Stories about encouragement
3 Buddhist wisdom stories about encouragement from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Blessings are cheering for your teamAnalogy · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Simile: when supporters shout 'Come on, the Dockers! Come on, the Eagles!', the team does better. That's what his chanting and blessings are — shouting for you: 'Come on, you can…
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when you shout for your football team. ‘Come on, the Dockers, come on, the West Coast Eagles, come on!’. When you actually shout for your team and you've got lots of supporters, of course, the team do much better. You're encouraging them. So that's what I do to you. When I do the chanting and the blessings, I just shout for you, ‘come on, you can do it, yeah, come on, yes yes yes!’. That's what I did for that guy in the ICU, ‘come on, you can come out of coma, come on, yeah, you can, yes, you did it
- Sixteen fails, one blessingStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: A very intelligent Malaysian woman had failed the English language test for her Australian permanent visa 16 times. 'Take it again.' 'But I failed 16 times.' 'Ah, but you were…
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I can never forget this Malaysian girl. I don't know if she's here today, but you know, 16 times she failed the the ELS test, the you know, for getting a permanent visa. 16 times she failed and she needed that to stay in Australia. She's very intelligent lady. But then she asked me, so what should I do? And so I said, take it again. But I fell 16 times. Ah, but you never was blessed by Ajan Brah before, were you? So she did it and so I gave her a good blessing and a few days later she rang up. Yeah, you passed. How did you know? Cuz you were blessed by me. Of course. That was really good. That 16 times she failed, got the blessing and it worked. Just encouraging and making her confident. Not psychic powers or anything just the confidence giving you.
- The 'hopeless at maths' boy who came topStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: As a young schoolteacher, Ajahn Brahm is told a boy in his maths class is hopeless — he came bottom of three or four classes the year before. For the school year Ajahn Brahm…
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another case this was from this time I was a school teacher I love doing experiments some of them were maybe not fair but they were worth it because there was a kid in my maths class and the teachers told me he's hopeless at Mass he came bottom the year before of those about three or four classes in this school now is his math teacher for one year so I decided to find out whether it was because he can't do maths or there was some other reason so for 12 months I don't know nine months of the school year after every lesson I'd ask him did you understand that give him extra attention praise him when he got the thing right go to his desk you know doing the exercises and give him a bit of a hand really just give him special attention I say it was unfair because I never gave that attention to any other child in the class just this one boy because I wanted to see whether it was a case that a person just cannot do math or because they believe they can't do it and of course it was a second case because at the end of the year that boy came top I moved him from bottom to top just by giving him a belief