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Demigods, physician gods,
gods who do not follow the four principles ...

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thou shall not disturb this holy Saraswati event.

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From this day onwards,
may we all be in good health and peace

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and free from all dangers from above
and below as well as the danger of war.

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Protect us from harm caused by guns, weapons,
deceptions and defamation.

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May we all succeed and
be liberated from Samsara ...

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There was a king from Varanasi.

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One day, he had a nightmare.

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He went to the creek to wash his hair

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where he met an ogress.

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The ogress was looking for food.
She saw the king and fell in love.

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She took the king to her cave.

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She was so much in love with him that
she did not allow him to go anywhere.

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Later on they had a child together.

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During the day, the ogress turned
into a beautiful woman.

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But at night, she remained an ogress.

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Her son grew each day and began to talk.

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He wondered: 'Why are we human
but my mother a monster?'

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One day, while his mother
was out looking for food,

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he and his father ran away.

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They ran across a creek.

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It was a creek that she could not cross.

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This broke the ogress’s heart and she died.

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Before she died, she taught her son
the Sandamuni incantation.

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It is a very powerful incantation.

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Her son and the king went back
to the palace with the incantation.

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Once I had to tattoo a Shan general.

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He was stationed around here.

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The tattoo was only done at night.

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It took two nights.

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I did it on an island in
the middle of a lake.

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Because of the special ingredients,
I had to start tattooing at midnight.

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The ink is made from wild ox’s bile.

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And 'yah hein kwang' root.

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If the body accepts the ink
it is very effective.

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The body becomes immune
to knives and bullets.

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Even so, we run from
Burmese soldiers!

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Because they will arrest us if we don’t.

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If we don't smoke opium,
we can't take the pain.

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When we smoke, we become numb.

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You feel high and happy.

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The mind becomes gentle and satisfied.
It’s so good.

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They say it's like being surrounded
by beautiful maidens.

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It feels so good.

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It’s so cool.

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It's cool to be high!

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My son was shot.

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The bullet went through his head.

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I said: 'You already took one of my boys.

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He died in battle.

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Now you want another one!'

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'One of my children has already died.

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Why do you want another one?'

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My house and farms have been confiscated.

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I had no chance to save anything.

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All we got were some blankets.

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We sneaked out at 9:00 pm.

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Nothing is built in a day.
But we lost everything in one day.

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Sometimes it's so distressing to be human.

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Some kids from the north
can't even walk properly yet.

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Their parents have to piggyback them
to the monastery in Mongha.

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They may be novices, but they'll still grab them and
make them change into uniform on the way.

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If they refuse, their parents are
tied up and taken away.

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What can we do?
We can’t go against them.

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We have to give our children to them.

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Hello to everyonewho's listening in
and supporting our news channel.

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Soldiers are now stationed in
Pinlon township in Northern Shan State.

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They are drawing up lists
of the local population

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and this is causing people to flee.

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'They are asking everyone to list their family members.
They will not stop until you provide their names.'

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'They are threatening to do this
or that to you if you don't.'

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'... girls and boys.'

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'Children as young as 12 and young people
up to the age of 25 are listed.'

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'Three out of five people are
drafted to serve in the army.'

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People from the villages of Naung Lyan,
Nam Naung and Sang Kan

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are fleeing because they are anxious
they may have to serve.

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Some people are even going
to other countries.

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'Almost everyone has fled.'

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'There were 45 people who
left three villages yesterday.'

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'It’s not easy to go to Thailand.
It’s very expensive.'

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'They have to borrow money
in order to leave.'

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'Most of them are 16, 17 and 18 years of age.
They sell their bullock carts and farms and leave ...'

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If you hear me today please
listen carefully and closely

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I have a bunch of things to say
and compose for you my friends

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Look over there, look all around,
in all directions

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Wherever you cast your eye, there are
scenes that bring tears to your eyes

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Our country’s future is uncertain

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Everyone is anxious because of
the anger and the wars

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It affects all of us country folk

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Behold the abundance of the fields

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Yet we cannot cultivate them

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Though we have a place to
live and soil to till

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Given to us by our ancestors,
yet we cannot stay here

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O look at those who are packing up
and leaving

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They have fled to a small hut
in the forest ravine

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Thinking of this brings a
sharp stab to my heart

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But please allow me to
express these feelings

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while imploring you.

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Because he is the captain, they made
a fire directly in front of him.

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He was sitting near the fire
with his legs apart, warming himself.

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I was singing on stage and he was listening.

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I don’t know where the bullet came from.

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When I looked at him

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I saw a small red light on his chest
but didn't hear a gunshot.

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I didn't realise what was happening
and kept on singing.

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Then another red light appeared on his chest
and he tipped over into the fire.

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As he fell into the fire, the blood came
spurting out from his chest with a hiss.

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It splashed all over the place.

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Since that day ...

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our Pinlon Drama Troupe
has never performed again.

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I never go there now.

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It's over.
- So the troupe broke up?

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Yes, we stopped twenty years ago.

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It was on the 9th, in the afternoon.

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He died, just like that.

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We call these paper charms
‘meng htaung’.

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We hang them up whenever
someone passes away.

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Now all I have left is
this lonely body

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like a stump of crepe-myrtle bush

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At a distance from all humans

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While humans and animals are

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in the land of the living ...

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... Oh! I can't read any more
on this page!

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The Khosakka story ...

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is about a girl who has no clothes

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She's naked

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and gets sick in the cold weather.

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Then there is an elephant whose feet are
stuck in a hole and cannot move.

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Its two back feet are stuck
in a hole in the earth.

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There's also a snake who is
stuck between two stones

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and can't go anywhere.

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They're the three 'khosakkas'.

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These pages have all disintegrated!

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There's a mouse in there,
it must have eaten them!

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What’s this?

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Ah, it's about Prince Temiya.

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'Prince Temiya'

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This is about 'Prince Temiya'.

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The prince Temiya!

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So evening has come around again

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The sun is slowly setting

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Let me sing the praises of this scene!

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Every animal that moves on legs,

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or crawls on earth or flies in the sky

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after leaving their nest

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They all come back when the sun has set

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Wherever and whoever they are,

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the call of nature means that
they have to go back

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Wherever you may be,

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at least once you will have to
go back in search of your nest

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And as for me, thinking
about my younger days

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that were more auspicious,
I have things to say

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Living in my small home as the years circle
and ripen the crops so many times,

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I have a song for my children
and grandchildren

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Now the time has come to consider my age

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And my duty to live out this life

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As the sun sets, today, this year,

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I your daughter, feel the
youth draining from this body

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just like the life that is as
precious as a ruby

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What?

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The venerable monk has left us to dwell in the
golden garden. He is gone, my dear!

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It can't be true!
Why are you all so silent?

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This young monk seems like a lunatic
even though he has learned a lot.

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Tell me, where have you been?

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Why didn’t you call me?
Or send someone to inform me?

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O why does our venerable monk
sleep so long today!

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I have come here to light the light,
but it won't light up at all.

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People, people, so many people!

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O Lord Buddha so many people!

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O Brahmin! Why are you so late?

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Tell me why are you all crying?

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The venerable monk has passed away!

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What?

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The venerable monk has gone?

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O venerable one,
why didn’t you wait for me?

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Now who will eat all this
food I've brought?

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I've got eggplant. Here it is!

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I've got bananas. Here!

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Where should I put these offerings?

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O venerable monk!

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O venerable monk!

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But ... if we sit here and listen

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to all the woes of this world
there'll be no end!

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Come, angels!

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O, Brahmin!

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Why is the ground shaking.
What is happening?

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My Celestial King,
please cure the venerable monk!

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O Brahmin!

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For one who lives in this world of
earth, fire, water and wind,

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there are no means to cure the
venerable monk.

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What?

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The human world is not permanent.

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Not just insects and animals
but each and every human,

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all the roots, vines and trees
will wither and die one day.

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Nothing is permanent, Brahmin.

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If this be so, what should we do,
Celestial King?

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This is why I, the King of the Gods

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have come to cremate his body
in the abode of Celestial Beings.

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Hey, Brahmin!

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No, you can’t. Please!

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We villagers cannot allow you
to take the body away!

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You can try to stop me if you like.

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Come on, let's pull it.
Get up and pull it this way!

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Get up and pull!
Don’t give up!

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You can try as much as you like,
but you will only exhaust yourselves.

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To solve the situation and
satisfy both sides,

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before we cremate his body,

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you may at least do merit from
today until tomorrow.

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Now let us go back to our
abode of Celestial Beings!

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At some point, when thoughts are gone

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Some might feel that they are dead

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The rope attached to the boat
is being let go!

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The rope attached to the boat
is being let go!

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The boat is being untied
and is drifting into the water

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The boat is being untied and
is drifting away

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All I want is to be entwined
like two leaves

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Happiness is just an attachment ...

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Some got so addicted
to the songs

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that they even followed me home.

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San Pwint was a
handsome widower.

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He followed me home because he
was obsessed with my songs.

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'Oh!' he said. 'I thought you
didn't have a husband!'

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He fell in love with you?
- He loved my singing.

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He said wherever he went, he'd hear
the sound of my singing in his ears.

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Even when he slept!

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It never stopped playing in
his ears and in his head.

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It was like I was singing all the
time in his mind.

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He came to my home and told me that
he was obsessed with me.

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We went to the market
together by boat.

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He stayed the night at my house.

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He said he wanted to
see the market too.

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He quarrelled with me on the way.

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I took him with me to the market,
we came back and I made lunch for him.

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Then he went back to his place ...

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and committed suicide
by drinking poison.

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His sisters have told everyone to
shun me if I ever go to their village

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of Nam Zam Mae.

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They've banned me.

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His sisters and all his relatives.

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They think their brother
committed suicide because of me.

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I didn't make him take poison,
he just did it.

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But I don't go there.

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O ... when I think about the past,  

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about the troubles and the dreams of old,

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It makes me feel so sad

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O, I had a dream about him last night

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But things that were meant to be
cannot be anymore

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I am sure it was a dream

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This life is full of worries, day and night

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Even when we eat and sleep,
we feel our burdens keenly

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O look at this dream
that is strange but not crazy

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My thoughts are confused,

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they have grown wings
and landed as a dream

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I may never find an answer to
that 'why'

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Is this what makes me talk
like a crazy person

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and forget the bamboo hat
and cloak?

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If only our dreams could
have come true!

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If only the gods had not
separated us forever

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The drier and harder the sandalwood branch,
  the richer its fragrance becomes

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Before I turn into skin and bones,
I want to say this to you

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To console myself, I want to
arrange the words and speak out

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With passion and with sweet,
gentle and beautiful words,

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I present myself to you
my lord in your great palace

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O, what bliss!

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Whenever I fall asleep

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I know you will come
into my dreams and memories

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Sometimes while half-awake
at the midnight hour

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I even think it might be real

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But no matter how you come
to me in this life

00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:49.700
there can only be burning inside

00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:56.000
So now I yearn for the next life,
that we may meet again

00:32:56.290 --> 00:33:01.290
Though we are reborn eight times
and will be apart in eight worlds

00:33:01.750 --> 00:33:05.790
we will become human again

00:33:06.540 --> 00:33:11.000
I pray silently to the three jewels:
Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha,

00:33:11.330 --> 00:33:16.500
May you understand me and
have no doubts

00:33:17.500 --> 00:33:22.500
This slow ballad ebbs and flows ...

00:33:22.870 --> 00:33:25.540
And the sky looks dark
and gloomy now

00:33:26.040 --> 00:33:31.200
But while flowers still bloom,
and my face still smiles

00:33:31.620 --> 00:33:38.500
This year, let me declare
my dreams of you, my dear!

00:33:39.290 --> 00:33:46.080
We cannot be together
in this human life

00:33:46.750 --> 00:33:51.040
But my love and goodwill
will accompany you

00:33:51.500 --> 00:33:54.450
as days and nights and months
and years go by

00:33:55.160 --> 00:34:00.750
To clear my mind, I speak out even
about the smallest things

00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:05.950
O yes I do, I do!

00:34:25.200 --> 00:34:28.290
What about the troupe member
you mentioned earlier?

00:34:28.580 --> 00:34:33.370
She wasn't a key member of in the troupe.
- She'd sing when there was no one else.

00:34:33.750 --> 00:34:37.000
She wasn't that knowledgable
or well-known.

00:34:37.790 --> 00:34:39.580
She was just one of the
troupe members.

00:34:40.120 --> 00:34:44.500
Is she still around?
- No, she hung herself.

00:34:44.870 --> 00:34:47.000
She was very ill.

00:34:47.370 --> 00:34:51.290
Her husband and sons are
all drug addicts and alchoholics.

00:34:51.790 --> 00:34:57.370
Her four sons and their father,
all five of them are opium addicts.

00:34:57.950 --> 00:35:02.950
She got out of bed and looked but
couldn’t find any rice, oil or anything.

00:35:03.250 --> 00:35:06.370
She committed suicide
by hanging herself in the kitchen.

00:35:06.660 --> 00:35:09.250
Her youngest was out and
when he returned he asked,

00:35:09.580 --> 00:35:13.700
'Mother, I'm hungry, what is
there to eat?'

00:35:14.250 --> 00:35:18.580
When he got into the house, his mother’s
tongue was already sticking out.

00:35:19.080 --> 00:35:23.500
She died in a kneeling position.
The rope was not tight.

00:35:23.700 --> 00:35:25.910
Maybe it was her 'karma'.

00:35:26.370 --> 00:35:31.580
We believe that if we commit suicide
we will suffer for 500 eons.

00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:35.830
Even if she reaches this age in another life
she will hang herself again.

00:35:36.250 --> 00:35:38.080
Just like she did before.

00:35:38.330 --> 00:35:40.200
That's terrifying.

00:35:40.580 --> 00:35:43.660
We have to avoid that.

00:36:20.290 --> 00:36:24.080
Throw it all up!
Everything must come out.

00:36:27.160 --> 00:36:30.250
It's been plaguing her
for three months.

00:36:30.580 --> 00:36:34.160
She can’t eat, can’t sleep
and it’s swelling.

00:36:36.450 --> 00:36:39.080
Are you feeling better?
- Yes, I am.

00:36:39.370 --> 00:36:42.790
If it's gone then you should
dance around a bit!

00:37:14.080 --> 00:37:15.620
Sometimes, this spot gets very hot.

00:37:15.870 --> 00:37:19.950
Take it out, take it out.
Take it all out!

00:37:22.500 --> 00:37:25.580
Sometimes, this area gets
very hot and there's swelling.

00:37:28.250 --> 00:37:31.700
It's hot now.
- Yes, come here. I’ll do acupuncture.

00:37:42.830 --> 00:37:46.160
Ouch, it hurts!
- Yes, it's gone.

00:37:47.290 --> 00:37:52.200
This is how god heals humans.
Medicines are not needed.

00:37:52.750 --> 00:37:56.580
You have to dance and jump,
that’s all.

00:37:57.370 --> 00:38:01.160
Consider it cured.
You won’t die.

00:38:01.750 --> 00:38:04.950
You thought you'd die this year, didn't you?
- Yes, I did!

00:38:07.080 --> 00:38:11.500
I didn’t think it would pass.
It was happening all the time.

00:38:11.910 --> 00:38:13.580
You won't die, I’ve saved you!

00:38:14.040 --> 00:38:19.450
Everything's alright now,
so I'm leaving.

00:39:12.290 --> 00:39:17.950
Look at the fields, look at the house!

00:39:18.750 --> 00:39:26.000
Nothing will hurt you, nothing
can cause danger.

00:39:28.080 --> 00:39:33.870
These deeds will overcome
cruelty across the country,

00:39:34.330 --> 00:39:37.500
so there's no need to worry.

00:39:38.500 --> 00:39:43.200
If I'm asked to describe Mistress
Nang Lun Hom’s existence

00:39:43.620 --> 00:39:46.200
in the human realm,

00:39:46.500 --> 00:39:50.040
it's been 25 lives that she's
lived in the human abode.

00:39:50.410 --> 00:39:55.330
She was pushed out of the celestial abode
for cheating with the Celestial King!

00:39:56.080 --> 00:39:58.950
But since then she has done good deeds
in this human abode.

00:39:59.250 --> 00:40:03.250
She is working as a medium
for the gods.

00:40:03.910 --> 00:40:09.080
Go on, ask the mistress to cure you!

00:40:09.370 --> 00:40:11.540
What's the matter with you then?

00:40:11.660 --> 00:40:13.370
My whole body aches.

00:40:13.700 --> 00:40:15.870
She drank water from a paddy field.

00:40:16.120 --> 00:40:18.160
It hurts here.

00:40:18.580 --> 00:40:20.370
You are being punished
by the water gods.

00:40:20.700 --> 00:40:24.080
I think you drank spring water.
- I have no idea.

00:40:27.500 --> 00:40:33.580
Drink this. Well done!
May you recover.

00:40:38.870 --> 00:40:40.410
Now, son.

00:40:40.660 --> 00:40:42.910
Carry this with you always.

00:40:45.200 --> 00:40:48.910
Sometimes, your ears
hear sounds, don’t they?

00:40:49.250 --> 00:40:54.080
My lords, my son is going to
serve in the army.

00:40:55.080 --> 00:40:57.620
Will he be okay?

00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:00.950
Your son is clever and educated.
He'll be fine.

00:41:02.250 --> 00:41:06.080
The last time he almost died.

00:42:03.120 --> 00:42:05.870
Go on, go!

00:42:14.580 --> 00:42:16.660
Go look for your child!

00:42:21.330 --> 00:42:23.750
Go and look for your child!

00:43:28.500 --> 00:43:30.750
Go look for your child, go!

00:47:32.540 --> 00:47:33.700
You're 18?

00:47:34.080 --> 00:47:37.250
It's messy and noisy at home and
you don't like being there to eat.

00:47:37.700 --> 00:47:41.700
One person in your family says this,
the other one that,

00:47:42.040 --> 00:47:47.330
You don't want to be there,
you'd rather leave than stay.

00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:49.620
You don't want to stay anymore.

00:47:50.080 --> 00:47:53.910
If you leave, you'll be blessed
with good luck from then on.

00:47:54.500 --> 00:48:01.330
You'll be blessed with good luck and welcomed,
you'll find work and a good place to stay.

00:48:01.580 --> 00:48:03.330
It won't be good if you stay at home.

00:48:16.580 --> 00:48:22.830
What day were you born?
- I'm Saturday-born and in my 19th year.

00:48:25.290 --> 00:48:27.750
So you're 18.

00:48:37.250 --> 00:48:42.580
There's lots of black!
- Yes, and lots of threes!

00:48:43.700 --> 00:48:50.910
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

00:48:51.450 --> 00:48:59.370
...17, 18, 19.
For Saturday-girl, 19 is on number 3.

00:48:59.750 --> 00:49:05.500
You may have arguments, do you?
Both inside and outside your home.

00:49:05.950 --> 00:49:10.700
You're scolded and accused by those
around you. You get depressed and cry.

00:49:10.950 --> 00:49:16.700
You cry often, don’t you?
It says so here, you can’t lie.

00:49:17.080 --> 00:49:23.950
This year you will be scolded,
and you'll get depressed and annoyed.

00:49:25.080 --> 00:49:30.620
Sometimes you'll even lose your appetite,
and just want to run away.

00:49:31.080 --> 00:49:33.580
Yes, I want to go to Thailand.

00:49:33.950 --> 00:49:37.080
Yes, you want to leave and run away.

00:49:37.580 --> 00:49:40.370
It's fine, you are destined to travel.

00:49:41.200 --> 00:49:44.700
It's your destiny to leave your home.

00:49:45.200 --> 00:49:48.450
At least for a while.

00:49:49.080 --> 00:49:55.580
If you go, there are people
who will love and accept you.

00:49:56.080 --> 00:49:59.500
But the journey will be
a little troublesome.

00:50:00.080 --> 00:50:05.750
It will be difficult and it will not be over
until you encounter trouble.

00:50:06.330 --> 00:50:09.870
Whenever you go and no matter
who you go with …

00:50:10.330 --> 00:50:13.790
That's right isn’t it?
You're going to live in another country?

00:50:14.200 --> 00:50:18.290
Aren’t you the one who wants
to quit school early?

00:50:19.620 --> 00:50:24.910
Has your mother returned yet,
your biological mother?

00:50:25.870 --> 00:50:29.790
What about your step-mother?
- I don’t have a step-mother.

00:50:30.370 --> 00:50:34.500
She almost had a step-mother ...

00:50:34.950 --> 00:50:38.000
but the ex-wife came back just in time!
- I see!

00:50:38.370 --> 00:50:42.870
I thought your father was
going to remarry.

00:53:03.040 --> 00:53:06.910
Where are they? I think my
granddaughter hid them.

00:53:07.410 --> 00:53:12.580
I have two pictures of him
when he was younger.

00:53:15.330 --> 00:53:18.950
How many children do you have?
- Only this son.

00:53:21.790 --> 00:53:25.620
He left ... fifteen years ago.

00:53:36.790 --> 00:53:38.370
Do you miss him?

00:53:38.910 --> 00:53:42.370
Of course I miss him. He's my son.

00:53:42.870 --> 00:53:46.200
I miss him whenever I meet
boys his age.

00:53:46.580 --> 00:53:51.370
And whenever I play the role
of a mother in a play.

00:53:51.830 --> 00:53:54.160
It really hurts.

00:53:56.290 --> 00:54:03.330
Nan Pan says if I'm cast in a scene where I
have to cry I could win an award.

00:54:03.700 --> 00:54:05.580
I've just one son.

00:54:06.080 --> 00:54:08.160
But he doesn't really care about me.

00:54:08.660 --> 00:54:13.370
I've no other relatives nearby,
I'm a fish out of water here.

00:54:13.750 --> 00:54:15.870
I'm living among strangers.

00:54:16.200 --> 00:54:20.870
I've just one son to rely on
but he has his own life.

00:54:21.450 --> 00:54:23.370
He's in another country.

00:54:23.660 --> 00:54:27.370
I miss him a lot. When I was sick
with Covid I cried all day.

00:54:28.290 --> 00:54:32.120
I said:
'I really miss my son'.

00:54:32.700 --> 00:54:38.500
'Can someone make a video call
to my son so that we can talk?'

00:54:38.750 --> 00:54:44.450
'If I'm going to die, I'd like to see my son
and give him a chance to see his mother.'

00:54:44.750 --> 00:54:48.200
We talked on a video call
and we both cried.

00:54:48.660 --> 00:54:54.580
He said he'd come back but if he did
they wouldn't let him into the village.

00:54:55.000 --> 00:55:00.540
People from Thailand have to
stay in a hut outside the village.

00:55:00.830 --> 00:55:03.370
I said: 'Let it be, son.'

00:55:03.700 --> 00:55:08.200
If we're not destined to meet,
you won't see me before I die.

00:55:08.910 --> 00:55:11.620
That's what I told him.

00:55:20.870 --> 00:55:23.700
Would you like to sing
a song for your son?

00:55:24.120 --> 00:55:29.620
Maybe not about missing him but about
your love for him or to wish him well?

00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:31.700
We can film it and send it to him.

00:55:32.200 --> 00:55:34.200
I'm just wondering.

00:55:34.580 --> 00:55:38.620
Your son would be able
to hear you sing.

00:55:38.950 --> 00:55:41.580
Maybe next time!

00:55:42.700 --> 00:55:47.000
I'm afraid I'll get upset and cry.

00:57:32.950 --> 00:57:39.910
O listen to my song for
my beloved son!

00:57:40.370 --> 00:57:46.500
I want to sing from the start
to the end of the story.

00:57:56.910 --> 00:58:04.580
Please listen and take note.

00:58:11.620 --> 00:58:20.540
... about a mother's love for her son,
washing and cleaning for him every day.

00:58:29.370 --> 00:58:36.370
Since you were a baby, your mother
has taken care of you

00:58:36.750 --> 00:58:41.700
so that you will always be
healthy and happy

00:58:44.700 --> 00:58:47.700
It's okay, keep going?

00:58:52.290 --> 00:58:59.450
The smell of love will
always be fragrant ...

00:59:00.120 --> 00:59:02.370
What's happened to my voice!

00:59:10.080 --> 00:59:14.450
Wishing quietly in my mind ...

00:59:16.290 --> 00:59:18.910
Let's take a break.
- Yes, let's stop.

00:59:22.370 --> 00:59:24.700
What's happened to my voice!

00:59:25.330 --> 00:59:27.580
My voice won't come out.

00:59:38.080 --> 00:59:43.080
When you experience suffering,
you walk but you never arrive

00:59:43.580 --> 00:59:48.080
One cannot escape the
fundamental truth of getting old

00:59:48.580 --> 00:59:51.700
Sitting and standing become
more difficult

00:59:52.040 --> 00:59:55.160
Ears become deaf, eyes
become blurred

00:59:55.500 --> 00:59:59.120
The day will come when the
skin becomes dry,

00:59:59.500 --> 01:00:05.080
wrinkled and white

01:00:06.370 --> 01:00:11.950
The back is bent and you can
no longer stand straight

01:00:12.410 --> 01:00:17.500
When one gets old,
ninety-six diseases can infect you

01:00:17.950 --> 01:00:20.290
but you cannot know
when or who

01:00:20.750 --> 01:00:28.290
You will lay your head down
on the pillow

01:00:29.250 --> 01:00:33.540
with a sorrowful mind

01:00:34.200 --> 01:00:38.620
Death and suffering will
come to all ...

01:00:39.000 --> 01:00:42.660
they are unavoidable

01:00:43.250 --> 01:00:46.200
Even our fathers and mothers

01:00:46.830 --> 01:00:53.580
have had to face this truth
and have left this world

01:01:37.790 --> 01:01:46.080
On 13 September of Myanmar year 1383
and Shan year 2195

01:01:46.370 --> 01:01:51.870
at the age of seventy, after 59 years
of monkhood,

01:01:52.870 --> 01:01:57.160
at 24 minutes past 2.00 pm,

01:01:57.830 --> 01:02:00.500
the venerable Ashin Kondinya

01:02:01.080 --> 01:02:06.370
was unable to overcome impermanence
and went to the Golden Garden.

01:02:12.870 --> 01:02:20.000
Now that you have passed away,
all your belongings including

01:02:20.500 --> 01:02:27.200
heavy and light things, monastery buildings,
followers and all other things

01:02:27.450 --> 01:02:33.120
have no meaning to you anymore,
they are no longer owned by you.

01:02:33.870 --> 01:02:38.500
We, the monks' committee,
issue an edict.

01:02:38.870 --> 01:02:42.660
May this be be noted.

01:02:43.250 --> 01:02:48.580
Well done, well done, well done!

01:04:51.830 --> 01:04:56.160
Look at the four dogs biting and
tearing beside the holy one!

01:04:56.580 --> 01:05:00.910
A child is talking
as if he were a king ...

01:05:01.290 --> 01:05:05.410
Young jungle fowls are trying
to mimic the peacock's call

01:05:05.870 --> 01:05:11.370
Little rain frogs sit on four legs,
their heads up proudly like royalty

01:05:12.620 --> 01:05:15.870
The whole world is flung about
and shaken

01:05:16.200 --> 01:05:18.950
As the country is turned upside down
and made strange

01:05:19.950 --> 01:05:21.950
The old tree has fallen, dryly

01:05:22.290 --> 01:05:26.200
Tempted to revive, no matter how
it tries, it has to die

01:05:26.700 --> 01:05:30.000
Wearing lifeless watches
on their hands,

01:05:30.250 --> 01:05:35.000
some do not count their days
and tomorrows as they should

01:05:35.290 --> 01:05:37.250
We are afraid to reach that chapter,

01:05:37.660 --> 01:05:40.620
for the country may be full
of cruel people

01:05:42.500 --> 01:05:45.700
Devils have landed on
our human world,

01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:49.700
the country falls silent and is
deserted as people die

01:05:49.910 --> 01:05:52.830
Fire and smoke where
dead bodies lie

01:05:53.160 --> 01:05:56.200
The blood encrusted 
from the fiercest fights

01:05:56.500 --> 01:05:59.370
On silencing guns and knives
the world depends

01:05:59.660 --> 01:06:02.950
Slaughtering each other
till blood smells rank

01:06:03.200 --> 01:06:06.370
There will be no fear of death

01:06:07.500 --> 01:06:11.250
Only anger's fiery eyes as we
devour each other

01:06:11.580 --> 01:06:13.870
The world has descended into chaos

01:06:14.160 --> 01:06:18.250
Even the stars will soon fall
from the heavens

01:06:32.580 --> 01:06:39.290
One life has finished, another will start,
and another will blossom

01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:47.790
Take note of the power
of the lyrics to this next song

01:06:49.830 --> 01:06:55.000
This song is about the beautiful soul

01:06:55.290 --> 01:07:00.450
About a good dream
which has to leave this body

01:07:01.080 --> 01:07:05.910
until it cries: I am scared, I am scared,

01:07:06.410 --> 01:07:09.620
please come back!

01:07:12.620 --> 01:07:19.200
The times demand that we
must depart from our soil,

01:07:19.500 --> 01:07:24.330
from our villages and our homes

01:07:24.660 --> 01:07:27.870
Our farms and fields are covered
in moss this year

01:07:28.410 --> 01:07:31.160
We are beset by troubles

01:07:31.580 --> 01:07:36.120
Even swallowing our saliva
makes us choke

01:07:37.000 --> 01:07:40.870
There's no way out,
we are distraught

01:07:41.250 --> 01:07:43.540
This disease is a new burden
on our lives

01:07:44.000 --> 01:07:48.410
Blows are coming from both sides,
day and night

01:07:49.000 --> 01:07:54.910
Our quaking minds have been in
tumult for a long time

01:07:55.580 --> 01:08:00.830
And when sleep comes, we dream,
thinking all the more at nighttime

01:08:01.200 --> 01:08:07.370
O come back, come back my soul,
you are so far away

01:08:07.910 --> 01:08:16.700
It is up to me to call it back,
call it back ...

01:08:19.830 --> 01:08:24.160
O cast your eyes along
the mountain and the hills

01:08:24.370 --> 01:08:27.660
All thoughts are shrouded in darkness,

01:08:28.040 --> 01:08:32.370
the throat is hoarse, the voice cracked

01:08:32.700 --> 01:08:38.250
The mind is stuffed and crammed

01:08:39.000 --> 01:08:48.250
Let me say the mantras
'Sain Dan, Eain Man, Tan'

01:08:48.950 --> 01:08:54.580
And whisper tentatively for the soul to
come back and live in this body

01:08:55.250 --> 01:09:00.080
Please make our country into a
peaceful and good place again

01:09:00.580 --> 01:09:06.500
Allow me to sing this song
and pray for auspiciousness

01:09:07.580 --> 01:09:12.950
The soul is in a place that's
far away from heaven

01:09:13.330 --> 01:09:18.080
I am thinking and hoping ...

01:09:18.500 --> 01:09:24.910
Let us take flowers, popping rice,
prayer flags and incense

01:09:25.330 --> 01:09:28.500
and hang paper charms
next to the amaryllis flower

01:09:28.910 --> 01:09:31.080
and offer them to the Lord Buddha

01:09:31.450 --> 01:09:36.290
Beautiful soul, come back from
wherever you are to live in this body!

01:09:36.700 --> 01:09:39.830
For all humans and spirits
that have been encountered

01:09:40.330 --> 01:09:46.370
I pray that you may enjoy peace

01:09:46.620 --> 01:09:51.040
May you all be free from
catastrophe and disaster

01:09:51.330 --> 01:09:56.080
May you all be free

01:09:57.080 --> 01:10:01.580
Let us move forward gradually

01:10:01.950 --> 01:10:05.290
And let my singing come to an end

01:10:05.870 --> 01:10:12.160
May your soul come back
and reside within you

01:10:12.580 --> 01:10:15.330
And so whatever happens

01:10:15.580 --> 01:10:19.500
Lightning seldom strikes twice
but if it does,

01:10:19.750 --> 01:10:22.750
the soul leaves the body
and all is turmoil

01:10:23.120 --> 01:10:26.700
All spirits and humans and each and
every young person, whoever you are

01:10:27.080 --> 01:10:30.330
may you come back home
again to live

01:10:30.750 --> 01:10:39.290
May the country heal and be a
good place to live once more