emptiness

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princessmarie @princessmarie (1121) • Philippines 10 Jun 23

Have you ever feel being empty? When you wake up in the morning you don't know that to do during the day? Most of the time I feel this being empty, broken & shattered, not feeling well, don't know what to do in the day. But, in...

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Short Story: The emptiness of emptiness is fullness

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 17 Apr 23

An old Zen master, Basao Cabuko, was seated cross-legged on a large flat boulder, in a large grassy field, meditating. The farmer, who owned the field, came up to the Zen master, and said to him: “Do you know where you...

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Short story: The Zen master zenned on in his zen, as nobody was yet ready to replace him from his monastery

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 15 Jan 23

The Zen master, Artrop Zerploski, had recently given a koan, constructed by himself, to his students to solve. The best answering student would be appointed as the new Zen master of the monastery, as he, Artrop, was...

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Short story: An accident led to a different type of fullness for Red Francis

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 18 May 22

The racing car driver, Red Francis, had had a car accident, and he was spending time recuperating in the hospital. He was reading a book on emptiness, written by a Zen master, called Ripzo Reposke. The book was named,...

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Short Story: Oneness, and love

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 8 Nov 21

The great Taoist master, Zhang Daoshsloi, was giving a lecture to some of his students on oneness, and its relationship to love. Here is what he said: [b]"Love is the only energy, and when any other separate entity to...

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Poetry: Vast emptiness

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 11 Oct 21

There was a vast emptiness, lost within my nothing. I had overfilled nothing, with sweet nothings, you see. Without God, I am nothing. With God, I am still nothing, [i]but I am actively...

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Poetry: Emptiness has a deeper meaning only to itself, in our self.

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 6 Apr 21

The lethargy of emptiness filled me up with itself. I lagged behind myself, never catching who I am as me. A deeper meaning of life has never found me, in me. No intercessory has been made whatever it be to be me. [i]I...

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Short story: The Zen master became depressed about his coming death

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 23 Dec 20

The great Zen master, Artruf Herploxke, was coming towards the end of his long life. Strangely enough, the idea of his coming death, depressed him. He had never been depressed in his life before. He realised that he was...

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Feeling alone

Kakungulu Brenda @Brenisekays (33) • Kampala, Uganda 16 Aug 20

Hello my people.. Do you sometimes get thoughts of feeling alone even when your around people?? Do you sometimes feel some emptiness in your life?? How do you deal with it??

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Poetry: A thought for today

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 16 Aug 20

The greatest thought is the thought not thought. The smallest love is the love not given. The biggest smile is the smile just smiled. The minutest life is the biggest life if it's yours. [b]The emptiest emptiness...

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Poetry: When does an empty life become full?

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 8 Jun 20

The emptiness of enduring a long unexplained life, while sliding along gingerly, on a long carving knife, while heading allegedly towards the ledge of God's hedge, trapped, wedged so tightly into myself, that l couldn't...

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Understanding does not come from words of understanding but from yourself.

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 13 May 20

Are words empty without understanding, or do they contain something extra of themselves? For example: "Is there a path that is in the world, but not of it?" "Is this not possible, because all paths have a...

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The emptiness of fullness compared to the fullness of emptiness

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 7 Apr 20

Rumi, that great Sufi poet, and mystic (1207 to 1273) profoundly stated, "Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots." But is he right? Can we search in the wrong place, or can...

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Zen tale: Nothing exists as nothing. Everything exists as everything. Truth has nothing to do with words.

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 10 Mar 20

Zoakin Teloy, was a long-time student of the old Zen master, Uiam Dulldopei. At the end of a long discourse, on emptiness, the master asked his assembled students, if they had any questions. Were they emptied of...

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Our thoughts, our mind, and our soul. Are any of these the real us, or not?

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 17 Dec 19

I have heard it said that our mind is undisciplined, and largely runs free of us, whoever we are. Our mind is a tool that we have trouble controlling then, but who is this we, and why is our mind like this? Who gave us such a...

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Poetry: My soul was weathered hard by the Earth, until I stood hard in God.

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 24 Nov 19

The wind washed away my stripes. The water winded me with itself. Life crept over me, dead as could be. I was lost, but never found me in life. The real me was me, but was also not me. When we are lost, we understand...

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Poetry: The empty shell has emptied itself of you. Have you of it?

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 29 Dec 18

The humble cannot be humble without being honest too. The proud are proud because of the dishonesty they live from. A proud person is full of deceit and lies, they just denies. A humble person lives without a supply of such cries...

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How empty is Space?

John Welford @indexer (4852) • Leicester, England 3 Dec 18

A vacuum is defined as a space that contains absolutely nothing, and it is often thought that the space between the stars and galaxies constitutes a perfect vacuum. However, this is not necessarily so. Within every cubic...

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Poetry: Nothing is emptied from love to find emptiness in nothing.

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 2 Jul 18

The emptiness lives in life alone until it empties itself into love. Only love can fill you, when you are empty, emptied of yourself. Fill yourself with anything else, and you remain empty inside. Love is merely you doing love,...

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Emptiness.

anorona @anorona (225) • Philippines 12 Sep 17

I am having a heavy heart. Days have passed, and still I am feeling this way. It's like something is missing in me, or maybe it is me that's missing. I miss myself, I know this is weird but that is how I feel. Whenever I look...

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