Stories about lineage
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about lineage from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Goosebumps in a 1,600-year-old caveStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Near Anuradhapura, Ajahn Brahm sits in a cave whose donor inscription is ~1,600 years old — goosebumps at how many Sangha members have meditated on that same spot.
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I looked on the top of the cave. There was an inscription of the person who who donated that cave and it was about 1,600 years ago. And as soon as I saw that, I was sitting in the cave and so many other SA members have been meditating meditating in that cave for over 1,600 years. That's a long time. And as soon as I sat down, oh, goosebumps all over and how many amazing beings had sat right where I've been sitting
- Jeremy Horner — overnight monk, Pali Text auntieStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Backpacker Jeremy Horner visits a NE Thailand monastery where Brahm is staying, asks to spend one night, and next morning shaves his own head and begs to ordain — 12 hours after…
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from Singapore he went North into Thailand and in Bangkok he met a couple of English people who were working in the refugee camp of ubor in Northeast Thailand so why didn't it come up here not many people come up here so they he went up to there with these doctors and when he was in this this place there was no other westerners about around except in this Monastery there's a few Western monks in this Monastery I was one of those Western Monks at that time so he said no I'll just go for a look so he went for a look and he would like to enough he asked the Abbott can I spend the night so he got permission to spend the night he wasn't a Buddhist you know he was just a student a Backpacker he spent the night there in the morning he shaved his own head and begged to be a monk isn't incredible experience just no preparation at all and 12 hours after he first came into a Buddhist mon the first Buddhist he ever saw you know he wanted to become a monk and now he's been a monk for about 30 years now and interestingly sort of it comes from a very interesting family because I remember his lay name Jeremy horer and they said Horner CU I knew that name it was the head of the Pary Tech Society Pary is a Buddhist language and there's this professor over in camb was translating all these Buddhist books and I said are you any relation of hers he said no I've never heard of her when he went home he checked out with his father and it was his father's sister his auntie and they never said anything about her cuz she was like a black sheep of the family