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emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 10 Jun

[i]The new Zen Master to the monastery, who had become the new master, after the old Zen Master, the last past master had died, was having a repeating series of dreams, in which he would leave the interior of the monastery, fly to...

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Zen story: The Zen master who bowed to his student, acknowledging his poignant words

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 12 May 25

A student went into the Zen master's room one day, to hand him a letter from another Zen master, who had passed by, but had not wanted to come in. The student, never being in his master's room before, was surprised that...

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Zen story: Favouritism is not necessarily just about our having favourites

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 7 Jan 23

The old Zen master, Dolzen Fulshon, told his students that a Zen master must not have favourites amongst his students, as every student deserves his fullness of teaching too. But then, it was noticed that he seemed to be...

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Zen koan: What does a net catch if it is not our own net? Nothing!

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 27 Jul 22

The old Zen master, Walfur Jospekle, always gave a talk to his students, outside of the temple, in the grounds of the temple, at 6 pm every night, just before they would then gather together for their evening meal. He...

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Zen short story: The master cared right up until his death, for his students

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 22 Jul 22

The old Zen master, Jolith Zerploxke, was near death, and he asked his students if there was anything that they wanted to know now, and which, he might have left inadvertently unexplained to them. Only one student spoke...

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Zen Story: Our time, and God's time

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 18 Apr 22

The old Zen master, Arish Akista, was now approaching 80 years of age. He still had little idea on what time was, or what it meant for him, in his life. [i]Was time the real master of his life, and which would eventually...

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Zen story: When is detachment really still just another form of attachment?

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 12 Apr 22

The esteemed Zen master, Jodda Resposhe, was giving a discourse on detachment. Here is the wordage of his talk: "Detachment is not all that it's touted out to be." "We are told to give up attachment to our...

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

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • 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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Zen story: When is awareness really awareness? When awareness has been inputted into awareness.

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 28 Mar 22

The Zen master, Haroldo Kerploski, was sitting on an outside bench, in the monastery, crying. One of his students walked past him, and said, "What is the matter, o master." The master replied, [b]"I have tears...

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Zen Tale: The murdering Zen master (A fiction piece)

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 24 Mar 22

The old Zen master, Renaldo Ripocske, was being annoyed every night, for the last week, by a chirping cricket, that had somehow gotten into his bedroom, at the monastery. Its incessantly loud continuous, chirping all...

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Zen Story: A Zen koan about death being met while alive. That's the only way that it can be met.

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 10 Mar 22

The Zen master, Lucknow Ripockske, had been a Zen master for the best part of 60 years, and he was now approaching 80, years of age. He knew that his remaining time on this Earth, was short, as he had been suffering...

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Short Story: John visits a Zen master, in his Zen monastery, and takes his dog along with him

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 8 Mar 22

John was on a visit to a Zen monastery, and he wanted to have a meeting with the head monk there, who was renowned for assessing the life position of anyone, with just a quick cursory glance at them. Sure enough, John got...

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Zen koan: The cloud of entrapment, is not necessarily a cloud of entanglement, unless we enter it ourselves

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 7 Mar 22

The great Zen master, Falal Zalalen, was looking up pensively at the clouds, floating by overhead. He said to his student, standing next to him: "Clouds cannot entrap, but they can entangle." "We are Human beings,...

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Zen Short Story: Feeding on the right fodder is good for us

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 7 Feb 22

The Zen Master, Dropez Resposkhi, used to collect sayings, stories, and other similar things, writing them down into his book, which he titled, "Preaching Fodder". He would trot one of these readings out, whenever he gave...

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Zen short story: Death can never be controlled by any part of God's creation, at all. Only God controls death.

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 16 Jan 22

The Zen master, Rushold Doski, was talking to his students about death. He was getting old himself now, and he said to his students, that his own time will soon come. [b]"Nobody, but nobody, can ever totally control...

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Short Story: The Zen koan of stomping

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 5 Dec 21

The renowned, and rather well respected, old Zen master, Dolphin Sherklocks, was known to stamp his foot heavily upon the ground, whenever he wanted to emphasize the main point of his talks, in his talks. The students used...

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Short story: A Zen story about a master being served his tea

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 30 Nov 21

The old master was outside, sitting at a table, writing his poetry: Senryu: About the state of no-mind Clouds were drifting by. His mind saw something in them, not within his mind. He had just finished writing this...

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Zen: A koan on perfection

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 2 Nov 21

The Zen master, Proto Reskvoy, used to tell his students that the perfect koan was not perfect. And then he would give this example. "When is a book complete?" "It is complete only when the author thinks it so, and so...

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Zen Koan: The case of the drowning Monk

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 27 Oct 21

This Zen story is about learning, about learning the hard way, through being deeply loved, all the way through the hardships. We are always, always, each of us, this deeply loved by God. The story has been told by...

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Short story: Zen humour. A koan is also a form of a joke.

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 24 Sep 21

The Zen master asked his students to name his new dog for him, and to give it a name that would remind him to laugh with life too. A few of the names that they came up were: Yuletide, Freeme, and Seemore. [b]The master...

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