Stories about mistaken identity
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about mistaken identity from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Hey Hare Krishna — and he was oneStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Shopping with his mother on Ealing Broadway, someone shouts 'Hey Hare Krishna!' Embarrassed for mum, he educates the beanie-wearing heckler that he is a Buddhist monk — then the…
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somebody shouted out hey Harry Krishna nah you know they know that you know many years ago they don't know what a Buddhist monk is and they just think they're all the same so my mum was with me I said okay look Mom I'm not having this I've got to educate this person this person is wearing a beanie in a sort of you know a coat because it was cold and I went out to him and said excuse me sir I am not Harry Krishna I'm a Buddhist monk okay you should know better and he listened quite patiently and smiled and then he lifted off his beanie had a little ponytail at the back and said I know you were Buddhist monk I'm Harry Kushner Harry Krishna
- 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