Stories about crime
6 Buddhist wisdom stories about crime from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- He won the Chiang Mai lottery — and went madStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: In Chiang Mai illegal number-lotteries run by gangs: a man sells his house, wins a fortune, then the gangs offer only a couple of million of the ten owed. He cannot sue; they…
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Chiang Mai in north of Thailand they have illegal notaries there I think it's the last two or three numbers and they bet on it and he won it and a lot of money I think he actually sold his house and put a fortune on this lottery number and because it was run by the gangs in Chiang Mai they said no we're not going to pay you the full amount you know just a couple of million is enough he said no no it's 10 million I said a couple of million and they said no we're only going to give you two million he said no I demand 10 million he couldn't take them to court because his illegal Lottery and they told him listen mate a bullet only cost about ten dollars but he still wouldn't accept it and he went crazy they're committed to a mental institution simply because he won and couldn't accept a lesser payment greed sent him mad
- The bank robber who sat down to waitStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: True-story newspaper item: after robbing a bank the man sits in the foyer and waits to be arrested — expectations/surrender image.
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After he robbed the bank, he went into the the foyer and just sat down on a chair and waited to be arrested. And sooner the police came and they said, "You know, you're the guy who robbed the bank." He said, "Yeah, here's the money. I confess." And when he went to trial, they asked him, "Why did you do that?" "Well, I told my wife it's it's so noisy. I had I had such a difficult time living in the house with you. I thought, you know, I could go to jail instead. It'd be more peaceful
- The heart that remembered the murderStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Girl ~10–11 gets heart transplant; recurrent nightmare of being attacked and killed. Mother traces donor — murdered prostitute. Dream details match; police question suspect; he…
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there was a few stories of people who had heart transplants and They Carried some sort of memories of the previous owner of the heart there's one amazing story is a young girl had a heart transplant he must be only about 10 or 11 years of old and after the operation very good success when she was sent home afterwards so she started having nightmares recovered nightmares the same scene in The Nightmare all the time so she told her mommy her dream was that she was attacked in a dark Street and killed and murdered and it was so recurrent that her mother sort of went to the doctor and said there's something weird going on here my child has got the same dream night after night and she wakes up screaming and of course the doctor said oh it's just the trauma of the operation you know it's a very heavy operation it might have done something to the play but she'll get over it just forget about it take another Panadol or something I shouldn't say things like that I get trouble with the doctors in this audience but usually say if it doesn't go away within two weeks come back again we do some more tests but I'll being cheeky but I get away with that but anyway it didn't go away so she took it further so it kept on recurring again so that she she had some contacts in the hospital so she did a little bit of U uh suppose it's illegal improper searching to find out where this heart came from and she found out that the heart had actually come from a prostitute who had been killed and murdered and when she heard that she went to the police station and told all the whole story this is a dream of my daughter I just found out the heart came from a murdered person does her memory in dream match any of the situation only the circumstances of the murder and the police people they investigated the situation where the original owner of the heart was killed it matched and the information they got from this girl after you know she had a heart transplant the information she got from her dreams was enough for the police to identify a suspect question him and he confessed they caught him very weird and strange thing there was enough memories left in that heart to actually to find the killer of the old heart
- The Norwich priest who bit off a saint's fingerStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: A Norwich priest visiting a highly guarded saint's corpse in Europe bites off a finger, hides it in his mouth, and brings the relic home — later made a saint himself because the…
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priest from Norwich in England and he went to visit one of these saints over in Europe somewhere. It was high security there because if you had the relics, you had a lot of money. He this corpse was very old. this uh priest bit off the finger and hid it in his mouth. That's really weird. But he brought it back to the city of Norwich in England. And he was just made a saint himself cuz that brought so much uh business into the town of Norwich. And he made him a saint eventually had a big cathedral there simply because he broke the law and bit off a finger of a of a saint
- The Triads offered to sort out any troubleStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: After a Friday talk a Chinese man says he is with the Perth Triads; Brahm is scared — then the man says the boss sent him because Brahm looks after the Chinese community: if you…
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I am a member of the Chinese Triads in Perth he said and I got very scared because these guys mean business and he said but don't get worried you know I know that you really look after the Chinese community in per so I've been told by the boss to come and see you if you have any trouble just contact us we'll sort it out
- They had all watched a hangingStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Answering a teacher in Q&A: over a hundred years ago, when hangings in England were public, someone (a psychologist, he says) went through Bristol jail and questioned 60 or 70…
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there was a study done over a hundred years ago and the tie was in done in Bristol Bristol jail in England where that time executions hangings were public but hang people didn't leave no square or something and this person a psychologist or went through the jail and other hadley 6070 people on death row about to be hunt they don't have sort of stays of execution in those days no lawyers played a lot of money which he got so committed to death usually ended up dying huh so brother 60 people he found out that almost all of them had actually witnessed a public hanging conclude it wasn't a deterrent at all