Stories about bushfire
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about bushfire from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Caught with his trousers down in the bushfireStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: An Iranian ex-Muslim convert (named Muhammad, barred from a KL Buddhist talk, renamed in Australia) was at Bodhinyana in the 1991 fire; while evacuating he somehow stopped to…
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So, as soon as he came to Australia, he changed his name. So, he was there during the bush fire. And I don't know why this happens. I'll always remember this. We were hiding in the main hall just protecting when the the fire front hit. And then we got the orders from you know to evacuate. And this guy What This is where you get the the word from, getting caught with your trousers down. For some reason, he decided to change his trousers. And as we were in the car waiting for him, he came running out without any trousers
- The ranger's spot check hit a fire drillStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: After a bushfire-era Fire and Emergency Service certificate (Mitchell Roberts presenting), a shire ranger did an unannounced spot check and found every monk already in fire suits…
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the local ranger of our Shire decided to do a spot check on us, on our monastery, you know. Because to make sure we had everything going. And it just so happened that all the monks were in our fire suits, we had a fire and things going, we were doing a drill. It was true. And this ranger just said "Did you guys know I was coming?" I said "No no no no no." And they were in the middle of a drill and he did a spot check