Stories about pandemic
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about pandemic from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Newton's plague year was his most fruitfulStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Cambridge email during COVID notes the college last fully shut for plague in 1665–66. Isaac Newton left for Lincolnshire to isolate — and later called it one of the most fruitful…
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the previous time they'd shut down totally because of pandemics was during the plagues in the 17th century in 1665 and 1666. That plague just destroyed so many livelihoods. So they had to shut down the college and at that time one of the people at Emanuel no not at Emanuel he was at Trinity College but up at Cambridge University was a gentleman called Sir Isaac Newton and he had to leave the college and go up to Lincolnshire somewhere uh just uh to what we'd call these days socially isolate and that while he was there in his his notes He said this was one of the most fruitful intellectual times of his life. Many of his great discoveries would obviously have happened there when he was away by himself alone
- Why ants don't get COVIDJoke · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Why don't ants get COVID? Because they've got antibodies.
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Did I tell the ant joke last week? Last time I was here. You know why ants [snorts] don't get CO? Cuz they got antibodies. Okay, enough [laughter] of that. So, thank you for listening. Now, are there any questions either from the internet or from the floor