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emptychair @innertalks (23750) • 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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emptychair @Shiva49 Yes, that is a great approach to life, and to living. If others can benefit from the way we live our lives, and interreact with others, that is a great way to live, and not create problems, from an antagonistic approach instead. The gentle way of...

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emptychair @innertalks (23750) • 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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emptychair @Shiva49 I learnt from my own father not to be like him, as he had many traits, such as his temper, that I did not like. I vowed to not treat my own kids so roughly, but then I never had kids, so it didn't matter in the end, but his upbringing for me did help...

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emptychair @innertalks (23750) • 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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emptychair Yes, no spiritual master knows it all, but they are still growing into better beings too, and so humility, and being willing to listen to, and to act on, the advice of others is paramount for future growth, which is stymied, if one breaks connection from...

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emptychair @innertalks (23750) • Australia 3 Jun

A student monk asked his old Zen master to tell him the secrets of Zen, that he had never shared with his students. The old man smiled, and replied, [b]"Nobody knows the secrets of Zen in their minds, not even...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Yes, some leaders reckon they can control all, and yet, when they try, they usually just place themselves into a mire, and then are too proud to admit they are now the emperor, with no clothes; everyone just laughing at their antics, even the ones,...

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emptychair @innertalks (23750) • Australia 3 Jun

A student monk asked his old Zen master to tell him the secrets of Zen, that he had never shared with his students. The old man smiled, and replied, [b]"Nobody knows the secrets of Zen in their minds, not even...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Yes, if God hasn't got the magic bullet to set things right, he might just let it all keep going on autopilot, with his alter-ego, an, IA God, checking the workings for anomalies, and go off for a walk in the park himself, rather than staying any...

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emptychair @innertalks (23750) • Australia 3 Jun

A student monk asked his old Zen master to tell him the secrets of Zen, that he had never shared with his students. The old man smiled, and replied, [b]"Nobody knows the secrets of Zen in their minds, not even...

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emptychair @Shiva49 God himself tried a couple of times and failed too. He kicked Adam, and Eve, out of his garden; he destroyed most of the world with his flood. After that, he left it to other Messiahs, who all failed too. Perhaps, God is wringing his hands, as to...

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emptychair @innertalks (23750) • Australia 3 Jun

A student monk asked his old Zen master to tell him the secrets of Zen, that he had never shared with his students. The old man smiled, and replied, [b]"Nobody knows the secrets of Zen in their minds, not even...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Even the Jews have had a few false messiahs, already, as they call them. Perhaps, the rest of us have missed each new messiah, too, as they have probably quietly come, and gone, already. Who would know the next Messiah, in our midst? They would...

7 Jun

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emptychair @innertalks (23750) • Australia 3 Jun

A student monk asked his old Zen master to tell him the secrets of Zen, that he had never shared with his students. The old man smiled, and replied, [b]"Nobody knows the secrets of Zen in their minds, not even...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Yes, the worst types of preachers tell us that we are sinners, and bad folk indeed, whereas the best spiritual teachers help us to open up more to love.

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emptychair @innertalks (23750) • Australia 31 May

The Zen master would rise each morning, walk outside bare footed, hug a tree, then come back inside the meditation room, and sit for an hour in meditation. He did this for many years, and it became like a koan to his...

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emptychair @Shiva49 And yet, they remain ignoramus's to God. There is always another step to achievement, and no man can ever achieve all.

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emptychair @innertalks (23750) • Australia 31 May

The Zen master would rise each morning, walk outside bare footed, hug a tree, then come back inside the meditation room, and sit for an hour in meditation. He did this for many years, and it became like a koan to his...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Yes, we would be like witches riding our broomsticks closer to God. Perhaps, he just keeps chuckling to himself, thinking even with AI, they cannot get close to me, as AI really just separates them more from me, filling their heads with more useless...

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emptychair @innertalks (23750) • Australia 31 May

The Zen master would rise each morning, walk outside bare footed, hug a tree, then come back inside the meditation room, and sit for an hour in meditation. He did this for many years, and it became like a koan to his...

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emptychair @Jehanne Thanks.

6 Jun

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emptychair @innertalks (23750) • Australia 31 May

The Zen master would rise each morning, walk outside bare footed, hug a tree, then come back inside the meditation room, and sit for an hour in meditation. He did this for many years, and it became like a koan to his...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Some things can be seen as an advantage at times, but if anything is cut off from life, such as emotions, in the long term, that life will suffer, for life is about working with emotions, not cutting ourselves off from them, and working with our soul,...

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emptychair @innertalks (23750) • Australia 31 May

The Zen master would rise each morning, walk outside bare footed, hug a tree, then come back inside the meditation room, and sit for an hour in meditation. He did this for many years, and it became like a koan to his...

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emptychair @Shiva49 And yet, if he was perfectly aligned, and connected, to God, he would know when he was ready to leave, and would not resist the leaving, as planned by his higher self, and God, by wanting to stay a bit longer. We should usually work with God, and his...

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emptychair @innertalks (23750) • Australia 3 Jun

A student monk asked his old Zen master to tell him the secrets of Zen, that he had never shared with his students. The old man smiled, and replied, [b]"Nobody knows the secrets of Zen in their minds, not even...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Yes, to remain more on the positive side is good for most of us, as long as we do not become serial positive spouters, and so just upset others, with false positivity, and no practicality of helpfulness, in their life. The preacher positive type...

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emptychair @innertalks (23750) • Australia 3 Jun

A student monk asked his old Zen master to tell him the secrets of Zen, that he had never shared with his students. The old man smiled, and replied, [b]"Nobody knows the secrets of Zen in their minds, not even...

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emptychair @Deepizzaguy Yes, mostly, I would agree that positivity is a good thing, unless it is taken to the extreme, and so unbalances us. We also need discernment, not just blind positivity, as we need to have the wisdom to point our positivity into right areas,...

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emptychair @innertalks (23750) • Australia 31 May

The Zen master would rise each morning, walk outside bare footed, hug a tree, then come back inside the meditation room, and sit for an hour in meditation. He did this for many years, and it became like a koan to his...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Yes, there must be a monkey in there somewhere, behind the workings of the machine. Each part of life has something vital in them that machines will forever lack, a connection to God, through love, truth, and living oneness.

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emptychair @innertalks (23750) • Australia 31 May

The Zen master would rise each morning, walk outside bare footed, hug a tree, then come back inside the meditation room, and sit for an hour in meditation. He did this for many years, and it became like a koan to his...

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emptychair @Shiva49 I wonder if Sri Ramakrishna really said that of himself? As, I have mentioned before, I knew two Australian self-acclaimed spiritual masters, who claimed that they only smoked to remain connected to the material world too. A real master does not...

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emptychair @innertalks (23750) • Australia 3 Jun

A student monk asked his old Zen master to tell him the secrets of Zen, that he had never shared with his students. The old man smiled, and replied, [b]"Nobody knows the secrets of Zen in their minds, not even...

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emptychair Impatience is a trait of an anxious mind, and we should stay with the peace in our hearts, as only the heart knows the real secrets, of which, the mind can never know. Yes, we should not just intermittingly connect to our hearts, and so spend the rest of our...

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emptychair @innertalks (23750) • Australia 3 Jun

A student monk asked his old Zen master to tell him the secrets of Zen, that he had never shared with his students. The old man smiled, and replied, [b]"Nobody knows the secrets of Zen in their minds, not even...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Yes, the nut cannot be separated from the tree, as it contains the tree within it too, but we, like the nut, should grow into who we are meant to be within God's creation, and not just stay, the nutty nut too.

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emptychair @innertalks (23750) • Australia 31 May

The Zen master would rise each morning, walk outside bare footed, hug a tree, then come back inside the meditation room, and sit for an hour in meditation. He did this for many years, and it became like a koan to his...

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emptychair @Jehanne My Father in law is 89 now, so it is good to see him as often as we can, even if it means putting up with the way they live, as if we stayed in a hotel, we could not see them daily, as we did there for the 3 weeks we stayed with them. Everything can...

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