Later I IMed the doubly little day dreamer, and indeed, she turned out to be Dutch, and we had a good and very meaningful chat. It reinforced my feeling that Rieul was the perfect choice for our Play as Being meetings, given the fascinating mix of people visiting this area. As I told Stim earlier, when he asked how people find our PaB tea house: 1/3 of them hear from me or from announcements; 1/3 hear from friends of friends, by word of mouth; and 1/3 just passes by without any particular intention.
Stim and I crossed the bridged and had just sat down for tea, when Riddle walked in.
Pema Pera: Hi Riddle!
Pema Pera: Come meet Steven
Pema Pera: as Stim ;>)
Pema Pera: Welcome back , Riddle, how have you been?
Riddle Sideways: heelo, sorry I am late
Pema Pera: np!
Pema Pera: Steven is now exploring SL
Pema Pera: as Stim
Riddle Sideways: I have been too busy
Pema Pera: too busy?
Riddle Sideways: wish I was making the money too
Pema Pera: haha
Pema Pera: yes
Riddle Sideways: I can not stay long either
Riddle Sideways: I have been reading the blog, when I can
Stim Morane: It’s nice to see you anyway.
Riddle Sideways: Hello Stim
Stim Morane: Yes, Hi!
Pema Pera: I hope the blog is fun to read
Riddle Sideways: yes
Pema Pera: and I hope I am not inundating people tooooo much!
Riddle Sideways: no, we take as much as we can
Pema Pera: glad to hear that ;>)
Riddle Sideways: Oh, just read the history
Riddle Sideways: and found out that Stim is Steven
Riddle Sideways: welcome to SL
Stim Morane: Yes, sorry… I thought that was clear. I should have said more.
At this point the wifi in my coffeeshop gave up the ghost. While I was struggling to get back in again, Riddle and Stim continued their conversation (with thanks to Stim for recording). Riddle first refered to the type of teachings that Stim/Steven has been given in our Qwaq Wok Forums (direct awareness practice).
Riddle Sideways: hmmmm, did pema poof
Stim Morane: It looks like it.
Riddle Sideways: I have been doing the morning exercise
Riddle Sideways: but not reporting to you
Stim Morane: I look forward to hearing how it’s going.
Riddle Sideways: I appear to be having issues with everything that has a particular time assoc with it
Riddle Sideways: coming into SL or Qwaq are but examples
Riddle Sideways: I try every morning to do the awareness exercise
Riddle Sideways: but cats, dogs, wife, kids, alarms, etc. :)
Riddle Sideways: usually interrupt
Stim Morane: Yes, I understand the problem very well
Stim Morane: One of the reasons for suggesting this practice, was simply to initiate a certain kind of discussion… that can happen at least in the short term without regular practice.
Riddle Sideways: I’ve been doing better with Piet’s exerise
Stim Morane: Good
Riddle Sideways: There are amazing differences with an hour, half hour, 25 breathes or 9 sec
Stim Morane: That’s interesting. What differences do you notice?
Riddle Sideways: The longer session are calming, peaceful, etc.
Riddle Sideways: the shorter ones seem… maybe cut off
Stim Morane: Yes, I see what you mean.
Riddle Sideways: I have a yahoo widget that gongs every 15 min
Riddle Sideways: and I write something
Stim Morane: I would like to find out more about that. Could you send me some kind of access link or whatever for the widget?
Riddle Sideways: it appears to mostly be where I am at that moment and why not in Being
Stim Morane: Yes, that’s a very good method… similar to traditional “town crier” approaches.
Riddle Sideways: Both google and yahoo have these widgets
Riddle Sideways: or do you have a Mac
Stim Morane: Now I use a PC.
Riddle Sideways: http://widgets.yahoo.com/
Stim Morane: Thanks.
Riddle Sideways: after download/install the widget engine, you add widget
Riddle Sideways: search through clocks
Riddle Sideways: grandfather is what I use
Riddle Sideways: reminds my of my parents house
Stim Morane: OK, I’ll try it. I’ve been looking for such a thing …
Stim Morane: I’m about to start asking people in my Direct Awareness forum to try a two-day experiment of doubling or tripling the amount of practice they are doing. I’ll let you know how this works out.
Riddle Sideways: 2x/3x times a day or length
Stim Morane: Now, just the length… this would mean doing the practice for about a half an hour once in the morning for two consecutive days.
Riddle Sideways: k
Stim Morane: It looks like Piet is having WiFi problems that the local tea shop he is using.
Riddle Sideways: yes
Riddle Sideways: is he still in cal
Stim Morane: I live in Berkeley California, and he is here visiting me.
Riddle Sideways: good, you get time together
Riddle Sideways: in RL
Stim Morane: That’s the theory. In practice, this virtual reality technology has had the effect of getting him involved in many more projects while he’s visiting.
Riddle Sideways: There are VR and VWs and I have started confusing several other places that my mind goes with them
Riddle Sideways: as in when reading a book
Stim Morane: I may be using the term incorrectly.
Riddle Sideways: a novel takes us to another place
Stim Morane: yes
Riddle Sideways: I listen to a lot of Audible.com books
Riddle Sideways: and have just noticed how different the worlds are
Riddle Sideways: when I read or have a male or female reader
Stim Morane: I have not had that experience, but it makes sense.
Riddle Sideways: WB Pema
At this point I managed to get back on-line.
Pema Pera: wow that was a rough ride
Pema Pera: sorry about that
Pema Pera: first the wifi at the coffeeshop here died
Pema Pera: then I switched to my own wireless modem
Pema Pera: but then SL refused to let me in repeatedly
Pema Pera: finally tp-ed me to a Japanese beach, telling me that Rieul was down
Pema Pera: but you have been here all the time, right?
SL may have been unstable, since at that point Sky came in briefly but then froze en disappeared again.
Pema Pera: hi Sky!
Riddle Sideways: Hi Sky
Stim Morane: Hi!
Riddle Sideways: right
Pema Pera: Sky, meet Stim aka Steven
Stim Morane: Glad to see you, Sky
Riddle Sideways: I am needing to leave now,
Pema Pera: Riddle and Stim, were you contineously connected here?
Stim Morane: Yes.
Stim Morane: I look forward to chatting with you again.
Riddle Sideways: yes
Pema Pera: Bye, Riddle, sorry that I had to miss the conversation!
Pema Pera: good luck in RL with your work!
Riddle Sideways: bye, thats ok
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