Stories about luck
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about luck from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- “Put your hand under here”Story · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: A young builder from a poor family, renovating an old Perth house on stumps, hears a voice — with no one around — telling him to put his hand under the stumps just there. He…
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There's a couple of people who were really really strong supporters of this temple. They still are. I won't say who they are, but they were just a young couple, you know, just uh, you know, from poor families. And he was a bit of a builder. And he told me the way he got started in life, you know, with his wife, the way he got the money to actually put a deposit down for his first house was when he was doing some renovating in an old house somewhere here in Perth. Remember those old houses? You can still see them, you know, in North Perth in maybe sort of Vic Park, you know, on little stumps and the houses on top. As he was walking past alone, he heard very clearly someone say to him, "Put your hand under the under the um the stumps right here." And there was no one around. So he checked himself. Did I hear that? And it said it again. Put your hand under here. And he put the hand under the house where he heard the voice. And there he found an old tin. You know those old tins, you know, like they used to have tobacco tins or or biscuit tins. An old tin. And he drew it out and in there was full of cash. The previous owner of that house had been hiding his money there to know avoid paying taxes or whatever, but that was where he was stashing his cash. He died, but he wanted this guy to have a start in life. He was a very good man and he took that out and that's where he got the start in life.
- The lottery shop he blessedStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Asked to bless a friend-of-a-friend's new small business, a busy Ajahn Brahm gives it his full blessing without asking what it is. A year or two later the West Australian reports…
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this was of this blessing once a Friend of mine here. He said the friend of a friend one of the people who came here very often And he's moved out of Perth now. He said one of his friends was opening up a small business Can I come and bless the business for him and of course you know just a blessing is just just giving you extra energy? You know making you feel good Just like you know the your honor the grounds of the football stadium or the cricket pitch and you cheer on your team Just my father cheered me on when I was playing soccer that meant a lot to me that made lifted up my spirit So I decided to go and chant for this business But you know I do get very busy sometimes and sometimes I forget to ask what type of business is it and this was a lottery store I Won't say which which shopping center this was in but I went there just opening out first time and I Really gave it a big full blessing ajahn brahm superpower And it was only about a year later two years later. I read in the West Australian Saturday edition clue to get the Saturday paper here to find out what's going on and There was a big article about this the most successful lottery outlet in Australia And I realized oh my goodness the one that I blessed I better not bless anymore