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		Posted on May.22.2023 @ 09:40PM EDT by so_teh I don't know what I am seeing, hearing, feeling or thinking. There is just a fine quietness. Nothing that is there unusually but there is something present unmistakably. You wonder where everyone is going. It doesn't matter too much but you wonder...
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Reply from Avisitor May.23.2023 07:34AM EDT →Email Avisitor		Peace comes after spending quite some time just sitting Don't mean half an hour but months The mind sort of loses its footing and finds it is aloft Then after half an hour spent in the company of family and friends, All of it disappears and the business of the mind comes back
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Reply from so_teh May.24.2023 09:35PM EDT →Email so_teh		The blessing of Zen is once you know the basic observation of Zen, you will and can get by just fine.
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Reply from Avisitor May.25.2023 12:18AM EDT →Email Avisitor		Blessed be the Buddha
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Reply from so_teh May.28.2023 08:04PM EDT →Email so_teh		My soul is alone. Without identity. Without name. Without form. Without reason for being. I don't know where it comes from. I am not it but it is me.
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Reply from so_teh May.28.2023 09:00PM EDT →Email so_teh		The true feel of [today] is Separation. To have felt it, you are less a part of it than those who are creating more of it yet you still must endure it because interbeing is inescapable.
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Reply from so_teh May.28.2023 09:19PM EDT →Email so_teh		Life is suffering was the name back when Buddha said it. Life is separation in modern times now! Suffering has eased up a bit since Buddha's time. We have a bit less of it now I'm sure. I would call it "Life is Separation" nowadays.
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Reply from Avisitor May.29.2023 10:08AM EDT →Email Avisitor		Life is suffering is the reason for the person to search for an answer to escape suffering. Separation is just the form this life takes to show us this suffering. When separation is noticed, that is the beginning.
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Reply from so_teh May.29.2023 09:22PM EDT →Email so_teh		Atramentous pity Sun and Moon indistinguishable Visceral composure Emptiness, Signlessness, Aimlessness
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Reply from Avisitor Jun.02.2023 08:05PM EDT →Email Avisitor		What are the three things that can not be hidden for very long? The sun, the moon and the truth.
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Reply from so_teh Jun.06.2023 12:42PM EDT →Email so_teh		My energy is still. Their energy is topsy-turvy. What am I to do about this? Let it be.
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Reply from Avisitor Jun.06.2023 05:20PM EDT →Email Avisitor		Let what be?
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