Stories about doctors
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about doctors from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Doctor, there's something right with me — I'm sickStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: He teaches that sickness is normal; students then walk into Perth surgeries saying 'Doctor, there's something right with me — I'm sick' — doctors recognise Namara/Buddhist…
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there's something right with me. I'm sick again. Some people I told that story before and actually doctors have actually come up to me and said, "We had one of your students come into my surgery today." You know why? Because they came in and said, "Doctor, there's something right with me. I'm sick. They know they must have come to Namara Temple
- There's a nasty bug going aroundJoke · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: A man is punched, headbutted and stabbed on three successive days by a six-foot cockroach at his door. In hospital the doctor says that is to be expected — there's a nasty bug…
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Uh somebody told me a story, which was recently here in Perth. It's about doctors. About this gentleman who answered the door, knock on the door one afternoon. You won't believe it. There was this big 6-ft cockroach at the door. And he punched this man in the nose. And the man was just slammed the door as soon as he could. And what the heck was He wasn't badly injured. And the next day, another knock at the door. Open the door, it's a big 6-ft cockroach again. Gave him a headbutt. That really knocked him out. But you know, I'm just Who would actually believe that, you know, that happened? So, he just abandoned himself up and just the next day knock on the door. He answered it a third time. It was that same big 6-ft cockroach. And this time he had a knife, and he stabbed the guy. So, you know, he couldn't sort of forget that. Had to go to hospital, get patched up. And the doctor, you know, he said, "What happened?" And when he said what happened, 6-ft cockroach had assaulted him three times, he said, "Oh, that's to be expected." There's a nasty bug around. A nasty bug going around. That came from [laughter] this monk this afternoon. He told me the nasty bug going around story.