Stories about study
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about study from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- She never went to lectures and scored near-perfectStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: A Sri Lankan woman in Melbourne did a medical degree without tutorials or lectures — reading with a quiet meditative mind she remembered perfectly and scored near-perfect exams.…
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she went to university to do a medical degree and she never went to any tutorials. She never went to any lectures. She read the books and she could read them so so well that she had so much free time. She never went to university lectures or tutorials supervisions and she always got like almost perfect scores in every exam. She had the great ability to be able to read something and remember it perfectly. All of you kids who have to go to school and you have to have all this homework, you have to read this and read that and remember so much. Isn't that a bit of a pain? Do you enjoy doing that studying and homework? How many kids here enjoy doing homework? There's a few kids here. But this lady, she would just read with a quiet mind. She was a great meditator because she read with a quiet great mindfulness, great peace. Whatever she read, it went straight in. She didn't try to remember it. It was recorded. It's just like people who have memories of traumas in life. When you remember the things which you can't forget, why is it that they are almost indelibly ingrained into your mind? The reason is because at that time often it's because of danger or fear but other times it's other things which are happening. You're perfectly still. There's no static coming in. There's no noise and you can remember so easily. And there's a few times in my life you can remember so easily what was said, when it was said, how it was said. And I remember just how you could use uh experiences like that to do well at school without any effort. You didn't have to try to remember things. You just sat and read. You can remember the whole lot easily
- Top of medicine by being silentStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: A woman tells Ajahn Brahm she came top every year in medicine at Melbourne University with first-class honours because she knew how to meditate: she kept her mind silent in…
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One girl who told me she did medicine at Melbourne University top every year, first class honours because she knew how to meditate and be silent when the lecturer was speaking. Exams came make her mind absolutely silent, read the question in silence first thought which came up in her mind wrote it down, perfect answer.