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1,224 Buddhist wisdom stories, analogies and jokes — page 13 of 13. Browse by theme or life situation, or describe your situation to get a match.
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- You can talk — I thought you were brain damaged — After Ajahn Chah left Perth, silent number-two monk Brahm gave his first Friday talk at Magnolia…
- 'You can't be any good then' — In the early days Ajahn Brahm answered the phone to a woman asking about that evening's meditation…
- You disturb the noise — Ajahn Chah's line via Brahm: it is not the children's noise that disturbs you — you disturb the…
- You don't have to join — Cambridge Buddhist Society — Cambridge societies fair: finds Buddhist Society stall like gold; wants to join; the person behind…
- You know when the Gurkha visited — your head falls off — Former Gurkha monk: you always know when a Gurkha visited in the night — you wake, shake your…
- “You must be the father-in-law!” — At a wedding of a young Thai bride and an Australian man, Ajahn Brahm greets the elderly…
- 'You never talked to us about your Buddhism' — Ajahn Brahm kept his non-Buddhist friends from Cambridge, and saw some at a reunion after 40…
- 'You ordained to forget' — Visiting Ajahn Juin, a famous old Thai monk at the top-hat-shaped mountain monastery Phu Tok,…
- “You're a much better mum when you come home” — A tired mother tells her children she will skip the meditation group; her daughter insists she go,…
- “You're dressed like a girl. That's sick.” — While loading the overloaded Kombi van in North Perth in his first years in Australia, a…
- “You're either going to get better or you're going to die” — Seriously ill with typhus in a Ubon hospital with no night nurse, young Ajahn Brahm is overjoyed…
- You're just helping me sharpen my knife — An Englishwoman argues with elderly Ajahn Chah for hours; others say leave him alone — Chah says…
- “You're making an ugly face — smile!” — Rowing in an eight at Cambridge, struggling and grimacing, Ajahn Brahm hears the coach on a…
- 'You're not getting old, Ajahn — you're already old' — Ajahn Brahm told his monks he was getting old. A very kind Swiss monk said, with touching…
- “You're old enough to know better” — Walking in robes through Doncaster early one morning with Ajahn Sumedho, about 20 years his…
- “You're so lucky” — counselling a rape survivor — In Malaysia, as a last resort after counsellors, doctors and psychiatrists had failed, Ajahn Brahm…
- “You're taking away my grief” — After a talk at a grief-and-loss conference on letting go, a woman complains bitterly that Ajahn…
- You're the girl whose name I keep forgetting — When strangers ask 'Do you remember me?' after talks to hundreds or thousands, a joke-book escape:…
- You're the only one who deserves this award — Receiving his Order of Australia medal at Government House under Governor Kim Beazley, Ajahn Brahm…
- You've demoted me — A sweet village woman finishes a Colombo meditation course and is certified a stream-winner…
- You've got such beautiful blue eyes — like my baby Holly — Sydney clothing entrepreneur Julie flies at short notice to London to sign a contract. Directors…
- Your brother will snore — and so will you — A visiting monk's brother needs a bed; Brahm warns that sharing a room means the brother will…
- “Your meditation can't be that good” — At the Serpentine doctor's surgery a monk sees an advert for another meditation group and suggests…
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- Zen and the Art of Shipping — At a transport forum (about clay trucks passing the monastery) a journalist interviews Ajahn Brahm…