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emptychair @innertalks (23421) • Australia 17 Dec

The old Zen master was asked, by a visitor to his monastery. "What practical value is there in enlightenment? The old master smiled widely, and replied. [b]"An old tree lives on in my garden. Is there such a tree in your...

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emptychair @Shiva49 We are learning more and more as a collective, as we go on, but knowledge can be pretty empty, as it can be emptied out of us quickly too, when we die, and lose all memory. Perhaps life means nothing individually, it is only in the oneness of...

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emptychair @innertalks (23421) • Australia 17 Dec

The old Zen master was asked, by a visitor to his monastery. "What practical value is there in enlightenment? The old master smiled widely, and replied. [b]"An old tree lives on in my garden. Is there such a tree in your...

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emptychair @Shiva49 I think that we can have access to ourselves in any past that we had, as I think that God created all souls all at once, and hasn't added to them since. So, we should be able to access our soul's memories from the day it was created, until now. To...

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emptychair @innertalks (23421) • Australia 17 Dec

The old Zen master was asked, by a visitor to his monastery. "What practical value is there in enlightenment? The old master smiled widely, and replied. [b]"An old tree lives on in my garden. Is there such a tree in your...

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emptychair @Shiva49 If we really leave the world with nothing to show for it, our life, just lived, life here must be a great joke, in some ways, as it would effectively all amount to being just a waste of time, in my book. Something from each life lived must be...

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emptychair @innertalks (23421) • Australia 1 Dec

The old Zen master had been having a series of repeating dreams, over the last month, where he had found himself in a second-hand bookshop, looking for a diary book, that he had once had. This diary book had been given to...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Yes, that wine miracle is often debated over. The wedding guests were already drunk on the wine provided, which apparently run out, as they had drank so much. Then, if Jesus really turned water into real wine, and they then got even worse drunk, he...

19 Dec

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emptychair @innertalks (23421) • Australia 1 Dec

The old Zen master had been having a series of repeating dreams, over the last month, where he had found himself in a second-hand bookshop, looking for a diary book, that he had once had. This diary book had been given to...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Some mean well, like the Pope, I guess, but he is still leading many astray, with unproven ideas that are more indoctrinations, than truths. Nobody knows the real truth, except God, but it appears at times, that in his old age, he might have...

18 Dec

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (367729) • Rockingham, Australia 16 Dec

I’m wondering if nicknames are common in countries other than Australia. I often hear of some very clever nicknames but can’t always remember them. I heard a new one today. There is a guy in the sea shanty group that we follow...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Yes, I have heard a few jokes along that vein too. My Mum got caught out more than once in these things. She used to call another neighbour, "stinky" to us kids, because he was an unmarried man, and always you smelt a bad smell around him, as he...

18 Dec

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emptychair @innertalks (23421) • Australia 1 Dec

The old Zen master had been having a series of repeating dreams, over the last month, where he had found himself in a second-hand bookshop, looking for a diary book, that he had once had. This diary book had been given to...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Yes, we certainly need some fresh input from God, as all of his recorded teachings have been corrupted and distorted over the years, by so many saying they have the exclusive right to their interpretation, so interpreting the scriptures in their own...

17 Dec

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emptychair @innertalks (23421) • Australia 1 Dec

The old Zen master had been having a series of repeating dreams, over the last month, where he had found himself in a second-hand bookshop, looking for a diary book, that he had once had. This diary book had been given to...

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emptychair @Shiva49 I also wonder what am I doing in this violent world, as if God really existed, why doesn't he calm things over with some action, as he seems to be mostly a backseat driver now, instead of steering us from the front, as he purportedly once has done, if...

16 Dec

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emptychair @innertalks (23421) • Australia 1 Dec

The old Zen master had been having a series of repeating dreams, over the last month, where he had found himself in a second-hand bookshop, looking for a diary book, that he had once had. This diary book had been given to...

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emptychair @Shiva49 There was an incident of targeted shooting here on the weekend; a father and son, turned rogue, killed many innocent folks, on a beach. If robots are trained to do this, we are in for a pretty horrid world, in the near future.

15 Dec

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emptychair @innertalks (23421) • Australia 1 Dec

The old Zen master had been having a series of repeating dreams, over the last month, where he had found himself in a second-hand bookshop, looking for a diary book, that he had once had. This diary book had been given to...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Drones, a sort of robotic piloted miniplane are already being utilised by the Russians and Ukrainians in their war. They already send robots in to defuse bombs too, and perhaps there will be robot soldiers soon enough in the future, also, which would...

14 Dec

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emptychair @innertalks (23421) • Australia 10 Dec

The old Zen master posed this simple question to his students: "When is a stone a rock?" to test their understanding of the Zen mind. And no one, of course, knew his answer, so the master replied, "When the...

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emptychair @Shiva49 I do not like to take the risk with some things. I had some antibiotics only one month past the useby date, but I bought some more for my procedure, rather than risk taking the old ones, that might have lost some effectiveness by then. It is a fine...

14 Dec

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emptychair @innertalks (23421) • Australia 10 Dec

The old Zen master posed this simple question to his students: "When is a stone a rock?" to test their understanding of the Zen mind. And no one, of course, knew his answer, so the master replied, "When the...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Yes, everything is made with an obsolescence factor inbuilt in them now, and they are programed to become defunct in only two, or three, years from buying them, or they develop some type of a problem, in them.

13 Dec

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emptychair @innertalks (23421) • Australia 1 Dec

The old Zen master had been having a series of repeating dreams, over the last month, where he had found himself in a second-hand bookshop, looking for a diary book, that he had once had. This diary book had been given to...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Robots, like anything else mechanical, might need an occasional grease, and oil, or a checkup to see if they are still working optimally. I wonder though, if another robot will do this, and not a human, and if so, a robot reprograming/repairing...

13 Dec

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emptychair @innertalks (23421) • Australia 1 Dec

The old Zen master had been having a series of repeating dreams, over the last month, where he had found himself in a second-hand bookshop, looking for a diary book, that he had once had. This diary book had been given to...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Perhaps, Elon Musk is already a robot himself; he seems rather rigid in his thinking and too pointed in only one direction. Robots cannot eat for us, or enjoy watching television for us, nor write a book for us, that we enjoy writing for ourselves....

12 Dec

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emptychair @innertalks (23421) • Australia 10 Dec

The old Zen master posed this simple question to his students: "When is a stone a rock?" to test their understanding of the Zen mind. And no one, of course, knew his answer, so the master replied, "When the...

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emptychair @Shiva49 I have always preferred that things can last for the long term, but they never do. Even programs on my computer, go on for years, usefully serving me, and then the developer stops updating them, they become nonworking, and a few times, I have lost...

12 Dec

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emptychair @innertalks (23421) • Australia 1 Dec

The old Zen master had been having a series of repeating dreams, over the last month, where he had found himself in a second-hand bookshop, looking for a diary book, that he had once had. This diary book had been given to...

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emptychair @Shiva49 I wonder even if God has a magic wand, and perhaps he just knows better the laws of the Universe, and what he can do with them, as after all, he created the Universe with its laws too.

11 Dec

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emptychair @innertalks (23421) • Australia 1 Dec

The old Zen master had been having a series of repeating dreams, over the last month, where he had found himself in a second-hand bookshop, looking for a diary book, that he had once had. This diary book had been given to...

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emptychair @Shiva49 And yet, we could say, that all things are always going right in God's plan, and we just have to see his hand in all things to know this. This boils down to what you said too. When we see God's plan in our life, we see good, and when we do not...

10 Dec

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emptychair @innertalks (23421) • Australia 1 Dec

The old Zen master had been having a series of repeating dreams, over the last month, where he had found himself in a second-hand bookshop, looking for a diary book, that he had once had. This diary book had been given to...

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emptychair @Shiva49 “I am a hole in a flute that God’s breath moves through.” — Hafiz If we see ourselves like this, we will see that God is always in charge of the greater instrument of the world, and that we should make sure that we do not clog up our own flute hole,...

9 Dec

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emptychair @innertalks (23421) • Australia 1 Dec

The old Zen master had been having a series of repeating dreams, over the last month, where he had found himself in a second-hand bookshop, looking for a diary book, that he had once had. This diary book had been given to...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Is gratitude a one way process, though, or would God also have some gratitude towards his creation too? At any moment, we could all be destroyed by another asteroid, as the dinosaurs where. God will always have the last laugh, or say, in it all, and...

8 Dec

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emptychair @innertalks (23421) • Australia 1 Dec

The old Zen master had been having a series of repeating dreams, over the last month, where he had found himself in a second-hand bookshop, looking for a diary book, that he had once had. This diary book had been given to...

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emptychair @Shiva49 If God is the only one with a total memory recall of all that happens, we are in a restricted space, almost a prison, trapped here, doing stuff that does not count much in the end. I am sure that God is better than that, and everything that we do,...

7 Dec

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