Stories about teasing
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about teasing from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Teased on the Charles Street busStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: In the early Perth days people mock his robes: 'women's clothes', 'Hare Krishna', 'get a proper job'. On a bus down Charles Street some young men tease him, so he gives as good…
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And I remember going on a bus once and just uh down Charles Street. Uh and then somebody started teasing me. And so I said I'd go and give as good as I got. I said, "You know, you got long hair. You're like a girl. You should shave all off like me." And as soon as I started fighting back, the other guys they got really embarrassed. And the reason was because I was not going to get embarrassed. I was not going to be controlled. I was going to sort of have some fun.
- 'We'll never forget you'Story · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: The day after giving a talk at Mercedes College, a girls' school next to the Catholic cathedral in Perth, Ajahn Brahm is walking down St George's Terrace when two of the girls…
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there was Mercedes Girls School. Is it still girls school or is it co-ed now? girls still girls cuz I I will never forget that school one I did give a talk there once it's what's fascinating being a monk go to all sorts of places to give talks so I went into the to give a talk and the next day I was walking down St. George's Terrace. I forget exactly what I was doing, what business I was attending to, but then a couple of the girls came past me and they said, "Oh, you're the monk who gave a talk at our school yesterday." And I said to them, "Wow, I'm surprised you remembered me." And they replied by saying, "We'll never forget you." Ah, that's so kind. And then they said, "We'll never forget you." How can you ever forget a monk called Ajan Bra, the teenage girls trying to trying to tease you and instead of getting upset, I said, "Thank you." And I've repeated that story so many times. I'm glad that they gave me that extra uh material for my Friday night talks.