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Judy Evans @JudyEv (381950) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Aug

I’ve written a few discussions about New Norcia, Australia’s only monastic town. We went through the museum when we were there and came across a display of instruments. The town once had its own brass band and also its own...

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The guinea pigs didn't like being segregated

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381950) • Rockingham, Australia 14 Apr 25

The photo doesn’t have anything to do with the text but is a tribute to Austsralia’s Light Horseman. ANZAC Day is nearly upon us. It’s an important day for Australia. I haven’t got all my photos back yet. I wrote a while back...

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Convents and monasteries for randy guinea pigs

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381950) • Rockingham, Australia 17 Jan 25

We have offered to house-sit at our niece’s place in April and June. There are two cats which are very shy and aren’t often seen, and six guinea pigs. The story I love about the guinea pigs is that the family originally bought...

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Short story: It sometimes takes two to solve a koan

emptychair @innertalks (23737) • Australia 11 Mar 23

The Zen master, Ryoto Domlas, put this koan to his students. The one who answered it best was to move out, and to become the head of a new Zen monastery nearby. [b]"If two monks are arguing about whether a stone is too...

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Finding inner peace....

Aanshi Raghava @Aansh13 (11433) • New Delhi, India 18 Jan 20

Buddhist Monasteries are the place of prayers and silence, and this is one big reason why I always prefer going to monasteries. Ever since, I started focusing on spiritual path the only place that has drawn my attention. This...

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Going to the monastery

Nevena Zivkovic @Nevena83 (66063) • Serbia 21 Jul 19

Good day friends I was not active yesterday, because I had many obligations. Today my brother has come around to work around a computer for mining, but he is now sleeping, so he probably will be awake all night. Helena enjoys...

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Clonmacnoise, Ireland

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381950) • Rockingham, Australia 28 Jun 19

We have visited the monastery of Clonmacnoise in Ireland several times although we didn’t go there this time. It is a very beautiful site and is situated south of Athlone on the River Shannon in County Offaly. Clonmacnoise was...

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Diary Wednesday 29th May 2019 Bolton Abbey

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 29 May 19

I was on a community centre organized outing today, to the beautiful Bolton Abbey ruins in Swarfedale, Yorkshire, near Skipton. It was an hour’s journey by mini-bus organized by the community centre. Twelve of us went. Though...

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Did you know where is the highest monastery in the world?

Thubten Choayang @TibetanCulture (460) 9 Jun 17

Did you know where is the highest Monastery in the world? This is a very thrilling and yet seem to be not many people know exactly where is the world most highest monastery ever built on earth! The world most highest temple is...

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Preston Pub Study The Grey Friar

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 5 Nov 16

One of two bars in the city of Preston owned by the J D Wetherspoons chain (the other one being The Twelve Tellers). The origins of the Grey Friar name and sign comes from the Franciscan Monastery that was the centre of the then...

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Red Square Regards

Inlemay @Inlemay (17712) • South Africa 6 Jun 16

Another great and exciting first for me - A Postcard from Russia! My very first postcard as well as beautiful stamp from the region of Moscow - "Novodevichy Convent, also known as Bogoroditse-Smolensky Monastery, is probably the...

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Did you know Tarot agrees w/ the bible more than christians do?

its-logos-plus-logic @flowerchilde (12529) • United States 22 May 08

[Well, in some ways.] I don't buy this hype that tarot is from nefarious sources and is used to cast evil.. Nope, I lean toward thinking one of those clever monks painted these portraits of life.. a book someone wrote to the...

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do you believe in angels?

niculash @niculash (8) 5 Sep 07

I`ve taken a rare photo. This is a place in Romania at a monastery in Moldavia where an angel had fallen.What do you think about this?

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god

dontataru @dontataru (244) • Romania 28 Dec 06

If you will meet the God tomorow what you will ask him? I think that i will ask him why I have so many problems in my life. I have only 18 but I think that I have enough problems for my short life

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