emptychair

@innertalks (23061)

Australia

Joined myLot 10 years ago

An older guy who loves to think a bit differently and use his own words to write with. I don't like stealing others thoughts, ideas. Original writing is my way.

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Zen story: The old Zen master got some Zen sense knocked into him

emptychair @innertalks (23061) • Australia 4 Aug

The old Zen master was sitting under a tree, when a branch snapped off, and fell down on him, and knocked him out. When he finally came too, a good while later, he quipped to himself. "Another branch of Zen has opened up...

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Short story: Do not allow life events to turn your life into a life of wantonness

emptychair @innertalks (23061) • Australia 1 Aug

Alexandra was a good shepherd, looking after his flock of sheep, until one night he fell into a deep sleep, while looking after them, and several sheep were then eaten by wolves. He was very upset when he awoke, but the...

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Short story: Is darkness still a part of light?

emptychair @innertalks (23061) • Australia 25 Jul

The old Zen master was found once in his room, seated on a cushion, on the floor, in the dark, in the middle of the night. The student checking up on him, asked him: “Why are you not sleeping at this late hour, oh,...

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Short story: The demented Zen master

emptychair @innertalks (23061) • Australia 16 Jul

The old Zen master, Artop Freskoski, was already old and feeble, but now he was suffering from dementia too. He was thoughtful about this condition, wondering if it would affect his enlightenment too. [b]He had been...

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Short story: The zen of death is the way of love

emptychair @innertalks (23061) • Australia 10 Jul

The old Zen master, was suffering in his breathing, that had become laboured, and long. He tried to draw in the life-giving air, but he was too weak to draw in enough. He knew that he was not long for this world. He had...

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Short story: The humour of death is found in a continuing of life after death

emptychair @innertalks (23061) • Australia 30 Jun

The old Zen master, Reski Zerploski, seemed to be very serious in his nature, during the latter period of his life. He seemed to have lost his sense of humour. He had been this way ever since his fellow Zen master, in a...

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Zen story: The role of the Zen master

emptychair @innertalks (23061) • Australia 28 Jun

The Zen master, Artrep Plerposki, was telling his students about the true role of a Zen master to his students. He said: [b]"A Zen master nurtures the soul of their student, as a quick accented inspiration, brought about...

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Short story: The coming and going of love

emptychair @innertalks (23061) • Australia 23 Jun

The Zen master, Helklu Zerboski, told his students that life is not short, nor long, nor does it pass at all. Life has no coming, or going, no entering, or departing. Here is some more of what he said about, life and...

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Short story: John visits his doctor, and felt his doctor's anguished feeling of being trapped in his job

emptychair @innertalks (23061) • Australia 17 Jun

John went to his local doctor yesterday, and he was surprised that his usual doctor, Doctor Mal Lomback, was still there. At his last visit, a few months back, the doctor had told John that he would be retiring at the end...

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Short story: Can we become who we really are?

emptychair @innertalks (23061) • Australia 9 Jun

The Philosophy Professor was philosophising over this quote to his class. "The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." This quote is from the well-known psychotherapist, Carl Jung. The Professor...

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Short story: A New Age guru meets up with a Zen master

emptychair @innertalks (23061) • Australia 3 Jun

A new age guru, had come to put his ideas to the old Zen master, the head of the Segana Monastery. He asked a student monk to go, and to make his request, to the master. The Zen master left the monastery meditation room,...

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Short story: Stay away from contention of any sort

emptychair @innertalks (23061) • Australia 31 May

[i]The old Zen master, Artrop Verboxki, had been the Zen master for the last fifteen years, of the Longarc Zen Monastery, after the mantle was passed onto him by the last master, who had died, but not before picking his next...

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Short story: A sermon on love

emptychair @innertalks (23061) • Australia 26 May

Reverend Patal Gerbroskja, used to begin most of his weekly sermons, with a short poem of his own, and then he would talk about what it meant. Last Sunday was no different, and Reverend Patal started with this short...

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Short story: Intelligence is not even knee deep in the Universe

emptychair @innertalks (23061) • Australia 22 May

Rabbi Shaho Rexospki, had been asked this question by one of his students Is the Universe intelligent? Here was his answer: "I have heard that someone said that the Universe is not intelligent as a whole, but some think...

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Short story: Truth lives in us when we live within it. Do not live a lie.

emptychair @innertalks (23061) • Australia 19 May

Rabbi Anton Breshnev was asked by one of his students about truth. He told him, that when we come across truth, we are meant to come across it, and it is meant for us to receive it right here, and now. [b]If we come...

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Short story: Never remain just a shadow of your real self

emptychair @innertalks (23061) • Australia 14 May

[i]The old Reverend, Tony Delsfield, told a parishioner that words from the heart are one with God, whereas words from the mind can distance you from both your heart, and from God too, when they are spoken without due...

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

emptychair @innertalks (23061) • Australia 12 May

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: When is enlightenment not enlightenment? When its delusion!

emptychair @innertalks (23061) • Australia 7 May

The Zen master was eating a meal of fish, when a student asked him, why are you not a vegetarian, a man of your stage of enlightenment? The Zen master replied simply: "Diet is more of the body than of the soul."...

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Zen story: The nodding rock

emptychair @innertalks (23061) • Australia 5 May

The Zen master was walking along a road, when he tripped on a small rock, placed there by someone for some reason, or another. He said to the rock: "Your smallness creates your bigness, and even the big like me can fall...

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Zen story: The way of the foot, should not lead us astray

emptychair @innertalks (23061) • Australia 1 May

The old Zen master walked along the river, looking down at his feet, as he walked, and then a man, walking towards him said, to him. "Why look down, when the whole world should be looking up at God, not down at his...

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