Stories about success
3 Buddhist wisdom stories about success from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Number one, above Harry PotterStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: In the Gramedia bookshop in Jakarta he is shown the top-ten bestsellers: number two is Harry Potter, number one is the Indonesian edition of his first book — he has a photo — and…
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So in Indonesia - and in the Gramedia bookshop in Jakarta, I remember going there, they said: ‘Oh, your book's on sale here’. Oh, let's see how it's going. And they had – you know how they do have in bookshops, 10 best sellers, number two was Harry Potter. Number one was – [moves head] [laughter] It's true! My first book. I’ve got a photo of it somewhere. They didn't just change the order just to take the photograph, then changed it back again - it was true. [laughter] And even - I don’t know if you’ve seen that, Indonesians here, in that bookshop, they even had a cardboard cut-out of me, for advertising. I didn't believe that, because you go in a bookshop, you’re just looking for books, and there's me. "What am I doing over there?" It's a cardboard replica of me
- The great physicist standing alone at dinnerStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: When Roger Penrose visits Perth, Ajahn Brahm and the Society's president join a dinner with NASA scientists and physics professors. Everyone chats happily — even the monk — while…
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one of the people which we met here, with Dennis, our president, Roger Penrose came into town some years ago and he's Mr. Black Hole. He's the guy who discovered black holes. So Roger Penrose, one of the greatest physicists of our age, probably up there with Stephen Hawkins. And he came and Dennis our president, so we went to have dinner with him. And, cause I'm well connected with the physicists over here. It's actually, it's really amazing, this dinner, all the other people there, they were sort of from, they were NASA, they were professor of Physics from all over the place, and I was only, sort of, the Buddhist monk [laughter] or anyone from religion which actually shows just how Buddhism and even just elite Physics, we can actually melt together. But you even look at this person who was so brilliant in his field but you couldn't have a conversation with him. And do you remember this Dennis? We were all just talking with each other, even I was just chatting about all sorts of stuff with these people from NASA and he was actually standing by himself, no one was talking with him. I was wondering that he is brilliant in front of the lecture theatre, apparently, he's brilliant, you know, on a piece of paper but he hasn't got his life together.
- The promotion won with three questionsStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: A Penang disciple working in customer relations at a big firm puts the emperor's three questions into practice: whoever is in front of her — boss, customer or co-worker — is the…
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there was one of the disciples from pinang a couple of years ago she heard that story and she put it in her through her life and custom relations and she was in a big firm in pinang and she came up to tell me with great Glee that she applied for a promotion a prestigious promotion she had 100 150 other people applying for that job she got it and she said she got it because she used the emess three questions whenever she was in customer relations whoever was in front of her whether it was her boss a customer or a coworker they were the most important person in the world for her now was the most important time and she cared she cared for this person they felt it