Stories about modern life
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about modern life from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- The noisy airport prayer roomStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Delighted to find a meditation and prayer room at Perth Airport, Ajahn Brahm sits down to meditate — and the room is filled with security warnings, passenger pages and boarding…
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I once went into one of the chapels and meditation rooms in the airport to try and get a bit of peace and quietness to do some meditation. Of course after only about 30 seconds "please do not leave your bags unattended paging Mr. so and so, your flight is about to board' and all these other announcements which were going on in the quiet room as there's noises anywhere else.
- The young people's biggest problem: tirednessStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: At an afternoon youth seminar in Malaysia for about 200 people aged 15 to 25, the participants wrote their biggest emotional problem on slips of paper. Ajahn Brahm expected…
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I was invited to spend the day at a youth seminar in Kuala Lumpur, it's a very interesting occassion, about 400-500 young people 15-25, doing all sorts of interesting stuff, one of the things they were doing is that they asked all the people there, what is your most difficult emotion as 15-25 year old, mostly Chinese Buddhists over in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. What do you find most difficult of all in life? And the answer which came up was tiredness. I never expected that before