Gwangju International Center

SPEAKER: Jure Sutar

REVIEW-WRITERS:​ Vivian and Hong Eun-gyung

GIC TALK DATE: June 18, 2016

GIC TALK TITLE: I lived with Buddhist monks, and you should too

Jure Sutar, who was the guest speaker on June 18 th, gave his GIC Talk in front of over 30 GIC Talk audience members. He started his speech by talking about his experience related to Buddhism. When deciding to go to Asian countries, he experienced something different from his culture, and he stayed at a temple with monks in Thailand. In the temple, he faced lots of experiences that he had never done in his life before: taking a nap with nothing else than a wooden pillow, waking up at 4 a.m., doing meditation for about 10 hours a day and so on. Even though these experiences were difficult to live at that time, they made him feel inspired and be fulfilled with a high satisfaction.

During his informative speech, he shared some of the advantages of Buddhists’ lifestyle with the audience members. He highlighted that every person is living in this society, pursing happiness from their possessions such as money, information, etc. Jure said that if someone accepts Buddhism, he or she can live in this world without greed and can realize that he or she does not need too much.

His speech made us consider about our lifestyles again. We are definitely exposed to social media, which shows us personal economic success and makes us follow the current trends. However, we can live in this world without all of this material success, which does not actually represent the real success in our lives. The real success is when people do something that they want to do, and find a small, but very happy moment in their life or daily routine. So, thanks to Jure Sutar's GIC Talk, I now better understand how to find the way to be happier.