Stories about Vietnam
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about Vietnam from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Guanyin came over the waves — then the British frigateStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Vietnamese boat people who reached Perth told him that at their most desperate — robbed by pirates, no money — they saw Guanyin coming over the waves, and right behind her a…
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Vietnamese boat people in those days when they sort of fled Vietnam and they just trusted their life you know to these rickety old boats sailing a huge distance to get to Australia such a long long long journey and most of them didn't make it. Some did. And I remember a lot of them they they told me that they were just know they were robbed by pirates. They had no money. They didn't know what they were going to do. They're going to make anywhere. And many of them I remember them. These are people I've talked to personally eventually ended up in Perth. They said that they had uh just almost losing it and they saw this image of the this they call it goddess of mercy Quanin coming over the the waves to them and they swore to me they actually saw it and then right behind this goddess of mercy Quanin they saw a a British frigot you know when Hong Kong was under the Brits sailing towards them to save them. Quan came first mobly leading the Brits to rescue rescue these poor refugees and of course then they got taken to Hong Kong and eventually settled over here in Australia
- The Vietnam monk who blessed both armiesStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: During the Vietnam War a monk receives government and communist soldiers alike for meditation and blessings; non-political goodness softens both sides.
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Vietnam during the Vietnam War and the government soldiers would come to his temple to meditate to listen to Dharma get blessings so at the Communists soldiers say to would come to his temple and receive blessings there's such a good monk he was respected by all his goodness was not political and they made both sides a little bit more tolerant and peaceful towards one another