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Karen Jade @k_krist (138) • Denmark 6 Jun

What’s a time your intuition screamed at you to change your mind, and you were incredibly glad you listened? I know everyone had this unexplainable gut feeling which turned out to be completely right. Can you share your...

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Premonition of Death: Is it a Gift?

Shavkat @Shavkat (141906) • Philippines 6 Mar

I do not know about you, guys. Through the years of my existence, I had observed and experienced that death is coming to someone or people close to my heart. It must be weird to think about it, but it does happen. For me, you can...

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When MyLot was down I was Up

APARAJITA BHATTACHARJEE @mytunemagic (273) 12 Feb

I had a tremendous urge to write something over here, the other day. But the site didn't open. I wondered and then worried about the internet fiction doing the rounds. Switched on to swap roles to rest my restless mind. The other...

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What is the matter with me …..no sleep again ! And weird dreams !

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11265) • United Kingdom 29 Jan

For the third night running I have had a bad night. Couldn’t get to sleep, when I did eventually drift away I had weird dreams or nightmares ! Last night I didn’t get to sleep til I heard my Mom getting up ! That was around 6.30...

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Zen tale: What is a Zen koan?

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 11 Jan

The old Zen master had been asked to create a new koan, for the 50th anniversary of his holding the mastership, there at his monastery. He simply said quickly, without thinking about it. "When is a koan a koan? and...

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Zen story: Stop carrying rocks in your head, but carrying a stone in your pocket, is ok

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 10 Dec

The old Zen master posed this simple question to his students: "When is a stone a rock?" to test their understanding of the Zen mind. And no one, of course, knew his answer, so the master replied, "When the...

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Short story: A zen master talks on love

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 7 Oct

[i]The old Zen master, Grotley Resposki, was waxing lyrical about love, as he had worked with the minds of his students, over the years, but still, most of them, still were missing an essential element in their development as...

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My Memory

celticeagle @celticeagle (189796) • Boise, Idaho 1 Aug

I must admit I worry about Alzheimers and memory loss. My paternal grandmother , I believe, had this and so it scares me. I am 73 and going to turn 74 in a little over 3 months. I have a terrible memory. But I am finding through...

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He Lost Himself

Shavkat @Shavkat (141906) • Philippines 27 Jul

I visited and slept at my aunt's house the day before today. I felt bad that her neighbor hanged himself and ended his life. According to hearsay, he was asking for some money from his friends, but no one gave any to him. I...

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Short story: The demented Zen master

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 16 Jul

The old Zen master, Artop Freskoski, was already old and feeble, but now he was suffering from dementia too. He was thoughtful about this condition, wondering if it would affect his enlightenment too. [b]He had been...

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Mind and body works in tandem

Always smiling @allknowing (153544) • India 4 Jul

I have noticed that. If I have something in my mind that bothers me I get aches and pains all over. And if I am physically unwell the mind gets affected. That is exactly what is happening to me . I have a few unsettled issues...

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Zen story: The role of the Zen master

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 28 Jun

The Zen master, Artrep Plerposki, was telling his students about the true role of a Zen master to his students. He said: [b]"A Zen master nurtures the soul of their student, as a quick accented inspiration, brought about...

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Short story: Stay away from contention of any sort

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 31 May 25

[i]The old Zen master, Artrop Verboxki, had been the Zen master for the last fifteen years, of the Longarc Zen Monastery, after the mantle was passed onto him by the last master, who had died, but not before picking his next...

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Feeling Tired

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50140) • India 28 May 25

Today I'm feeling tired. Don't feel like doing anything. I have shut the store and am trying to respond to as many discussions as possible. But my mind is refusing to do anything including interacting here on mylot. It is not...

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Zen story: When is enlightenment not enlightenment? When its delusion!

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 7 May 25

The Zen master was eating a meal of fish, when a student asked him, why are you not a vegetarian, a man of your stage of enlightenment? The Zen master replied simply: "Diet is more of the body than of the soul."...

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Short story: A crooked mind leads us nowhere. A straight heart takes us to God.

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 18 Apr 25

The New Age guru, Sri Anton Gertzlov, was talking to a Priest about how life works. He claimed that the Universe itself looks out for people, looking after them, and bringing them all that they need. The Universe...

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Do we feel more tired because of our mind or because of our body?

Anish Asokan @RevivedWarrior (3853) • India 13 Feb 25

When I was a kid, I used to get tired only after my physical activities. As I grew up, a bit of mental exhaustion did come into play but then it was a combination of physical nad mental exhaustion as well. These days, however I...

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Short story: Ridding ourselves of doubt

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 10 Feb 25

Pastor, Ruffy Gornish, was chatting to a parishioner about doubts, after the man had expressed his doubts about God to the pastor. Here are the words given in reply by the pastor that Sunday morning, after his sermon that...

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Short story: The knowing heart

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 3 Feb 25

The Spiritual master, Sri Kotan Zerskoski, was distinguishing to his students about the heart, and the mind. He said that the thinking mind does not really know reality, and only the knowing heart knows the true reality...

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The ego, life, and love

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 26 Jan 25

We should not try to destroy our ego, but to work with it. Our ego is a part of who we are. Our total person includes our ego. We need to connect our ego to our soul, rather than to our mind, and so instead of...

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