Stories for work
3 Buddhist wisdom stories for work from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Monastery waiting list — want to be hereStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Prisoner asks what monastery life is like; routine is far more austere than WA prison, yet there is a waiting list to get in and a waiting list to get out of prison. Only…
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Staying in a monastery is much tougher than staying in a prison. But there's always a waiting list of people trying to get into a monastery. There's a waiting list that the people trying to get out of a prison. Why? And the only reason why is that a prison is where people do not want to be. A monastery is where they do want to be
- Old treasurer — migraine into the dark roomStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: An old BSWA treasurer, not yet Buddhist, learned in the army to beat migraine attacks by sitting 15 minutes in a quiet dark place and going so deep he could not feel his body —…
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old treasurers of all things he passed away some time ago old fellow but he used to go into these deep meditations when he was even in the army he was just uh he didn't really wasn't a buddhist at the time but he just had these terrible um migraine attacks and the only way he'd get through those migraine attacks is finding a quiet dark place and sitting in that quiet dark place for 15 minutes and going deep inside and he said he can go deeper inside enough that he could not feel his body anymore
- Two hours on Ajahn Chah instead of a car factoryStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Thaksin, then Prime Minister of Thailand, told Ajahn Brahm that a head of the Ford Motor Company came to see him about building a big factory in Thailand as a hub for Southeast…
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Interesting story about Tuxin by the way. You know this, he told me this. He's a prime minister of Thailand years ago that there was this big American industrialist called John Ford. You know, he was ahead of Ford Motor Company for a while. And so he went to see um the Thai prime minister who was a prime minister at the time because they were going to get a contract to build this big uh factory or whatever it was to actually to manufacture Ford vehicles in Thailand and to spread them around. that made that like the hub to spread those to Southeast Asia. And so that was a really big development. So they don't go through the uh small purple and the government went straight to the prime minister. So the two of them met John Ford and the prime minister of Thailand. Do you know what they talked about? John Ford said to the prime minister, "Do you do you know anything about this monk Ajancha? and and the B said, "Yeah, I've got quite a few of his books in my library." And so apparently they spent two hours talking about Dhamma [laughter] and Ajan and nothing about factories being built in Thailand.