Stories about logic
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about logic from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Why you never see elephants in treesJoke · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: A joke a man told him: why don't you see elephants hiding in trees? Because they're too good at hiding. Like the US Army's state-of-the-art camouflage trucks — now they can't…
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He said, "Why? Why don't you see elephants hiding in trees? Why don't you see elephants hiding in trees?" And don't say it's because they can't climb the trees or they're too big or the branches will break. That's not the answer. The answer is why you don't see elephants hiding in trees. Because they're too good at hiding. That's why you never see them. They're very good hiders. Just like the story of the the US Army who brought the state-of-the-art camouflage trucks. Now they can't find them where they park them.
- 'You ordained to forget'Story · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Visiting Ajahn Juin, a famous old Thai monk at the top-hat-shaped mountain monastery Phu Tok, Ajahn Brahm hears a Bangkok lady ask him, 'Did you become a monk because you had a…
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there is a monk called...Ajahn Juin. He was one of the old Thai monks who lived in this beautiful monastery "~Phu ~Top". It's like a top hat mountain and some of the Thai people know him and I - I mean he was a very famous monk at that time - I went to visit him and this lady came from Bangkok and asked this monk, "Did you become a monk,because you had a failed love affair?" He said, "No, of course not." She said, "Ha, that makes sense, you ordained to forget and you have forgotten by now."