That evening started off with Stargate and Dakini and me in the tea house.
Pema Pera: Hi * !
Stargate Tone: Hi :)’
Stargate Tone: How r You ?
Pema Pera: I am fine, just had breakfast
Pema Pera: here in Tokyo
Pema Pera: And how about you?
Pema Pera: Hi Dakini!
Pema Pera: Have you two met each other?
Stargate Tone: I am yes * Hi Dakini
Dakini Rhode: hi Stargate :-)
Pema Pera: Dakini built this tea house
Stargate Tone: **
Stargate Tone: we met once ?
Dakini Rhode: Stargate do you and Pema know each other?
Stargate Tone: yes
Pema Pera: Stargate has visited here a few times before
Stargate Tone: …didn’t we meet once ; You , me and Pema here ?
Pema Pera: during our PaB meetings
Dakini Rhode: I’m quite sure you’re right….
Pema Pera: We have four meetings every day
Stargate Tone: ..thought that I could’ve have dremt that too :)*
Pema Pera: haha, who knows!
Dakini Rhode: My SL is getting a little busy
Stargate Tone: well…U two can know *
Dakini Rhode: haha
Memories were brought up of a month or so ago, when we had attic problems.
Stargate Tone: …there was some lag with the wall or the ceiling…
Stargate Tone: that U Daikini said that needs to fix
Dakini Rhode: people getting stuck in the ceiling?
Stargate Tone: U did
Dakini Rhode: haha you were definitely here
Dakini Rhode: that was a long time ago…
Pema Pera: seems like ages ago
Stargate Tone: well…few weeks…
Pema Pera: perhaps a month almost :-)
Pema Pera: yes
Stargate Tone: few centuries :)*
Stargate Tone: to me too *
Stargate Tone: or maybe even more; donno how it’s said in english
Stargate Tone: the ‘next level expression’ of time…
Pema Pera: Hi Stim!
Stim Morane: Hi all!
Stargate Tone: Hello Stim *
Stim Morane: Hi Stargate!
Dakini Rhode: hi Stim
Stim Morane: Hi Dakini!
After Stim had joined us, we talked about the ways to sit down here in the tea house.
Pema Pera: Stim, you haven’t met Stargate yet I think?
Stim Morane: no
Pema Pera: She has been here a few times before
Stargate Tone: no we have not met
Pema Pera: Stargate, Stim is one of our regulars
Pema Pera: Actually, Stim and I have been working together for twelve years already in RL
Pema Pera: And now you look like a small *
Pema Pera: on that tinies’ cushion :-)
Stargate Tone: yea
Stargate Tone: is it bad thing ?
Pema Pera: hahaha
Stim Morane: an interesting effect … I think I’ll stick to the regular zabutans
Pema Pera: Dakini and I look like your parents now
Stargate Tone: …didn’t feel well that Stim was behind…
Stim Morane: yes I appreciate your gesture
Stargate Tone: well…that’s good or bad thing ?
Dakini Rhode: seeing regular avs on those tinie cushions is so funny
Stargate Tone: ok
Stim Morane: it’s not that I didn’t like sitting next to you. But I just spent the afternoon sitting at the monastery here, and am happy to stretch
Stargate Tone: so it’s not bad thing *
Stargate Tone: Understand * Indeed I do *
Pema Pera: Did you teach there, Stim?
Stargate Tone: as I have not distance to my Av *
Stargate Tone: …understand also if somebody wants to take that to me :)****
Stim Morane: not today, no
Stim Morane: I just sat there
Stargate Tone: …I was awakened to come here now …
Stargate Tone: ?
Stargate Tone: might that been to meet U Stim P
Dakini Rhode: where do you live in the world, Stargate?
Stim Morane: you never know … or at least I never do
Stargate Tone: how U feel about my saying ?
Stargate Tone: well; not needed to answer
Stim had been called by to RL briefly, so he responded later. During that time, Mongo joined us as well.
Stargate Tone: I’m just very curious person; my body do live in Finland
Pema Pera: Hi Mongo!
Stargate Tone: Hi Mongo :)*
Stim Morane: Hi Mongo!
Mongo McGinnis: hi
Dakini Rhode: You know, Stargate, I think we did not meet as avs - but I did read the blog
Stim Morane: I was away from the computer for a minute, hope i didn’t miss your entry
Stargate Tone: the blog ?
Dakini Rhode: the conversations in these meetings are on Pema’s blog
Pema Pera: http://playasbeing.wordpress.com/
Stargate Tone: **
Stargate Tone: so we met on the soul level :)*
Pema Pera: I write parts of our dialogues here on that blog
Stim Morane: Hi Steve and Rowan!
Pema Pera: Hi Steve!
stevenaia Michinaga: evening
Pema Pera: And hi Rowan!
Rowan Masala: Hi :)
Stargate Tone: Hi Rowan and U dear without the name :)***
Stim Morane: Actually, I have to duck out, could only stay for a few minutes.
Dakini Rhode: Hi Steve and Rowan!
Pema Pera: tc Stim, thanks for stopping by!
Stargate Tone: sry; didn’t see stevenaia
After Steve and Rowan had joined us, Stim left.
Rowan Masala: Hi Dakini
Rowan Masala: it’s so beautiful here
Pema Pera: Yes, Dakini created a beautiful place for us — she built it
Stim Morane: Sure, Bye!
stevenaia Michinaga: hello again Dakini
Rowan Masala nods, smiling
Rowan Masala: Dakini, can you tell me about the symbol on the wall hanging in here/
Dakini Rhode: sorry Rowan, I was in IM hell
stevenaia Michinaga: so hell does exist?
Rowan Masala: and I lost power and had to grab my cord
Dakini Rhode: lol apparently
Stargate Tone: it does…on Earth :)*
stevenaia Michinaga: in SL
Stargate Tone: and on the next level is all does not go easy
Rowan Masala: on the Rezzable sims, if nowhere else
Dakini Rhode: this is a teahouse, and in the traditional Japanese style, has a little enclosure for flowers and a scroll
Stargate Tone: also pierre has builded heaven in SL; that’s an office…
Rowan Masala nods
Stargate Tone: You all know each other before ?
Pema Pera: all of us have met here before in this tea house, yes
stevenaia Michinaga: we have all been here more than once
Pema Pera: Steve has been here many times, and Mongo too
Pema Pera: Rowan came recently
Pema Pera: Stargate has been here a few times too
Dakini Rhode: and it seems i am just now arriving here…
Stargate had notice Steve’s group name “Yogi”
Stargate Tone: U steve have the title Yogi; U create the cool wind ?
stevenaia Michinaga: no I am a novice yoga student
Stargate Tone: U sure ?
stevenaia Michinaga: there is much I can;t do, so yes
Stargate Tone: well…there’s much to all that one cannot do…
stevenaia Michinaga: I may be a student for a long time
Stargate Tone: in case U take Urself to be one
Stargate Tone: then it is yes
Stargate Tone: I’ve read ‘few’ books…well…tried to read
Stargate Tone: thinking they are much wiser than what I know
Stargate Tone: read few pages and throwed them to wall …
Stargate Tone: cuz I got so much pain from them…
stevenaia Michinaga: I take classes , watch the impossible things the instructor does
Dakini Rhode: hmm only one book i did that with
Dakini Rhode: it had a lesson i needed to learn
Stargate Tone: oh
stevenaia Michinaga: not sure yoga is something you read about and get muchout of
Stargate Tone: all of them books had that lesson to me….
Dakini Rhode: :-)
Stargate Tone: may I tell what was that lesson ?
Stargate Tone: it was even ‘repeating’ lesson to me…
Stargate Tone: this;
Stargate Tone: never read that way
Dakini Rhode: what way is that?
Stargate Tone: as I read them books lifiting them against my chest…
Stargate Tone: had “known” for long time before I tried to read them books
Stargate Tone: that I must not brake my inner circles knowledge
Dakini Rhode: why did you want to throw the books?
Stargate Tone: thionking that some book could hold more *
Dakini Rhode: so you were angry with yourself then?
Stargate Tone: they were so black and white or worshipping only one thing
Stargate Tone: one was warshipping the writer himself
Stargate Tone: like there’s this Dt.Turi
Dakini Rhode: are you looking for something to worship?
Stargate Tone: who tells choct to chost castings things that shall happen
Stargate Tone: no
Stargate Tone: I dont worship but Life itself
Stargate Tone: but…was to say, that for example that Dr. Turi is always right
Stargate Tone: he always tells the truth
Stargate Tone: yet
Stargate Tone: he also do preast that only his ‘method’ is the way to save oneself
Stargate Tone: and that’s no truth
Stargate Tone: there’s almost as many ways to live the best life than there’s persons….
Stargate Tone: cuz each life is unic
Stargate Tone: but nobody needs to hear me :)****
Stargate Tone: I’m just one person *
Stargate Tone: sometimes very talkeable :)*
Stargate Tone: but…Pema; U’ve never told anything about Urself….
Stargate Tone: would like to hear….
Dakini Rhode: are you kidding, Pema tells all about himself
Pema Pera: hahaha
Dakini Rhode: in his blog :-)
Touche! :>)
Stargate Tone: I’ve never heared
Stargate Tone: ok
Stargate Tone: …have not much time to read…
Dakini Rhode: Lots to read there, but don’t throw it on the wall coputer mighte break
Pema Pera: I’m an astronomer from Holland, living in New York, but actually now in Tokyo . . . a bit confusing
Dakini Rhode: sorry about spelling, bad connection
Pema Pera: Talking about books and reading, Rowan, I like the two quotes in your profile, but I don’t know Suzanne Vega — who is she?
Pema Pera: I mentioned your Klee quote the other day
Pema Pera: about the unborn
Rowan Masala: she’s a musician
Rowan Masala: the quote is from a song she did in the late 80’s
Rowan Masala: and I honestly haven’t followed her since then, but that one kept coming to mind in relation to SL
Pema Pera: The quote reminded me of a song by George Moustaki
Pema Pera: Greek singer living in France
Pema Pera: of a song by him in the early seventies “Le Temps de Vivre”
Stargate Tone: well; that tells huge much of our kind of ppls life…
Pema Pera: in which he talked about two lovers who are together “sans projets et sans habitudes” — without projects and without habits
Rowan Masala: ohh–what a lovely image
Rowan Masala: I wonder if it can be that way
Rowan Masala: no agendas
Rowan Masala: just life together
Pema Pera: “nous pouvons rever notre vie” — we can dream our life, was the next part
Stargate Tone: many ppl do that ‘agenda’…
Pema Pera: yes, no agendas
Rowan Masala: mmm
Pema Pera: in the song it was possible, yes :-)
We continued talking about songs and agendas.
Rowan Masala: will have to look him up
Stargate Tone: just to live one’s ‘own’ life…
Stargate Tone: meaning, that all of the ppl do not need to be aware of one’s ‘agenda’…
Stargate Tone: I believe I’d use the word ‘mission’
Rowan Masala: Pema, are you in Tokyo for a visit, or living there?
Stargate Tone: as I’m not still clear of the word ‘agenda’…
Pema Pera: in between, Rowan
Pema Pera: repeat visitor :-)
Rowan Masala smiles
Pema Pera: agenda means plans to do things
Pema Pera: projects to carry out
Stargate Tone: …think I learned now more also of the expression ’smiles’
Stargate Tone: ok
Rowan Masala smiles at Stargate
Stargate Tone: well; is this agenda; to do what one’s heart do call to do ?
Rowan Masala: no–agenda is typically used in a more negative way
Stargate Tone: ok
Rowan Masala: sort of forced, or artificial
Stargate Tone: that’s why I feel that word to be bad…
Rowan Masala nods
Stargate Tone: but …like I learned more of ’smiles’
Stargate Tone: I also learned much much of the word ‘agenda’
stevenaia Michinaga: where are you from Stargate?
Stargate Tone: You here are very good teachers *
Stargate Tone: Finland
Pema Pera: Rowan, here is the full text: Nous prendrons le temps de vivre D’être libres mon amour Sans projets et sans habitudes Nous pourrons rêver notre vie R Viens, je suis là, je n’attends que toi Tout est possible, tout est permis 2 Vi ens, écoute, les mots qui vibrent Sur les murs du mois de mai Ils te disent la certitude Que tout peut changer un jour 3 Nous prendrons le temps de vivre D’être libres mon amour…
Pema Pera: http://www.azlyrics.us/173558
Dakini was about to leave.
Dakini Rhode: Folks, please excuse me
Stargate Tone: **
Dakini Rhode: Unable to stay longer…
Mongo McGinnis: bye
Stargate Tone: Sayonara
Pema Pera: good night, Dakini!
Rowan Masala: good to meet you, Dakini
stevenaia Michinaga: dye Dakini
Mongo McGinnis: have a good night
stevenaia Michinaga: bye
Dakini Rhode: Namaste
Rowan Masala: thank you, Pema
Pema Pera: I should be going too
Pema Pera: almost noon — back to work
stevenaia Michinaga: thanks Pema
Rowan Masala smiles
Pema Pera: thank you Steve, and All, for coming here!
Stargate Tone: thank You Pema for Ur time again *
Rowan Masala: thank you–I’ll look up the song
Pema Pera: yw!
stevenaia Michinaga: nice meeting you Stargate
Pema Pera: Do you speak/read French, Rowan, by any chance?
Rowan Masala: badly
Rowan Masala: only what I remember from 20 years ago
Pema Pera: Well, here is the rough translation
Rowan Masala: but was able to get some sense of the lyrics
Without any claim for accuracy, I attempted a quick sketch of a translation.
Pema Pera: We can take our time to live, to be free, my love ; without projects and habits we can dream our lives ;
Rowan Masala smiles
Pema Pera: Come, here I am, I am not paying attention to anyone but you ; anything is possible anything is permitted
stevenaia Michinaga: enjoy your lunch Pema, always a pleasure
Pema Pera: sorry, lots of lag while typing
Pema Pera: well, that was the first half — lovely song
Rowan Masala: yes!
Rowan Masala: can’t wait to hear it
Stargate Tone: very lovely yes *
Pema Pera: okay, take care everyone
Pema Pera: good seeing y’all!
Pema Pera: bye * !
Stargate Tone: Have Good Time Pema
Rowan Masala: good day, Pema
stevenaia Michinaga: ouch
Pema Pera: SL acting up
Stargate Tone: yes
Pema Pera: incredible lag oh well
Pema Pera: c u !
Stargate Tone: **
Steve’s exclamation was triggered be me flying prematurely against a beam in the room :-). I then made it out safely, and was on my way.
