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The 108 stories in "Who Ordered this Truckload of Dung? offer thoughtful commentary on everything from love and commitment to fear and pain. Drawing from his own life experience, as well as traditional Buddhist folk tales, author Ajahn Brahm uses over 30 years of spiritual growth as a monk to spin delightful tales that can be enjoyed in silence or read aloud to friends and family. Featuring titles such as "The Two-Finger Smile" and "The Worm and His Lovely Pile of Dung," these wry and witty stories provide playful, pithy takes on the basic building blocks of everyday like. Suitable for children, adults, and anyone in between, this eloquent volume wraps insight and inspiration inside of a good old yarn.
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| Preface | p. xvii |
| Perfection and guilt | |
| Two bad bricks | p. 3 |
| The temple garden | p. 7 |
| What's done is finished | p. 10 |
| The idiot's guide to peace of mind | p. 11 |
| Guilt and absolution | p. 14 |
| Criminal guilt | p. 16 |
| The class b kids | p. 18 |
| The child in the supermarket | p. 20 |
| We are all crims | p. 22 |
| Letting go of guilt, forever | p. 23 |
| Love and commitment | |
| Unconditional love | p. 27 |
| Opening the door of your heart | p. 29 |
| Marriage | p. 33 |
| Commitment | p. 34 |
| The chicken and the duck | p. 35 |
| Gratitude | p. 37 |
| Romance | p. 38 |
| True love | p. 40 |
| Fear and pain | |
| Freedom from fear | p. 45 |
| Predicting the future | p. 47 |
| Gambling | p. 49 |
| What is fear? | p. 51 |
| Fear of public speaking | p. 53 |
| Fear of pain | p. 57 |
| Letting go of pain | p. 60 |
| TM, or how to transcend-dental medication | p. 62 |
| No worries | p. 64 |
| Anger and forgiveness | |
| Anger | p. 71 |
| The trial | p. 73 |
| The retreat | p. 75 |
| The anger-eating demon | p. 79 |
| Right! that's it! I'm leaving! | p. 82 |
| How to stop an insurgency | p. 84 |
| Cooling off with forgiveness | p. 88 |
| Positive forgiveness | p. 90 |
| Creating happiness | |
| Flattery gets you everywhere | p. 95 |
| How to be a VIP | p. 97 |
| The two-finger smile | p. 99 |
| Priceless teachings | p. 101 |
| This too will pass | p. 103 |
| The heroic sacrifice | p. 105 |
| A truckload of dung | p. 106 |
| It's too much to hope for | p. 110 |
| Being a dustbin | p. 112 |
| Maybe it is fair! | p. 113 |
| Critical problems and their compassionate solutions | |
| The law of karma | p. 117 |
| Drinking tea when there's no way out | p. 119 |
| Going with the flow | p. 121 |
| Caught between a tiger and a snake | p. 123 |
| Give it everything you've got | p. 125 |
| Is there a problem? | p. 127 |
| Making decisions | p. 128 |
| Blaming others | p. 129 |
| The emperor's three questions | p. 131 |
| The cow that cried | p. 135 |
| The little girl and her friend | p. 139 |
| The snake, the mayor, and the monk | p. 141 |
| The bad snake | p. 144 |
| Wisdom and inner silence | |
| The wings of compassion | p. 149 |
| Caring for a son | p. 151 |
| What is wisdom? | p. 152 |
| Eating wisely | p. 154 |
| Solving the problem | p. 156 |
| Unwise listening | p. 158 |
| What wisdom is not | p. 159 |
| The danger of an open mouth | p. 161 |
| The talkative tortoise | p. 164 |
| Free speech | p. 167 |
| The mind and reality | |
| The exorcist | p. 171 |
| The biggest thing in the world | p. 173 |
| Searching for the mind | p. 175 |
| Science | p. 177 |
| The science of silence | p. 178 |
| Blind faith | p. 179 |
| Values and the spiritual life | |
| The most beautiful sound | p. 185 |
| What's in a name? | p. 187 |
| Pyramid power | p. 188 |
| Precious stones | p. 190 |
| Then i'll be happy | p. 192 |
| The mexican fisherman | p. 195 |
| When all my wishes were fulfilled | p. 197 |
| Freedom and humility | |
| Two kinds of freedom | p. 201 |
| Which type of freedom would you like? | p. 202 |
| The free world | p. 205 |
| A dinner with amnesty international | p. 207 |
| The dress code of a monk | p. 209 |
| Laughing at yourself | p. 211 |
| The dog that had the last laugh | p. 212 |
| Abuse and enlightenment | p. 214 |
| When i became enlightened | p. 217 |
| The road hog | p. 220 |
| Hare krishna | p. 221 |
| The hammer | p. 223 |
| Enjoying a joke at no one's expense | p. 225 |
| The idiot | p. 226 |
| Suffering and letting go | |
| Thinking about washing | p. 229 |
| A moving experience | p. 231 |
| Poor me, lucky them | p. 233 |
| Advice for when you are sick | p. 235 |
| What's wrong with being sick? | p. 237 |
| Visiting the sick | p. 239 |
| The lighter side of death | p. 241 |
| Grief, loss, and celebrating a life | p. 245 |
| Falling leaves | p. 248 |
| The ups and downs of death | p. 251 |
| The man with four wives | p. 253 |
| Cracking up | p. 255 |
| The worm and his lovely pile of dung | p. 257 |
| Notes | p. 261 |
| Index | p. 263 |
| About the author | p. 268 |
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ISBN: 9780861712786
ISBN-10: 0861712781
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 288
Published: 30th August 2005
Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 15.2
x 1.9
Weight (kg): 0.399
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