Little Buddha Page #5

The path to Enlightenment

is in the Middle Way.

It is the line between

all opposite extremes.

[ Siddhartha Whispering ]

If I can reach Enlightenment,

may this bowl...

float upstream.

[ Lama Norbu Narrating ]

The Middle Way was the great

truth Siddhartha had found,

the path he would teach

to the world.

[ Grunting ]

[ Shouting, Speaking

in Nepali ]

[ Drums, Wind Instruments ]

- Thank you.

- Dad, look!

[ Continues ]

[ Lama Norbu ] Are you sure the other

boy will be here today, Sangay?

[ Sangay ] Of course, of course.

He's always here.

Wow, Dad,

isn't it great?

Yeah, it's

lookin' at us.

It's a dome, like the one

on your building.

Lama, can I go around

and touch those things?

The prayer wheels?

Of course.

But remember,

you should always

walk around clockwise.

- Okay, Dad?

- He will be completely safe here.

Okay, Jesse.

I'll see you later.

I'll be watching you!

Hey, Dad! Hey!

Hey, buddy!

[ Cymbals,

Wind Instruments ]

[ Singing in Nepali ]

[ Singing Continues ]

[ Singing Continues ]

[ Singing Continues ]

- That's... the boy.

- Yes, that is Raju.

[ Lama Norbu ]

Look, Champa, the other candidate.

Amongst all these people,

the two of them...

have found each other.

[ Singing Continues ]

How much you give?

Ten rupee?

Five rupee?

- One rupee?

- I don't have any money.

What's in

your pocket?

- It's my Gameboy. You want to try?

- Oh!

Yeah. I'm champion

of Kathmandu.

[ Beeping ]

[ Continues Beeping ]

[ Beeping ]

- You're good.

- [ Beeping Continues ]

Hey!

I am champion

of Kathmandu!

- What is he doing?

- I'll get it back!

Come back!

Hey! Dad?

Hey!

Mantu!

Mantu, come back!

Hey!

[ Cymbals Ringing ]

[ Girl Shouting ]

[ Speaking Nepali ]

- [ Bell Ringing ]

- [ Giggling ]

Hey! American boy!

Hey!

My brother is very naughty,

but great singer.

- Thanks. My name's Jesse.

- I'm Raju. Come!

- Hey, up here, buddy.

- Dad! Hey, Dad!

- Champa, can I ask you something?

- Of course.

Is Lama Norbu sick?

I see him taking those pills.

He's...

not completely well,

but very strong.

Dad! Dad, this

is my new friend.

- He found me when I was lost.

- We know, Jesse. We know.

We've been waiting

for you both.

We are very pleased

to meet you, Raju.

Sangay has told us

much about you.

It is good that

two of the candidates...

have found each other

in this way.

Now we must visit

a third candidate...

whom I've only just

heard about.

It will be

a very long drive.

So let us hope it is

Lama Dorje's... last joke.

Lama Dorje always made jokes

about impermanence.

Lama, what's

"impermanence"?

You see these people?

All of us...

and all the people alive

in the world today--

A hundred years from now

we'll all be dead.

That is impermanence.

[ Indian Raga ]

Jesse?

Hey.

Hey, Jesse.

- You wanna call Mom?

- Yeah.

Come on.

I send help,

sahib.

- Car broken, sahib?

- Yeah.

Very bad karma.

Oh.

I hope your journey

was not too tiring, Lama.

Thank you.

Thank you.

- Now I want to meet the child.

- Here is my precious.

Gita. Come and

meet Lama Norbu.

Gita, this is Jesse

and Raju.

I am the real Lama Dorje,

and you are both fakes.

Lama Dorje

wasn't a woman.

He was the abbess

of a convent.

How would you know?

I'm sorry, you don't go to school.

And you're

a foreigner.

I have

a secret garden.

Come. Come,

O ignorant boys.

Me?

Right here

in this garden,

my grandfather, who was

a raja and a great saint,

was eaten by a tiger.

- Yeah, right!

- There was a terrible famine,

and the tiger was looking

for food to feed her babies.

So my grandfather

offered himself.

He must've been pretty stupid

to do something like that.

[ Spits ] Only a great being

can do something like that.

- [ Raju Yelling ]

- Eat me, O poor tiger!

Eat me!

- [ Yelling ]

- You're so hungry!

- Eat me!

- [ Both Shouting ]

- [ Growling ]

- Oh, no! Aah!

- [ Jesse ] Don't eat me!

- This tooth belonged to the tiger

that ate my grandfather.

Cool.

You can't fool me.

I heard this story a thousand times,

but he don't

know that.

My late husband,

a man of great faith,

made a donation every year

to Lama Dorje's monastery.

Then one day,

Lama Dorje came here.

Unannounced. Just appearing

at the door like a miracle.

He stayed for two days.

And just as

he was leaving,

he placed his hand...

on my stomach...

like this.

For a long time,

I didn't know what it meant.

But immediately after

Lama Dorje died,

I became pregnant.

Something which my husband

and I had thought...

was impossible.

A month ago, she wrote

to me to come right away...

because a most amazing

thing had happened.

- One night, the child--

- Gita was...

chanting prayers in Tibetan,

saying things I couldn't understand.

She was speaking Tibetan

in her sleep?

The Heart sutra. A little miracle.

How could she know that?

She was speaking Sanskrit.

[ Reciting in Sanskrit ]

[ Continues Reciting ]

[ Reciting in Sanskrit ]

[ Continues Reciting ]

[ Continues Reciting ]

- [ Monkey Chattering ]

- [ Jesse ] Wow, look at that monkey!

- [ Raju ] He look like my monkey.

- [ Gita ] They are all my monkeys.

[ Jesse ]

What's that one called over there?

[ Gita ] Don't laugh.

You'll scare them. Do you know...

Siddhartha reached Enlightenment

under this tree?

- Yeah?

- Anyhow, a tree just like this one.

Lama! Lama,

is it true?

Is this really, like,

Siddhartha's tree?

Well, probably

something very similar.

It was outside a little village

called Bodgaya.

Siddhartha sat

under a great tree,

just like this one.

He had found

the Middle Way...

and restored his body

to health.

- [ Chattering ]

- [ Lama Norbu Narrating ]

And then five girls appeared.

They looked like

innocent village girls,

but in fact they were

the five daughters of Mara,

Lord of Darkness.

They were the spirits

of Pride,

- [ Girls Speaking Nepali ]

- Greed, Fear,

Ignorance and Desire.

- [ Chattering Continues, Singing ]

- And Mara had sent them...

to tempt Siddhartha

away from his search.

[ Singing Continues ]

[ Chattering ]

- [ Girls Laughing, Chattering ]

- [ Singing Continues ]

[ Chattering, Singing

Continue ]

[ Chattering Continues ]

[ Lama Norbu Narrating ]

Mara had tried to tempt Siddhartha...

in the cleverest of ways:

by disguising

the temptations of life...

in the simplest forms.

But Siddhartha

was looking beyond form,

beyond the present.

And now

Mara was enraged.

[ All Gasping ]

[ Growling ]

- [ Laughing ]

- [ Growling Continues ]

[ Roaring ]

[ Roar Echoing ]

[ Girls Gasping, Shouting ]

- [ Wind Howling ]

- [ Shouting Continues ]

[ Thunderclap ]

[ Thunder Rumbling ]

[ Footsteps ]

[ Lama Norbu Narrating ]

It seemed as if Mara had been defeated,

but in fact he had not yet

given up the battle.

Now he attacked again.

You who go where

no one else will dare,

will you be my god?

Architect,

finally I have met you.

You will not rebuild

your house again.

But I am your house,

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