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Zen story: The feather ruffling Zen master

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 6 Apr

The old Zen master, Enrico Zerboski, had become different in his teachings to other Zen masters, over the many years, while he had been the head master, at the Ryoko monastery. He would often debunk many of the long held...

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Short story: A Priest, and a Rabbi, argue about the value of repentance

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 29 Sep

An old Priest came up to a Rabbi, when he saw him walking in the street, and he said to him: "Repent, and your sins will be forgiven." The Rabbi smiled widely, as he replied: "We, Jews, do not repent." "To repent...

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Short story: Character, and personality

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 2 Mar 25

Rabbi Resky Ashpodi, was chatting to his students about character, and about how one could assess the character of somebody else. He said to them that there are 3 main ways to assess somebody’s character. [b]One way is to...

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The ego, life, and love

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 26 Jan 25

We should not try to destroy our ego, but to work with it. Our ego is a part of who we are. Our total person includes our ego. We need to connect our ego to our soul, rather than to our mind, and so instead of...

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Short story: Do not try to kill off your ego, more learn to control it

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 11 Dec 24

[i]The old Professor, of Philosophy, Professor Arndo Respekler, was talking to his students about mankind, and what he is, if the greater picture of him is included in our thinking, or is a part of a philosophic way of...

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Short story: The aura explained

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 8 Dec 24

The Spiritual teacher, Sri Arowld Lersproski, was talking to his group of students about our aura. He said that in the spiritual sense, an aura is an energy field that surrounds our body, which some gifted people can see,...

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Zen tale: The mind, and its ruminations, compared to our soul, and its truthfulness

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 27 Nov 24

A student of the esteemed old Zen master, Artur Respozki, asked him about his mind, which was always thinking thoughts, and then, like a cow, it would continually chew over these thoughts, and ruminate on them too. The...

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The Third Eye: Is it a Myth?!?

Shavkat @Shavkat (141905) • Philippines 31 Oct 24

It is November first here in my country now. It seems like the typhoon is gone. Before I go to sleep, I wanted to know if you believe in the third eye. I had a teacher who approached me before. She claimed that I have a gift to...

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Short story: When is your personality your real personality?

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 29 Oct 24

The great Rabbi, Arvin Perskosko, was giving a lecture to his students on the personality. He told them that they have two personalities, one is attached to their mind, and another, to their soul. Here is some more...

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My top 10 documentaries @3 - Twenty Feet From Stardom

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5216) • Northampton, England 20 Oct 24

So there are a lot of documentaries around about race and prejudice in America that make the top 50 lists but for me they are revered for the message rather than the content, rarely subtle, often polemics and not up for arguments....

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Short Story: A child is connected to their parents in more ways than just one of flesh, and blood

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 3 Sep 24

Susan Hortel was talking to her college counsellor about her father, who had never gone to college himself, but who had pushed her, his daughter, into doing so. Why did he push her so much to make something more of her...

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Short story: A psychologist writes about living a fuller life, by living from all parts of ourselves, more fully

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 14 May 24

[i]The well-respected psychologist, Anton Pressnose, wrote an article, which was included in the magazine, Psychology Today, last month, on the need to mature our emotional self, and how to not let it run riot in our...

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Short story: Consciousness is not who we are

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 22 Feb 24

Sri Gustav Norabindo, a spiritual master, was discussing consciousness with his students. He said that consciousness, is not who we really are, but we use consciousness, in a similar way as to how we use our minds. Here...

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The Inner child, our soul, and human life

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 14 Feb 24

The psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung (1875 to 1961 ) is said to have created the idea that we all have an inner child within ourselves. We all have a childlike innocence within us. This has nothing to do with us once being...

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Your Inner priest. Your inner beast

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 11 Feb 24

Within our makeup, we should set apart a part of ourselves to serve as an inner priest to God. This inner priest will then remind us to always act in the service of God, at all times in our lives. This inner priest takes...

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Short story: Do not allow yourself to be controlled by your inner beast, but utilise its energy for good

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 11 Feb 24

Sri Lanke Aurobistro, a renowned spiritual teacher, was talking about the inner self, and how everybody's inner self differs. "Each of us has a personality, and a soul, different to everyone else." "We also have a...

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Short story: Every visit to someone is never made in vain

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 15 Jan 24

Pastor John Huntsman was a regular visitor to the inmates in his City’s jail. A few of these hardened inmates thought that because of the way they had lived their lives, God would have no interest in them, so they had also...

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Short story: Are we always responsible for all of our sins?

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 9 Jan 24

Pastor Stuart Nickleson, was talking to his son, about sin, accountability for sin, and the responsibility of committing sin, in one's life. He said that sins can be forgiven by God, when we humbly ask him for...

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Short story: An Indian, and his wolf

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 1 Jan 24

The American Indian Shaman, Black Cloud, had a tamed wolf, that he had named, Aponi, who lived with him in his Tepee. This wolf accompanied him on his spiritual journeys into the other worlds. The wolf helped him in the...

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Old Time Storytellers (Poem)

J.N.R Dutton @jnrdutton (3452) • United States 19 Dec 23

I Love those old time story tellers, who wear their heart and soul upon their sleeve, the one's who when they go away, you hate to see them leave, because you know the fire that they carry is far too rare indeed, They open up...

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