Stories about hatred
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about hatred from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- If I were President Bush after 9/11Story · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: A week or two after 9/11, asked in Singapore what he would have done as President Bush, Ajahn Brahm says he would have gone on TV and forgiven everyone involved so no more…
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I gave a talk in Singapore just after 9 11. maybe a week two weeks afterwards and after the talk the obvious question if you were President Bush what would you have done and I said straight away I did this I said this with with all the power of being a monk for such a long time after 9 11 If I Was President Bush I would have gone on TV straight away and said I forgive everybody involved in this terrorist Act there's been enough people died already I don't want any more mothers crying over their sons I don't want any brothers just so lost because their little brother is gone I forgive everybody let's end this violence and I was wondering what would have happened afterwards just imagining just people through the streets of Baghdad holding up photos of George W bush rather than Osama bin Laden George Bush George Bush instead of Osama bin Laden and I I got a standing ovation for that about 1500 people
- Raged at in the Sydney airport loungeStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: In the Sydney airport lounge a woman asks if he is a monk from Thailand, then explodes: he took $10,000 from her husband and messed up his mind. He is innocent — he suspects a…
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was in the lounge at Sydney airport quietly having a cup of tea minding my own business when this lady came up to me and said are you a monk are you from Thailand and I said well I just said yes I'm not really from Thailand but that's where I got my training the first nine years and then she exploded at me you took ten thousand dollars from my husband and you messed up his mind so what I never did anything I honestly I'm innocent but she was no way could I convince her she had hatred I'm not quite sure what had happened somehow rather that her husband had found some probably I think I'll probably know the group because they take a lot of money out from people and it's not really Buddhism you know trying to buy your way to Enlightenment and it's it's a very easy thing to Market but it's very very uh wrong very immoral probably then but I'm not sure because there's no way I could ask anything because she was so ranging me in the lounge great entertainment for everybody because they could all stop looking at their tablets and their newspapers have a look this is really interesting because that we always like to see things like that happen but you know I just said oh I don't know sorry and eventually she'd left me alone but no she's glaring at me but sometimes you wonder just like obviously it was totally innocent I don't know what happened I didn't do anything I don't mess around with well actually I do mess around with people's minds but in a really good way I've been messing around with some of your minds for years but you know in a good way peaceful way and I don't take any money off anybody so I'm not quite sure why but you were a victim of hatred when no way you did deserve it at all