Samsara

Samsara

Sonam...

Oh no, not again!

How long?

Three years, three months, three weeks and three days.

Tashi, we are taking you back.

Tashi, it is time.

Tashi, you pushed it too far.

''How can one prevent a drop of water from ever drying up?''

Apo is back...

Kala!

Now, l must leave.

Safe return!

No. l want to go home!

Tashi, did you cry when,

...you father left you here?

The head lama, His holiness Chen Tulku

...will be performing a sacred initiation in five days.

He asks that you attend.

So prince Siddhartha left his palace

and luxurious life...

...and from his golden chariot...

saw suffering for the first time!

Thus one night, prince Siddhartha decided...

...to leave his beautiful wife, Princess Yashodhara...

and his son, Rahul, and go away.

He left his son?

Well, yes.

Because he wanted to find out true cause of our suffering and...

l want to go home!

Tashi, Rinpochey is here!

After twenty years studying in our monastery...

...Lama Tashi completed three years of meditation,

Truly this is the path towards Nirvana.

His Holiness, Dhyan Rinpochey...

has therefore awarded Lama Tashi the precious 'Khenpo' degree...

in recognition of his achievement.

He is a very good monk!

Kala, you monkey!

Tashi... You spoke!

lt was him.

Kala...hear my voice, what?

Rinpochey, thank you. For Tashi...

Precious degree of Khenpo.

For Kala... nothing.

Jhulley! Tashi Delek!

Hail! Hail! Hail!

... to four noble truths!

Who? -Tashi.

Faster, faster, faster...

Can you explain what's going on?

Apo, l ask that you take Lama Tashi with you tomorrow

for the harvest ceremony.

l feel he is in need of some fresh air.

Tashi, next time you wish to modify a performance...

...please let me know in advance.

Where is Tenzin Thorgay's house?

Right There.

Come, l will take you there.

Tashi Delek, jhulley, welcome.

Oh Apo...

My head...

Last night l have...

Yes, l know.

Dreams are like that!

So Tashi still dreams?

You see, even you can be angry.

Here, the map. You leave at dawn.

lt is time to choose.

Kala!

What is it with you today?!

Kala... when did you learn to read maps?!

Jhulley, Tashi Delek!

The venerable Khenpo Apo sent me...

No speech?

Understood, only body and mind!

''Everything you contact is a place to practice the Way''

Where's Apo?

Even He was allowed a worldly existence until he was 29!

But since the age of five l've been...

...disciplined to live like Buddha after He renounced the world.

Why?

How do we know that His Enlightenment...

...was not a direct result of His worldly existence, too?

Apo, where is that freedom promised to me...

...after a strict monastic discipline?

Where is the promised satisfaction,

from our vow of celibacy?

''You should not accept my teachings on hearsay...

...unless and until you understand it...

...from your own point of view'' he said once.

There are things we must unlearn...

...in order to learn them.

And there are things we must own...

...in order to renounce them.

Tashi...

Your dream back in the village wasn't a dream.

But...

Kala?

Kala.

Kala! lt's me!

Kala!

Kala.

For the rest we talk tomorrow.

Dolma, we have another mouth to feed.

A nomad.

l told him he could work until the harvest was done.

lt will reduce some of my work.

And of course...

...increase mine!

Sujata, here.

Oh mother, some more.

Pema.

Take some food over to that new hardworking guy.

Tell him he can even stop to eat it!

Enough, father!

Hey Mister! Take a little rest,

make a little break for lun...

Pema!

Pema... wait!

Do not tell me that you did this for me...

No, l did it for myself as well.

But why? l am sorry if this is my fault,

Shhh... Pema please.

Maybe l was wrong to do that but l...

All l wanted to do was comfort you for a moment.

And look now.

Are you sure that it was all about a momentary comfort?

lf you are, then l will be gone ... before the sun rises.

From now on you will go out wearing this!

Roaming here and there!

l gave you a job and this is how you repay me?

You worthless...

Oh, it's you!? Forgive my violence!

No, no.

Why are you asking for forgiveness?

He WAS A LAMA!

Pema, what are we going to do?

Your family has already accepted my engagement with you.

l know. Should l wash your hair?

l have nothing else but you.

Astrologer will be here tomorrow.

l let him decide my destiny.

Pema, but why the Astrologer?

Planets indicate 1 0th would be an auspicious date for the wedding.

So fix it for that day.

That's good. l am sorry.

But... the wedding is with whom?

With whom? l think it was all decided last night!

Jamayang came to see me and requested to come here...

...and decide the wedding date of Pema and Tashi.

Why? Why did you do it?

Jamayang?

Even if the decision was in my favor...

you wouldn't have married me, anyway! Would you?

Woman will dominate!

Hey, stop, eat now!

Cry when l tell you.

Something is wrong.

-Who is he? -My husband.

What's going on?

After all the years we've worked together.

Tenzin, you allow him to doubt me?

Now you can cry, my son.

You better start building a new granary.

You're going to be needing a lot of storage space from now on.

Tashi, l feel we are satisfied in what we get.

Besides, you HAVE to sell it to him.

No one else comes to this valley!

Let me take our harvest to town!

l'll sell it all.

We'll teach Dawa a lesson!

And what makes you think,

those city guys will buy from us?

What is that?

For a safe journey.

One man, five Rupees.

Two men, ten Rupees.

You see, even notes don't fit in your purse!

Wow, incredible!

More than twice of what Dawa pays!

Tashi, you are too much!

Guess what?

Now the bank-notes fit into my purse!

Your father has also gone with Tashi!

l know.

You don't understand! Why change traditional practice?

Dawa buys everyone's crops for years!

lt is dangerous to oppose him.

Jamayang. Fetch my mother!

Go, go...

Now who would this be?

lt's me!

So it seems you've been to town?

We've been working.

l can see that. Hiding your grain?

That's easy.

Hiding from me, that's harder.

You better remember that.

Besides, what did l tell you?