I personally hate the show Monk, so thank science this post is actually about Japanese Buddhist monks. Specifically the ones who attempting living mummification. Those dude were some crazy motherfuckers. Some actually fucking succeeded. That sounds like one of the most awful ways to die, especially since it took over 6 years (1000 days is about 3 years). I bet they sure felt like they were in Nirvana, after drinking arsenic water and eating bark and roots for a couple years. They eventually went into underground chambers and breathed via small bamboo pipe until they died completely. 1000 days later, they were dug up, and if they successfully became a mummy, they were consecrated as Buddhas and enshrined. The failures presumably buried and forgotten.
And apologies to anyone receiving the podcast via RSS feed, the second song appears to have gotten dumped from the feed so I just sound like a lunatic with bad wordpress markup talking about music that doesn’t exist. /sigh. So here’s the second track for the feed (but not the win). I guess Two for Second Tuesday was just a tragic idea all around. Anyone viewing through the web probably already heard this one.
Tags: buddhist, japan, monk, this shit's crazy