Stories about stigma
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about stigma from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- “It was only two murders”Story · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: A prisoner near the end of his sentence reads about the two bad bricks and goes around saying of himself, “It was only two murders.” Ajahn Brahm respects him: he's honest, and…
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i really respect this man he was one of the prisoners coming towards the end of his sentence over incarnate and i don't go to carnot anymore but many other monks do one of our monks will be there this evening to eat in the meditation group incarnate but this guy has been going around saying because he read my book and he heard about the two bad bricks and he goes around saying it was only two murders and good on him i don't know why you laughed there but good on him what else has he done in his life a lot of good things there's only two murders he's being honest
- The framed man who couldn't face the publicStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: A Buddhist jailed for murder, who had read Ajahn Brahm's books inside, is freed after a journalist shows he was framed. He comes to a few talks but is so embarrassed at being…
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i remember some years ago there was a he he was put in jail for about 40 50 years i think for murder and eventually that one of the journalists took up his case found out he was framed he was released he was also a buddhist he actually would ask for books from us and listen to the talk so after he was released he actually came here and listened to a few talks but he said that he was so embarrassed being out in public because he was like a famous person and because of that he eventually decided better to go to back to england where you know they wouldn't know him