Stories about Perth
3 Buddhist wisdom stories about Perth from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Fremantle just won — Dopey must be aliveJoke · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Snow White finds a mine collapse; silence to 'are you okay?' Then she tries 'Fremantle just won the Grand Final' — one dwarf yells yay. At least Dopey is alive.
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Snow White was making lunch for the Seven Dwarfs and once she finished making the lunch and she took it to the the mine you know they were mining diamonds or whatever dwarfs to and when she got to the the entrance of the mines she saw the being a a collapse in the mine accident there's rocks and dust all over the place so it's really concerned for the dwarves are you okay in there it was silence are you alive there was silence so she tried another tax she said free man sort of just won the Grand Final and one of the dwarves said yay and she said well at least that Dopey is alive
- Interviewed on shipping because he had nothing to doStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: At a transport conference with minister Alannah MacTiernan he skips the late lunch; a reporter interviews him on shipping simply because he is hanging around doing nothing —…
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Allana Martina was the Transport Minister, I got to know her quite well and had a "the community conference on transport" or something. And at lunchtime they all went out for lunch but it was too late for me so I was hanging around there so a reporter came up to me and interviewed me because I was doing nothing so, yeah I'll do an interview for you and it was on shipping! (laughter from the audience) That's another theme which I am an expert on you know, my background theoretical physics and then becoming a monk I was a teacher for a while but he was interviewing me on the benefit of shipping as the main means of transport. So I did this interview for him and he came up to me about six months later just to tell me the results of that interview, he said and I will always remember this. He said that interview was syndicated to all the major shipping magazines and journals in our whole world everywhere. Singapore, Hong Kong, London, New York, Buenos Aires. It went everywhere now he gave it the key title of Zen and the Art of Shipping by Ajahn Brahm
- The Triads offered to sort out any troubleStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: After a Friday talk a Chinese man says he is with the Perth Triads; Brahm is scared — then the man says the boss sent him because Brahm looks after the Chinese community: if you…
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I am a member of the Chinese Triads in Perth he said and I got very scared because these guys mean business and he said but don't get worried you know I know that you really look after the Chinese community in per so I've been told by the boss to come and see you if you have any trouble just contact us we'll sort it out