"What you doing here?" "Another scolding from the master, huh?" "I wonder what you did this time." "Uncle!" "When does my mother come?" "Well, I heard she'd be coming in spring after the barley harvest." "You're lying again!" "No, really." "She's really coming this time." "If she doesn't come in spring after the barley harvest you'll say next time after the bellflowers bloom." "Believe me, she'll come in spring." "Let's see then, September, October November, December..." "That's too far off!" "Not really." "Time flows as quickly as the water." "Like the water way over there under that bridge?" "Yeah, just like that!" "If she doesn't come this time I'll go looking for her!" "Oh, don't worry." "She'll come." "Hey, let's take a rest." "So come over here." "And I'll show you how to make the time zip by." "No, you'll just deceive me again!" "Just one more time!" "That's too high." "Last year's notch wasn't so high." "No, it's not too high." "You'll grow this much in six months and before you know it" "The orioles will be singing The magnolias will be blooming." "And I'll be cutting the barley again!" "So let's go." "Let's go." "Tae-jin Kim" "Ye-ryung Kim" "Min-gyo Kim" "Young-soo Oh" "Moo-song Chon" "Bum-tae Kim Hyun-ji Yoo" "Produced by Kyeong-joong Joo" "Based on a story 'A LITTLE MONK' written by Se-duk Ham" "Hey runt!" "Scriptwriters Chun Kim Sun-me Kim Kyeong-joong Joo" "Hey, you!" "Wanna play with us?" "Director of Photography Chan-gyu Choi" "Do you really wanna?" "Director of Lighting Seng-goo Lee" " Way to go!" " Beat him!" " Way to go!" " Way to go!" "Edited by lm-pyo Go" "Music by Sung-jun Kim Suk-hun Kang" "Assistant director Hyung-ik Jang" "Executive Producer Bon Sung" "Producers Yun-sook Ji Tae-wan Ha" "Directed by Kyeong-joong Joo" "Come on!" "They're here!" "Quick!" "Hey!" "What're you looking at?" "Go get the meal ready." " Not now!" " No, right now!" "Wait!" "I'll do it in a few minutes." "Nooooo, in a few minutes!" "Let me go!" "Do you have to fetch water all day long?" "Master said we have to serve spring water." "I guess the rich get VIP treatment, huh?" "Of course." "The grandmother had the Big Dipper Shrine built." "And when part of the bell pavilion collapsed, she had that fixed, too." "In spite of all that, she lost her only grandson." "I guess Buddha can be heartless." "Oh, looks like the reincarnation ceremony's over." " Can you see her?" " Yes." "Look, did my mother look like that?" "Of course, she was just as elegant." "I really mean it." "Hey, quit it!" "See you later." " Ouch!" " Are you okay?" "Yeah, I'm OK." "Stop looking out there How about drawing a picture of me?" "The lady gave me the crayons and told me to draw the Buddha." "And trees." "And flowers." "Yeah, because everything is Buddha." "Even you and me." "You are saying flowers, trees and fish are all Buddha, aren't you?" "Sure they are!" " Even rabbits?" " Of course!" "Stop looking out and go to bed!" "Hey!" "Go to bed." "Who is this?" "Never mind!" "Put those back!" "Go to bed." "Give it to me." "Who is she?" "Let me see!" "What do you think of that little monk?" "He's about the same age and just as cute." "Why don't you adopt him?" "Shall I ask the temple master?" " Master!" " What?" " Can I have some money?" " Money?" "I need it for something." "Why, are we out of rice?" "Not until you tell me." "Hey!" "Where're you going?" "Hey, you!" "It was your turn why did you run off?" "You!" "I'll get you!" "Why are you hitting him?" " Get lost!" " No way!" "Why are you beating a monk?" "Monk?" "Some monk!" "Even though my dad works for the temple I think the monks are no big deal." "Come on, let's go." "You can have him!" "Did you catch another one yesterday?" "Watch out or I'll tell the temple master on you!" "Do-nyeom!" "Here, have this." " Wait a minute!" " What's the matter?" "Wait for me!" "Hey!" "Little monk!" "Do-nyeom!" "Do-nyeom!" "Time to go light the lantern." "Ouch!" "Do-nyeom?" "Fetch me some water." "Yes, master." "Master, may I have some money?" "Don't have any." "But I really need it." "Why would a monk need money?" "Tell me!" "All the Buddhas of eternity enter Nirvana because they cleanse their hearts and practice asceticism to infinity..." "Hey, let's play!" "And all living beings are in a cycle of suffering, like a house on fire..." " Little monk, come play with us!" " Play with us!" "Because they can't get rid of their desires." "What's the next line?" "Come on, talk to me." "Why don't you answer me?" "Do-nyeom!" "Come play with us!" "I want to go play with the kids." "What?" "The other kids make fun of me because I'm a monk." "But Su-yeon doesn't." "She's nice to me." "Hey, come on!" "Come play!" "Beat it!" "Go away!" "All of you!" " Go get me water for tea." " Yes, master." "Hey, Do-nyeom!" "The Buddha said it's hard to be born human;" "harder to be born a man;" "but the hardest thing is to meet with the Dharma." "Do you know the story about the blind turtle?" "Once upon a time, a blind turtle lived in a big, big ocean." "And he came up for air only once every 3,000 years." "Once when he came up for air he hit upon a piece of driftwood." "Not much chance of hitting upon a piece of driftwood in a huge ocean, huh?" "Especially if you're blind." "So you see it's hard to be born human." "But chances of becoming a monk in the world are like the blind turtle hitting a piece of driftwood." "The story tells how hard to be a monk." "What are you doing here?" "I have laundry." "You?" "Laundry?" "Come on!" "I'm here to help you." "Why do people build those little pagodas with stones?" "Pagodas?" "Ah, to make a wish." "If you make a wish each time you add a stone, your wish comes true." " Really?" " Sure!" "Where is Seoul?" "Seoul?" "Why?" "I mean, which direction?" "Well, you have to go over that mountain and then travel for a few days." "You're really acting strange nowadays what's wrong with you?" "What?" "Why did you go into the Buddha Hall last night?" "There was a candle lit so I went to put the candle out." "Can you tell me secretly about my mother?" "I've already forgotten it's been so long." "Well, just tell me what you remember." "I have a dim memory in your mother" "It's all so dim I can't really remember a thing." "Not a thing?" "Did you memorize your lessons for tonight?" "No" "Then go back and do it or the master will scold you again." "Hey, hey!" "Get up!" "What!" " Who are they?" " I don't know." " Oh, wooooow!" " Oh, wooooooooow!" "Hey, go back, go back down." "You can't come up here!" "Excuse me?" "You can't come up here!" "Go back down!" "What, are they deaf?" "I said go back down!" "You can't come up here!" "Sorry, I can't hear you!" "Stay there!" "Oops!" "Quick!" "Quick!" "Are you OK?" "See?" "I told you not to come up here." "Sorry, we couldn't hear you." "Don't you know it's off limits?" "Off limits?" "To prevent forest fires." "Then, isn't it off limits to swimming, too?" "I told you to scrub the dirt off not tickle me." "If you can't scrub the dirt off the body how are you going to cleanse your heart?" "Hey, Jung-sim!" "Come over here and scrub my back." "Aw, you're just as bad." "No strength." "What's the matter, didn't you eat?" "Master, is having a wet dream breaking the Precepts?" "Ah ha!" "So that's why you're so weak!" "Well, if you have sex in a dream it's breaking the Precepts." "Even just in a dream?" "It was sex in your heart that came out in the dream." "A long time ago there was a monk named Jin-mook." "He didn't stay in a place and wandered about the world freely." "One day he met a really beautiful woman and they made love under a persimmon tree." "And just when they were about to climax" "A persimmon fell out of the tree." "The monk pushed the woman out of the way, and ate the fallen persimmon." "So you see, he knew how to enjoy his lust but he hadn't become a slave to it." "The Buddha said it was bad enough that a man had one penis." "If a man had two, there wouldn't be a single monk in the whole world!" "That feels good!" "Hey little one!" "Stop splashing around give yourself a good scrub." "Master, please give me some money." "All you ever want is money!" "What do you need it for?" "I want to get circumcised." "Why, you uncouth little!" "And then what do you plan to do with it?" "No, it's because everyone always teases me at the public bath." "Damn you!" "I'm not even cut why should you be!" "Hey, runt!" "Gimme that rabbit!" "Hey, hey!" "Leave the monk alone!" "In-soo!" "What are you doing here?" "Father, he tried to take my rabbit." "Shut up and go home right now!" "I'll get you later!" "Why on earth are you catching rabbits?" "If the temple master finds it out you'll really be in trouble." "Quick, let it go!" "I said let it go!" "Why are you catching rabbits?" "Let it go!" "Good legs on that one!" "Do-nyeom, Come over here." "Go sit there." "See that big boulder over there under the pine tree?" "Yes." "Is that boulder just in your mind or is it separate?" "I mean, where is that boulder?" "I don't know." "Then sit here for a while and try to figure it out." "Master!" "The boulder!" "It's all in my mind, in my heart!" "Nitwit!" "You're wrong." "If the heavy boulder's in your heart how can you run so fast?" "Go back tomorrow and try again." "Master, please!" "You jerk, forget it!" " But sometimes it smells." " Then wash it frequently!" "Pleeeeeeease!" "So, where was the boulder this time?" "Separate, outside my heart." "Nitwit!" "You're wrong again." "Why are your steps so heavy?" "That's because you're carrying it around right there in your heart!" "Don't go and sit under the maple anymore." "Hey runt!" "Leave it alone!" "Hey!" "I told you to leave it alone!" "Don't come down here again, hear me?" "Come on in here and wait a minute." "Aren't you hungry?" "Here, try this!" " No, I can't." " Have this!" "I can't." "Monks shouldn't eat meat." "Why not?" "Oh, go ahead!" " The master will have a fit!" " But he doesn't even know, so eat!" "Have some of this, too." " You, too." " Yes." "Please don't ever tell the master." "Oh, don't worry." "I think we're moving anyway." " Where to?" " To Seoul." "Do-nyeom!" "So even if the kids tease you don't fight, okay?" "Or with In-su, huh?" " Do-nyeom, come over here." " Yes, master!" "Another fight?" "Did you take a beating?" "Didn't you even get a punch in?" "You nitwit!" "Go make me some yam juice." "Master..." "Master, how is it?" "Certainly not as good as chicken." "Fetch it." "Higher!" "Now, recite your sutra." "If Budda is in your..." "Do you like chicken that much?" "Why, that little rascal!" "Momma..." "Momma..." "Momma!" "Momma!" "Momma...!" "Momma!" " Did you read the cremation chants?" " Yes." "You've got an ember on your instep." "What are you going to do?" "It's alright." "You jerk!" " Did that hurt?" " Yes." "If the ember on your instep doesn't hurt that shouldn't hurt." "Do you really want to have it done?" "Then go tomorrow and have it done." "What are you gawking at!" "Go!" "Out!" "Wait for me!" "Hey!" "Wait!" "Wait for me!" "Just take one step out the door and you'll see a wide, wide world." "But that is not only the world within your own eyes" "Also the world within your own heart." "Go out and find for yourself the world of unfettered liberation." "Take the little one with you and show him a bit of the world." "But don't feed him goodies it will spoil his tastebuds!" "Why don't you eat?" "Afraid the master will find out?" "I have some money, too." "Where did you get that?" "I picked it up in the Buddha Hall." "You can take it." "Any more?" "Wait here for a minute!" " Wow, what a view!" " Yeah, really great!" "What's way over there?" "The end of the earth!" "Look over there!" "Girls!" "Oh, woooow!" "Master!" "Master!" "Where are you from?" "Where are you from?" "From a temple!" "Master, aren't you in agony, are you?" "Who, me?" "No way." "But aren't monks supposed to think a lot?" "What for?" "Oh, I just thought that Buddhism is really hard to study." "If we're hungry, we eat." "If we're tired, we sleep." "That's all." " I guess you're already enlightened!" " What?" "Master!" "I'd really like to feel your head." "Why?" "I've just always wanted to feel a monk's head." "It's scratchy!" "Yeah." "Everyone thinks it's smooth." "But if we don't use shampoo, it starts getting scratchy right here!" "Can I come visit you at the temple?" "Well, show it to me." "Nothing to show." "I threw the foreskin away." "Well then, what did you do?" "I met a girl." "And?" "I really don't know what to think." "You've got an ember on your instep." "What are you going to do?" "It's alright." "You may go out." "Master, how do I put out a fire in my heart?" "Have a cup of tea." "Hey!" "What are you doing here?" "Soo-yeon's moving!" " When?" " Right now!" "Do-nyeom!" "Do-nyeom!" "Hey!" "What are you doing?" "Huh?" "How much did it cost you?" "What?" " How much was the cut?" " I don't remember." "Glad you had it done?" " Why don't you find out for yourself?" " What?" "You little jerk!" "Little monk!" "Come here." "Come over here." "This is for you." "You're sad, huh?" "Don't worry, you'll be able to see her sometime." "Here, take this." "Come on." "I wonder what it could be." "Wanna see it together?" "Little monk, there are lots of things we long for never come." "Though the magnolias blossom and fall, again and again" "Though the notches on the maple get higher and higher" "That which is not ours never comes to us." "Sutras don't make sense at times I feel suffocated." "If I chanted, sadness would well up in my throat" "It seems that time passes too slowly." "And still, we all live like this, just longing." "You, me and even the master we all just long our lives away." "Do-nyeom!" "Go fetch some spring water!" "Master!" "I understand how you feel but I'm sorry, no." "But I'm pleading with you." "Then how about sending him back to you in a year?" "Not even for just six months?" "Master!" "Then please just ask him." "If he says yes, then let me take him." "If he says no, then I won't bother you again." "Little monk, would you give me a drink?" "You've gotten so big!" "Would you like to live somewhere else?" "Would you like to come live with me and call me mother?" "Really?" "You're not lying?" "You don't deceive me, do you?" "Of course not." "Have I ever lied to you?" "No, but everyone else does." "I just want to make it sure!" "Don't worry, little monk." "I'm sure the master will give us permission." "Uncle!" "Uncle!" "Uncle!" "What's going on?" "I'm going to Seoul!" "To live!" " Seoul?" " Yes!" "Running away again?" "Noooooooo!" "The lady from Seoul is adopting me!" "Adopting you?" "Really?" "Yes!" "Can I go visit you in Seoul?" "Of course!" "I'll give you the very best food." "And even buy your favorite wine!" "Well, how about that!" "What a great time I'll have, too!" " You've got to come!" " I promise!" "Oh, no, did you set the rabbit trap again?" "Probably caught one by now." "Master, how come you up here?" " Have you dug up many bellflowers?" " Oh, just a few..." "Have you seen the little monk?" "Oh, yeah, he, he was up that way..." "Guess what!" "I caught another one!" "Hey, son!" "Hey, son!" "Why are you climbing that tree?" "That kid, every time he sees a new bird's nest..." " The master hasn't come yet?" " Quick!" "Get down here, quick!" "Isn't that the little one?" "Oh no... no I don't think so." "Come over here, uncle." "It's a big one!" "Where's that voice coming from?" "Hey!" "Do-nyeom!" "What are you doing over there?" "Do-nyeom!" "Nothing, nothing at all." "Then why are you sitting there trying to hide something?" "Oh no!" "You caught a rabbit!" "Master, forgive me please!" "I'll let him go right now." "Get up here!" "I said get up here!" "Quick!" "Who told you to go catch rabbits?" "Answer me!" "I told you not to pick even wild flowers." "And you're out catching rabbits?" "Recite your Precepts." "Don't kill the living things." "Don't still what's not yours." "Don't deceive others..." "And I've told the worst thing of all is to kill the living, haven't I?" "Yes." "Though you know the Precepts well, how dare you..." "Master." "It was I that set the trap." "He didn't do anything wrong." "Well if you set the trap what is he doing with the rabbit?" "I asked him to watch the trap for me while I cut the bellflowers." "Right, Do-nyeom?" "Then it was really you who caught the rabbit?" "Yes, it's true." "Do-nyeom, is it true?" "I'm telling the truth." "Is that true, little one?" "Yes." "You've been living off the temple for years and..." "No, Master." "It's not true!" "In-soo, go get lost!" "In-soo, you runt!" "What are those in your hands?" "Little runt, you kill baby birds and then you come play around the temple!" "Beat it out of here!" "You too!" "And don't ever come back to my temple!" "The two of you could ruin this little one!" "Let the rabbit go and get out of here." "Let's go, Do-nyeom." "Quick, get out of here!" "Come on, quick!" "I'm sorry I scolded you without knowing the truth." "You wouldn't do such a thing." "The lady from Seoul says she wants to adopt you." "Ouch!" "That hurts!" "Don't exaggerate pain!" "Now, blow your nose." "And go and cut all your nails." "Hey, In-soo!" "You little runt!" "Hey, don't!" "Don't do that!" "In-soo!" "Why did you blame my father?" "He didn't set the trap!" "What?" "What did you mean?" "It was the little monk who set the trap!" "Go and see what's behind the statue in the Buddha Hall!" "Then you'll know who caught rabbits!" "What?" "You stay here, don't move!" "Little monk!" "You rat!" "Come over here!" "In-soo!" "Little monk!" "You... you!" "First you killed then you lied about it!" "I'm sorry!" "You... do you know it was wrong?" "Yes..." "Then why did you do it?" "What were you going to do with all these furs?" "Answer me!" "I saw this lady wearing a beautiful white shawl." "And I wanted to make one to give my mother if I ever met her." "A white one made of rabbit fur..." "Master, I want to go live out in the world." "In the world, with my mother." "Stop talking about your mother." "Her karma was bad enough I can't let you add to it." "Come on, let's go to the Buddha Hall." "No!" "No!" "I get dizzy just from smelling the incense all day!" "Please take me with you." "I can't stay alone anymore in the Buddha Hall only with a candle lit." "When it rains at night or the owl hoots at dawn" "I am too scared to sleep." "Listen to me." "The world out there looks good to you but if you look into the world you can find out it's really filled with all kinds of terrible karma." "Don't lie!" "They all have mommies and daddies and brothers and sisters." "They all have a happy life..." "Master!" "I wanna go." "I want to go with the lady!" "Take me to be your son, please!" "Master!" "Let's go before the Buddha so you can repent for what you've done." "No!" "I hate the Buddha and I hate you!" "You little runt!" "That's your karma." "Your mother was a Buddhist nun who broke the Precepts and got married." "And your father was a poacher who trapped and killed animals for a living." "You've got a rough road ahead of you." "You have to work off your parents' karma as well as your own." "If you really care about him let him stay at the temple so he can work off his heavy karma." "So he can break free from the cycle of birth and death." "Little monk!" "I hesitate to take you with me" "But that's not because you took the rabbit." "If I took you for my satisfaction" "You might meet with a disaster." "I'm afraid of it." "I have also heavy karma myself." "Little monk, please think of everything as your mother." "Think of everybody as your mother." "Then, you'll never have to long for anything, and you'll never be lonely." "I promise I'll come to see you every month when the fullmoon day." "I promise, I promise you." "Master, the squirrels saved these chestnuts in the stump hole for winter." "I took them from the stump every morning." "I saved them for my mother if she ever came." "On long, long winter nights if you can't fall asleep please have a snack." "Goodbye, Master." "Please stay in peace." "Little monk, why do you strap on the knapsack?" "Please stay in peace." "This time, I may not come back." "Why?" "Did the master tell you to leave the temple?" "No." "He doesn't know yet." "Where are you going?" "Do you have a place to sleep?" "Do you have your own destination?" "I'm going to search and search until I find my mother." "Huh?" "You're lucky you have something to search for." "Mother, or whatever I hope you find what you want." "I will, I will." "You decide to leave then hurry up." "Come on, hurry up before it snows hard." "Which way are you going?" "I'm going to take the rough road." "You take good care of yourself, eh?" "Please stay in peace."