believe very strongly in their religion
and part of their religion is not
selling things to tourists anyway what
happened in the video earlier is quite a
famous woman who was at one point I
believe a Hong Kong kung fu hero and in
the 80s and also she's married to a
producer of Hong Kong films she's a
devout Buddhist and she basically goes
around and exposes these fake monks and
she was I believe on holiday in London
that's what this way this video was
taken and she obviously saw one of these
you know fake monks trying to sell a
charm to a tourist and so confronted him
and you saw what happened though she
actually made him take off his fake
robes and kind of made made him show her
his passport and all that kind of stuff
and I'm going to get into that cuz
that's one of the things that annoys me
the most but basically let me explain to
you how it all goes down you see it's
very cheap and very easy to get monks
clothing here in China I just took a
look online I can buy a whole monk
outfit for 118 RMB and I guess that if I
got the outfit I bought a bunch of these
sort of prayer prayer bracelets you know
prayer bead necklaces and a whole bunch
of lucky charms you know those spiritual
charms and stuff probably cost me 30 40
US dollars for the whole lot and then
what they do is they travel to different
countries on a
tourist visa some of them end up staying
illegal staying there illegally some of
them just stay for the duration of their
tourist visa and then come back and then
go somewhere else and what they do is
they walk around in public they put on
they dress up like a monk they walk
around with a smile on their face
pretend to look all spiritual and
approach tourists and shove some kind of
a charm in their hand or shove some kind
of a bracelet like this or something and
then expect you to give them money and
they will pester you and follow you
until you give them money it's very
disingenuous and it's a big insult to
Buddhism because real Buddhists you know
of course don't do this and so it makes
them look bad and they hate you that's
why this woman who is a devout Buddhist
is going around trying to expose these
people now the problem I have with these
guys is not only are they taking
advantage of religion because you know
as Westerners we don't know better we
see this guy you know he looks like a
monkey's got the prayer beads he's got a
smile on his face and we probably think
oh look he looks very spiritual you know
he looks really nice I'm probably
donating towards a monastery or
something and we give them money for
like some cheap piece of crap because
okay not this one this one's actually
quite a nice one this is my
father-in-law gave this to me it's made
out of proper wood you know but you can
buy cheap ones for like five ten fifteen
RMBS about a US dollar they give that to
you and then you know they take ten
dollars or whatever they try to pester
you for and what they're doing is
they're actually conning people right
and on top of that they're working
illegally which really pisses me off
because it's a huge double standard if I
were to dress up like a priest walk
around China here trying to sell like
cheap relics Christian relics or you
know things like little crucifixes and
stuff I'd be deported not only would I
be arrested or shooed away from the
streets I'd be deported my visa would be
canceled because that is not correct to
do on a tourist visa which is what these
guys are doing I'm an especial visa but
I've been the same you know I've been
the same boat but I definitely get
kicked out
and at least harassed by the police in a
big way that's the noisy thing noisy
meat so what I'm saying is it's not a
good idea to to support these guys
because you're supporting basically a
criminal gang a criminal enterprise and
you see how easy it is to get involved
in this spend about 50 US dollars get a
plane ticket and there you go you know
just like all beggars and all things
like that in China there are massive
gang and they're just incredibly
terrible giving a bad name to Buddhism
and conning people out of their money
using religion of all things to to con
people out of their money and it's such
a pity too because the thing I really
like about Buddhism is the fact that
they are not like a lot of religions
they are very how can I say very content
with themselves and their religion and
they don't go out and try to convert
people they're not like Jehovah's
Witnesses who will come and knock on
your door they're not like Harry
Krishna's it'll come and bother you in
public they stick to themselves they're
very content and you know it's something
I really respect about Buddhists and
these guys are giving them all a bad
name
and just like everything else in China
if someone finds out there's a way to
make money it spreads like wildfire and
that's why you have so many of these
fake monks now I've got subscribers
telling me that you can find them in in
Australia in Seattle in places like New
York all over Europe so you know they're
everywhere now and they're all 100% fake
so guys please I hope what you can take
from this video is that all of those
monks are a scam please don't give them
money you're making Buddhists look bad
and feel bad and on top of that you're
basically funding a gang of criminal
illegal immigrants who are infiltrating
your city pretending to be holy men
meanwhile they're just some kind of
scumbag from some far-flung area of
China that's shaved their head paid a
couple of dollars to get themselves an
outfit and they're conning you and your
family out of money here on that lovely
note I'd love to send all of my support
to this ladies going out and exposing
them good for you and to all the real
Buddhists out there the real monks and
all of that
I know you're not watching this because
you guys don't watch TV and stuff but
you know at the end of the day I
appreciate you for who you are
and I'm not fooled by these fake monks
anyway so until next time guys you know
the drill unlike fake monks stay also
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