Stories about anatta
4 Buddhist wisdom stories about anatta from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Anicca, Dukkha and Anatta walk into a pubJoke · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Anicca, Dukkha and Anatta walk into a pub. Dukkha says the bar sucks; Anicca says don't worry, it will change; Anatta asks who said that.
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And to lighten things up a bit There is the Anicca, Dukkha Anatta joke Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta walk into a pub All jokes starts with people walking into a bar So Anicca, Dukkha Anatta walks into a pub Dukkha says; as soon as he gets into the pub This bar sucks Anicca says don't worry it will change And Antta said Who said that? who said that? Anicca, Dukkha Anatta Joke Anicca, Dukkha Anatta walking into a bar Dukkha said it sucks Anicca said doesn't matter it wont last And Antta said who said that? I think that's quite good Anicca is impermanence Dukkha is suffering So Dukkha sees suffering, so Dukkha walks into the pub and said this bar sucks, it is a terrible bar it is a horrible pub So that's dukkha, that's what he was saying And Anicca says Everything passes, don't worry it will change And Anatta, non self says Who said that OK I thought that was funny Anyway Anyway I am weird I expect that
- I think I'm enlightened — I don't feel myselfJoke · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Monk wakes claiming enlightenment because he 'didn't feel himself' — Fennel Chan / anattā punchline.
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this monk who woke up one morning and he told his fellow monk he said I think I'm enlightened. Said how do you know whether when I woke up in this morning I didn't feel myself. Okay I thought that was funny. But I blame Fennel Chan. I don't feel myself. No self. No self
- Stream-entry certificates on the wallAnalogy · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Analogy: a Burma monastery giving stream-winner certificates to hang next to degrees and swimming certificates — spiritual materialism as framed paper.
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certificates to people stream winning certificates so you're authenticated that you are a stream win or once returned a night and so you had you on your wall next to you sort of your degree and next to your swimming certificate whatever else you've got and this is my life a certificate and when I heard that there's something fundamentally wrong with that
- The tadpole who studied waterAnalogy · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Analogy: intelligent tadpole goes to school and university and even becomes a nun studying the chemical composition of water — while already swimming in it.
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little tadpole and she was born in this wonderful lake she was a very intelligent tadpole and she went to school and she went to university and she even became a nun this little tadpole and at university she learned all about water now this chemical composition or what it does and when she was an Angie even studied the abbe de mer on water what its nature was but even the socio is one of the highly most intelligent tadpoles in the whole lake and she had a PhD in hydraulics could the little tadpole understand what water really was no more than a fish could understand what water is