life and death
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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