Stories about pocket money
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about pocket money from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Dad always lost at cards on purposeStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Poor though he was, his father gave pocket money by playing cards with the boys and always losing on purpose — so they spent an hour or two with him and left with the money. The…
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where we got our pocket money from we used to play little games of cards you know for money you know it was gambling but he would always lose he'd always lose on purpose cuz you know we knew I know from my brother and I that's the way we get our pocket money we'd have to spend an hour or two with our dad you know playing cards and we'd always win he'd always lose every time and we'd love that CU we know it was only fun in games it wasn't I and he know he always lost on purpose cuz that was the way he'd give his kids pocket money but we'd have to spend an hour or two of his of our time with him as well I love those occasions so it wasn't just okay here's know $10 or $20 it was actually spending time with our dad and then we got the money that's a beautiful thing thing to do and you know there the money wasn't that important it was important to me as a kid but what's really important was actually spending time with your mom and dad
- I know your little secretJoke · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: A boy learns a pocket-money trick: tell sister 'I know your little secret' and collect $20; try Mum for $50; Dad for $100. Monday morning he tries the milkman — who puts down the…
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there this one kid oh he was always having a hard time getting money from his parents you know for for pocket money so he talked about it with his friend his friend said look I've got this amazing trick it works every time so he told him the trick and that evening when he came home from school he went out to his sister he looked her in the eye and he told his sister I know your little secret he was making up he didn't know anything but his sister didn't know she said oh my God you don't do you said sister said how much he said $20 so sister gave him $20 but don't tell Mom and Dad okay I won't tell Mom and Dad he said it works so you can go out to anybody and say I know your little secret and they get so embarrassed how much 20 bucks so it worked so it worked so well the next day he tried it on his mom he went out to his mom and said Mommy I heard at school about your little secret you didn't please don't tell Daddy 50 bucks mom so he gave 50 bucks to his kid and of course on the weekend went up to Daddy found daddy alone and said Daddy I know your little secret too oh my God who told you we know everything at school sons of other people and daughters you know they we talk oh my God please don't tell Mommy 100 bucks and so his father had it over 100 bucks and thinking somebody else on a Monday morning just on the way to school he saw the Milkman so he went up to the Milkman who delivered milk and said Milkman I know your little secret and the Milkman put down the milk and said Son okay