The Metaphorical 15 🐔🛞 Edward Reib 2026-03-25 | It's youtube.com/@EdwardReib 's turn to host the Cycle-of-15 Compilation Video for youtube.com/@ChickenPhilosophy ! youtube.com/@Esoterinerd and youtube.com/@PymanderAquarian each hosted one, but the rest of them (the other 21) are on Chicken Philosophy itself. Anyway...The Metaphorical 15 is the 23rd video in the youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSeHWO0b7IjlRKryEyg57Vxs4tX_L4F96 playlist. It begins on February 13th, 2026, just after youtube.com/watch?v=t4CpaCULosM and concludes on March 25th, 2026. The Metaphorical 15 consists of:00:00 Blue & Black: youtube.com/watch?v=DP2XeRT43NQ00:36 Red & Purple: youtube.com/watch?v=OS11BISdND800:47 Yellow & Orange: youtube.com/watch?v=Q2qWPMLyFc001:38 Blue & White: youtube.com/watch?v=Bw7g2A7iB1M05:27 Red & Green: youtube.com/watch?v=1Rf50_NUxLc19:25 Yellow & Black: youtube.com/watch?v=1gPbu4Z1LuE20:14 Blue & Purple: youtube.com/watch?v=dptDPB35JUw21:45 Red & Orange: youtube.com/watch?v=shGzrgMQzdM24:30 Yellow & White: youtube.com/watch?v=N9NVLKbWhYw24:55 Blue & Green: youtube.com/watch?v=2QI2gLXVIzI26:05 Red & Black: youtube.com/watch?v=uvYEbz_s5tI27:07 Yellow & Purple: youtube.com/watch?v=Xm6igKTG7Nw27:28 Blue & Orange: youtube.com/watch?v=7surZANhlrY29:04 Red & White: youtube.com/watch?v=k0PJW1rWx4k32:00 Yellow & Green: youtube.com/watch?v=iThesIu5gBsAll 15 of which you can find on this Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSeHWO0b7IjmhZOXp4kh9dwK7Kr4NHv6LThe "Fire Walk With Me" sticker on Editor-Edward's laptop: etsy.com/in-en/listing/990996036/fire-walk-with-me-twin-peaks-holographicyoutube.com/playlist?list=PLqDrsKS4ZBnIQmECh6KX5fu767e_JDcI3 1183-----------------------------------------------Chicken Philosophy is a YouTube channel and Podcast in which Gwydion, Edward, BT, and Pymander read and talk about Carl Jung's Black Books, The Arbatel, Ibn Arabi's Meccan Revelations, Teilhard de Chardin, Ashtavakra Gita, Martin Luther, The Secret of the Golden Flower, The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, and others to come.Chicken Philosophy on YouTube: youtube.com/@ChickenPhilosophyChicken Philosophy on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chicken-philosophy/id1720996967Chicken Philosophy on Facebook: facebook.com/chickenphilosophyChicken Philosophy on Instagram: instagram.com/chickenphilosophus-----------------------------------------------Edward's main channel: youtube.com/@EdwardReib Gwydion's main channel: youtube.com/@GwydionsAstralCoffeehouseBT's main channel: youtube.com/@Esoterinerd Pymander's main channel: youtube.com/@BuddhistBooks
Basic Back-Opening Yoga Edward Reib 2026-09-24 | Music used in this video:youtube.com/watch?v=S0nUTYWqlJAyoutube.com/watch?v=MaaP-hrUDFIyoutube.com/watch?v=6K5KFk6SCNYyoutube.com/playlist?list=PLqDrsKS4ZBnIQmECh6KX5fu767e_JDcI3 1325
a short trip to Mumbai Edward Reib 2026-06-14 | This is Part 21 of Edward Reib's "Travels" series, entirely made from footage of his travels beginning in November of 2017, continuing up to this day, and beyond.To watch the whole series (starting with the most recent) click here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD0cM21OadjmQwWQxSD7oAqoCFbq9Msd1youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqDrsKS4ZBnIQmECh6KX5fu767e_JDcI3 1251---------------------------------------------Background music:youtube.com/watch?v=VLYL9AzLg5Uyoutube.com/watch?v=VA6bVJ1vw_Ayoutube.com/watch?v=QthwxwofJaIyoutube.com/watch?v=_PSRExZlSW0youtube.com/watch?v=IxM1tjTvFAcyoutube.com/watch?v=PDfz-bPwGdgyoutube.com/watch?v=8fobhEikrAQyoutube.com/watch?v=OinGHNpnGtc---------------------------------------------edward-reib.com#Mumbai #India
Shanghai Edward Reib 2026-04-12 | Edward Reib's "Travels" Part 919 minutes, 5 secondsPremiered: 14th May 2021Filmed: September 2018On May 14, 2021 this video was first posted on YouTube. On November 2nd, 2022, YouTube notified me that the video was blocked in every country in the world because of the use of the music from Jean Michel Jarre "Concerts in China." To resolve this, I allowed YouTube to automatically mute all sound for some 3 minutes of the video, making the video "not good." Then, on January 3rd 2023, I noticed that YouTube was no longer being so strict about the use of Jarre's "Concerts in China," but since that portion of the original video was already muted, I was forced to re-upload the video complete and "good."Then, in February of 2026, Sony decided to block Jarre’s Concerts in China worldwide again, so that 2023 upload is still on the channel here, blocked, waiting for Sony to change its mind again. Until then, there’s this version here where rather than muting the parts of the video that were blocked, since that would make large portions of the video “quite lame,” I’ve opted to tell the robot to trim those parts out. -----------------------------------------youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD0cM21OadjmQwWQxSD7oAqoCFbq9Msd1This is Part 9 of Edward Reib's "Travels" series, entirely made from footage of his travels beginning in November of 2017, and possibly continuing up to this day, and beyond.Part 9 opens with Dehradun, both the city and the George Harrison song. The Beatles' have a tight grip on certain versions of their songs, so what you hear is George's voice, and someone added the music, it's pretty obviously not the Beatles playing. It is Priyal's home town, and the pairing of song and place is a nice continuation of the vibe of the Dear Prudence and Rishikesh from the end of Part 8.Anyhow, briefly we are in New Delhi at my early birthday party, as I state I won't be in India on my birthday. Then, I leave India, saying goodbye to Priyal and Navi, stopping briefly at the Singapore Airport. For everyone outside India, the old Bollywood sounding song you hear playing during this part, "Pardesiyon Se Na Ankhiyan Milana", literally translates as "don't look a foreigner in the face", a warning for young women of India (like Priyal) not to get swayed by player tourists feigning sincerity, only to go back where they're from in the end, breaking their hearts.Then begins what we later learn is a kind of personal ancestor-related pilgrimage to Shanghai. We open with a montage seen through the sad Chinese music which Shazam doesn't recognize of the Bazaar around the Tea Garden, after it's closed.Then, walking down the street, a last second decision to turn left takes us into the main shopping area in the very touristy part of Shanghai. It's music, by way of a bus and some Starbucks, takes us right into the Heart of the God of Shanghai. Oh, it's music turns out to be Imperial Prince by Derek and Brandon Fiechter. Go figure.Then, someone plays a flute traditionally and we sit wistfully gazing at water and think about how much we miss Priyal...Then the Jade Temple snaps us out of it, back into the moment. From there, we (meaning you the viewer and I, and He Wenjun singing "Three Songs of Naxi") celebrate my 40th birthday in style at the Hyatt on the Bund and the top floor of Shanghai Tower, just before tumbling down into a disturbing Orchestral Tubular Bells accompanied montage of Maoist propaganda, both on the street and the older stuff in a museum there. Then, feeling hungover and overwhelmed by geo-politics, we wander into the Jing'an Temple accidently. We didn't plan it, just saw it there on the street. The healing effect of the place, as exemplified by this video, is so powerful it can lift the viewer out from the depression of contemplating the atrocities of the CCP both past and present, even though it's also a parking lot. Also present is the "don't get me wrong, I love Chinese culture... see, here's the music from the sad part of Ip Man!" level, but it really just works too darn well not to use at this point in the video.And just before you can say, "okay, that's nice and all, but that other stuff is all still pretty depressing", the Longhua Temple is even better! Jean Michel Jarre's Shanghai concert is apropos if anachronistic here on at least two levels. Anyway, the Temple is like 1300 years old! Plus, there's a cat.So, after 20 seconds of petting the cat (believe me, you'll need it, if you have the volume turned up) we've finally arrived in a place of neither high nor low, neither joy nor sorrow, neither capitalist nor communist, neither here nor there. It's a place called White Cloud Temple coupled with 渔舟唱晚 by Jinghua Yuefu.Finally, there's the reveal of what the heck I'm doing in Shanghai in the first place, and what the ancestral connection is there. edward-reib.com/travels/09-shanghaiedward-reib.com#上海 #Shanghai #中华人民共和国 #中国 #China
That Time I Went Scuba Diving Edward Reib 2025-12-11 | On April 14th, 2022, Piyu and I were on Swaraj Dweep Island (formerly known as Havelock Island, and pretty much everyone still calls it that, but it was officially renamed to get away from the old name from colonial times and all) in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands which, though they are about 1,200 kilometers (about 750 miles) from mainland Bhārat Gaṇarājya (formerly Republic of India) they are part of it, hailing back to a time when the Tamil kings were the colonizers. Who knew?Anyway, I decided to go scuba diving, but Piyu didn't want to. The scuba diving instructor guy took a lot of pictures and videos of me and where we were and all. I used like a minute of it, maybe, in the video in the youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD0cM21OadjmQwWQxSD7oAqoCFbq9Msd1 playlist called youtube.com/watch?v=lz9KLt8jlp4 which is a really good video! Much better than this. Go watch that, is what I'd say.Anyway, about 3 years and 8 months later (hey! that's today!) I decided to go ahead and just make a video out of all the videos and pictures he took that day. 'Cause, you know... why not?So this is youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqDrsKS4ZBnIQmECh6KX5fu767e_JDcI3 1104If you're asking "What does it mean that this is Pymander Aquarian 1104?" I'll tell you, quite happily! That means this is the 1,104th video I've uploaded to YouTube that I didn't later delete, or which I don't ignore and pretend doesn't exist. If you click that link where it says Pymander Aquarian you can see all 1,104+ videos (the plus is because, in the future, there will be more than that) starting with the most recent. See, I actually have like 18 channels or something, and so all the videos (most of the videos) on all of those channels are on that playlist.Anyway, I hope you enjoyed reading the silly description of this silly video. The music is good! So at least there's that. It's youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS2LNaGiGaRth7982_d7qa1kCJxJw2vv_#Andaman #India
Reib-Hasni Edward Reib 2025-11-23 | In which The Traveler receives a gem, a prophecy, and a new name.-----------------------------------------------In this video Edward Reib recites the 14th story in his second short story compilation "Smaller Mouse" entitled "Reib-Hasni."Though, rather than getting a copy of "Smaller Mouse," you might consider "The New World Empire & The Interdimensional Coffeehouse" which includes "Smaller Mouse" and two other books, plus bonus material.It's up to you."Smaller Mouse" Kindle: amazon.com/Smaller-Mouse-Edward-Reib-ebook/dp/B09T6WMWGNPaperback: amazon.com/Smaller-Mouse-Edward-C-Reib/dp/B09T5LCN9P"The New World Empire & Interdimensional Coffeehouse" Kindle: amazon.com/New-World-Empire-Interdimensional-Coffeehouse-ebook/dp/B0DG64M67PPaperback: amazon.com/New-World-Empire-Interdimensional-Coffeehouse/dp/B0BR9TZFGV-----------------------------------------------Background music used in today's episode: youtube.com/watch?v=GmEzKE01lw0youtube.com/watch?v=NOiZuw7EToEyoutube.com/watch?v=1qFaeZ8LLmIyoutube.com/watch?v=HCjNJDNzw8Yyoutube.com/watch?v=057A1RdssoUyoutube.com/watch?v=3KTRo5EcOKYyoutube.com/watch?v=JtRFzDXfcYIyoutube.com/watch?v=L8j9zbt5TAcyoutube.com/watch?v=KDderTX2ODIyoutube.com/watch?v=wMRklYe3Vo4youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqDrsKS4ZBnIQmECh6KX5fu767e_JDcI3 1083-------------------------My books: edward-reib.com/author
Edward Reibs Travels (Parts 1-20) Edward Reib 2025-10-26 | Edward Reib was born in Los Angeles (county) in September of 1978.In November of 2017, he finally left:00:00 1. to Africa16:53 2. to Nepal36:37 3. to Pokhara and Beyond 55:09 4. Bhutan01:08:22 5. Annapurna Base Camp01:31:08 6. to India (this is the one where I meet @PursuitsofPiyu)01:41:39 7. Varanasi & Pune 01:57:28 8. Dharamshala & Rishikesh 02:11:34 9. Shanghai02:29:52 10. California (this is the one where I pack all my shtuff and ship it to India)02:41:16 11. Back in India02:51:38 12: from Mysore to Thailand (this is the one where I marry @PursuitsofPiyu) 02:58:03 13. Kasauli, Bihar, Andaman, and Darjeeling 03:42:18 14. Kerala 03:53:05 15. Five Months in Delhi04:01:48 16. Back to Rishikesh!04:04:53 16½. Northeast India04:25:38 17. Shilong 04:36:05 18. Mussoorie 04:42:50 19. Maharashtra 05:06:40 20. Mumbai (Maharashtra II)Piyu & I now live in Goa, India. The videos we shoot in Goa are on another channel, called @GoinGoan, as they aren't really "Travels" videos since, you know... we live here.Anyhow, this has been youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqDrsKS4ZBnIQmECh6KX5fu767e_JDcI3 1058I hope you enjoy/enjoyed it. ✌🏼P.S. All of these videos can be found, in reverse order (starting with the most recent) on this playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD0cM21OadjmQwWQxSD7oAqoCFbq9Msd1
Mumbai (AKA Maharashtra II) Edward Reib 2025-10-02 | This is Part 20 of Edward Reib's "Travels" series, entirely made from footage of his travels beginning in November of 2017, continuing up to this day, and beyond.To watch the whole series (starting with the most recent) click here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD0cM21OadjmQwWQxSD7oAqoCFbq9Msd1youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqDrsKS4ZBnIQmECh6KX5fu767e_JDcI3 1033---------------------------------------------Background music:youtube.com/watch?v=raV_A8YcBu0youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l8kCwvFjpxJwLecMx9Qx-GavPThRumgrAyoutube.com/watch?v=RmgbKrRmhhUyoutube.com/watch?v=D3hirQWofTsyoutube.com/watch?v=cVikZ8Oe_XAyoutube.com/watch?v=E6PjcIdTMUwyoutube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nxxGDy3aJmKUUE8zjq7n9CGv2NXdE3z5Eyoutube.com/watch?v=NXFLmXkH7dEyoutube.com/watch?v=ylXk1LBvIqUyoutube.com/watch?v=ETPU2RY_aCYyoutube.com/watch?v=nqgUG_JVzCsyoutube.com/watch?v=LBDCQfju1cYyoutube.com/watch?v=t4WRXLmmBxkyoutube.com/watch?v=8-bgiiTxhzM---------------------------------------------edward-reib.com#Mumbai #India
Maharashtra Edward Reib 2025-07-14 | This is Part 19 of Edward Reib's "Travels" series, entirely made from footage of his travels beginning in November of 2017, continuing up to this day, and beyond.To watch the whole series (starting with the most recent) click here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD0cM21OadjmQwWQxSD7oAqoCFbq9Msd1youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqDrsKS4ZBnIQmECh6KX5fu767e_JDcI3 978---------------------------------------------Background music:youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mR5Rce2QkyCvolgj3TVdfZj9ZX4l2yf3Qyoutube.com/watch?v=vdB-8eLEW8g---------------------------------------------edward-reib.com#india #maharastra
Mussoorie Edward Reib 2025-03-07 | This is Part 18 of Edward Reib's "Travels" series, entirely made from footage of his travels beginning in November of 2017, and possibly continuing up to this day, and beyond.To start at the beginning of the series, click here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD0cM21OadjmQwWQxSD7oAqoCFbq9Msd1---------------------------------------------Background music:youtube.com/watch?v=T0LVXhDXOEkyoutube.com/watch?v=s0_Fc90IV38youtube.com/watch?v=tDEzmaZHuS0---------------------------------------------edward-reib.com#india #mussoorie
December Edward Reib 2024-12-25 | youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nzL8fu1hYG-qUebDzz-GIW_jcKzbYxRx0edward-reib.com
Shillong Edward Reib 2024-05-22 | youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD0cM21OadjmQwWQxSD7oAqoCFbq9Msd1This is Part 17 of Edward Reib's "Travels" series, entirely made from footage of his travels beginning in November of 2017, and possibly continuing up to this day, and beyond.We open with the view out the window from the cab from Shillong Airport to Shillong. Dead Can Dance’s “Mushin” accompanies. Two mannequins at Don Bosco Museum dressed in the attire of the indigenous people of the region carry us into contemplation of the ghosts in these woods.As suddenly as the British occupied the region we are in a church, and the music has changed to John Michael Talbot’s “Hiding Place.” It’s the old Anglican Church they built at the center of what they called “The Scotland of the East,” no doubt having seen the natural beauty as well as the lifestyle and the patterns the locals wore reminiscent of the plaid of those last descendants of the ancient Celts to their north, back home.As suddenly as a young Otto Hopfenmüller joined the party a few decades later bearing Roman Catholicism to save them from these heretical Protestants, we are at the big blue Catholic church which now stands near the English one, flashing halfway through the fourteen stations to the Trattoria near the center of the Police Bazar where a cross in Christmas lights adorns the ceiling. Then, we're back at the blue church. Priyal is there, and the Dead Can Dance returns.An old house by a water tank, some street art under a walk-over, and many trees. Graffiti philosophy, Priyal covers the lens. I assume a tagger’s signature, and the road in Lachumiere leading from Don Bosco Square back to our AirBnB. The view out the window of Omega’s Café, a hip street as can be found outside of any college, but in this case high school juniors and seniors, “higher secondary” it’s called. Saint Anthony’s, and it’s raining.Tube TVs of yester-century, yester-millennium, beside the garbage, under the rain, some modern wabi sabi. Your humble protagonist walks wearing his new pink denim jacket down the familiar street carrying a frog umbrella A Zomato driver rides the elevator up to the KFC at the mall. I say mall, it’s a store called “Trends” and a KFC, and a few kiosks. It has the potential to be a mall, a small mall, one day.The view outside of taxis and umbrellas in the Centre. A graffiti devil.Then, the road to Shillong Peak, where we’d soon find out no foreign tourists are allowed. Cut briefly back to Police Bazar, where the rain has come down hard knocking out the power..Soon we are at Elephant Falls, and the falls drown out the music. Eventually we are at Dew Drop In (puns) and we see the view by day, and by night. By night, the green lights of India’s first glass Mosque are visible.We walk over a bridge high above a stream, then a narrow foot-path through the woods. “Somewhere In Time” starts playing, as Priyal walks with her umbrella. The viewer might assume the song is romantic, but a minute or so into the Don Bosco Museum, we suspect it might be sad. For even as Christopher Reeve can never again return to the past to find Jane Seymour before she becomes Susan French, so too we can only see the older Shillong here in the museum, as preserved and presented by The Church. The neighbors of the North Eastern states, the local creation story involving a tiger, a tree, a mountain. The faces of the many ancient tribes, and the tools they used to fish, to carry, to shield the rain, and to make saké. The song fades out, and The Church’s narrative fades in: Innocent Jesuits came, the locals threatened them with spears. Then, a miraculous vision, and they all put on Harry Potter looking school uniforms and lived happily ever after. Mother Teresa was there, and John Michael Talbot played the guitar again. But soon the tribal clothing of the local ghosts returns, along with the music.We walk down a hundred steps in South Shillong today, from Lumsohphoh to Laban, the music stops, and all we see are trees. The road back to the airport, the plane to take us home. Though we are now far from that place, the music remains.To start at the beginning of the series, click here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD0cM21OadjmQwWQxSD7oAqoCFbq9Msd1edward-reib.com/travels/17-shillongedward-reib.com#india #shillong
Shanghai Edward Reib 2024-01-03 | youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD0cM21OadjmQwWQxSD7oAqoCFbq9Msd1Edward Reib's "Travels" Part 919 minutes, 5 secondsPremiered: 14th May 2021Filmed: September 2018On May 14, 2021 this video was first posted on YouTube. On November 2nd, 2022, YouTube notified me that the video was blocked in every country in the world because of the use of the music from Jean Michel Jarre "Concerts in China." To resolve this, I allowed YouTube to automatically mute all sound for some 3 minutes of the video, making the video "not good." Then, today, January 3rd 2023, I noticed that YouTube was no longer being so strict about the use of Jarre's "Concerts in China," but since that portion of the original video was already muted, I was forced to re-upload the video today, now, once again, complete and "good."-------------------------------------------------This is Part 9 of Edward Reib's "Travels" series, entirely made from footage of his travels beginning in November of 2017, and possibly continuing up to this day, and beyond.Part 9 opens with Dehradun, both the city and the George Harrison song. The Beatles' have a tight grip on certain versions of their songs, so what you hear is George's voice, and someone added the music, it's pretty obviously not the Beatles playing. It is Priyal's home town, and the pairing of song and place is a nice continuation of the vibe of the Dear Prudence and Rishikesh from the end of Part 8.Anyhow, briefly we are in New Delhi at my early birthday party, as I state I won't be in India on my birthday. Then, I leave India, saying goodbye to Priyal and Navi, stopping briefly at the Singapore Airport. For everyone outside India, the old Bollywood sounding song you hear playing during this part, "Pardesiyon Se Na Ankhiyan Milana", literally translates as "don't look a foreigner in the face", a warning for young women of India (like Priyal) not to get swayed by player tourists feigning sincerity, only to go back where they're from in the end, breaking their hearts.Then begins what we later learn is a kind of personal ancestor-related pilgrimage to Shanghai. We open with a montage seen through the sad Chinese music which Shazam doesn't recognize of the Bazaar around the Tea Garden, after it's closed.Then, walking down the street, a last second decision to turn left takes us into the main shopping area in the very touristy part of Shanghai. It's music, by way of a bus and some Starbucks, takes us right into the Heart of the God of Shanghai. Oh, it's music turns out to be Imperial Prince by Derek and Brandon Fiechter. Go figure.Then, someone plays a flute traditionally and we sit wistfully gazing at water and think about how much we miss Priyal...Then the Jade Temple snaps us out of it, back into the moment. From there, we (meaning you the viewer and I, and He Wenjun singing "Three Songs of Naxi") celebrate my 40th birthday in style at the Hyatt on the Bund and the top floor of Shanghai Tower, just before tumbling down into a disturbing Orchestral Tubular Bells accompanied montage of Maoist propaganda, both on the street and the older stuff in a museum there. Then, feeling hungover and overwhelmed by geo-politics, we wander into the Jing'an Temple accidently. We didn't plan it, just saw it there on the street. The healing effect of the place, as exemplified by this video, is so powerful it can lift the viewer out from the depression of contemplating the atrocities of the CCP both past and present, even though it's also a parking lot. Also present is the "don't get me wrong, I love Chinese culture... see, here's the music from the sad part of Ip Man!" level, but it really just works too darn well not to use at this point in the video.And just before you can say, "okay, that's nice and all, but that other stuff is all still pretty depressing", the Longhua Temple is even better! Jean Michel Jarre's Shanghai concert is apropos if anachronistic here on at least two levels. Anyway, the Temple is like 1300 years old! Plus, there's a cat.So, after 20 seconds of petting the cat (believe me, you'll need it, if you have the volume turned up) we've finally arrived in a place of neither high nor low, neither joy nor sorrow, neither capitalist nor communist, neither here nor there. It's a place called White Cloud Temple coupled with 渔舟唱晚 by Jinghua Yuefu.Finally, there's the reveal of what the heck I'm doing in Shanghai in the first place, and what the ancestral connection is there. edward-reib.com/travels/09-shanghaiedward-reib.com#上海 #Shanghai #中华人民共和国 #中国 #China
Northeast India Edward Reib 2023-10-16 | youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD0cM21OadjmQwWQxSD7oAqoCFbq9Msd1In Khum Monetary there was music playing inside the temple, so Edward asked what it was. A young monk told him it was an album called “Buddhist Incantations 2” and mentioned that they had CDs of said album available for purchase, so he bought one. That is the music you hear during this video. Track 1, called “Thubpae Zung,” or “Mantra of Buddha” plays during the footage of arriving in Darjeeling, as well as Mahakal Temple, and Dali Temple. Track 2, “Chenre Sig Kyi Zuno,” or “The Noble Avelokitesvara” plays during the visit to the Tibetan Refugee Self-Help Centre, as well as Ogyan Kunsang Chokhorling Monastery. Track 5, “Tashi,” or “Good Luck” plays while we visit Laptsa Chorten. Track 3 called “Guru Ghi Zung,” The Prayer to the Padmasambhava plays while they visit Rumtek Monastery (a temple dedicated to HH the 17th Karmapa where HH the 17th Karmapa isn’t allowed to go), as well as the hotel where we stayed in Gangtok, called Great Eastern Valley Residency.
Andaman & Nicobar, India Edward Reib 2023-08-31 | #andaman #andamanandnicobarisland #india edward-reib.com
Darjeeling & Gangtok Edward Reib 2023-08-29 | Suddenly, we are on our way up the mountain to Darjeeling, and it's raining, and foggy. That, or we are inside a cloud, and there are tea gardens, and the Toy Train tracks, then the Toy Train itself. "Om Mani Padme Hum" comes back for a few seconds, but this time it's diegetic, then I am tempted by all the beautiful colorful and pretty material things which commemorate Buddha's philosophy of non-materialism, and I succumb. "Mall Road" is quite busy, the Blood Moon rises, and then we are at another one of those Japanese World Peace Pagodas which one of Nichiren sects build everywhere to promote World Peace, of course. Then, we visit a Drukpa Temple called Dali. Suddenly, we are in Gangtok, Sikkim. Then, we are at Do-Drul Chorten in Gangtok, where we see and here a lot of young monks from Bhutan chanting, playing drums, and preparing to drink lots and lots of Fanta and Coke. Finally, we visit a flower garden, and Enchey Monastery. A statue of Gandhi, Priyal with the view from our hotel's rooftop restaurant, Tibetan Ganesh, and a large statue of a hand holding a dorje, or "vajra" for you Sanskrit folk, then we are off. There is a river beside the road, the river which divides the states of West Bengal and Sikkim, then the view from our hotel near the airport in Bagdogra. edward-reib.com
Masroor Edward Reib 2023-08-22 | The music of Baahubali II carries us from the nearby tea gardens, past the local cows, and into the ancient rock-cut Masroor Rock Temple from early 8th century. This part is probably my favorite two minutes of any video I've ever made.It comes from a video called Dharamshala & Rishikesh, and was filmed in June and July of 2018: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD0cM21OadjmQwWQxSD7oAqoCFbq9Msd1
My Other Channel [Goa stuff] Edward Reib 2023-08-06 | Well, one of my other channels.edward-reib.com #edwardreib #goingoan #goa
Elijah Van Dahl Edward Reib 2023-08-02 | In addition to his iconic "Pee-Wee Herman," Paul Reubens portrayed the father of both the 1992 Danny DeVito "Penguin" in Tim Burton's "Batman Returns" and, more notably, the father of Robin Lord Taylor's "Penguin" in the criminally underrated series, "Gotham."
Tipiṭaka Rogues Gallery Edward Reib 2023-06-25 | To celebrate this 100th Tipitaka episode, Edward quickly summarized the various characters, monks and nuns, who behaved in various ways which resulted in the establishing of the rules of the original Sangha, which could be thought of as a kind of "Tipiṭaka Rogues' Gallery." In this Special Episode, you can see the Tipiṭaka Rogues' Gallery portion of that video without the long introduction or the recital afterward.
