Stories about rumour
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about rumour from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Ajahn Chah pushed their car out of the mudStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Devotees stuck in mud meet a forest monk who helps push the car out — it is Ajahn Chah. Later the story mutates into 'we've seen his psychic powers' even though the helper was…
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pushed their car out of the mud now that's a humble monk who doesn't mind getting wet who can actually help other people doesn't matter if you're a big monk or big abber you can push the car and get mud and wet and soaked that's what a real is they were very very impressed of the real compassion of a monk so they didn't need to get wet but then it was only about couple hundred meters to the hall where they get to give the talk and there they saw a and sha sitting there completely dry not a speck of mud on him and they thought wow a Char left his body or made a double body like in The Matrix and actually pushed our car out out of compassion not only is it compassion this guy's got psychic powers we've seen it
- It was only a coughStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Ajahn Brahm coughs; within days the rumour spreads that he is dying of some terrible disease and people ask whether it is terminal. It was only a cough.
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I just coughed I think a couple of weeks ago and the word got around that I was dying I had some terrible disease and they started asking me is that brah going to live or is it terminal it was only a cough for goodness sake so I've got to be very careful but my mom is okay