Pema Pera: Hi there!
Hotaru Myoo: howdy
Pema Pera: Nice to see you here.
Pema Pera: You’re the first one so far this evening
Hotaru Myoo: geez
Hotaru Myoo: I understad it was a slow nite at the sitting too
Pema Pera: isn’t it fun, ten people some day and 1 or 2 the other?
Hotaru Myoo: yea
Hotaru Myoo: sine/cosine
Hotaru Myoo: steep curve time
Pema Pera: yup
Hotaru Myoo: feast/famine
Pema Pera: I actually like it a lot — gives you the chance to sample very different atmospheres and moods
Hotaru Myoo: click your heels
Pema Pera: hehe
Pema Pera: where will you transport us to when we click?
Hotaru Myoo: yes…but the dialogue can be a bit thin if it is just you..and the rocks
Hotaru Myoo: ahh
Hotaru Myoo: OZ
Hotaru Myoo: a little piece of heaven…my good friend
Hotaru Myoo: in so far as PaB goes..
Hotaru Myoo: it is a place I bring myself to…
Hotaru Myoo: as often as possible
Pema Pera: I saw the Wizzard of Oz long ago in a small theatre in Ann Arbor, the original movie version, and someone was playing the piano with it, live !
Hotaru Myoo: goodness
Hotaru Myoo: what as pecial moment
Pema Pera: it was!
Pema Pera: you could feel the atmosphere
Pema Pera: everybody kinda hushed
Hotaru Myoo: palpable
Hotaru Myoo: Star Wars of the 50’s
Pema Pera: yeah, nice comparison!
Hotaru Myoo: in a land …far,far away..
Pema Pera: tp me :-)
Hotaru Myoo: lol
Hotaru Myoo: isn’t that what sl is for us?
Pema Pera: indeed
Oz via SL led us to talk about other realms.
Hotaru Myoo: PaB is an extention into rl
Hotaru Myoo: the connective tissue
Pema Pera: and hopefully beyond rl
Pema Pera: the main idea of PaB is to wake up :-)
Hotaru Myoo: well yes..
Hotaru Myoo: the existential
Pema Pera: to what is, and many other experience can help, as guides, as inspirations
Hotaru Myoo: I still feel that if you are habitualted..
Pema Pera: traditionally, the image of waking up from a dream has been used
Hotaru Myoo: at some point…you are fully awake
Pema Pera: or looking at a quiet body of water, seeing the reflections and then realizing that the reflections are not real
Pema Pera: can you say more, Hotaru?
Hotaru Myoo: wait..
Hotaru Myoo: how can you separate one mind…
Hotaru Myoo: awake or asleep ..
Hotaru Myoo: it is the same mind…
Pema Pera: ultimately yes
Hotaru Myoo: in different states
Pema Pera: so it is like a telescope, you can look through either end
Hotaru Myoo: just as concsiousness has its peaks and valleys..
Hotaru Myoo: so do our unconscious states
Pema Pera: from the point of view of Being (which is not a point really) there is only Being ; from our point of view there are different gradations of waking up and seeing more and deeper and clearer and getting closer to BEing
Hotaru Myoo: that is our linitation as mere mortals
The image of a telescope came to mind.
Pema Pera: So traditionally, when someone looks through the Being end of the telescope they just say “ah!” or hold up a flower . . . .
Hotaru Myoo: I once created a whole series of works based on seeing
Hotaru Myoo: lenses
Hotaru Myoo: kinda akin to the idea of vessel
Pema Pera: . . . and when someone looks through the usual-daily-mind end of the telescope, they use images like waking up (from dream, reflection, movie, SL, whatever!)
Hotaru Myoo: but more intimately focused….
Hotaru Myoo: haha
Hotaru Myoo: wow..
Pema Pera: what kind of series of works was that?
Hotaru Myoo: talk about weaving
Pema Pera: hahaha
Hotaru Myoo: i blow glass
Pema Pera: we’re doign pretty well
Pema Pera: how nice!
Pema Pera: do you have pictures on the web?
Hotaru Myoo: so I was using the medium to create lenses of our states of mind
Hotaru Myoo: focussing in
Hotaru Myoo: and out
Pema Pera: real lenses !?!
Hotaru Myoo: no
Hotaru Myoo: psuedo lenses
Pema Pera: you’ll have to bring them to Japan then :-)
Pema Pera: lens-look-alikes
Hotaru Myoo: I am a psuedo scientist
Hotaru Myoo: haha
Pema Pera: hehe
Pema Pera: virtual scientist
Hotaru Myoo: doesn’t work that way in the cockpit…tho
Hotaru Myoo: must be grounded at times…or not
Pema Pera: I saw a lentil salad here, yesterday, and the Japanese text explained that lentils are like little lenses
Hotaru Myoo: yes…cloudy ones
Pema Pera: while in fact historically, the word lens comes from “looks like a lentiL” :-)
Hotaru Myoo: get out!
Hotaru Myoo: stick that in your contacts
Johnson walked by, and saw us both sitting on the wooden board outside the hut. He tried to sit on the wooden block next to the entrance, but was then oriented away from us. So he got up again, and sat next to us, the three of us in a row now.
Hotaru Myoo: Hi Johnson!
Johnson Euler: Hello.
Pema Pera: Hi Johnson!
Pema Pera: welcome back!
Pema Pera: we’ll have to make better sitting areas here outside
Pema Pera: sorry about that!
Hotaru Myoo: oh
Pema Pera: How’ve you been Johnson?
Hotaru Myoo: I found some great stumps!
Hotaru Myoo: near the onsen I visit in sl
Johnson Euler: Pretty good.
Pema Pera: where is that, Kyoto in SL?
Pema Pera: Gion?
Hotaru Myoo: hmmm
Hotaru Myoo: I’ll look
Johnson Euler: Hmm. Most dispersed already. I’m just running late tonight.
Hotaru Myoo gave you HOT SPRING SHIKI , Taesot (194, 193, 95).
Hotaru Myoo: Hot Spring Shiki
Hotaru Myoo: @ Taesot
Pema Pera: Thanks, Hotaru! And Johnson, I’ll have to leave in a few minutes too
Pema Pera: These meetings vary quite a bit in lenght
Pema Pera: sometimes just 30 minutes
Pema Pera: sometimes one or two hours :-)
Before I left, Hotaru had a question.
Hotaru Myoo: Just a few quick thought on PaB?
Pema Pera: as the mood strikes us and people have time
Pema Pera: sure, Hotaru!
Pema Pera: go right ahead!
Johnson Euler: I have to get going pretty soon too. Just thought I’d drop in and see what’s going on.
Hotaru Myoo: I’m opening it up to Johnson..
Pema Pera: you’re welcome any time Johnson!
Hotaru Myoo: click ur heels
Pema Pera: Always nice to see you dropping by
Pema Pera: ah, Hotaru, you’re asking for our thoughts?
Hotaru Myoo: si
Hotaru Myoo: today’s
Pema Pera guessing a verb in Hot’s sentence, like he does with Japanese friends
Pema Pera: Today’s thought? There are many levels within the 9 seconds
Pema Pera: there is the initial flash
Pema Pera: the next second
Pema Pera: the next eight second
Pema Pera: all totally different
Pema Pera: How’s that for a little bundle of thoughts?
Pema Pera: ::-)
Hotaru Myoo: like a tossed salad
Just when I was about to get up, Terri dropped by, teleporting right into the tea room behind our back. I decided to linger just a bit more.
Hotaru Myoo: Hi Terri
Pema Pera: Hi Terri!
Terri Holrych: hi
Pema Pera: come join us!
Terri Holrych: i crashed earlier
Terri Holrych: did you see spiritno name
Hotaru Myoo: no
Terri Holrych: ok
Pema Pera: no not in the last 3/4 hour
Hotaru Myoo: but u r here
Pema Pera: we’re sitting here outside
Pema Pera: yup
Hotaru Myoo: how are you?
Terri Holrych: good
Terri Holrych: i rented a mobile home today
Terri Holrych: i guess i live here now
Hotaru Myoo: ohhh…nice
Terri Holrych: how are yall
Pema Pera: big step!
Hotaru Myoo: does it have wings?
Pema Pera: haha
Terri Holrych: i know
Terri Holrych: lol
Terri Holrych: no but it has a perfect spot for an altar
Hotaru Myoo: nice
Terri made a remark about my hair, but I was confused for a moment about the interweaving conversation. And thanks to Hotaru, I’m brushing up my fading knowledge of the Addams family . . . .
Terri Holrych: u still have dreads
Hotaru Myoo: what will you build there?
Terri Holrych: pema
Terri Holrych: haha
Terri Holrych: um in rl?
Hotaru Myoo: I think he looks like cousin It
Terri Holrych: rofl
Terri Holrych: i look dumb i just threw this on
Hotaru Myoo: I say this fondly…Pema
Pema Pera: you mean build in SL?
Terri Holrych: i rented a plot
Hotaru Myoo: yes…
Hotaru Myoo: to Terri…the altar
Terri Holrych: oh a guan yin
Hotaru Myoo: nice
Pema Pera: sorry I got confused for a moment in the conversation
Pema Pera: didn’t connect the “dreads” with my sleek long hair haha :-)
Hotaru Myoo: gee..how could that happen?
Terri Holrych: its kind of clumpy
Terri Holrych: like braids in the dark
Hotaru Myoo: the hair or the altar?
Pema Pera: hahaha
Terri Holrych: ugh
Terri Holrych: i stayed up all night building a house
Terri Holrych: and i kept accidentally deleting it
Hotaru Myoo: nice
Terri Holrych: lol
Hotaru Myoo: oops
Terri Holrych: i knowww
Terri Holrych: its the first one
Pema Pera: sounds like quite an adventure, Terri!
Terri Holrych: i picked up the bra off the floor and picked up the house instead
Terri Holrych: doh
Hotaru Myoo: many storis can be attached to’the first one’
Terri Holrych: lol
Hotaru Myoo: now ..that’s a first!
Unfortunately, I really had to leave at this point.
Pema Pera getting really curious to hear more, wish he didn’t have to go . . . . .
Terri Holrych: it would never happen in rl
Pema Pera: hehehe
Hotaru Myoo: what did you think in those 9 seconds?
Terri Holrych: where u going
Terri Holrych: hehe
Pema Pera: well, I’m afraid I have to go now, RL calling . . . . . sorry to have so little time, Johnson and Terri — we normally start at the hour, but of course you’re more than welcome to drop by any time!
Terri Holrych: “crap i have to put it back”
Pema Pera: lunch time in Japan
Johnson Euler: Rice again?
Terri Holrych: i was here at 7 with snn
Hotaru Myoo: and…on time!
Terri Holrych: lol
Terri Holrych: then my puter pooped out
Terri Holrych: so i did some googling
Pema Pera: see you all, enjoy the tea house!
Hotaru Myoo: Pema..thanks as always!
Terri Holrych: thanks pema
Pema Pera: same to you Hotaru!
Hotaru Myoo: enjoy the rice variation!
Pema Pera: and Terri and Johnson!
Terri Holrych: hehe
Pema Pera: yup
Pema Pera: with nattou, yummi
Terri Holrych: i am hungry too
Johnson Euler: Night, Pema.
Hotaru Myoo: matane
Pema Pera: jaa, mata!
Terri Holrych: maybe i will go to jack in the box
Pema Pera: ((kawaii))
Hotaru Myoo: :)
Terri Holrych: lollll
Terri Holrych: kawaiii me wants it
Hotaru Myoo: nite all!
