Genesis Zhangsun was the guardian and Adams Rubble added a few comments
Adams Rubble: Hello Eliza :)
buddha Nirvana: :)
Eliza Madrigal: Hello Adams :) Buddha :)
Eliza Madrigal: Just popping in for a few minutes.. Oh! Look at you buddha!
Adams Rubble: Nice new look buddha :)
Eliza Madrigal: OOO! ::Scratches behind ears:::
Eliza Madrigal: :D
Adams Rubble: :)
Eliza Madrigal: Fantastic
Corvi joined the group
Adams Rubble: I tried on a bunch of animal avatars that I found in my inventory yesterday but they were pretty awful. This one is really nice
Adams Rubble: Hello Corvi :)
Eliza Madrigal: absolutely...have been looking around at animal AVs but not the "right one" yet
Corvuscorva Nightfire: Heya, Adams!
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Corvi
Eliza Madrigal: Suits you buddha :)
Corvuscorva Nightfire: Hi, Buddha, Eliza
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble offers buddha a doggie treat for all the tricks
buddha decides to get in some exercise and runs off across the field
Adams Rubble: whoa. I guess it was a bad treat
Eliza Madrigal: Hha....think he's organic only
Adams Rubble: ahhhh
Adams Rubble: I should have thought of that
Adams Rubble: of course
Adams Rubble: Are you GOC Eliza?
Eliza Madrigal: No, I've not taken on a slot yet...have to be somewhere soon today also
Adams Rubble: Ah it's Gen, she's on her way
Genesis arrives
Corvuscorva Nightfire: Hi, Gen!
Eliza Madrigal: :) Hi genesis
Adams Rubble: Good morning Gen :)
genesis Zhangsun: Morning all!
genesis Zhangsun: Sorry I am late
Adams Rubble: That's OK, we haven't really started yet
genesis Zhangsun: oh good :)
Adams Rubble: We were admiring buddha
Eliza Madrigal: :) Can't stop smiling at you buddha
genesis Zhangsun: yes buddha is very cute :)
buddha Nirvana: ^.^
Adams Rubble: Without pictures, a reader of the log is going to be thinking we all are very good Buddhists except for the doggie treat part
Eliza Madrigal: hahaha
Eliza Madrigal: :::OM:::
Adams Rubble: Buddha groupies
Eliza Madrigal: works for me
Corvuscorva Nightfire snorts.
Corvuscorva Nightfire: and watches the sleeping dog lie.
Eliza Madrigal: exhausted from dancing
Corvuscorva Nightfire: OH, Gen! I love YOUR new look, too!
genesis Zhangsun: ty Corvi~
genesis Zhangsun: birthday treat, today is my birthday :)
Adams Rubble: Oh happy Birthday Gen :)
Eliza Madrigal: Happy Birthday!!
Corvuscorva Nightfire: Happy BIRTHDAY!
genesis Zhangsun: ty :)
Corvuscorva Nightfire: Yay!
Eliza Madrigal: Fun week to have a birthday in...pi day, St patricks
buddha leaps at their target and slobbers all over them...
Adams Rubble: hehe
genesis Zhangsun: hehe :) ty for the birthday mauling :)
genesis Zhangsun: how sweet
Eliza Madrigal: Nice sharing a little company this morning, but time to go. :) Thanks
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Adams Rubble: bye Eliza :)
Corvuscorva Nightfire: bye, Eliza!
Eliza Madrigal: Enjoy your birthday genesis :) Bye Adams, Corvi
buddha Nirvana: By e eliza:)
Eliza Madrigal: buddha wherever you are haha
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genesis Zhangsun: so anyone have any topics for discussion?
Adams Rubble: I may be going through some personal turmoil not sure it is a topic of discussion
Adams Rubble: Seeing "presence" in the "context of timelessness" has been a key for me
Adams Rubble: and part of me is reacting rather strongly to that
Adams Rubble: Not sure that can help anyone else except to note it
Adams Rubble: especially on your brothday :)
Adams Rubble: bnirthday
Adams Rubble: birthday
Adams Rubble: :)
genesis Zhangsun: could you say more Adams about presence and timelessness
Adams Rubble: It was something Stim said in the dialogue on March2
Adams Rubble: When I told him about it he didn;t seem to think it was something that would resonate with most people
Adams Rubble: for me it was important
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Adams Rubble: it was the missing peace when I thought about APAPB
Adams Rubble: I just could not get relate my own experiences to Being
Adams Rubble: but it showed me I was looking on the wrong level
Adams Rubble: I think that may relate to the relative/absolute levels
genesis Zhangsun: ah!
genesis Zhangsun: I have also struggled with this myself
Adams Rubble: So when I think about APAPB and hten put into the context of timelessness...
Adams Rubble: it shoots me right into that level
genesis Zhangsun: please explain this is wonderful Adams :)
Adams Rubble: I can relate all the stuff all my selves are doing to all human beings who ever lived and ever will live
Adams Rubble: so I immediately stop worrying about all the self stuff
Adams Rubble: they just lift right off my shoulders
Adams Rubble: In December Pema was able to talk me into doing that
Adams Rubble: but I could never do it myself
Adams Rubble: until I received this wonderful key
Adams Rubble: But I now have had two frightful dreams
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Adams Rubble: last night I was up for the 1 am session
Corvuscorva Nightfire: change dreas.
Corvuscorva Nightfire: dreams.
Adams Rubble: yes, the first one was ambuguous
Adams Rubble: last night's dream was much clearer
Adams Rubble: lots of killing going on
Adams Rubble: so that is the turmoil
Adams Rubble: but I think it is different from what I went through last fall
Adams Rubble: because of the little key I was missing then
Adams Rubble: I have written much of this down in my blog
genesis Zhangsun: anyhow nice for you to repeat here for discussion thanks
Adams Rubble: It always help to try to put it into words I think :)
genesis Zhangsun: so can you explain how this unlocked it for you?
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Adams Rubble: I think if we go back to the relative/absolute level thing just because it is part of our common vocabulary
Adams Rubble: It is simply that I was doing APAPB on the relative level
Adams Rubble: and so much of what I saw and heard was being done filtered through my selves/identities
Adams Rubble: by putting presence into the context of timelessness
Adams Rubble: it helps me to see it on the absolute level
Adams Rubble: the "eternal"
Adams Rubble: as Pema said yesterday Being's level
Adams Rubble: or as I was thinking at the same time God's level
Adams Rubble: so it is no longer about me
Adams Rubble: me meaning my selves/identities
genesis Zhangsun: so what are you now from the absolute persective?
Adams Rubble: I don;t know if that maters to me at this point
Adams Rubble: matters
genesis Zhangsun: well you still have to live with you :)
Adams Rubble: :)
genesis Zhangsun: how does your new understanding open up the way you relate to the world
genesis Zhangsun: how does your absolute perspective relate to the relative
Adams Rubble: Whatever is there is much easier to get along with
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Adams Rubble: I am new in understanding the absoluet/relative terms
Adams Rubble: I used them this morning because they were common vocabulary
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Adams Rubble: but let me put it in more practical terms
Adams Rubble: Hello Moon :)
genesis Zhangsun: Hey Moon!
Adams Rubble: I feel much more peaceful and the burden is lifted off my shoulders
Adams Rubble: I can feel that physically
Moon Fargis: hiya ^^/
Adams Rubble: that's the best I can put into words
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genesis Zhangsun: so through your new understanding from Being's level/timelessness you have been able to drop your selves
genesis Zhangsun: entireley?
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Adams Rubble: Yes, the new thing for me is the ability to drop my selves.identities when I want rather than it being just arbitrary
Adams Rubble: happening to me that is
Adams Rubble: whether it is entirely, I don;t know yet
Adams Rubble: I expect i will find out i am not
Adams Rubble: I can take them much more lightly
Adams Rubble: so they are not such a heavy burden
Corvuscorva Nightfire nods.
genesis Zhangsun: do you recognize when the selves assert themselves and then before feeling limited by them you are able to drop them>
genesis Zhangsun: what does the process feel like?
Adams Rubble: Well, yesterday I began to feel I was loosing everything...I did not immediately think "Oh there go my selves again"
Adams Rubble: The process simply is that at one point I feel all in turmoil
Adams Rubble: and then I feel a kind of peace
Adams Rubble: that part is physical
genesis Zhangsun: peace as in stopping/timelessness?
Adams Rubble: peace as the burden being lifted off my shoulders
Adams Rubble: the timelessness is the key...the way i am able to open the door
Adams Rubble: yes, the timelessness is on the other side of the door
Corvuscorva Nightfire laughs as the meadow forms around them
Moon Fargis: hmms, i wonder where i put the playasbeing meadow
Adams Rubble: hehe. a bit like that...one minute I am sitting in the dark and suddenly I am sitting in a field of flowers
genesis Zhangsun: wow
Corvuscorva Nightfire: Moon wears such lovely clothes...like this field.
Adams Rubble: Now I have to say something
Adams Rubble: This is the first day of my scribe duty
Adams Rubble: and I have been to two sessions
Adams Rubble: and dominated them by talking about myself
Adams Rubble: either I have to glue my keyboard shut
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Adams Rubble: or someone will have to give some kind of tidbit I can scribe about
Adams Rubble: hehe
Adams Rubble pours glue on the keyboard
genesis Zhangsun: oh crap the scribing
Adams Rubble: hehe
genesis Zhangsun: my turn must have passed
genesis Zhangsun: I have 10,11,12?
genesis Zhangsun: what days are yours Adams?
Adams Rubble: 16, 17, 18
genesis Zhangsun: oh yeah way behind
Adams Rubble: Almist everyone is
genesis Zhangsun: man I better get scribing too
genesis Zhangsun: this is really interesting though Adams
genesis Zhangsun: I am still trying to understand the connection
genesis Zhangsun: for me APAPB is about Being's perspective
genesis Zhangsun: it always has been but I am not sure whetehr I really get it on the experiential level
genesis Zhangsun: It definitely breaks up my notions on time, as I ordinarily relate to it
Adams Rubble: I have had trouble grasping what Being is
Adams Rubble: Maybe this is my first glimpse
genesis Zhangsun: yes because Being can't be grasped at :)
genesis Zhangsun: for all of us that is hard
Adams Rubble: yes, for me i am almost falling into it except it feels like shooting into it
Adams Rubble: almost like a "whoooosh!"
genesis Zhangsun: shooting into a non conceptual sense of Being
genesis Zhangsun: going beyond concepts?
Adams Rubble: yes, I am not all that good with the conceptual part
Corvuscorva Nightfire laughs.
Corvuscorva Nightfire: ha
Corvuscorva Nightfire: this is not true.
genesis Zhangsun: it is all conceptual :)
Corvuscorva Nightfire: you're great with the concepts
Adams Rubble: I feel it
genesis Zhangsun: mostly 98% I think
Adams Rubble: sense it
genesis Zhangsun: yes
genesis Zhangsun: that is important
Corvuscorva Nightfire nods.
Corvuscorva Nightfire: that's better, I think than getting the concepts.
genesis Zhangsun: it stops being a story that you tell yourself
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Adams Rubble: yes, one when believes all the stories.....geeeez
Corvuscorva Nightfire nods.
Corvuscorva Nightfire: the stories..
Corvuscorva Nightfire: are for walking around
genesis Zhangsun: ?
Adams Rubble: Is the ? for me or Corvi?
Corvuscorva Nightfire: we tell ourselves stories to remember how to move from moment to moment
genesis Zhangsun: both?
genesis Zhangsun: :)
Corvuscorva Nightfire: but it's important to know that they are just stories so that we can tell ourselves new ones as they become relevant.
Corvuscorva Nightfire: and.
Corvuscorva Nightfire: so we can know there is another point of view.
genesis Zhangsun: or to stop telling yourself stories entirely
Corvuscorva Nightfire: beyond stories.
Corvuscorva Nightfire smiles..snap.
genesis Zhangsun: yes I think beyond stories
Adams Rubble: actually I started a new story last night :)
Adams Rubble: hehe
Adams Rubble: but seriously,
Adams Rubble: we have all these voices we have collected over the years telling us to do this and that
Adams Rubble: it just gets way out of hand
Adams Rubble: for me they fight with each other
Corvuscorva Nightfire nods..its useful as starting places, tool gathering.
Corvuscorva Nightfire: but it easily becomes a junky closet or garage.
Adams Rubble thinks about the selves vs. the mess in the garage
Corvuscorva Nightfire nods, grinning.
Corvuscorva Nightfire: boxes and boxes of junk.
Corvuscorva Nightfire: and loose stuff, too.
Adams Rubble: and mice
Corvuscorva Nightfire: oooOOooo yeah, mice, too.
Corvuscorva Nightfire: you've been clearing out the garage
Corvuscorva Nightfire: and..
Adams Rubble: That's a good analogy Corvi :)
Corvuscorva Nightfire: noticing that they are all tools, and not essential bits.
Adams Rubble: There's is a door in the garage out to the meadow
Corvuscorva Nightfire grins.
Adams Rubble: We don't have to clean the garage
Adams Rubble: just walk through the door
Corvuscorva Nightfire: oooOOOOoooo
Corvuscorva Nightfire: nods
Corvuscorva Nightfire: and thinks.
Corvuscorva Nightfire: but when i get back to the house, i'm cleaning the garage.
Corvuscorva Nightfire nods firmly.
Adams Rubble: The problem is when we get bogged down in trying to clean it up
Adams Rubble: It is a heavy burden
Corvuscorva Nightfire: still...it will be nice to know the meadow and the wider view.
Corvuscorva Nightfire: I'm all off you and your garage and onto mine, now Adams.
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Corvuscorva Nightfire snorts.
Adams Rubble: hehe Corvi :)
genesis Zhangsun: yes that is important a remembrance of completelnesss all the way through the process of self deconstruction/seeing
Adams Rubble squeezes Corvi's hand
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genesis Zhangsun: there is really nothing to change :)
genesis Zhangsun: bye Corvi!
genesis Zhangsun: Adams? So who is left? Are you being? Is there still Adams?
Adams Rubble: Oh my
genesis Zhangsun: irrelevant?
Adams Rubble: I am just enjoying the meadow and not worrying about any of that
genesis Zhangsun: :)
Adams Rubble: Maybe that is for another day
Corvuscorva Nightfire: or maybe not.
Moon Fargis whispers a spell "let it gorw"
Moon Fargis: Grow
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: I know there is a me beyond my selves
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Corvuscorva Nightfire considers.
Adams Rubble: Nisargadatta called it the part that was there at borth and will be there at detah
Adams Rubble: death
Adams Rubble: birth
Adams Rubble: the I AM
Moon Fargis: ah you mean you as awareness
Moon Fargis: as being
Adams Rubble: that sounds like it is right Moon
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Adams Rubble: Maybe I am getting the hang of it a little :)
genesis Zhangsun: I must go!
genesis Zhangsun: Nice to chat with all of you
Moon Fargis: aw ok see you later gen
Adams Rubble: Bye Gen. You are GOC?
genesis Zhangsun: yes
Adams Rubble: Nice to chat with you too Gen :)
Adams Rubble: and have a Happy Birthday day
Moon Fargis: ohh gen has birthday?
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Adams Rubble: yes
Gen returns
Adams Rubble: wb Gen
Moon Fargis: happy birthday!!:)
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Adams Rubble: are you left clicking gen?
genesis Zhangsun: got it!
Adams Rubble: ah, sorry
genesis Zhangsun: thanks
Adams Rubble: yay!
genesis Zhangsun: bye!
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Adams Rubble: bye :)
Corvuscorva Nightfire: bye, happy birthday!
Corvuscorva Nightfire: ook I gotta go to work
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Adams Rubble: me too :)
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Moon Fargis: ^^
Corvuscorva Nightfire smiles.
Moon Fargis: aws
Corvuscorva Nightfire: See you all soon.
Adams Rubble: Hope everyone has a good day
Moon Fargis puts some flowers in boths bags
Adams Rubble: bye Corvi :)
Corvuscorva Nightfire grins
Adams Rubble: thanks Moon
Adams Rubble: Any day left there Moon?
Moon Fargis: ^^ have fun and see you soon ^^/
Moon Fargis: here?
Moon Fargis: a bit
Adams Rubble: yes, you too :)
Adams Rubble: bye for now :)
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