Stories about goodness
3 Buddhist wisdom stories about goodness from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Be good — no, that's no funStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Between interviews at a Catholic retreat centre in Safety Bay he watched two middle-aged men leave Sunday service. One said 'be good'; the other answered 'no, that's no fun'. He…
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I still remember a time when I was teaching a retreat over in um safety Bay and just in a space between the interviews that some I was looking through the window and it was a a Catholic Retreat Center and as I looking through the window I saw these two people two maybe middle-aged men they just gone to church for the Sunday service and as they were shaking hands and saying goodbye to each other they parted with this greeting one of them said to the other be good and the other one said no that's no fun
- Ronnie Kray's promiseStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: One of the most notorious prisoners he visited in England was Ronnie Kray, the mentally disturbed one of East London's Kray twins. As Ajahn Brahm left, Kray thanked him and said…
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One of the most notorious prisoners I ever met was was Ronnie Cray. He was actually one of the Cray twins in East London. He was the one who was the crazy one. He was actually mentally disturbed and he would do some terrible evil things to others. But when I went to see him just before I left, he said, "Ajent Brah just, you know, thanks for visiting. If I ever get a few quid, I'll send some to your monastery." He never did because he didn't have any quid. He was in died in prison.
- The poem by Adolf HitlerStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: In Opening the Door of Your Heart he included a beautiful poem about a son's unconditional love for his demanding mother — and only afterwards does the reader see the author:…
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Have a read of that book “Opening the Door of Your Heart” and there you'll see a poem of a mother's, of a son’s love to her mother. I forget exactly how it goes but it's something like “when your mother grows old, when her eyes are dim and her hands become very weak, when she asks you for a favor reply in kindness, if she asked you again, reply in kindness the second time and a third time, please help her because the time will come, the terrible time when your mother can’t ask no more, so, and every time she asks, give time to her. It was something like that. But when I read first read that poem I couldn't believe it was written by Adolf Hitler!