Stories about publishing
3 Buddhist wisdom stories about publishing from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Hahayana — the book title that stuckStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Idea for a joke book combining Hinayana/Mahayana/Vajrayana into Hahayana — title first, book maybe never; the laugh is the teaching.
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a combination of uh Hinayana, Mahayana, and Vajrayana, which became Hahayana, yes. Hahayana Buddhist teachings of Ajahn Brahm. [laughter] And then I've never got that far, but never mind
- Magnolia Flora took the CDStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: After a Melbourne University talk, publisher Magnolia Flora offers to publish; Brahm pulls a freshly typed CD of his stories from his bag — Opening the Door of Your Heart begins.…
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I still remember this lady came up to me after the talk and said, "That was a very good talk. I work in the publishing industry. If ever you want any of those uh talks published, please let me know. And all I did next, and this is no exaggeration, I reached into my bag, this bag or similar one, and I took out a CD. So, here you go. And that's opening the door of your heart. I still remember her name because she had this wonderful name, Magnolia Flora
- Opened the Door of the Heart — in the medical sectionStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Adelaide friends hunt his book; self-help clerk joke; they find Opened the Door of the Heart shelved in medical — someone thought heart surgery. He is proud.
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Bookshop and they say where is the section on self-help books and the person behind the counter said if I told you it would defeat the purpose cell phone so there we go the guy sort of looking for the book and they eventually found it it was in the medical section so somebody saw it opened the door of the heart they thought it was heart surgery so they bumped it in the medical section true story I was very proud of that