Stories about monastery founding
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about monastery founding from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- A free cup of coffee found BodhinyanaStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Looking for monastery land and finding nothing suitable, Ajahn Jagaro wants coffee. They stop again at the Byford real-estate agent Charles Orlando, who gives them a free cup. A…
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Just Bodhinyana Monastery. Just going there was actually this is I'm a bit of a hypocrite here, cuz this was just on on a cup of coffee, because we're looking at places to buy land. Where's Dennis? Is he gone? Where's Ben? Oh, he was he was there at the time. Looking for some land to buy get a monastery, and we couldn't find anything. Everything was just too expensive, or impossible, or were not appropriate. And then on the way back, looking down south, he's over there. Hi, Dennis. Yeah, he knows this story. Coming back, we just uh my fellow monk at the time, Ajahn Jagaro, he said, "I feel like a cup of coffee." Anyone in business, please remember this. Because previously, the real estate agent in Byford, he stopped there, and he gave him a free cup of coffee. So, we decided just to to stop for a free cup of coffee. Cuz the guy, Charles, I remember his name, Charles Orlando. And he gave us a free cup of coffee. Again, second time. We were you know, we were just basically not looking anymore, fed up for the day. And there was a guy in the back said, "Oh, I remember I remember in the back of Serpentine somewhere, there's a big property, but the owner couldn't sell it. No one wanted it." And of course, that is now Bodhinyana Monastery.
- Chanting brought the Dhammasara price downStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Looking at a noisy 38-acre option for the nuns, they notice a 583-acre property of solitude nearby. Against the fear they cannot afford it, they look anyway. An hour before the…
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You know, about Dhammasara, the container on Sunday, that place. Again, Bianca, she's not here this evening, with her partner Ron, going down Kitchigano, there was that 38-acre property. And just went down there, and he was No, come on. You know, you can't treat nuns like that. It's a small little place, really noisy. But on the way there, there was another property, 583 acres of solitude. And I said, "Let's have a look." I said, "No, no way. We can't afford that. 30 acres is way above our" "No, let's have a look. It doesn't cost anything to look." And of course, you know, eventually we bought it. That's Dhammasara. We don't know how that happened. I went in there with another monk an hour before. We really did some chanting. We really laid it on thick. Powerful super chanting to try to get the price down. And it worked. We got it. Now, don't you try that if you're trying to buy a house or a property. Don't invite the monks first of all, please.