Pauline Nguyen

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164 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 3 Feb

Pauline Nguyen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Do you know why Buddha sits on a lotus flower?

No, Dad.

Why does Buddha sit on a lotus flower?

There is nothing as beautiful as a lotus flower.

Out of watery chaos it grows, emerging from the depths of a muddy swamp and yet remains so pure and unpolluted by it.

So pure you can eat it, all of it.

the roots, the stems, the leaves, the seeds, the petals.

But the lotus flower has another characteristic.

Its stem you can easily bend, but you cannot easily break.

It has tenacious fibers that hold the plant together.

My children are lotus flowers.

You have grown out of the aftermath of war.

You have grown up in Cabramatta during its murkiest time.

And you have grown out of me.

I am mud.

I am dirt.

I am shit.

I am very lucky to have you all.

And with those words, my father gave me everything that I had been waiting over 20 years for.

He never gave me an apology.

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