Stories about building
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about building from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- He laid the top bricks himselfStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Building a hall: bricklayer refuses the shaking scaffold at the top; Brahm crawls the unsupported edge and lays the corner bricks himself.
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scaffold we had to build up and of course the monks did all that scaffold work and when he got to the very top there the brick L refused to go up because you know it was shaking this way and that way and this way and that way but we managed to coax him to go up there and and you could have seen some of the last bricks especially on the big Corners the top I laid those bricks myself because no one else would go up there
- The brochure that opened the tillStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Old-fashioned hardware counter; given a laminex brochure to choose colours; sets it on the electronic till and opens the cash drawer — thousands of dollars spill out in front of…
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laminex or something and so I had to break they gave me the brocher choose your color while I went to serve other people there's so many people about the cter oldfashioned shop you not like these big Bunnings know super super shops know with bit of personal service they gave me the the brochure and I was trying to find a place to put it down and flip through the pages and so actually I just went around behind the counter and the only place I could put it on was you know the the till the cash register it was one of these electronic ones so as soon as I put it down I must have pressed the key for opening the cash