Stories about England
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about England from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- The Norwich priest who bit off a saint's fingerStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: A Norwich priest visiting a highly guarded saint's corpse in Europe bites off a finger, hides it in his mouth, and brings the relic home — later made a saint himself because the…
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priest from Norwich in England and he went to visit one of these saints over in Europe somewhere. It was high security there because if you had the relics, you had a lot of money. He this corpse was very old. this uh priest bit off the finger and hid it in his mouth. That's really weird. But he brought it back to the city of Norwich in England. And he was just made a saint himself cuz that brought so much uh business into the town of Norwich. And he made him a saint eventually had a big cathedral there simply because he broke the law and bit off a finger of a of a saint
- What do people drink in England? Grey teaJoke · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Winter England gag: sky, buildings, coats all grey — punchline grey tea; stiff upper lip is just frozen weather.
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everything is gray and you know the punchline of this joke what do people drink in England oh Gray tea it's all gray no wonder people get depressed and it is a depressing time of the year can I remember that and that's why you know they say the British have got a stiff upper lip that's not voluntary it's just Frozen