Stories about AFL
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about AFL from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- A Buddhist footy team would always loseJoke · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: He once imagined a Buddhist footy team vs Christians/Jews/Muslims — but Buddhist principles would mean giving the ball away out of compassion and deliberately missing goals so as…
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I once thought of actually starting a soccer team well no footy team know a Buddhist footy team and we know we could play the Christians you know just but you know as soon I decided that wouldn't work cuz I started to think about it you know if you started a Buddhist footy team and you played the Christians or you played the Jews or the Muslims or whatever we'd have to play by Buddhist principles first of all let him go if the other two wanted the ball here take it take it compassion cuz you know if the Buddhist team scored a goal that would really disappoint the opposition so you on purpose you'd kick it so you know it missed the posts out of kindness compassion so if we did have a Buddhist team it would always lose
- Fremantle just won — Dopey must be aliveJoke · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Snow White finds a mine collapse; silence to 'are you okay?' Then she tries 'Fremantle just won the Grand Final' — one dwarf yells yay. At least Dopey is alive.
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Snow White was making lunch for the Seven Dwarfs and once she finished making the lunch and she took it to the the mine you know they were mining diamonds or whatever dwarfs to and when she got to the the entrance of the mines she saw the being a a collapse in the mine accident there's rocks and dust all over the place so it's really concerned for the dwarves are you okay in there it was silence are you alive there was silence so she tried another tax she said free man sort of just won the Grand Final and one of the dwarves said yay and she said well at least that Dopey is alive