Stories about vocation
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about vocation from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Ajahn Chah plays at being a monkStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Asked why he ordained, Ajahn Chah tells how, as a poor village boy in north-east Thailand with no toys, games or TV, the children made up games — football, playing houses,…
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remember the time when someone asked him why did you ordained ajahn Chah and yeah snow why did I join shall become a month you know the answer he said that when he was a kid in the villages of Northeast Thailand no just an ordinary dish poor they didn't have any computer games or any games or TVs or radios they just make up games like kids do in poor places of the world so one of the guys when they fed up with playing football or they would play like houses they play monks so one of the kids would volunteer to be the monk and said a giant child always volunteer to play the monk and what he would do he would find a rock he would sit on the rock he get some ground cloth around him and you sit there on the rock but it was only about four or five at the time and he'd ask all his friends to go get him something to eat we said ever since that's hot he always want to become a buck when he grew up
- He offered me a job at the Melbourne Comedy ClubStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: After a Melbourne talk a TV comedian came up and said he could get Brahm a job at the Melbourne Comedy Club. Brahm declined — he'd keep his day job as a monk. Nested in a Robin…
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I gave a talk over in in Melbourne a few years ago and one of the people in the audience was a professional comedian who goes on TV I forget what his name was now he came up to me afterwards and said I think I can get you a job in the Melbourne Comedy Club he actually offered me a job so I could have become a comedian but I said no no I'll keep my day job as a muck