Stories about noise
3 Buddhist wisdom stories about noise from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Hay Street Mall — two hours outside Time ZoneStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Years ago Ajahn Brahm sat two hours on the cold pavement of Hay Street Mall right in front of a noisy Time Zone arcade, no cushion, testing whether he could do what he taught:…
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Hay Street mouth many years ago and hey Street mile we met it sat down on the cold pavement no cushions about for two hours as right in front of a shop called time zone and that was really noisy but I wanted to test out what I told others can you do yourself and of course that was wonderful you could I'm not honest so you could do that it's not that hard we imagine a bubble around you and you're in that bubble and the sounds are kind of outside they're not in your space you can hear the sounds but you don't listen to them listen to them what's that song what they saying what they're doing if you don't give them attention and importance then they are just a different type of sound they're just noise at a distance but they don't really affect you and they don't disturb you
- Three-day village parties with petrol generatorsStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: As a young monk in rural Thailand he learns old parties ran for three days: when people tired they slept where they fell, woke, and danced again — with petrol generators and huge…
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when I was a monk in Thailand now the old Tha culture you know was very down to earth and when they had a party not like these days a party you maybe start at 8:00 you finish by 1 these went on for 3 days and it's absolutely true once you know they got tired they went to sleep when they woke up they started again so know three-day continuous party now that was great fun for them but you know our monit was only about a kilometer kilometer and a half from the village so when they had a party we heard it now there was no electricity in those days but they had these petrol gener petrol generators
- You disturb the noiseAnalogy · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Ajahn Chah's line via Brahm: it is not the children's noise that disturbs you — you disturb the noise. People are noisy; make peace with it when you cannot change it.
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it's not the noise of the children disturbs you you disturb the noise of the children that's what children do children make noise husbands you know keep on saying I'll do it tomorrow darling wives there's a nature of this world people make noise and this person from Malaysia I probably got somebody else over here and it's actually not tonight they've probably from your house they probably asked the same question how do I live with a noisy annoying and noisy people because you're probably annoying and noisy as well as the other people are we always think it's somebody else is a problem don't we they're noisy with everything I'm noisy we always said this happens you know when on my Retreats which I do over in China Grove is a room this Cottage with six people and someone says can you please tell people not to snore in the Cottages and then the other people also say can you tell people not to snow we never think we snow it's other people snoring but we snore as well so live with annoying and noise in people welcome to the world people are annoying and they are noisy and you're one of them and I'm one of them as well I'm sure I'm very annoying telling the same old jokes every week and very annoying noisy so how you do tolerance self in yourself and don't disturb the noise if there's something you can do do it if there's nothing you can do just make peace with it it was amazing just how you can make peace even in noisy environments