Stories about aging
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about aging from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Funeral subcommittee while still healthyStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Buddhist society starts a subcommittee for his funeral arrangements while he feels fine — he reframes age as 900 months and wants a celebration, not fear.
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arrange uh how to do my funeral service [laughter] and I feel so healthy honestly. So some people say well why do you do that for? Why not 75 soon or I called it 900? 900 is much more fun. 900 months old. And because as a it's weird as a Buddhist, ever since I was a young monk, you were never afraid of death. We're going to go one day. Let's make it a very big celebration
- If you retire, you will dieStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Paying respects to Ajahn Ganha, Ajahn Brahm asks to retire from talks and travel. In front of everybody Ganha replies that if he retires and stops teaching and traveling he will…
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I was telling him all these people over in Perth, they said I shouldn't be travelling around so much; I'm just working too hard; I should relax a bit more." He said, "No, please tell them, please tell them, Ajahn Brahm, if you stop all of this, you stop working hard, you will die." That's what he told me. And I went, "Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu! You understand; he's a powerful monk— giving and serving gives you meaning in life. If you don't give and serve, yeah, you may amass money