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

emptychair @innertalks (23736) • 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 word of truth must be lived to be truth within us

emptychair @innertalks (23736) • Australia 23 Jan 23

The old Zen master, Resposh Zerploski, was writing something down in his little black book, that he always carried on him. An inquisitive student asked him, "What did you write just then?" The master smiled, and...

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Zen story: Decisions

emptychair @innertalks (23736) • Australia 30 Dec 22

The Zen student was trying to make a decision, but he ended up not making any decision at all, and doing nothing in a situation, where something should really have been done. The Zen master, Atrop Zerploski found out about...

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Zen koan: When is laughter open, and when is it closed?

emptychair @innertalks (23736) • Australia 17 Nov 22

The Zen master, Artroch Ripocjke, was laughing out loud, and a student asked him to share the joke with him. The Zen master said, "He who laughs out loud is a koan unto himself, but he who keeps his laughter inside is not...

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Zen short story: Hidden soul powers

emptychair @innertalks (23736) • Australia 12 Nov 22

[i]"The soul can contact its innermost strengths when it has a physical body attached to it for it to work through, which stretches it past its attachment to reasoned consciousness alone, and allows it to live more truly from...

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Zen tale: The cat bests the Zen master

emptychair @innertalks (23736) • Australia 13 Jan 22

The Zen master, Dozen Doshen, was riding his bicycle along the road, when a cat run out in front of him. He swerved to miss it, and he fell off his bicycle, and he scratched his hands, and knees, a bit too. He said, "I...

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Zen story: The ungraspable mind is the enlightened mind

emptychair @innertalks (23736) • Australia 12 Jan 22

The mind of the past is ungraspable; the mind of the future is ungraspable; the mind of the present is ungraspable. from the Diamond Sutra, a Buddhist text. [i]The old, and great, Zen...

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Zen story: When questioning the questioner, creates a dead end

emptychair @innertalks (23736) • Australia 6 Dec 21

The old Zen master, Flohla Zerbrocke, had been head of the Zendusk monastery, for the last twenty years. A master from a nearby monastery, then paid him a visit, and he asked him, about a student, who had left Flohla's...

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Short story: The Rabbi enlightens us with his light

emptychair @innertalks (23736) • Australia 29 Nov 21

The old Rabbi, Zendacai Ruestadt, was explaining some of the terms used in his spiritual talks to his students. He said that the words, love, enlightenment, consciousness, and awareness, all carry different meanings. "It...

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Zen story: When is a spiritual initiation, also enlightenment? Only, when it's enlightenment!

emptychair @innertalks (23736) • Australia 30 Sep 21

A student came into the monastery of the renowned, and widely respected, Zen master, Reblen Zerkski. He asked him: "Why don't you Zen masters give out initiations, as do some other spiritual masters, like Sri Lasartha...

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Short Story: Zen Masters. The first female Zen master

emptychair @innertalks (23736) • Australia 24 Aug 21

Subtitle: The myth of life. [i]The Zen master, Yudah Gridest, was well known for his pithy and straightforward answers to any and all questions that were put to him by his students, and by passing travellers, or tourists,...

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Zen story: Enlightenment sits above consciousness

emptychair @innertalks (23736) • Australia 22 Jun 21

The old Zen master, Doghkin Dunhokho, was talking about how enlightenment is related to consciousness. He said that before enlightenment, we live consciously, but unilluminated. After enlightenment, we live illuminated,...

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Zen Story: Being enlightened, by observing a tree, is free, you will see.

emptychair @innertalks (23736) • Australia 30 Nov 20

The Zen master, Grobo Zeleske, and his disciples went for a walk in a local park. A student asked him, "Master, what must I do to achieve enlightenment?" The master said, pointing at a large nearby tree. [i]"Be...

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Zen story: Enlightenment only lightens the mind with its own lamp of ego.

emptychair @innertalks (23736) • Australia 18 Oct 20

The old Zen master, Wandonra Repercuske, had been "enlightened" for nearly 50 years, according to his master, who had verified this, and appointed him as the new head monk, at the Dohai Monastery, in Dohai, just before his own...

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Zen koan: A simple zen koan becomes hatched in the student

emptychair @innertalks (23736) • Australia 9 Sep 20

The Zen master asked his students: What is the noise of a chook clucking got to do with a rooster crowing? The students all took turns to answer, until one student didn't offer any answer at all, but going to the...

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Zen Story: The Zen master's dog was more enlightened than the Zen master was himself!

emptychair @innertalks (23736) • Australia 21 Aug 20

The old Zen master, Rehkie Bankertski, had a pet dog, that he had brought into the Zen monastery with him. It was a stray dog, that had followed him in from the street, the very day, that he had arrived there, ten years...

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Short Story: The Zen master who cried

emptychair @innertalks (23736) • Australia 27 Jan 20

The newly appointed Zen master, Roshposche Grizaldo, had achieved the rare state of enlightenment, at long last. (He must of done, he had thought to himself, as only enlightened people are appointed as Zen Masters.) The trouble...

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Detachment and attachment, love and enlightenment. How are they related?

emptychair @innertalks (23736) • Australia 15 Aug 19

“The root of suffering is attachment.” Buddha What is detachment? How does it relate to love? Love is not detached from anything, and yet for you to fully love and be fully attached to love, you need to be detached from all...

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Wisdom @Davictech (195) 1 Dec 18

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Am a Novice here

Segun smart @purest (43) • Ibadan, Nigeria 8 Jun 18

I need to be enlightened on how peoples get related socially in mylot .Is their any do and don't with the use of the site ,am endowed with a lot of fun to be share in mylot which can help spiritually and morally ....,how can we...

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