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emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 13 Jan 25

An old Zen master was talking to a local Priest about the concept of oneness. [b]The Zen master knew that oneness was also advocated for by Christianity, as it was Jesus Christ himself who said that he, and his father,...

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Zen story: Will God please be God for me

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 29 Jun 23

The Zen master, Enri Zerploski, was talking to his students about God. He told them that in Zen, we do not believe in God, because then, God becomes only a belief to us. He then went on: "What we do in Zen, is to...

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Short Story: God, and the Individual Soul

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 9 Feb 23

Rabbi Anton Breeshkev, was giving a discourse to his Torah students on God, and the individual soul. Here is how he put across his thoughts to his students, on this topic: [b]"God is one great oneness, and yet, he works...

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Short Story: A Zen master talks about oneness, and duality

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 19 Jan 23

The Zen master, Gregor Zeloski, had been asked a question about duality. If God is oneness, how can duality exist? He answered that duality is only temporary, and that oneness is the permanent state. Duality is...

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Short Story: The Zen of God. The infiniteness of oneness

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 21 Aug 22

The Zen master, Gohler Zerploski, used to tell his students that there were actually infinite Gods, not just one. Here is one of his recent talks to his students: “God is often envisaged as sitting on his throne as a...

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Zen story: The koan of love within oneness being infinite too

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 6 Apr 22

The New Zen master, at the Xdoe Monastery, Dogon Respolde, was trying to make his mark, in the very first few weeks of his leadership. He reversed some of the ideas, and decisions of his predecessors, and told his...

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Zen koan: The unplanted tree is really still always planted.

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 4 Apr 22

The newly appointed head monk of the Roshillo monastery, Zen master, Zalzo Zelzozo, wanted to give his students a new koan. He meditated on it for the next week, and then he gave them his new koan. [b]"Why is a tree...

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Short story: When is oneness really oneness? When we are our real selves within it.

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 17 Mar 22

The Vedanta master, Sri Herata Ramangatti, was talking to a group of his followers about his ideas about oneness. "The one God is indivisible in his oneness, so all that appears to be outside of this one great oneness, are...

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Short story: We eavesdrop in on a sermon, given to his Church, by Reverend Tot Tomson

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 17 Dec 21

The Reverend Tot Tomson was giving his weekly sermon, and this week it was on the idea of freedom, versus predeterminism. Here is what he said: "In some ways, our life can be scripted by something higher than our self,...

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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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Short story: The koan of oneness

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 12 Oct 21

The Zen master, Devoisa Zerplonksla, asked his students to answer this koan, for him. "Every path leads us towards oneness, but where does oneness itself lead us too?" Nobody could come up with an answer, and so...

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A Short Parable: The Lost Tree

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 14 Sep 21

[i]This is a short story about a person who cut down the tree that provided the entrance for them to their own forest of God's plentiful love. We must keep our own tree growing by connecting to other trees. We all live within the...

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Zen Koan: Sun Face Buddha, Moon Face Buddha

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 26 Aug 21

The renowned Zen master Ma, short for Mazu, or sometimes this is spelt as Ma Tsu, was on his deathbed. He had been given only another short twenty-four hours of life to live. A passing journalist, or court reporter, as...

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Short Story: The determined man who was determined to find silence, but he never could until.....

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 16 Aug 21

Freyman Tuffte was a man with great determination. He had read much about real silence, but he had never experienced it for himself. Sure, he had been in dark caves, where it was pretty quiet, but he never felt that...

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The Oneness of Humanity and Uniqueness in Each

Shiva @Shiva49 (28380) • Singapore 28 Jun 21

In times of great stress and crisis, we are drawn towards each other, like now, sort of in a tight embrace. When we breathe easy, separateness and isolation draw us apart. The present pandemic has also a positive effect as a...

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Short story: A Zen Master tale on koans

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 13 May 21

The Zen master, Frobo Repockske, was contemplating over the words in a book, while reading a book of Zen koans. One koan said that, leaves never return to where they have fallen from. 'Does oneness ever return to itself?"...

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When does oneness really become full of its own oneness, and not empty?

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 4 Mar 21

"The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love." That's a quote from, Meister Eckhart, (1260 – 1328 AD) [i]The all-seeing...

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A Shared Journey

Shiva @Shiva49 (28380) • Singapore 2 Mar 21

The world does not make sense Media and leaders of all hues say We are different But I see only Oneness We are told to take up the Cudgels All the time against others But I see only oneness everywhere Am I to fight against our...

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Confidence and love. How are they related?

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 25 Sep 20

The confidence of love is assured to be in all, by all who love. How is confidence related to love? Confidence stems from an underlying trust in life, God, and love. You trust, and so you know that things will...

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Poetry: The opposite of an opposite is an opposite too

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 23 Sep 20

There is no pleasure in pain, but there is pleasure in pleasure! There is love within love, and there is fear within fear. But in the deepest of deepness, is there still a degree of shallowness? [i]In the...

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