Stories for getting older
3 Buddhist wisdom stories for getting older from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- I'm 888 months oldStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Bored of turning 74, he counts age in months — 888 — an auspicious number in Singapore, and jokes about number plates.
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I count my age in months. It's much more impressive. And if you quickly work it out, what is 74 years in months? It's 888. Oo. Yeah. In a place like Singapore. 8 AAA. Wow. That's really apicious. It's the most auspicious number. If anybody can get a car with a number plate 88 AA, it cost a fortune. Is that true, Eddie? Yes, I'm 88 in a couple of months time
- The glasses on top of his noseStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Halfway down Kingsbury Drive on the way to a Friday talk, Ajahn Brahm tells his driver to turn back for the glasses he needs for committee papers; after searching his bag and the…
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this was some years ago, you know when I started wearing glasses. Amandus wrote this in I think my biography book. I was leaving Bodhinyana monastery to come here on a Friday night. And it was halfway down Kingsbury drive and I said Amandus was my driver. I said you gotta turn around. I looked in my bag I left my glasses in the monastery. You've got to turn around. I need that you know read all the documents for the committee. And he turned to me and said “Ajahn Brahm, have you checked on top of your nose?” I looked in my bag, I looked in the glove box, I looked everywhere. Except where my glasses actually were: on the top of my nose.
- 'You're not getting old, Ajahn — you're already old'Story · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Ajahn Brahm told his monks he was getting old. A very kind Swiss monk said, with touching sincerity — monks don't lie — 'No, Ajahn, you're not getting old.' Pause. 'You're…
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my monks, a very kind monks, this is one of my monks, a very wonderful monk from uh Switzerland. And you know when he knows his story that I told the monks, I'm getting old and they said, "No, Ajam, you're not getting old." And that's really touching just the way they said it with the sincerity because monks don't lie. said, "No, you're not getting old." Ah, you're already old. Which is true.