Breakdancing Monks- Union Square

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Breakdancing Monks- Union Square

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Monks breakdance, to honor the life of Adam (MCA) Yauch, founding member of the Beastie Boys.
MCA was also a devout Tibetan Buddhist, and creator of the Free Tibet concert series.

This performance is followed by an event celebrating Adam's life on Saturday May 3rd, 2014, at 622 Degraw st. Brooklyn. 11am-4pm
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So which of the 253 Mulasarvastivadin Vinaya, 18 Root & 46 Secondary Bodhisattva Sila, 14 Root & Secondary Tantric Sila vows that allows them to engage in such?
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Cool. But I can't do it and will not do it.
It’s eye blinking.
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plwk wrote:So which of the 253 Mulasarvastivadin Vinaya, 18 Root & 46 Secondary Bodhisattva Sila, 14 Root & Secondary Tantric Sila vows that allows them to engage in such?
Do you think any of that actually matters in real life? What is acceptable and unacceptable is determined by common agreement and not what the book says. This is especially the case with Tibetan Buddhism.
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I am sure they are not monks .. just a costume.. they may be Tibetan though
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There's uplifting!
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I beat it works heaps better for bringing in the $$$ than begging for alms! :tongue:
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Sherab Dorje wrote:I beat it works heaps better for bringing in the $$$ than begging for alms! :tongue:
No doubt... it could be the Tibetan response to Shaolin monks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6akulareVQ
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And you can't, and you won't, and you don't stop!
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
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སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།


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Re: Breakdancing Monks- Union Square

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Published on 2 May 2014
Monks breakdance, to honor the life of Adam (MCA) Yauch, founding member of the Beastie Boys. MCA was also a devout Tibetan Buddhist, and creator of the Free Tibet concert series.

This performance is followed by an event celebrating Adam's life on Saturday May 3rd, 2014, at 622 Degraw st. Brooklyn. 11am-4pm
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One of the first commentators on the Youtube video says "Those guys are from Floor Obsession Crew" -I believe him:
http://floorobsession.com/category/crew-members/

Not monks... just costumes.
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