Fael, Adams, Pia, Isen and Dakini chatted, while visitors dropped in and out.
Fael wore an interesting new outfit which seemed to combine a few Japanese themes.
Fael Illyar: Hello Dakini :)
Dakini Rhode: hi Fael :-)
Fael Illyar: My outfit is a bit conflicting in some ways :)
Dakini Rhode: haha waiting for it to completely rez
Fael Illyar: Although, you’ll only see it if you look closer
Dakini Rhode: hi Adams :-)
Fael Illyar: Hi Adams :)
Adams Rubble: Hi Dakini :)
Adams Rubble: Hi fael :)
Dakini Rhode: FAel, it looks like what some schoolgirls might wear :-)
Fael Illyar: :)
Adams Rubble: SWe are all here to learn :)
Fael Illyar: I didn’t notice the skull emblems or spikes from the picture in the shop and I was initially a bit put off when I noticed them but then I later decided that I’ll use it since I did like it from the distance :)
Dakini Rhode: :-)))
Dakini Rhode: Adams, indeed we are learning like children in school…
Adams Rubble: I am anyway :)
Dakini Rhode: i have a lot to learn :-)
Adams Rubble: Yes me too
Fael Illyar: Everyone has :)
Adams Rubble: I got my copy of Minding Minds in the mail yesterday < Dakini
Fael Illyar: More things to learn than any single person could possibly learn :)
Dakini Rhode: i’ll be interested to know how you enjoy it, Adams…
Dakini Rhode: I’m traveling again next week, maybe will have time to read again :-)
Fael Illyar: Hi Pia
Dakini Rhode: hi Pia :-)
Adams Rubble: Well it already has said something the parallels what Pema said to me the other day
Adams Rubble: Hi Pia
Dakini Rhode: oh good!
Pia Iger: Hi,
Adams Rubble: about shedding things to get at ones inner Buddha…or God…or one’s inner mind….or the light
Dakini Rhode: the stuff i need to learn seems to come at me from all directions…
Pia Iger: same here:)
Fael Illyar: You can see it everywhere once you’re looking for it
Dakini Rhode: especially if you look in similar places :-)
Adams Rubble: :)
Fael Illyar: Yes :)
Dakini Rhode: the different buddhist traditions seem different from the outside, but the core is the same
Fael Illyar: Yes, it looks like it’s te same thing wrapped in different packages :)
Dakini Rhode: I’ve not enough familiarity with all spiritual traditions to say the same…
Dakini Rhode: yes :-)
Pia Iger: I am quite new to all these,
Adams Rubble: Well the end result is much the same
Pia Iger: but I do see the similarities
Pia Iger: which is relief
Dakini Rhode: i see similarities and also some differences between the “eastern” and “western” traditions
Dakini Rhode: but the eastern traditions do seem to have a commonality in general
Pia Iger: can you say more about diff of eastern an western
Adams Rubble: More willing to take what is best from each “religion” than in the west
Dakini Rhode: not with any accuracy Pia, since i’ve focused on the Eastern for a long time
Adams Rubble: In the west, the three main religions are from the near east
Adams Rubble: the reliogions of the “book” as the Muslims like to say
Adams Rubble: Judaism, Christianity and Islam
We were joined by the buddhist monk Isen just in time to help us dissect the word “being” (or was it “bean”?)
Fael Illyar: Hi Isen
Dakini Rhode: Hi Isen :-)
Adams Rubble: All derived from much the same source
Adams Rubble: from Judaism
Adams Rubble: Hi Isen
Isen Enzo: Good afternoon!
Pia Iger: afternoon, Isen
Isen Enzo: Playing at Being?
Dakini Rhode: good question….
Isen Enzo: Can I play too?
Dakini Rhode: care to join us
Adams Rubble: In the western traditions the relationship between man and God is paramount
Adams Rubble: ???
Fael Illyar: there is this master -> servant setting on the surface at least.
Adams Rubble: well man is a sinful creature and needs guidance
Adams Rubble: in Christianity redemtion
Adams Rubble: redemption
Adams Rubble: with Gid’s help
Adams Rubble: God’s
Fael Illyar: hmmh,,, master servant … it kind of fits the way I currently see the relationship between me and Being. Not exactly but anyway.
Dakini Rhode: it’s interesting to see how many understandings there might be of the word “Being”
Adams Rubble: I don;t have any :)
Isen Enzo: “one who bes”?
Dakini Rhode: haha in this group, that may be an advantage, Adams :-)
Fael Illyar: if you think that we are Being and “I” is an illusion, just the being getting so into the role that being Being is forgotten.
Dakini Rhode: see and now i always thing that it’s a verb P:P
Fael Illyar: that’d, in a way, make Being the master.
Dakini Rhode: as in whatcha’ doin’? - I’m “be” ‘ ing
Isen Enzo: A verb and a noun….
Isen Enzo: like “google”..
Pia Iger: I am being Being?
Isen Enzo: lol
Dakini Rhode: is that redundant?
Dakini Rhode: :-)
Pia Iger: no. Dakini, not redundant.
Isen Enzo: that’s the question…
Adams Rubble: I once thought I was a human bean :)
Dakini Rhode: well there is the basic “I am” part…
Isen Enzo: play as bean?
Adams Rubble: :)
Dakini Rhode: and then “being” and “Being” added on…
Dakini Rhode: beans yes
Dakini Rhode: and don’t you zennies talk about “Is”ness and “Such”ness?
To illustrate his point, Isen donned his sunglasses…
Isen Enzo: “being” could also be adopting a state…
Isen Enzo: I’m being cool…
Dakini Rhode: i’m hanging….
Adams Rubble: me tooooo…….
Dakini Rhode: Isen are we blinding you again?
Isen Enzo: the sun always shines when your cool….
Dakini Rhode: (noticeing the shades…)
Fael Illyar: :)
Dakini Rhode: oh, cool! get it
Dakini Rhode: hello Max
Fael Illyar: Hello Maxime
Adams Rubble: Hell Maxine
Fael Illyar: Nice typo :)
Dakini Rhode: lol ive mad that typo myself
Dakini Rhode: made
Isen Enzo: Hello Max!
Adams Rubble: Oh
Isen Enzo: hm…
Fael Illyar: you also typoed the name :)
Maxime (not our Maxine) made a brief appearance… we surmised he had been attracted by green dots on the map
Isen Enzo: pal anglais?
Isen Enzo: hm..
Fael Illyar: I guess he wasn’t interested
Dakini Rhode: not what he was looking for>
Adams Rubble: I insulted him?
Pia Iger: no money here
Dakini Rhode: all these green dots on the map…
Dakini Rhode: look like camping or… other crowd-type things
Isen Enzo: I think of it as radar blips…
Fael Illyar: I went to look at the closest green dot collection in the neighboring sim.
Isen Enzo: lol
Dakini Rhode: lol that’s an interesting one…
Fael Illyar: seems to be some sort of a sex place.
Isen Enzo: a dance club?
Isen Enzo: ah..
Dakini Rhode: when i see large collections of green dots…
Dakini Rhode: i usually think “weird sex”
Dakini Rhode: but maybe that’s just me… jaded
Dakini Rhode: :P
Fael Illyar: Well, wouldn’t surprise me if that’s the thing that draws most crowds
Dakini Rhode: that or camping…
Isen Enzo: I’ve heard that a large part, if not majority of internet traffic is for sex…
Dakini Rhode: with the exception of a few other events
Adams Rubble: not Buddhism?
Isen Enzo: So, maybe that is reflected here in SL…
Dakini Rhode: i hear that it is, Isen
Dakini Rhode: in fact, that’s often the first thought when a person hears about a world where they can do anything they want….
Isen Enzo: Well, I’m looking at the most popular places in SL…
Isen Enzo: first is freebie beach..
Dakini Rhode: human nature :-)
Adams Rubble: sex is just xes spelled backward
Isen Enzo: second is sex resort brazil..
Dakini Rhode: lol as in excess?
Isen Enzo: then hippie pay..
Isen Enzo: brb
Dakini Rhode: for awhile there was a dance club that showed up in the top 10 - just a normal dance club
Dakini Rhode: but the lag was horrific
Pia Iger: became slooow dance?
Adams Rubble: :)
Dakini Rhode: haha
Dakini Rhode: if you could get there with your hair on… :P
Fael Illyar: Yes, the most popular places aren’t a good place to go to. guaranteed lag
Pia Iger: no wonder it is off top 10
Adams Rubble: hehe
Dakini Rhode: has anyone gone to the SL birthday stuff?
Pia Iger: no.
Fael Illyar: I was thinking of maybe going to take a look but haven’t gone yet.
Pia Iger: no experience with big crowd yet.
Pia Iger: how to get personal contact? so many ppl
Dakini Rhode: i tried going to last year’s but with my old computer it was like one step forward every 5 minutes
Adams Rubble: :)
Dakini Rhode: i think ppl go to see the stuff there…
Fael Illyar: I’m trying to wait until the worst crowd is over :)
Adams Rubble: what stuff?
Dakini Rhode: exhibits, demos, and things…
Adams Rubble: ah
Dakini Rhode: showing some of the creativity and technologies in this world :-)
Dakini Rhode: probably freebies, too
Fael Illyar: it’s an excellent way to get wider visibility for shops if they manage to get a place
Adams Rubble: lkike a state fair
Dakini Rhode: or a conference :-)
The 9-second practice bell rang…
Fael Illyar: wow, I just had a strange exploration.
Adams Rubble: yes?
Fael Illyar: Like, I close my eyes the same time the bell sound rings, then open them when it ends but no recollection of the middle
Fael Illyar: just a feeling like a long time just passed
Dakini Rhode: you know what they say about that…
Fael Illyar: yes?
Faenik: could be
Dakini Rhode: Good! keep practicing…
Adams Rubble: :)
Fael Illyar: interestingly, I think that happened because my conscious mind wasn’t paying any attention when I dropped things off and the next things it knew is … well, it’s over.
Dakini Rhode: probably.. i would relate it to brainwaves
Dakini Rhode: in my experience, when you get very, very relaxed as in deep dreamless sleep
Dakini Rhode: there is no conscious memory
Dakini Rhode: and i find that in meditation, you can reach someting like that at first
Fael Illyar: it did sort of feel like I had just woken up
Fael Illyar: after that was over
Dakini Rhode: and with practice, you can learn to keep more than one level of brain activity going at the same time
Pia Iger: 9 sec sleep.
Dakini Rhode: so that you can remember
Dakini Rhode: it seems
Pia Iger: cool, that is efficient.
Adams Rubble: quicker than a cat nap
Dakini Rhode: lol even better than a power nap!
Adams Rubble: a mouse nap?
Fael Illyar: really short nap, yes :P
Dakini Rhode: i do the 10 minute naps
Dakini Rhode: when i am really, really tired during the daytime
Dakini Rhode: i can lie down and tell myself to wake up in 10 minutes
Pia Iger: 10 mins can be plenty time.
Dakini Rhode: yes - refreshing
Adams Rubble: That’s neat that you can tell yourself that
Dakini Rhode: well listening to myself is the trick…
Adams Rubble: and your body listens
Dakini Rhode: yes
Fael Illyar: It is plenty of time when you’re meditating.
Adams Rubble: yes
Pia Iger: beyond those time, we are mostly zombies, maybe.
Fael Illyar: Although, this morning, I meditated after waking up, I stopped it after what I thought felt like 5 minutes and then noticed it’d been 15
Dakini Rhode: interesting…
Pia Iger: like my snooze, feel like 5min, but already 30min
Fael Illyar: Something new about meditation again :)
Fael Illyar: losing the sense of time
Dakini Rhode: or expanding and shrinking the perception of time
Pia Iger: I just found I can really savor in term of minutes now.
Fael Illyar: thinking about my exploration just now, might be related
Pia Iger: not by hours.
Pia Iger: I can live very slowly..
Pia Iger: if that make sense to you all.
Adams Rubble: I don;t know what you mean by “live slowly”
Pia Iger: Like time slows down, every min is a good depth and length for me to taste it, or swim inside it.
Pia Iger: min has… (correction)
Adams Rubble: That is a nice feeling to have…savoir life :)
Adams Rubble: savor
Pia Iger: also the silence, solitary
Pia Iger: are becoming more tasteful
Adams Rubble: You all are having experiences I haven;t had yet
Pia Iger: maybe everyone feels in different ways.
Fael Illyar: I think I’m again being excited without being excited :)
Adams Rubble: :)
Pia Iger: a lot of time, I envy other’s advantage, too.
Dakini Rhode: i think, if you continue exploring, you will have different types of experiences…
Fael Illyar: I’m not sure if I’d say it’s envy but I do feel something when others talk about experiences I haven’t had yet.
Dakini Rhode: always something different…
Fael Illyar: fascination I think
Adams Rubble: I am not worried about it…I am very new at this….I find it interesting
Dakini Rhode: the traditional instruction is not to cling to experiences…
Pia Iger: to me, I do feel envy, in RL, too.
Dakini Rhode: that’s why I said the traditional answer is “very good! keep practicing…”
Dakini Rhode: maybe someday we’ll all sit here together…
Dakini Rhode: and not have anything to chat about…
Fael Illyar: The experiences themselves I find interesting and they certainly add to the motivation to keep doing these.
Dakini Rhode: that would be interesting
Adams Rubble: :)
Fael Illyar: but, they’re not the main reason, no
Pia Iger: how about only type what comes up in our mind from 9 sec stopping?
Pia Iger: blog to blog,
Pia Iger: real time sharing
Dakini Rhode: that would be interesting, Pia
Nexie came upon our group while floating about…
Fael Illyar: Hello Nexie
Dakini Rhode: hi Nexie
Nexie Raviprakash: hi everybody
Adams Rubble: Hello Nexie
Adams Rubble takes more care typing
Dakini Rhode: we’re a group which meets here regularly
Nexie Raviprakash: oh what for
Dakini Rhode: to discuss a type of meditation we’re all doing
Nexie Raviprakash: trans?
Nexie Raviprakash: i tried that it was scary i came right out of my body
Fael Illyar: trans? what’s that?
Dakini Rhode: what we do is explained on the website http://playasbeing.wordpress.com/
Nexie Raviprakash: tansdental meditation
Nexie Raviprakash: thank you
Dakini Rhode: we take a 9 second meditation break every 15 minutes
Faenik is a hairy black ball with eyes and ears.
Dakini Rhode: hi Don :-)
Adams Rubble: Hi Don
Dakini Rhode things holes in roofs are good for something….
Fael Illyar: I like using it for entrances :)
Dakini Rhode: :-)
Dakini Rhode: it’s fun to see people dropping thru :-)
Dakini Rhode: i love to see people flying about, too - like birds
Nexie Raviprakash: that sounds interesing
Dakini Rhode: Nexie, we meet here 4 times a day
Nexie Raviprakash: lol im in the raven appreciation society
Dakini Rhode: :-)))
Adams Rubble: :)
Dakini Rhode: nevermore?
Nexie Raviprakash: i feel like im intruding
Dakini Rhode: please feel welcome to join us
Adams Rubble: No, you’re not intruding at all
Nexie Raviprakash: il leave you to your peace
Dakini Rhode: we were just hanging out
Pia Iger: not at all, Nexie
Nexie Raviprakash: i dont want to upset your group status quo
Fael Illyar: do we have status quo?
Dakini Rhode: oh dear, i don’t think we have one
Nexie Raviprakash: i came here because i want to be japanese
Adams Rubble: or eill ever have one
Adams Rubble: will
Fael Illyar: I don’t think we want one
Nexie Raviprakash: i want to try to be a gisha
Dakini Rhode: do you speak Japanese Nexie?
Nexie Raviprakash: le
Fael Illyar: 日本語読めますか?
Nexie Raviprakash: thats beautiful
Hmmm… it looked like a sequence of squares to me :->
Dakini Rhode: oh! try the billboard in front of Ryusho’s shop
Nexie Raviprakash: thankyou but i do not have that kind of money
Dakini Rhode: i think it’s a new geisha place
Nexie Raviprakash accepted your inventory offer.
Dakini Rhode: ?
Nexie Raviprakash: i just float about with no money
Dakini Rhode: does it take money to be a geisha?
Nexie Raviprakash: can i landmark here please
Dakini Rhode: yes indeed
I do think we get more drop-ins in the new, open place…
Dakini Rhode: hi Hermes
Hermes Tibbett: he
Nexie Raviprakash: no i have what it takes
Nexie Raviprakash: ok il go and have a look
Dakini Rhode: ok enjoy :-)
Faenik: indeed?
Nexie Raviprakash: im sure youl see me agian
Nexie Raviprakash: thank you
Adams Rubble: good luck in finding what you want :)
Nexie Raviprakash: arrigato
Nexie Raviprakash: sayanara
Dakini Rhode: take care :-)
Fael Illyar: Bye Nexie
Pia Iger: bye
Adams Rubble: I must go now. Bye everyone :)
Fael Illyar: Bye Adams :)
Dakini Rhode: I should probably announce the end of the session :-)
Pia Iger: me too, bye.
Fael Illyar: Bye Pia :)
Dakini Rhode: me too :-)
Fael Illyar: Ok, Bye Dakini :) It was a nice session today :)
Indeed :->