That morning, when I walked up to the tea house, I saw Fael and Trevor standing outside, both in similarly Royal looking red clothes, very pretty. Rajah was already inside the tea house, and so was Spock.
Fael Illyar: Hello Pema :)
Rajah Yalin: hi Pema
Pema Pera: Hi Fael and hi Trevor!
Trevor Berensohn: Ah there’s Pema
Pema Pera: All in red today, hey?
Pema Pera: looking great!
Fael Illyar: thank you :)
Trevor Berensohn: We had a shopping spree heh
Pema Pera: I guess the others are inside?
Trevor Berensohn: Which is no surprise here ahem
Rajah Yalin: i’m inside
I walked into the tea house.
Pema Pera: Hi Rajah!
Pema Pera: Shopping spree?
Pema Pera: Hi Spock!
Spock Yuitza: hi
Rajah Yalin: I haven’t asked anyone yet, but have you noticed I shaved? how does it look on me? do I need a beard again?
Fael Illyar: Trevor had a shopping spree at a shop I took him to. I had done most of mine way before. Somehow we both bought the same clothes separately.
Pema Pera: Well, Rajah, I guessed you were just adding yourself to this band of roving monks here in Rieul :)
Trevor Berensohn: it’s a good look for you, Raja
Rajah Yalin: I can be a monk with a beard too
Pema Pera: looks great on both of you, Trevor and Fael!
Trevor Berensohn: h
Pema Pera: very royal
Fael Illyar: it works :)
Rajah Yalin: this outfit is kind of a new outfit for me also, you might have noticed I’m not wearing the brown one anymore
Fael Illyar: although it still bothers me somewhat that you’re using a system skin.
Faenik loves wells!
Trevor Berensohn: Lots of color switching going on today
Pema Pera: It’s high time I go shopping . . ..
Pema Pera: just been too busy putting up four blogs a day :)
Rajah Yalin: :P
Rajah Yalin: I’m going to put my blog up sometime
Rajah Yalin: we already went over that last week, it’s still not up
Trevor Berensohn: Ha
Pema Pera: great, Rajah, looking forward to reading it!
Trevor Berensohn: That will be fun when you do Rajah
Trevor Berensohn: Yup, it’s all the color in the room heh
Talking about color, my eye fell on Faenik.
Pema Pera: btw, Fael, for a moment I thought that you had color coordinated Faenik as well
Pema Pera: Faenik looked red from my point of view
Fael Illyar: it’s the light source in my wings I think :)
Pema Pera: but when I turned my -yes!- camera he became black again
Fael Illyar: oh wait, it’s the transparency ordering “feature”
Pema Pera: so yes, it is the red wings
Pema Pera: nice to see Faenik color-shift!
Faenik: why not?
Trevor Berensohn: he compliments any outfit heh
Fael Illyar: from some angles, transparent surfaces are drawn in the wrong order
Trevor Berensohn: Yes that can be an interesting or troubling effect
Pema Pera: ah!
Fael Illyar: So Faenik becomes red because my wing gets drawn in front of him :)
Pema Pera: Spock, you’re new here in Second Life?
Spock Yuitza: yes
Pema Pera: Feel free to ask us questions
Pema Pera: We were all new once upon a time!
Pema Pera: We know how that feels (^_^)
Spock Yuitza: I practice Zen meditation in a temple in Spain
Rajah Yalin: great
Pema Pera: Wow!
Pema Pera: what type of zen?
Trevor Berensohn: Ah glad you’re here!
Pema Pera: do you know that we sit here every day?
Pema Pera: at 6 pm SL time
Spock told us about his RL zen involvement.
Spock Yuitza: My master studied in Japan
Pema Pera: just around the corner
Pema Pera: Ah, great, your master is Spanish too?
Fael Illyar: Spain is in Europe, I think that’s in the middle of night.
Pema Pera: no
Spock Yuitza: yes, but he was master in Japan with Desimaru
Pema Pera: ah yes
Pema Pera: sorry
Pema Pera: you mean 6 pm
Pema Pera: yes, 3 am
Rajah Yalin: it’s 1:18 AM here
Pema Pera: Deshimaru!!!!!
Pema Pera: That’s great
Spock Yuitza: in Spain is 16:15 now
Pema Pera: Impressive guy
Pema Pera: yes, but Zazen sitting is here at 6 pm which is 3 am for you
Rajah Yalin: spock, where are you at in Spain? my aunt lives in madrid - she is an english teacher I believe
Spock Yuitza: I life near from Madrid
Spock Yuitza: the temple is in Valencia
Rajah Yalin: ahh
Spock Yuitza: you can see www.luzserena.net
Faenik: ah :)
Pema Pera: nice home page!
Pema Pera: all those symbols
Storm walked in.
Rajah Yalin: hi Storm
Storm Nordwind: Hi
Pema Pera: Hi Storm!
Fael Illyar: Hi Storm
Rajah Yalin: where did Trevor go?
Fael Illyar: Most likely crashed
Pema Pera: Has any of you taken Storm’s latest balloon ride, over the sea and Vulcano island?
Pema Pera: worth a try — did it a few hours ago
Storm Nordwind: Lots of fun!
Rajah Yalin: no I haven’t - maybe I will but I don’t know where it is
Pema Pera: Storm, meet Spock, from Spain, practicing Soto Zen
Pema Pera: Spock, Storm is my neighbor here
Storm Nordwind: Hi Spock
Spock Yuitza: hi Storm
Rajah Yalin: thanks Storm
Rajah Yalin is homeless.
Spock Yuitza: oh, have you your own house here?
Storm Nordwind: I suspect not as he is very new, right?
Rajah Yalin: that was Spock asking, Storm
Storm Nordwind is obviously very muddled!
Rajah Yalin chuckles.
Pema Pera: Storm and I both have a home here, Spock
I summarized our activities.
Pema Pera: So what we do Spock is sit zazen nearby once a day, but also we gather here four times a day, every six hours
Pema Pera: http://playasbeing.wordpress.com/
Pema Pera: is our web site
Pema Pera: we do a kind of very short meditation
Pema Pera: 9 seconds only :)
Pema Pera: but every 15 minutes
Pema Pera: different from zen
Pema Pera: but similar too
Pema Pera: and as a group we are creating a forest
Spock Yuitza: 9 seconds only?
Faenik: could be
Pema Pera: a large forest with many retreat huts
Pema Pera: so all of us can have a little home there
Pema Pera: yes, 9 seconds only
Pema Pera: but then every 15 minutes
Rajah Yalin: I want a home lol
Pema Pera: so the emphasis is on continuity and frequency
Pema Pera: instead of duration
Pema Pera: Rajah, you can get your home here
Pema Pera: you’re a guardian :)
Pema Pera: just talk with Storm!
Storm Nordwind thinks Rajah can have a home in the forest
Rajah Yalin: I thought about asking about one of the little plots he has
Rajah Yalin: near the inn
Pema Pera: one is yours for the choosing!
The conversation crossed over between SL and RL.
Spock Yuitza: really i have a litle wood house in my temple luz Serena
Pema Pera: how nice, Spock!
Pema Pera: do you practice there?
Spock Yuitza: yes
Spock Yuitza: i life there many months in year
Pema Pera: If you want to get an idea of what we normally talk about, there are many conversations there on http://playasbeing.wordpress.com/
Rajah Yalin: today has been a little bit of a… general chat :P
Storm Nordwind: Chat is good. Has its place
Rajah Yalin nods.
Fael Illyar: Hi Ayu
Rajah Yalin: hi Ayu
Pema Pera: Hi Ayu!
Ayukam Harsley: hi Fael
Ayukam Harsley: Hi Pema
Ayukam joined us as well. Soon thereafter, we got a warning from Linden Lab.
Second Life: Your region will restart in 5 minutes and 0 seconds for maintenance.
Pema Pera: oops
Rajah Yalin: region restart?
Storm Nordwind: oh!
Pema Pera: well, I think I will take the opportunity to go to bed myself
Storm Nordwind: magoja was down similarly when I arrived. We could walk over there
Pema Pera: it’s almost midnight here
Storm Nordwind: Ah yes
Pema Pera: again, Storm?
Rajah Yalin: take care Pema - Namaste
Pema Pera: after getting rid of the bug?
Pema Pera: bye Rajah!
Storm Nordwind: yes again
Fael Illyar: See you later Pema :)
Fael Illyar: Bye Rajah
Pema Pera: see you Fael!
Storm Nordwind: bye those who are going!
Rajah Yalin: are you leaving too Fael?
Fael Illyar: I was thinking of staying
Storm Nordwind: We need to move first
Pema Pera: you can go to the beach
Pema Pera: for the balloon ride!
Storm Nordwind: true
Pema Pera: to vulcan island!
Pema Pera: I can recommend it
Rajah Yalin: ah that is a good opportunity isn’t that
Even though I had announced my departure, I remembered being curious about the island I had seen a few hours earlier.
Second Life: Your region will restart in 3 minutes and 0 seconds for maintenance.
Pema Pera: can we walk on Vulcan island, Storm?
Storm Nordwind: I’ve never tried
Pema Pera: Presumably we can’t rez anything there?
Storm Nordwind: Nothing permanent
Pema Pera: shall we try briefly?
Storm Nordwind: ok
Pema Pera: just curious
Pema Pera: let’s
Pema Pera: tp
Storm Nordwind: via balloon?
Teleport completed from http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rieul/244/210/76
I jumped over, gave a tp to Storm and both of us tp-ed the rest.
Pema Pera: do we have everybody?
Storm Nordwind: 10 minute autoreturn
Rajah Yalin: I think that’s all of us
Ayukam Harsley: thanks
Pema Pera: nice!
Pema Pera: so this is communal area right?
Storm Nordwind: Next major eruption in 26 minutes
Pema Pera: One great welcome center
Pema Pera: without the trappings of a welcome center!
Pema Pera: very nice
Pema Pera: we should have a regular ferry service from our beach to here
Pema Pera: can we do that?
Pema Pera: automatic ferries?
Fael Illyar: Nice looking place :)
Rajah Yalin shrugs.
Storm Nordwind: Hmmm
Pema Pera: I bet nobody comes here
Storm Nordwind: Yes we can do that
Pema Pera: haven’t seen any green dots here any time I looked!
Pema Pera: our home away from home
Rajah Yalin: retreat away from the retreat lol
Pema Pera: just have to re-rez your furniture every 9 minutes
Pema Pera: Fael, can you write a script for that?
Storm Nordwind: That’s possible
I learned something new.
Fael Illyar: things don’t get returned if you’re sitting on them
Faenik: why not
Pema Pera: really!!!!!
Pema Pera: wow, didn’t know that
Rajah Yalin: yep that’s true
Pema Pera: how convenient!
Storm Nordwind: That’s partly how the balloon works
Rajah Yalin: once you get off they return though
Pema Pera: instantly?
Faenik loves wells!
Pema Pera: or after ten minutes?
Fael Illyar: yes, they’re returned the moment you stand up
Pema Pera: ah!
Fael Illyar: if they’re due
Pema Pera: so you have musical chairs then
Storm Nordwind: All vehicles need that property
Pema Pera: well, I’m going to sign off.
Fael Illyar: Ok, see you later Pema :)
Storm Nordwind: bye for now
Rajah Yalin: I’ll be off to bed soon myself
Rajah Yalin: take care Pema - Namaste
Pema Pera: see you, Ayu, Fael, Storm, Rajah!
Storm Nordwind: Namaste
