Stories about ritual
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about ritual from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Only keeping four precepts todayStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Back in Thailand after some years in Australia, Ajahn Brahm watches people take the five precepts with their hands raised. One man holds up four fingers. Asked why, he says he is…
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And the the other precepts story, this was when I I've been over in Australia for a while. I went to Thailand. And all these Thai people, they're taking the five precepts, you know, they put your hands up like this. And I saw this guy, and it That's what they usually do, put their hands up like this. I saw him do this. I've never seen that before. And so I asked him after, "What does What does that mean?" You know, you're putting your hand up like this. He said, "Oh, I'm I'm only keeping four precepts today." You know, 1 2 3 4. They still chant all of them. And then that made me start to look. And yeah, sure enough, I saw somebody with two fingers They didn't tell me which precepts they were breaking.
- The broken pot of gheeAnalogy · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: The Buddha's simile, asked whether chanting for the dead helps them: break a clay pot of ghee over a lake — the clay sinks and the oil floats. If a monk stood on the bank…
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imagine this you take a pot of oil was actually ghee but ghee is a type of oil you take a clay pot of oil you take it to some sort of lake or Pond and you break it over that Lake then what would happen the clay heavy part would go to the bottom and the oil will float to the surface then said the Buddha suppose that some Monk went to the side of that Lake and started praying or doing some chanting do you think because of that chanting that the the Shar s of clay will float to the surface and the oil will go down to the bottom of course not it's in just the same way that beings will go according to their karma when they die