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emptychair @innertalks (23610) • Australia 22 Mar

The old Zen master was always generous in spirit, but not only that, he was generous in all other manor of life too. If a beggar came to his monastery, he was given a meal, clean clothes, and a stipend, to purchase...

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emptychair @Shiva49 l remember my karate teacher said something disparaging to me too. He said to me, 'You were an uncordinated idiot when you first started training with me. Now, you are just an idiot.' He had at least trained me to not be so uncordinated, he...

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DianneN @DianneN (251977) • United States 23 Mar

I don’t care for sweets too much, but I do love birthday cake. Yellow cake inside, layered between vanilla custard, covered in buttercream, white icing, and lots of pink colorful flowers with green leaves and of course my...

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DianneN @Shiva49 People can be so foolish!

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Arunima Singh @arunima25 (93118) • Bangalore, India 17 Mar

It's rightly said that parenting is a never ending job. Once you are a parent, you are a parent for life. The role and concern might change with age of your children and the stages of life. But that intangible and invisible...

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Arunima Singh @Shiva49 Nothing in this world matters more than family, especially our parents. More so when they are in their ripe age. It's the cycle...we were taken care by them when we were young and we have to take care of them when they are old and vulnerable. Our...

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RasmaSandra @RasmaSandra (95682) • Daytona Beach, Florida 21 Mar

It was Marie-Antoinette’s turn to stand at the guillotine just nine months after her husband, King Louis XVI of France, was executed on January 21, 1793. As you see, the life of the royals was not always one big party. The lady...

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RasmaSandra @Shiva49 it would have been best to educate royalty on how to better rule and about the needs of the people

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Shiva @Shiva49 (28038) • Singapore 16 Oct 24

Life goes on as usual, with challenges galore—overcoming them gives us moments of relief. For a few, death is a reality that hangs over them constantly. The rest are left in peace if they think of the world as of now as the...

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jaishankar @Shiva49 Before 1979 the relations between Iran and Israel were. very good. Iran was one of the countries who recognised Israel after the the creation of Israel. In 1979 when an Islamic rule came,in Iran, slogans like "death to Israel" were started being...

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Arunima Singh @arunima25 (93118) • Bangalore, India 17 Mar

It's rightly said that parenting is a never ending job. Once you are a parent, you are a parent for life. The role and concern might change with age of your children and the stages of life. But that intangible and invisible...

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Arunima Singh @Shiva49 Many people have told me that daughters are more emotionally connected. I am not sure about that. I don't have a son to compare. But when it comes to my brother and I, we both are equally close to mom. And my brother is expressive too about his...

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emptychair @innertalks (23610) • Australia 14 Mar

The old Zen master was coughing up blood, and he told his students that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. He said to them, that nevertheless, I will stay in this body as long as God requires me to do so, but it does...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Yes, the Devil's henchmen are having a party, but all around them are sorely affected too. It is no party for them.

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Jimbo45 @Ineeddentures (23846) 18 Mar

Thanks to @Shiva49 for reminding me of something quite important When someone steals from another person, what ever is stolen, it means that there is a victim of a crime Someone has been violated, Omg I had not considered that...

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Anna @Shiva49 - In the 80s and 90s you could not leave an expensive car out in the streets of Milan because you could be sure it disappeared. Imagine that our Mercedes was stolen from a garage where they had security. I always thought that the Sicilian Guard was...

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emptychair @innertalks (23610) • Australia 14 Mar

The old Zen master was coughing up blood, and he told his students that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. He said to them, that nevertheless, I will stay in this body as long as God requires me to do so, but it does...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Apparently, Winston Churchill once said, "If you are going through hell, keep going." I guess that would not apply to Satan, Russia, etc, as they want to live in Hell, not go through it. All pompous despots want to lead, and put themselves on the...

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Jimbo45 @Ineeddentures (23846) 18 Mar

Thanks to @Shiva49 for reminding me of something quite important When someone steals from another person, what ever is stolen, it means that there is a victim of a crime Someone has been violated, Omg I had not considered that...

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emptychair @innertalks (23610) • Australia 14 Mar

The old Zen master was coughing up blood, and he told his students that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. He said to them, that nevertheless, I will stay in this body as long as God requires me to do so, but it does...

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emptychair @Shiva49 They do not seem to care about money. They just want to make a name for themselves in history, it seems. Some religious leaders, like the Pope, should be more vocal about these warmongers, as nobody else seems to be speaking out loudly enough, just...

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emptychair @innertalks (23610) • Australia 14 Mar

The old Zen master was coughing up blood, and he told his students that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. He said to them, that nevertheless, I will stay in this body as long as God requires me to do so, but it does...

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emptychair @Shiva49 The way things are going now, none of us will have enough fuel in our tank to get us into Heaven, or anywhere else, besides. Trundling through life is a whole lot costlier these days, and a lot of cutbacks are being forced onto all. I wonder if God...

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emptychair @innertalks (23610) • Australia 1 Mar

The Zen monastery had both cherry trees, and cherry blossom trees, in its courtyard. Cherry blossom trees are ornamental, and cherry trees produce fruit. Reaching up to grab a branch of the vine, the Zen master picked a...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Trump said Biden was unfit for presidency, and it seems nearly all Presidents are so unfit, all the way back to Nixon, and beyond, they were all misfits.

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emptychair @innertalks (23610) • Australia 1 Mar

The Zen monastery had both cherry trees, and cherry blossom trees, in its courtyard. Cherry blossom trees are ornamental, and cherry trees produce fruit. Reaching up to grab a branch of the vine, the Zen master picked a...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Trump certainly likes to evoke fear, and hatred, as he wants to be remembered in any way he can be. Yes, we have nutters here from time to time, who wreak havoc on innocents, sometimes with guns, and sometimes, using a car, or a truck, as a weapon of...

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emptychair @innertalks (23610) • Australia 1 Mar

The Zen monastery had both cherry trees, and cherry blossom trees, in its courtyard. Cherry blossom trees are ornamental, and cherry trees produce fruit. Reaching up to grab a branch of the vine, the Zen master picked a...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Yes, it seems that we still have cavemen within our midst, as life allows a strange mix of different options to exist, and God seems to let anything go these days, even strange mutant humans, with two heads exist, which would have died quickly years...

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emptychair @innertalks (23610) • Australia 1 Mar

The Zen monastery had both cherry trees, and cherry blossom trees, in its courtyard. Cherry blossom trees are ornamental, and cherry trees produce fruit. Reaching up to grab a branch of the vine, the Zen master picked a...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Yes, some say that we have choices in life, but this is not true, when the 1% call the shots, and fire them too. I feel Elon is thinking in the clouds, as any higher intelligence would not just waste their time playing useless games. They would have...

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emptychair @innertalks (23610) • Australia 1 Mar

The Zen monastery had both cherry trees, and cherry blossom trees, in its courtyard. Cherry blossom trees are ornamental, and cherry trees produce fruit. Reaching up to grab a branch of the vine, the Zen master picked a...

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emptychair @Shiva49 I first read your last line as, " The whole set-up is humorous beyond our ken." But, on second thought, it might be humorous to God, but not much to the rest of us, unless we become wise enough to see the humour behind God's creation, where he is...

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emptychair @innertalks (23610) • Australia 1 Mar

The Zen monastery had both cherry trees, and cherry blossom trees, in its courtyard. Cherry blossom trees are ornamental, and cherry trees produce fruit. Reaching up to grab a branch of the vine, the Zen master picked a...

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emptychair @Shiva49 A soul reset must affect God as well, if each soul remains a part of God's oneness too. Can God reset himself? Perhaps he does, if he is just the big bang of scientists, and he night just start off again, with a new big bang, but what is behind the...

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emptychair @innertalks (23610) • Australia 1 Mar

The Zen monastery had both cherry trees, and cherry blossom trees, in its courtyard. Cherry blossom trees are ornamental, and cherry trees produce fruit. Reaching up to grab a branch of the vine, the Zen master picked a...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Yes, God has an eagle eye, but does he also have a blind eye? Would a God of love ever press the reset button again, or would he more work out some other way to work with what he's got, and so bring about a resurrection to love in each created soul...

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emptychair @innertalks (23610) • Australia 5 Mar

Every morning, in the Zen monastery, the bell would ring twice. Nothing was ever said about why this was being done, but the students thought that it was a call for them to get up for the day, and to do their morning...

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emptychair @Shiva49 The ones in charge have lost any contact with the common folk, and just carry out there own agendas, regardless of costs, and consequences. The innocents become cannon fodder in any war.

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