Stories about Thai forest tradition
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about Thai forest tradition from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- The monk who stopped the bus by thinkingStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: A forest monk visiting Ubon rides a bus for the first time and wonders how an engine works; as soon as he thinks about the motor it stops, and when he stops thinking it runs…
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There's one of the the forest monks a good meditator. It's a first time when he was visiting the town of Ubon. That's you know where I grew up as a monk. He was visiting Ubon and he went into a bus for the first time in his life. This was many years ago. And then he started thinking I wonder how a bus works. internal combustion engine. He never gone to school and seen diagrams of internal combustion engines. I wonder how it works. And so he started thinking about the motor. As soon as he started thinking about it, the motor stopped. It wouldn't work. And so he stopped thinking about it and it worked again. He said, "It's really weird." And then he thought about it again and it stopped. He was actually interfering with the firing of the car. But that became such a well-known story in that part of the world that when Ajent char got on an aircraft to go to London, people said to him, "Please don't think about how this aircraft works. You must stop the engine. They were all dead.
- The unidentified flying monkStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: A famous monk in the north of Thailand became famous because a Thai Air Force fighter pilot, flying high above the clouds, saw a monk levitating on a cloud. The pilot memorised…
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there was this famous monk close by and there's always amazing monks which I I met this Monk and I don't doubt this story he became famous this was in the north of Thailand because a a fighter jet pilot in the Thai um Air Force oh okay that's not much of a siren you can do better than that anyway this Thai um the Air Force guy was flying you know I don't know how many hundred thousand feet through the clouds and he was really amazed because on sitting on one of the clouds was a monk he caught the monk levitating they were supposed to be doing that privately but you know without getting caught but you know because he didn't expect to see a fighter jet pilot up there quiet place above the jungle he got caught out and so the fighter jet party could recognize him you don't often see see unidentified flying Monks at 30 30 000 feet and there was one so he recognized the um the face and he knew the location the coordinates and so when he landed when he had a day off he went looking for the unidentified flying Monk and I found him exactly as he saw him in the uh found exactly as he found him in the uh the cloud it looks exactly the same and that's where he got very famous and this monk when I was up in that area he said is going to be the biggest fireworks today ever this year and that meant nuclear Holocaust so I was told it's by one of the monks you better meditate really well because this is your last chance and it never happened I was really disappointed with that Monk