Steve Marshall

@innertalks (22476)

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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Steve Marshall's Discussions

Zen story: The way of Zen is the Zen of your way

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22476) • Australia 24 Mar

A would be student approached the renowned Zen master, Artov Breshsky, and asked him if he could he teach him the way of Zen. The master replied, [b]"I have nothing of Zen to teach anyone, as there is no way of Zen, no...

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Short Story: The Monotony of Daily Life

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22476) • Australia 20 Mar

Fugueh Gotimo, was a Japanese Zen master of the 13th century. He used to walk the same path to his market store, each and every day, where he would work until late, and then walk home, once again. Day after day, 6 days a...

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Zen story: The Zen master's garden

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22476) • Australia 18 Mar

The old Zen master, Ludov Zerbroski, was singing softly to himself, as he worked in the Zen garden of his monastery, pruning the bonsai plants there carefully. A student walked over to him, and said to him, [i]"why work...

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Why is life mostly, seemingly, pretty mundane?

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22476) • Australia 13 Mar

The smaller details of our life are as important as the larger details are. We need to be alert to all of the minor details of our lives, at all times, at home, at work, and even in temporary situations, like when on...

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Short story: A tree zenned it to him

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22476) • Australia 4 Mar

The old Zen master was sick, and dying, but he wanted to come up with at least one more new Zen koan for his students before he died. He thought about this a bit, but not coming up with anything, he walked outside slowly,...

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Short story: Character, and personality

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22476) • Australia 2 Mar

Rabbi Resky Ashpodi, was chatting to his students about character, and about how one could assess the character of somebody else. He said to them that there are 3 main ways to assess somebody’s character. [b]One way is to...

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Short Story: Divine Silence brings forth divine truths

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22476) • Australia 24 Feb

The renowned Zen master, Artov Kronmult, was a talking to his students about divine silence. He gave them this koan: [i]A dog barked loudly in the courtyard, but who was barking the dog, or the Universe through...

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Short story: Can love be inherited?

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22476) • Australia 17 Feb

Pastor Fred Gallows was giving a sermon on love. He said to his captive audience that Sunday morning: "I was reading where a Rabbi claimed the Bible figure Abraham's love was inherited by the Jewish people." "This got me...

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Short story: Ridding ourselves of doubt

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22476) • Australia 10 Feb

Pastor, Ruffy Gornish, was chatting to a parishioner about doubts, after the man had expressed his doubts about God to the pastor. Here are the words given in reply by the pastor that Sunday morning, after his sermon that...

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Short story: The knowing heart

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22476) • Australia 3 Feb

The Spiritual master, Sri Kotan Zerskoski, was distinguishing to his students about the heart, and the mind. He said that the thinking mind does not really know reality, and only the knowing heart knows the true reality...

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Short story: The zen master bounces into life, as himself

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22476) • Australia 30 Jan

The Zen master was walking along a beach, when he picked up a flat stone, which he then threw into the water, so that it bounced three, or four times, off of the water. He said to his students: "We all need to bounce off...

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The ego, life, and love

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22476) • Australia 26 Jan

We should not try to destroy our ego, but to work with it. Our ego is a part of who we are. Our total person includes our ego. We need to connect our ego to our soul, rather than to our mind, and so instead of...

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Short story: The energy to do evil never comes to us from love

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22476) • Australia 25 Jan

Rabbi Reskil Resposke, had been asked about the human inclination to commit bad acts, and not to always be willed by our higher self to live rightly, correctly, God aligned, lives. [b]This inbuilt inclination moves us away...

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Awakening to yourself, never needs you to develop a new self

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22476) • Australia 16 Jan

I read this on the Internet recently, written by some religious scholar. "Only the awakened can guide others to be awake." I thought about it, and came to the conclusion, that it is just not true. No, this is not true,...

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Discussion piece: The oneness of God

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22476) • Australia 13 Jan

An old Zen master was talking to a local Priest about the concept of oneness. [b]The Zen master knew that oneness was also advocated for by Christianity, as it was Jesus Christ himself who said that he, and his father,...

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The cunningness of a conniving Government

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22476) • Australia 7 Jan

After a long, lengthy, and protracted, almost painful, application process, I was finally approved for the pension, and a pensioner discount card. I was rather annoyed that I would not be getting a full pension, as the...

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Zen story: The blind Zen master

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22476) • Australia 2 Jan

The Zen master, Arturo Rexoskpi, was now rather old, and feeble, and he had lost his vision too. He was approaching 80 years of age, old for someone, at that time. He kept on being the Zen master of the monastery,...

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The stink of a New Year’s resolution

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22476) • Australia 31 Dec

Many of us might make a few New Year’s resolutions, but then as the year gets going, they often fade away into the background, and with that fading though, a noticeable stink is emitted. We might feel bad about not being...

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Short story: A chat over a back fence, between two elderly gents

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22476) • Australia 29 Dec

An older man was talking to his neighbour, also old, over the back fence, about his life, and he told him that life had brought him much pain, and that he had had to live through many a dark, and horrendous, moment. His...

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Wisdom, and thought

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22476) • Australia 24 Dec

There are reportedly two types of wisdom. One type of wisdom, we see in every aspect of creation, in that every element of creation can talk to us, and we can receive its wisdom, if we allow it to flow into us. [b]This...

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