Enlightenment Guaranteed Page #2

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Stop it!

Please, please...

No, I'm going alone.

I'll carry your bags.

I've waited a year to go.

And I'm going alone.

I won't bother you. I'll just be there.

With you.

Don't leave me here.

I can't stay here alone.

My poor garden.

What garden?

It's not an ashtray?

Ashtray...

She took everything...

I'm going to bed, okay?

Don't leave me here all alone.

Say 'Good Morning'

to yourself.

I was drunk last night, Gustav.

Now you're taking me

to whatever you call it.

What? I don't believe it.

Oh, no, I got you a ticket

and you're coming!

What the hell for?

You're coming.

Not so loud.

Where is it in China?

It's in Japan.

Yeah, right.

Opposite Tokyo.

The Sojij monastery in Monzen.

Mon-zen? Like Mon Dieu?

Is that right? My God?

There's a nice story about a Zen monk

who lived in a cave.

He only had one candle and once,

at night, he heard a noise

and saw a big snake

lying in front of the cave.

He was really scared.

The candle went out

and he heard the snake moving.

He was terrified.

But he finally fell asleep anyway.

When he awoke in the morning

he walked to the entrance

and saw that it was just a large rope.

I feel like...

life is a chair

that's been pulled out from under me.

Know what I mean?

And I don't know

how to deal with it.

I don't know anything anymore.

I feel like a waste disposal.

To live is to suffer.

Thanks.

Buddha's first noble truth.

And that's good.

It means it's normal to suffer.

Look, Uwe...

You're like the blue sky.

And the clouds

are your worries and fears.

But you don't see it.

It takes practice.

Practice?

And so you sit on some

round, black cushion?

That's right.

North.

Southwest.

Southeast.

Okay.

Yes.

That's it.

Just right

for sleeping.

See the stripes?

That's me.

Look what I have on.

A kimono.

And here...

The slippers are part of the outfit.

Chic, huh?

It's ages since I've been

with my brother so long.

Funny...

Ready?

Sure.

Take a sweater. It could get cold.

Hey, can we

leave our passports here?

Yes, nobody steals in Japan.

You sure?

Absolutely.

We can use signs.

That's the hotel.

That way.

And Epson.

They're our markers to the hotel.

She's driving me crazy.

That's meat and noodles.

That's shrimp.

Let's go in. I'm hungry.

My life's a wreck.

I can start all over.

Look, she could've said: 'let's talk'

or 'we have a problem' or

'I'm leaving' or something.

I didn't have a chance.

And what about the kids?

Maybe they miss me.

I always thought

she'd talk to me first.

That she'd say something.

But no. Nothing.

She just leaves.

She could've talked to me.

Okay, when I get home from work

I'm not always in the best mood

to talk but

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