A FEW months ago, I read one of Ajahn Brahm’s short stories from his book Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung? and it got me thinking about “pain”. Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera (also known as Ajahn Brahm or Peter Betts), studied at Cambridge and later became a Buddhist monk. He believes that the difference between a happy person and a depressed one is how we respond to difficulties and disasters in our life.
His story starts by asking us to imagine being out and returning home to find a huge truckload of manure (dung!) left in front of your home’s entrance. The dung is awfully filthy and stinks your whole house. And worse, you have no idea why this manure is in your front porch. You are stuck with it!
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