Stories about gender
3 Buddhist wisdom stories about gender from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Bachelor / geniusJoke · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: If a man is not married he's called a bachelor; if a woman is not married she's called a genius.
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if a man is not married he's called a bachelor if a woman is not married she's called a genius
- Men don't cry in AustraliaStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Aussie retreatant cries in meditation; last cry was at 11–12 when his father said men don't cry in Australia.
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fellow who came on one of my retreats, an Aussie guy. He started crying in while he was meditating. He said, "What's going on here?" And you know what I told him? I said, "When was the last time you had a cry?" And he said, "When I was about, I think about 11 or 12 or something." And my father said, "Men don't cry in Australia
- The tomboy who was a boy beforeStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: A girl of five or six is a stereotypical tomboy — hangs out with boys, beats them up — and says it is because she was a boy before. Brahm offers it as one of the rebirth cases…
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she was a typical really stereotypical tomboy never like to play with the girls always lose like hang out with the boys and beat them up you know it's only five six years of age really tomboy and it's obvious because you know it was a it was a girl I was a boy before so anyway there are cases like that