Stories about seeking
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about seeking from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Looking for matches by candlelightAnalogy · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Analogy: a man has rice, water and wood but hunts for matches — by the light of a candle already burning in his hand. If he knew what fire was, dinner would be ready.
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cooking his rice in the evening for dinner. He had the rice and water in the pot. He had the the wood underneath the pot, [snorts] but he couldn't find the matches to light the wood. He was looking for the matches. Where did I put the matches? You know what he was looking for the matches with? With a candle. Where's the matches? I can't find the matches. If he only knew what fire was
- The tadpole who studied waterAnalogy · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Analogy: intelligent tadpole goes to school and university and even becomes a nun studying the chemical composition of water — while already swimming in it.
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little tadpole and she was born in this wonderful lake she was a very intelligent tadpole and she went to school and she went to university and she even became a nun this little tadpole and at university she learned all about water now this chemical composition or what it does and when she was an Angie even studied the abbe de mer on water what its nature was but even the socio is one of the highly most intelligent tadpoles in the whole lake and she had a PhD in hydraulics could the little tadpole understand what water really was no more than a fish could understand what water is