Stories about teacher
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about teacher from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Ajahn Chah: you're leaving in two hoursStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Training under Ajahn Chah, a peaceful monastery stay could end with him saying you are going to another monastery — not next week, in two hours — with no chance to prepare.
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I was brought up like that by my teacher ajanta you know you never knew what he was going to do next you never knew where you're going to stay next I was telling this to the monks you'd be happy in a monastery just meditating nice and peaceful and then agent child my teacher would this is how we were trying to come up to you and say oh you're going to the other part of time I'm sending you to another Monastery I'll say well next week no two hours and before I knew it I was in another Monastery the other side of Thailand it had no possibility of preparing yourself you had to be totally open to anything happening totally prepared for the unexpected
- Mango orchard planted by the BuddhaAnalogy · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: First-year monk puzzled — no mango trees at Wat Pah Pong. Ajahn Chah: the monastery is a mango orchard planted by the Buddha himself, trees full of ripe sweet mangoes. Brahm…
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Wat Pah Pong was a mango orchard." I remember this simile the first year when I became a monk and stayed with him. I didn't see any mango trees in Wat Pah Pong in those days. I said, "What is wrong? There's no mango trees in Ajahn Chah's monastery." And he said, "This is a metaphor. There are so many mango trees in Ajahn Chah's monastery and they've all been planted by the Buddha himself. This is getting weird. Cuz the Buddha actually never visited Thailand. And would the Buddha actually go to this this forest in the northeast of Thailand and not other places? So anyway, he carried on. It was planted by the Buddha. And now all of those mango trees which the Buddha planted and now full of ripe sweet mangoes. And I got interested because I don't know about you, but I love the mangoes in the northeast of Thailand. They were really tasty. And there was something which you could eat when the only alternative was to eat things like frogs. Honestly. That was often part of the meal for the day. One meal of the day, frogs and sticky rice. But in the mango season, you had these beautiful delicious mangoes. So anyway, when I heard there were mangoes in Wat Pah Pong planted by the Buddha according to Ajahn Chah's statement, I thought I'd like to try some of those. And then they were delicious. But then I realized what Ajahn Chah actually was saying. What he was saying was the mangoes, they represent the wisdom of the Buddha