00:00:07 John Daub: Hey everybody, this is David. I'm John. We're in Araki-cho, the secret gourmet neighborhood in Shinjuku. And we're going to be going to where? A Buddhist bar called Vows. A Buddhist bar called Vows. Basically, we're going to have to chant for brews, right? Got to earn our drinks, yeah.

00:00:31 John Daub: This is pretty cool. I do like this neighborhood. It's a narrow street. It looks like it's just full of bars and restaurants. Yeah, and check out the place on the right. It's one of my favorite places. Oh, this one right here? This is a tempura restaurant. It's an original tempura. They've got sake selection. Staff wanted. There's so many great places here. That's one of them.

00:01:03 David: Wow, look at this. This is a cafe.

00:01:07 John Daub: That's right. It's a neko bar (cat bar), but maybe just one cat in there. Neko bar with just one cat. However, there's the cat. The owner likes cats, but it's very eclectic. I mean, we have different kinds of styles. This is more modern. That looked like the one back there. It's a little bit older. This is a pub. It's kind of a modern design. And on the left here, we have another... Looks like a cafe, no? Oh, it's a kaya-style restaurant. Japanese style, more Japanese style, where the one behind us is modern.

00:01:50 John Daub: So, I've been in London and New York, and there's neighborhoods like this where it seems like a really trendy... Oh, this is karaoke. Really trendy neighborhood.

00:02:01 David: Let's go back a bit.

00:02:02 John Daub: Okay. Uh-oh. We went too far. Oh, here's the turn. We're going to a Buddhist bar. Oh, okay. And... Short cut. Alright, David is showing us a short cut. Careful for your head? No, you be careful for your head. 193 centimeters... Oh, yeah, seriously.

00:02:29 John Daub: Oh, there's a kushikatsu (skewered deep-fried cutlets). Oh, that's a kushikatsu. Nobody's in here yet. It's still pretty early, isn't it? Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's busy. You can see, just sort of see through the window. Yeah, it's busy, and it's just about 8 o'clock at night. Yeah. Now, this street is a lot narrower. This is really an alley. Don't you recognize that? We were here earlier. Yes, we were here. Oh, it just looks different at night.

00:03:13 John Daub: Ship theme going on. Yeah. And then back here, again, it's pretty cool where you walk past the cafes. You can kind of glimpse in and see life. This one through a portal. It looks like a boat. But this is a pretty cool neighborhood. It's totally different at night, David. I guess a car can't go through here, can it? Maybe a very small one. A very small car.

00:03:43 John Daub: Oh, this is a bar. Oh, this is a bar. A few hours ago, maybe about four hours ago, we did a livestream walking past here, and you can't see a door to get in, right? There's no door to get in, but it's actually like somebody had crashed a motorbike through there or something, and there you go. There's your opening. Pretty cool. I'm just going to take a quick peek in. Oh, you can't see inside because the magic is protected by copyright or something, but it does look very magical. An owl, a card, bottles of Dom Pérignon, and a hole in the wall. Mysterious alley. Yes. Pretty cool.

00:04:35 John Daub: All right. A lot of the places are on the ground floor here, or the first floor. Oh, that's sort of funny. I like that imagery here. It's like that must be the owner. Very cool. Looks like a Buddhist, too, but that's the tarot card. Hamajutsu [?]. I think. Yakitori. So beyond those doors lies a delicious yakitori (grilled chicken skewers) restaurant because I can smell it. You can smell it. Oh, yeah. Totally different at night.

00:05:16 David: I'm going to dip down and we can spy on them.

00:05:21 John Daub: Yeah, they're eating and playing and living life. Very cool. Looks like a shortcut. All right. David's taking me down another alley. Are you lost? It is totally different at night. You weren't joking. You said dead. No. The street was flagstones. Very cool. It's neat just to look at... Oh, how lucky you can see. Just in the window, there's the bar. There's the... Very cool. Retro Future. Is this it? Are we here? Yeah. It is.

00:06:07 John Daub: It's really mixed, old types of bars of everything. You can see in here, 80s music bar. You can see the music videos on the screen there. Very cool. It really is an 80s music bar. It says it right there. 80s music. Rock me Amadeus. Nice. Oh, there's Cyndi Lauper down there. Oh, yeah.

00:06:41 David: First of all, my friend, Misuzu.

00:07:00 John Daub: So we're going to go left. The street continues to go up there. So there's more restaurants up there that we're missing. But we gotta make it to the Buddhist bar by 8pm. Oh, this is the tonkatsu (breaded pork cutlet) place that we ate before. Oh, it's different at night. What is this shop here? Karamaru [?]? That's... what is it? Okonomiyaki (savory pancake). I can read that. Right here it says Okonomiyaki. Hiroshima Okonomiyaki. Looks good. It's a pretty new shop though. It does look new. Hiroshima is famous for oysters. Very nice.

00:08:00 John Daub: Hello boy. Harf harf. Sorry. You've met John? How do you do? How's it going? The pleasure is all mine. Oh, this is it right here. It's right literally next to... Oh, so everything is... Oh, ok, Vows Bar. It's because a Buddhist monk takes vows. And when you pronounce it in Japanese, it sounds like... Bows. And bows is another word for monk in Japanese. Bows because... Because... Bows means bald. Oh, there he is. Suzuki-san. Good evening, sir. We're going to the Bows Bar. Bows Bar. We have to be there. First, the people's shop. In... Adakusha [?]. After yours. Oh, I see. Let's go. We have a... Thank you. Thank you. Ah... Get ready to pray.

00:09:13 John Daub: Alright, so this is Bows Bar. We're going in. And... Apparently we've got a treat. Ladies first. What a gentleman.

00:10:29 David: Oh wow, they actually do have a little shrine here. Very nice. And it has the smell of a temple. It smells like a temple.

00:10:47 John Daub: So I can turn the light off. I actually have a light on here. So this is Bo's bar and we have this part of the...

00:11:06 David: What's this for? On the table. It's decoration but... It's not for...

00:11:22 John Daub: Oh there we go. Alright. So we got a menu here. So you wanna choose your drink of choice. Yes. And just for 500 yen, that's well worth it. It's cover charge. Let's see here. Sacred lot 100 yen. Sacred lot of the love. 100 yen. And it's open from 7pm to midnight. No I think that's 25. 2500. Sorry it's a 25. Oh. It's 25 so 1am. Yeah maybe it used to be midnight. It used to be 24 but now it's 25. Past the witching hour. Right. You gotta choose... Okay here are the drinks everybody. Cocktail. Recommended cocktails.

00:12:03 John Daub: There's the Gokuraku Jodo which is the hypnotic mango juice, cranberry juice. What's the hypnotic? It's a French liqueur. Oh is it? Yeah yeah. So this is what the drink looks like. It's rainbow color. Oh. It's like a rainbow. If you don't get that I will get that because I need some Nirvana. Really? You have the first pick. Or you can get Never Ending Suffering in Hell. Oh wait is that the name of the drink? Yes. So either you go for Nirvana. Never Ending Suffering... Nirvana or Never Ending Suffering in Hell. Or you can do Love and Hate Leading to Hell. Leading to Hell. So you get to hell one way or another. Habu snake liquor. That must be the hell. Cranberry juice. Hmm. Woo. And the lemon juice. Well, you know what? You know I don't really need to go to hell right away. I might go to heaven first. What about Inferno? Inferno is good. You know it's nice and warm down there. It's a little chilly outside. Chilly pepper flavored vodka. I mean that's very curious. Mugen no Gotoshi. That's another world. Sake and cherry blossom. Yeah that sounds like another world indeed. Miroku Bosatsu. Miroku Bosatsu is one of the Buddhist saints. Who vows to save people in the future. Whoa. It's a pretty long name. It is. And I love the names here. The menu is pretty big. You can also go for some sake. Some sake. By the way we're gonna just drink here but just to point out they also have food right? Yeah. The food menu.

00:13:49 David: Mitsuzu broke the menu. Mitsuzu broke the menu. So are you gonna hold one end and I'm gonna hold the other end? Sure. And Mitsuzu's gonna film? No. It's cool. This is gonna film. This is the menu. We should hold it the other way around. The other way around? Let's switch. Let's coordinate better here. Synchronized. Oh wait. This is empty but. That would be dumb.

00:14:13 John Daub: This is the menu and it's pretty nice. Can you see that vegetarian so all for all of you who are complaining about all the meat at the yakiniku restaurant, touche. Whatever we're right back at you with vegetarian options okay and all of this is rice with vegetables there's more English in here but this is the Japanese one more fun but they've got beans fermented beans fermented soy beans that's very healthy yes it is how come the drinks take you to hell and the food takes you to heaven it's funny but I don't understand each no really I know the first one is it means that they're going to the hell yeah it's very yeah it's very weird.

00:15:17 Suzuki-san: Just to give you a scope of what the bar looks like here here here we are and you can see can you see the bows the bald monk in the center but if this is considered according to mr. scissors as Izuki the most popular bar in adekicho yeah yeah well crap I gotta call ahead if you really want to go here you better reserve later of the night fill up completely. Yeah. Later in the night it does get...

00:16:01 John Daub: Go back up here. There you go. So now you get the full experience. What drink are you going to get? Well, I recommend the Gokuraku Jodo, which is the Nirvana and the Pure Land. That's a cocktail. Another thing which is pretty good or fun to do is the sake, because you'll get the sake in the box. Oh, wow. Yeah. You've got a couple of options here. Hanya, To and Santoka. I'm not sure. I'm not sure either. I think I'm going to go for this Nirvana wine. Yeah, okay. I'll go for the sake. Gokuraku Jodo. Now, the Gokuraku Jodo is the only one that has sort of a positive spin. I guess in Buddhist you don't drink a lot. Although, monks do drink a lot, don't they? Yeah. In Japan they do. In Japan they do. Buddhist monks in Japan drink a lot. But seems like most of these drinks eventually lead to hell. And personally, you know, I just got married. I don't want to go there right away. I want to enjoy it. So we're going to go with the Paradise drink and see what we get here. So let's order this thing. What are you going to do? I'm going to get Miyake. Sake. Oh, you're going to get sake. Okay. Let's order before 8 p.m., which is now. Oh, more victims just came in.

00:17:52 David: So how do we get their attention? You got to ring the bell. Ring it. Smash it. Smash the like button too. Let's get to 100 likes. We'll ring the bell if you smash the like button. How's that? That works out pretty good. Yeah. So that's how you get people's attention, I guess, right?

00:18:16 John Daub: But actually, I think you could call the god. I could call god. No idea. No idea. He's gonna show us. Okay. So, um, Gokuraku Jodo. Yes. And Shaku Netsu Jigoku. And... Which one was it? Is it Santo? Yes. You got that. Okay. So you're going to say that. Yes. And I'm gonna say that one. Okay. I like it. It's small. It's quaint. It's a bar. It really is. But with a twist. The lights, the decorations inside of it. It's all very... Can I say it? Zen? It's very similar to what they've got in the ryokan. In the Taiwan My Japan. Yeah. Paper lanterns. So there's a lot of decorations in here including the bell that looks like a bell from a temple that you would see at any Buddhist temple. This design I've seen before.

00:19:44 John Daub: So hold on a second. Is he actually a Buddhist here? They actually are monks? Apparently he is. He's a real monk? He's a real monk, yeah. So he was a family. Okay, with a family. A family of monks or just a daughter? A real family? Yeah, he's married.

00:20:13 David: That's sake? Yeah. Oh you pour it from... Well you can pour it. Careful. If it doesn't come off, I'd be very nervous. Nice, good job. Can we see inside? Oh, but look. Oh, so it's a little... Okay. Very creative. It's quite smart. It's always has to be... Yeah. So if you poured it from any other... Like if you did this... No. It wouldn't come. It's only there. And you can't pour it too fast. So if you're really thirsty, gotta take your time or the top will come off and spill all over the place.

00:21:04 John Daub: That's a nice cup too. Reminds me of those quacks. Quack glasses. You ever have quack in a Belgian beer? Yes, I have. I'm impressed you know about the quack glass. Well, I've been to Belgium and I had to give my shoe in order to get the glass actually. That's a long story. Yeah. It sounds like it anyway. Well, the glass is very expensive. So in Belgium, you can't run away with the glass if they have your shoe. Apparently some bars end up with more shoes than they do glasses at the end of the night.

00:21:38 John Daub: Okay. So he's...I can hear some, some drink making here. I think he's making my drink maybe. Oh, yeah, he's making my drink. He's mixing it. He's putting something Nirvana-y inside. Thanks everybody for joining us on this livestream. Stream we're inside of the Buddhist bar for those who joining us called Bows V OWS and Araki Cho and I've ordered a Nirvana drink all the other drinks seem to send you to hell so this one seemed to be oh here it comes I just saw the colors it's got it's got some crazy colors to it look at it basically hell nice oh you asked when it's gonna start yeah it's time to start the chanting what is the purpose of the chanting let's ask our Buddhist monk ourselves after the chance yeah every day or like every hour how does this work they do it every night every night a couple of times every every evening also at 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. today they're gonna do a little bit earlier a little bit earlier for us cool and the place is already full so we're getting a chant a special chant a little earlier than normal and they do twice a night at Bows bar kind of cool very neat experience it's good for the soul it's good well it's good for your soul because your drink sends you to hell I'm just saying and my drink is sends me to paradise oh I thought this is a straw oh this is not a straw performance you're doing quite well if you're going to hell you might as well go to hell happy like tomatoes it's a spicy tomato thing mango like a bloody marriage Oh Bloody Mary don't say that three times so I guess do I mix it is that why that I'm guessing this is here so could you mix it we've got three different layers of liquor so now you could drink each layer separately five different tastes. Or you mix it and you have the mix taste, either way is fine. Probably mixing is better. Really? Alright I'm gonna mix it because this stick looks very like a relic or something important so I'm gonna mix it and create a little typhoon, a little storm inside here. You've lost the rainbow colors. Now we're both going to hell buddy. No you're going to paradise. They smell of the mixing. I taste all three actually but the mango taste is very overpowering, very powerful. I don't know what that French liqueur was to be honest with you.

00:25:30 David: I think it's explained in more detail in the article that my colleague Emily wrote. Oh right, okay. It's also in a Tadayama Japan. She's French so she is familiar with that hypnotic liquid. So there's a link in the description to the article if you want to check out more on the booze bar and the booze that I'm drinking. That's right. It's very easy on the stomach which is dangerous because usually if a drink tastes too good to be true, usually is. Either there's no booze in it at all or that booze is so well mixed that my body will feel the impact hours from now. I'm hoping more like minutes actually. But the bar is now pretty full so I think we're imminent now where the chanting will start. I think he's making the drinks for everybody first. Everybody lick it up. Get everybody boozed up before they start. Yeah. How's your sake? Yeah, how's the sake? It's good. It's nice and dry. Is it working? It is working. It is working. The affirmative. Very nice. It's just easy to drink. So it's good for your lot of sake to keep yourself busy. Someone's going to have a big smile at the end of this chanting. Yes. So we're waiting for the chanting to start. The chanting is imminent. It should happen momentarily. David. I'm going to start chanting. I've got the sheet here. Oh, you do? Okay. Show us the lyrics to the chant. When they start the whole talking, it's going to be difficult for us to say anything. All right. So show us the lyrics. Are they complicated? Well, there's a... Yes, they are. It's a little bit advanced. All right. Show us. Here are the lyrics. I think most people can manage it. Most people are who? I don't know. I don't know who these most people are. So you've got the Chinese characters here. Here's the chant. But they'll show you how to pronounce them with this hiragana. The Japanese. The Japanese, right? Yakubu. Where do they start? From here, right? Well, you're going to start from the right. And you go from right to left, top to bottom. So this is actually the first... Kaikyo. So Kaikyoge. Kaikyoge. The first bit. Mujojinjimi. Myoha. You're pretty good. Hyakusenman. Gonansougu. Gakonkenmon. Tokujuu. But we're there to read it for you. Gange-nyo. Naishinjitsugi. Difficult. This is a kind of ancient Japanese because there's no grammar in there at all. You know, I can read it sort of, but I don't know anything what it means. They've got the English one. This is the Japanese one. They've also got the English one. It might add out to us. So you can also follow in English. Okay. Now it's better if I don't understand. It seems more spiritual that way. I think if I knew the meaning, it would ruin it. Maybe. So somebody was saying in the chat that the Buddhist monks don't drink alcohol. There are many different kinds of Buddhism. And... Maybe that's why they drink this. I can't taste it. In Japan, apparently some monks, anyway, do drink alcohol. Well, you know, it's in front of the Shinto shrines that I see the barrels of sake. Or is that the Buddhist monks? I'm pretty sure it's the shrines, right? Or both. I guess you can see them in front of both. I don't see the sake barrels. If you go to Meiji Shrine in front in Harajuku, you'll be able to see, stacked up at the front, sake barrels. Like lots of them. Yes, that's right. The Meiji Shrine. Yes. So I know that the priests... Shinto priests drink a lot. But the Buddhist monks, I guess, they also drink. Not to be overdone. Outdone by the priests. So do you have an opinion on this? Yeah. As a Japanese? No idea. No, no, no. Maybe... Are you no better than me? No, maybe we need to get you more sake first. After a couple more of these, all the answers will come to you magically. But usually we say sake has a spiritual and you watch down your... that stuff. Well, we call... It's true. Well, we call sake Nihonshu (Japanese sake). Nihonshu meaning like Japan's drink. Yeah. Yeah. Nihonshu. Nihonshu is better in sake though. Yeah. Yeah. So shu meaning drink and Nihon meaning Japan, right? Yeah. It's hard because I don't want to get other people... Oh, oh, okay. We're getting ready. We're getting ready. Oh, yes. Let it... let it begin. As I calm down. You have no choice. I have no choice. You come here for a drink. You have to pray. I've come here for a drink and now we've come for a chant.

00:30:46 John Daub: So you need a reservation typically. I mean, now you probably would get... there's a couple of seats left, but it's not guaranteed, right? So... Oh, right. It's a full place. Yeah, there's a couple of seats right now. But if you came with three people then no, you would be turned away. I don't want. My turn. You got Japanese. Do you have English? Yes. Oh, you have English? Oh. He has English as well. That's good. Then Japanese doesn't work either. So you can make it... you can get to... we'll get to Japanese and English. Okay. So that's for people left. Okay. So now we have the kind of the meaning of this and we better study this really quickly. Because it's going to start here. It's the sutra opening verse. Muji jinjin. Oh, this is what I read, but in Japanese. Muji jinjin. Mimyoho. Hyakusenmango. Nansogo. Gakkon. Kenmon. Tokujiiji. Gangenyorai. Shinjitsugi. All right. And the meaning is... The unsurpassed profound and wondrous Dharma is rarely met with... The unsurpassed profound and wondrous Dharma is rarely met with... Even in a hundred thousand million kalpas. Now we can see and hear it, accept and maintain it. May we unfold the meaning of the Tathagata's truth. I don't know what much of that means though. Do you? Can you decipher the Buddhist? Neither. And we have here the repentance verse called the Sange. And Gashaku-sozo. I'll just spare you that. With, go straight to it. All my past and harmful karma, born from beginningless greed, hate and delusion, through body, speech, and mind, I now fully avow. And this, and here we go, pray for the merit sharing here. So we got some more. Hope this, okay, we're about to wrap it up. We're gonna wrap it up. You got some more in the back, right? Everything's there. And it's happening right here, right? We're gonna have you a front row seat. Oh yeah. I'm gonna put this here. Oh, nice. I'm gonna put this here. None of my text. Sorry. Is he doing it here? Yep. Oh wow. David, I can't see you though. Hold on. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm not so important am I? All right. So you ready for this? Spiritually, I mean. Oh good, good. You're probably saying, I'll slide up a bit. I'm gonna put this here. Oh, thank you. Yes. Come by. Come by. He's preparing. Good evening. Good evening.

00:35:19 Suzuki-san: [chanting in Japanese; inaudible phrases]. If you can't do it together for various reasons, you can do it together. What do you do? We do Hanya Shingyo (Heart Sutra). It is probably the best known in Japan. It is so popular that if you do the best ten of the sutras, you will definitely get first place every week. That's how famous the sutras are. The Buddhist work is always done by the monk, but it's not all about the sutras. The sutras are in the middle. You can see it by looking at the print. Hanya Shingyo is the third main dish. What is written at the beginning? Kaikyoge. It's like a zen-sai (appetizer). Kaikyoge means to open the sutras. It means to open the sutras in the style of 7 characters and 4 lines. What does it mean? I was able to follow the teachings of the Buddha depending on the picture. Please follow the teachings. I hope you can understand the teachings correctly and attach it to your mind. This is my wish. This is the first thing. If you say it, it's like a declaration of the opening of the sutras or a teacher. This is the beginning of the sutras. I don't go to the sutras all of a sudden. What is written next? There is a Sangemon. There is a furigana, so you can read it as Sangemon. If you don't have a furigana, you can read it as Zangemon. In Japanese Buddhism, it is traditionally called Sange. It is probably a word from the Christian side. So, in Christianity and Buddhism, it is said that they do similar things. That's right. They do similar things. What is written in the last one? It says, It means to confess all. It's not just a sin that you know you did it in front of the Buddha. It's probably done. It's probably done without knowing. It's probably done and done without knowing. Including all these things, I confess all. Confess honestly in front of the Buddha, and forgive. And then enter the sutras. You can do this well, right? With Kaikyōge, you make a good wish. With Sangemon, confess your own sin. In other words, it detoxifies. And then enter the sutras. At the time of the sutras, our hearts will be in a certain state. And make it. I drink, but I do it with a clean mind. And then I do Hanya Shingyo. Lastly, I do Ekōmon (merit-sharing verse). I'll talk about this later.

00:38:41 Suzuki-san: [continues chanting and explanation; inaudible phrases interspersed]. Mujoujin-jin-mi-myoho-kakko. Mujoujin-jin-mi-myoho-kakko. Hyakusen-man-go-toka-kai-yu-mushi. It starts with the word Hyakusen-man-go. If I do the first verse, you do the second verse. Let's do it together. Is that okay? I'll do it. If you have a drink, you can moisten your throat. Get ready to chant. Mujoujin-jin-mi-myoho-kakko. Hyakusen-man-so-kakko. [extended chanting; multiple repetitions of Hanya Shingyo verses].

00:45:22 Suzuki-san: We enjoyed together. Yess. The first part is about the onsen activity [?]. Next part. I have drink a little. You can raise your hand if you have an order. Do you want to order? Raise your hand. I often hear the word, echo. What does it mean? It means to turn something. What do you turn? It says in the book. The first one is gan-ni-shi-ku-do-ku. The first one is gan-ni-shi-ku-do-ku. If you read it, you can read it as, Negawaku has this ku-do-ku. Negawaku has this ku-do-ku. It's getting closer, but it's still a little hard to understand. Let's make it modern. Gan-ni-shi-ku-do-ku. Negawaku has this ku-do-ku. I did my job. I did a good thing. Now, the merit. The word ku-do-ku is a word that refers to merit. What do you do with the merit and the merit? What do you do? I'm probably turning it around. How? The second and third sets. It says, I thank you for your service. The second set is easy to understand. It means to spread it to all. That's right. I'm saying the right thing. And the third set is, Together with us and the master. With us and everyone. The third set is easier. I will not monopolize that merit. I will definitely share it with everyone. I will spread it to all. Spread it to all. This is a very good thing. It's surprisingly difficult to make this happen. Spread it to all. It's unconditional. You have to share it with him. Even with the bad guy. It's hard for humans to do that. After all, if you separate the enemy and the ally, It will become a battle someday. If it becomes a battle, Until the other party is annihilated, You can't stop it. The spiral of the negative will begin. If so, let's not make such a thing from the beginning. Let's make such an effort. That's why I did the fan-moon job the other day. Not only Moon, For Kim, You may be deceived again. At that time, think again. Anyway, Not for anyone, Let's pray for everyone. Let's share the merit together. And what should we do? What do you do with such a thorough equality? It will be the last one. Let's all join together. In the end, let's all reach the level of enlightenment. This is the purpose. Let's open this to the modern world. All things reach the level of peace. Let's not forget this. This is the purpose of the prayer. I'm saying good things. It's the most familiar word recently. Please, this time, You can say a word. You can say a word. I hope you take this word home with you. Now, we have chanted the Hanya Shingyo. I would like to hand over you Buddha's Evangelion. Pray for merit sharing. At last, we chanted. It means, Here, please, this translation. Hope this merit influences widely to mankind to attain Buddhism together. It's a very nice translation. But I feel, Now I try my translation. Gan Nishi Kudoku. It's the Chinese character's first phrase. Gan Nishi Kudoku. It means, I have done my holy duty. I have done sutra chanting. So, it's merit. And secondly, thirdly, So, it's merit would be shared all the world. I never make monopolies. I must make sharing all the world. And so, we must seek the complete peace. It's the meaning. Mr. President Moon Jae-in and Mr. Chairman Kim Jong-un have met last week. So, we need to pray for them. And pray for all. Enjoy. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Please. Check the wall. Wow. Do you want to ask about the alcohol, maybe? No, just alcohol. You can talk to the OK. OK.

00:50:28 John Daub: So, got any good questions? Even you can take a picture with us. Yeah. Can I ask you a question? Yes. Yes. I have time. I often hear that Buddhists don't drink alcohol. So people often saying that monks or Buddhist monks don't drink alcohol. So I'm asking the question. With pleasure, drinking with pleasure. Does Buddhism allow drinking alcohol? Best not to drink. Yeah. I'll translate later. Very strict. Kind of relaxed here. Yeah. Why? Why? It's cold up in the mountains. Yeah. Hands get dry. Yeah. You need medicine. You need some medicine, alcohol. Yeah. To warm up and or else you can't perform your jobs. Yeah. This is not alcohol. This is medicine. Yes. Ah. Ah. Don't drink too much though. Just enough to stay warm. Yeah. You have to know how to control balance. That's right. Yeah. Peace inside the body as well. Yeah. So, you can't drink too much. No. That's not it. I think the Japanese temple is closer to the citizens. Yeah. In Japan, it's a rural area. Yeah. I think we all did the same thing. We did the same thing. The monk is different. He's a priest. The monk was a farmer. He was the one who did the work. Yeah.

00:53:44 John Daub: That that that just just to wrap up because we're gonna end it here if you're interested in coming to Bows Bar we've got a link in the description as well as the article written by Tadaiima Japan so David thank you very much for this day and Misuzu thanks thanks for joining as well Misuzu this is a lot of fun and I learned a lot about this neighborhood Araki-cho first time this is my second time here but was the first time was with you just to check it out and there's even a lot more to discover so thank you very much for introducing if you do want to come to the Bows Bar once again the description is here as well as the link to the article and yeah if you just want a different type of experience I think it's really worth coming here just just to switch it up because if you go to Shibuya to Shinjuku to Harajuku, Akihabara these are like central city center areas that give you a very loud vibe that really isn't it's like a new Japan and this one it's like taking a break from the city center and then you're like oh I'm gonna go to the city center and then you're like oh I'm gonna go to the step back in the time and absorbing the more traditional side of Japan which you can do right here in the center of the city so I think it was really valuable experience to share with all of you through the live streams today we had four of them so go back and check them out so thank you very much I'm getting you the last 20 seconds the look at the Bows Bar so thank you to the monks I'll see everybody have a nice day or night and and keep drinking but not too much because you don't want to break the peace peace.