life and death

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Go Crossbones @crossbones27 (53005) • Mojave, California 19 Jul

Good, it should be questioned. This is how easy it is to loose your roots. Question them so you do not. Its important. I can literally show you where Saturday Night Disco Comes From It was very important to these guys and not...

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No Fall this - a memory

Always smiling @allknowing (153529) • India 29 Jan 25

We had a Fall experience when our cashew tree decided to leave us We were not prepared for this. That year the tree was laden with a bumper of fruits and then followoed whithering of leaves. It was Fall of leaves covering a...

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A time for every season under heaven

Vicki, #1 Creek Girl @1creekgirl (44560) • United States 14 Jun 22

I got a letter from my friend Winnie in Scotland yesterday that her husband Roger has died. He had gone on holiday to Greece where they had gone many times over the years. He drowned and it's still under investigation. Since it...

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The Ultimate Reality beyond Our Comprehension, Senses, Feelings, Words

Shiva @Shiva49 (28397) • Singapore 5 Aug 21

We are one of the many species that finds life on this wonderful planet we call earth. We think we are at the apex of creation and lord it over others. We allow them to be our fellow travelers but also dictate our terms. It is our...

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Life and Death - The Twain shall Never Meet

Shiva @Shiva49 (28397) • Singapore 23 May 21

Life and Death has acquired a new meaning over the past one year with even those at the pink of health becoming vulnerable, victim, of the pandemic. Death is certain after birth but its time is not in our hands unless we...

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Question.

YARDY @babyrhexa (25) 7 May 21

Can panic and depressing surroundings lead to an end of life? I mean if the person loses hope then can his life get affected in a wrong way?

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Just saw a person last day and then got to know that that he's no more the next day.

tintukm @tintukm (1102) • India 26 Apr 21

It so happened that saw a person today. Just has a small chit chat about how everything was going. He seemed fine. No health issues as such. Next day morning we get a news that he passed away to cardiac arrest. How strange and...

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Making the Best Use of Cards We are Dealt

Shiva @Shiva49 (28397) • Singapore 4 Jan 21

The world we are in never fails to amaze me. The intricacies of its working unravel but we are never closer to understanding its inner workings; then that of the universe, or maybe multiverse, we are part of. We can try to...

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Work and Retirement

Shiva @Shiva49 (28397) • Singapore 4 Dec 20

After having settled into retired life for over two years, it is but natural to look back at my work life even wishfully at times. I then comfort myself that life has stages and it is best that I enjoy them. In a way, I like to...

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Zen Story: "Stumped."

emptychair @innertalks (23745) • Australia 5 Sep 20

The Zen master was stumped for over 60 years, but finally, he accepted life's answer to him. The renowned Zen master, Harrumph Horcluda, had been stumped for all of his life by one question. His own master had given this...

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Short Story: The Zen master's death, matched the silence of the monastery's cat

emptychair @innertalks (23745) • Australia 8 Aug 20

The Zen master, Saisen Griboche, knew that his time to die had come. He called together all of his students, and he said: "Do any of you know of the voiceless silence?" They all answered him, "no". He...

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Zen short story: The death of the master was not the master's death.

emptychair @innertalks (23745) • Australia 2 May 20

The Zen master, Zendau Dorschai, had been sick for many years. He suffered from some debilitating illness, that had been left undiagnosed in those olden times. [b]Zendau became weaker and weaker, then he died, not altogether...

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Rabbi Bolev Kischker dies doing what he loved to do best

emptychair @innertalks (23745) • Australia 9 Apr 20

Rabbi Bolev Kischker was an old man. Old and battered, as he had lived a hard life, with a meager income, and a large family to feed. [b]He was 75, and he had retired recently now, from his work as a boot...

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Short Story: Betty dies fully alive to herself, and to love

emptychair @innertalks (23745) • Australia 6 Apr 20

Betty Davison was a speaker. She would give talks at her old people's home for the other ladies, as she had been a speaker too, in her previous life, before the nursing home environment. Here is one of her latest...

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Short Story: Dave meets up with his old neighbour Mike, in Heaven, now a changed man..

emptychair @innertalks (23745) • Australia 23 Dec 19

Dave was getting older, and at 66 years of age, thoughts of his life, often came into his head. Dave lived by himself, and he liked to go down to the nearby beach, and sit down on the old stone wall there, and think about these...

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Zen koan on life and death

emptychair @innertalks (23745) • Australia 29 Sep 19

Coming empty-handed, going empty-handed — that is human. When you are born, where do you come from? When you die, where do you go? Life is like a floating cloud which appears. Death is like a floating cloud which disappears. The...

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Short story: The Zen master's final lesson came from his death

emptychair @innertalks (23745) • Australia 27 Aug 19

Hiroshoma Zenkai, was a great Zen master of one hundred and fifty years ago. He was a fisherman too, who liked to catch his fish, early each morning, for the breakfast meal of his fledgling monks, in his monastery. One such...

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Short Story: The life of a lowly worm was worth perhaps no more than a thought to Fred.

emptychair @innertalks (23745) • Australia 16 Jul 19

It had been raining, and Fred was walking towards the bin, to place some rubbish bags in there from his office. Looking downwards, as he walked, he saw an emaciated, long, elongated worm, struggling on the concrete surrounds...

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Poetry: The meeting of life with death

emptychair @innertalks (23745) • Australia 17 Jun 19

Life and death met in a park. Life sat down, and death wept. Death moved closer, and sat down too. Life then knew, it was in strife, in life. Life died. It then knew, love had not lied. Life was still alive. Life knew this was...

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Short Story: Alan dreams truth into life for himself, in himself, from his dream

emptychair @innertalks (23745) • Australia 2 Jun 19

Alan had dreamed that he walked to a hotel where he was staying, at number four Kent street in the city. Alan got the lift up to the 10th floor. He walked along the corridor, coming to his Hotel room. Alan entered the pin number...

emptiness and freedom

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