Stories for long marriage
3 Buddhist wisdom stories for long marriage from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- 'I've been underneath him all my life'Story · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: After interring a man's ashes in the wall around Bodhinyana Monastery, Ajahn Brahm jokingly asked his elderly Malaysian Chinese widow whether he should reserve the place…
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I remember this other He was I don't know what Malaysian Chinese lady. And her partner, many, many years they were married, died. So, I did the funeral ceremony for them. And as you may know, over in Bodhinyana Monastery, people can sometimes put their ashes in the wall around the monastery. They get a little box of ashes, we dig a hole in the the wall, and put the ashes in there, put a plaque over it. And I'd just done this ceremony for this uh man who died, and his wife was there. She was very old. And I did ask her, silly thing to ask. I shouldn't have done this, but it was funny. I said, "Should I reserve the place underneath for you?" And she looked at me and said, "No. I've been underneath him all my life. I want to go to the other side of the monastery. However far away you can go. And she died about 3 months later. And so I made sure that she went a long way away from It was in the water. Both in the water, but a long way away from each other.
- Married 25 years and strangers on holidayStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: After about 25 years of marriage, when the last child leaves home, a couple take their first holiday alone together. One says afterwards it was a shock: “I didn't realise whom I…
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somebody, actually it's a person who is a old fellow member here, they told me that I think they had been married for about 25 years and the last of their children got married, so left home And there they were together, so went on a holiday together. First time they could go just the two of them and they came back afterwards and one of the partners said it was such a shock such a shock, I didn't realize whom I was married to all these years. Because for all those years they have been relating to each other as father and mother of their kids. Now their kids were out of the equation, the whole relationship, the whole identity changed. They had to rediscover each other again. It is amazing they had been married for so many years and they said they didn't know each other.
- The husband's photo in her handbagJoke · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Married 30 or 40 years, a woman always carries her husband's photo in her handbag. Whenever life gets really difficult she takes it out, looks at him and says: “If I can endure…
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that um story of that woman who who um always kept a photograph of her husband in her in her purse you know in her s of handbag and they were been married for about 30 40 years and she always carried a photo PHH of her husband around with her to use in times of difficulty and trouble because whenever life was real problem whenever it was just so difficult she would open up her handbag and take out the picture of the man she'd been married to for 30 years and she looked at him and said if I can enure that I can enure anything