Ajahn Chah's Buddhamus — Christmas as peace and love

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  stopped breathing and the medic on duty you know because the king of Thailand he the uh the former King he sort of paid for a medic to be on duty eight hour shifts and the medical Duty that night got freaked out when agent Charles stopped breathing and now I leave him alone he's only meditating he said no he's not breathing that's death if you don't do something quick there's no Oxygen going to the brain you get permanent break and he's already got Strokes I don't know what more you can do but he will die and so freaking out and it's very hard for monks to explain to doctors you know what's really happening and this was like a very highly trained medic and he was paranoid you know you get in trouble with the king of Thailand if you're the agent child die so they came to this wonderful compromise it was very interesting he wasn't breathing for a couple of hours so the medic would take blood sample

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• The Muslim woman who said 'oh…'

  In brief: A young woman in hijab asks him to sign her book; she watches him on YouTube. As soon as he signs, she puts her hand over her mouth and…

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  one young lady come up to have her book signed and totally ruined my expectations of what a Muslim should be because she came out she was younger and in her hijab very devout woman so can you sign my book and I said yeah I can she says she watches me on YouTube great she might be watching me tonight but if you do please excuse me for letting people know this because as soon as so she signed my book as soon as I signed she said no I signed her book I'm tired come on as soon as I signed her book she put her hand over her mouth and said oh he's signing my book it's the first time I've heard a Muslim say oh she was so excited she's forgot herself and so all my expectations of Muslims being different than Australians totally vanished

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• I demand my right to bow to Jesus

  In brief: Invited with Chaplain Canon Frank Sheehan to Christ Church Grammar School's morning assembly, the devout Christian principal tells Ajahn…

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  being invited to give the uh the talk at the morning assembly at christ church grammar school remember it was with one of my mates that was uh the chaplain cannon frank sheehan yeah she thanks you and he became a nice mate of mine and so there we were in front of christ church grammar school a really top school uh anglican christian school here in perth and three of us were outside waiting for the kids to be settled down in this beautiful chapel with its amazing views over the swan river and as we were outside the principal you know was a very devout christian and he said when we go welcome to our school where we go inside no the chaplain frank and i we will bow to the statue of jesus christ because we're christians we said you're a buddhist you don't need to you know i always i'm a cheeky monk sometimes as these two monks next to me will know and sometimes i make an argument just to make a point and so i said to the principal i said no i demand my right to bow to your statue of jesus i remember his face are we talking about what mad monk have i let into my school

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• Lakshmi's knitted socks on Friday night

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  she gave me a pair of socks. I never wear socks. Very, very, very, very, very rarely, but she gave me some socks. She knitted them herself. So, I put them on for the Friday night talk. And during the Friday night talk, you know, it's just I'm getting old. You have to move every now and again. And I was moving and I just put a foot out with a sock on. And I remember you actually you said he's wearing my socks. He's wearing my socks

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