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i spent one full month studying his religion buddhism
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i'm over the higher i read buddhist books i talked to buddhist monks
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and i visited buddhist temples here in nepal where buddha himself was born
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and i discovered that i am secretly buddhist and you are secretly buddhist
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But first, some background.
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I am on a six -month challenge to study six top religions, one every month.
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Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and even Atheism.
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This is the story of what I learned from Buddhism.
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What I learned from Buddhism.
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Buddhism started with this man Buddha.
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He was born right here in this exact place in Nepal 2500 years ago
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and today more than 500 million people follow his wisdom.
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Buddhism.
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Buddhism is deep and rich.
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I cannot cover it in one short video.
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So I'm gonna focus on the little bit of Buddhism that changed my life.
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In Buddhism, there is no God.
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There are no angels and no prophets.
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There is no devil and no Satan.
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There is no commandments and no prayers.
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There is even no eternal heaven
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or eternal hell what the hell this shocked me don't be shocked i learned
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that buddhism doesn't worry about life after death heaven
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or hell buddhism only worries about life before death how do I live a happy life today before dying that's what
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Buddhism is about you don't own your past you don't own your future
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you cannot control you cannot do anything about it you have only
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this moment the Buddha teaches you you come to this moment and see what really inside us that's why
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Buddhism focuses only on your mind.
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Your mind is your God.
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It is the source of all happiness and sadness, of all good and evil.
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If we can control our mind, we can be happy.
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The mind is everything.
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What you think, you become.
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The Buddha said.
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That is the core of Buddhism.
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The mind is so powerful in this religion that it became a sixth sense.
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We are used to five senses in the West.
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See, hear, smell, taste, touch.
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But Buddhists believe in a sixth sense, the mind.
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We have five senses.
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Everything is linked by mind.
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That is why we need to focus on our mind in Buddhism.
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The Buddha said, when your mind is pure, the happiness and the joy follows like a shadow that never leaves you.
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Buddhism is full of wisdom.
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When you read the religious books, you'll get the step -by -step guide on how to control your mind and make it happy.
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Yes, Buddhists think it is possible to live a happy life today this is how.
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So how can my mind be happy and pure?
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The Buddha teaches you that let go of the attachment and then you will be happy.
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Let go of the attachment.
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Yes.
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Let go of attachments.
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turns out our mind gets sad
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when it gets attached you get attached to money to people to emotions
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and when your money is gone then you suffer
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when your father is gone then you suffer
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when your job is gone you suffer because you are attached to all of them when we get attached to things.
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We expect a lot.
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When we expect a lot, sometimes we don't get it.
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When we don't get it, we become sad and we suffer.
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Expectations is the thief of joy.
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Really.
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Buddhism teaches us not to get attached, because in life, nothing lasts forever.
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Our parents, they don't last forever.
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Our job, it doesn't last forever.
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Our nice car, our country, our money, everything will be gone one day.
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Is there anything that's not subject to change?
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Yes.
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What is it?
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That is the process of changing.
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So, this is a true story.
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I did a one -hour meditation today and I almost cried.
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Just thinking about the idea that nothing in my life would last forever made me cry.
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The Buddha said, let go of attachment and you will be at peace.
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this sounds simple but it's really hard to accept it's hard to accept
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that your job will be gone and your parents will be gone too
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and that's fine you can still love your parents
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but you must accept that they are impermanent that your happiness cannot be attached to them love
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and attachment are two different things when you love someone you love seeing them grow
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and becoming happy but when you get attached to someone you expect them to make you happy
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and ask why are you not making me happy
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that's the difference yes i spent one month trying to understand this concept
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and here in Nepal talking to Buddhist monks it finally clicked
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I finally understood it in my company people coming in
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and leaving the company it's hard every time to see somebody come
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and then after two three years they leave every person
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that I work with I'm not gonna work it forever
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and I didn't realize that until recently you have to be like a tree think of your company like a tree, a big one.
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The birds come and they eat the fruits and they be happy and they go.
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But tree stays the same as the big tree, tall and profound and evergreen.
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Bruce Lee says be like water and Buddhism be like a tree.
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Buddhism taught me
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that happiness does not come from the outside it comes from the inside it has always been inside of us here
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and the best part about buddhism is
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that you don't have to convert to it it is not just a religion
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it's also a philosophy a way of life take what you want from it dalai lama once said that do
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Do not try to use
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Buddhism to be a better Buddhist.
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Try to use
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Buddhism to be a better version of what you already are.
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If you understand the power of your mind, you can become a better
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Muslim, a better
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Jew, a better Christian, and even a better atheist.
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And that is the beauty of Buddhism.
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It can help all of us become better humans.
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See you next month for a video about Hinduism.
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What an incredible experience.
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Learned so much, inspired so much.
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Now to the next challenge.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “I studied Buddhism for 1 month. It changed me”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: buddhism, buddhist, buddha, attached, gone. Questo video contiene 108 frasi e 1047 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 8:49. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 119 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 85% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| attach verbo | /əˈtæt͡ʃ/ | legare, appiccare |
| attachment sostantivo | /əˈtæt͡ʃmənt/ | legame |
| suffer verbo | /ˈsʌfɚ/ | soffrire, penare |
| happiness sostantivo | /ˈhæpinɪs/ | felicità, gioia |
| shock sostantivo | /ʃɔk/ | trauma, trauma emotivo |
| sixth aggettivo | /sɪksθ/ | sesto, sesta |
| wisdom sostantivo | /ˈwɪzdəm/ | saggezza, senno |
| eternal aggettivo | /ɪˈtɝ.nl̩/ | eterno |
| secretly avverbio | /ˈsiː.kɹɪt.li/ | di nascosto |
| monk sostantivo | /mʌŋk/ | monaco, frate |
| angel sostantivo | /ˈeɪ̯n.d͡ʒəl/ | angelo |
| temple sostantivo | /ˈtɛm.pl̩/ | tempio |
| shadow sostantivo | /ˈʃædəʊ̯/ | ombra |
| prayer sostantivo | /pɹɛɚ/ | preghiera, orazione |
| discover verbo | /dɪˈskʌvə/ | scoprire, trovare |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| turn out verbo | risultare |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- Our parents, they don't last forever.
- Our job, it doesn't last forever.
- Is there anything that's not subject to change?
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 16 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, I'm, doesn't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: sixth /sɪksθ/, thief /ˈθiːf/, atheist /ˈeɪ.θi.ɪst/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: shock /ʃɔk/, shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, meditation /mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: attach /əˈtæt͡ʃ/, attachment /əˈtæt͡ʃmənt/, happiness /ˈhæpinɪs/, shock /ʃɔk/, sixth /sɪksθ/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: attach /əˈtæt͡ʃ/, attachment /əˈtæt͡ʃmənt/, happiness /ˈhæpinɪs/, shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, sadness /ˈsædnəs/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come attach, attachment, suffer.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.