2009.06.02 19:00 - Being in and from the gap

The Guardian for this meeting was Eos Amaterasu. The comments are by Eos Amaterasu.

Spaces within gaps

Eos Amaterasu: Hi Travieso
Travieso Sella: hello
Eos Amaterasu: Welcome to Playing as Being
Travieso Sella: thanks
Eos Amaterasu: You've been here before?
Travieso Sella: I have
Travieso Sella: I get asked that alot
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
Eos Amaterasu: In a way we've never been here before :-)
Travieso Sella: I suppose I am not the same person as befoer I rezzed in
Eos Amaterasu: You can't rez into the same river twice :-)
Travieso Sella: heheh
Eos Amaterasu: But even each moment can be an open space to cross
Eos Amaterasu: or each 9 secs :-)
Travieso Sella: I like open spaces
Travieso Sella: and gaps
Eos Amaterasu: gaps ...
Travieso Sella: Well, gaps in my thinking process
Travieso Sella: those tend to be helpful
Eos Amaterasu: How so?
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Eos, Travi :)
Travieso Sella: well, I suppose it has to do with lessening the ammount and force of too much thinking
Eos Amaterasu: (Hi Eliza!)
Travieso Sella: hey eliza
Eliza Madrigal: I used to make the meetings at this time more often...have missed them but am often very tired
Eliza Madrigal: syros, Hi
Eos Amaterasu: Hi Syros
syros Soulstar: hi everyone:)
Eos Amaterasu: (Whups! Travi disappeared.)
Eos Amaterasu: We were talking about gaps, interestingly enough
Eliza Madrigal: hehe
Eliza Madrigal: He fell through one I guess
Eos Amaterasu: The space between things
Eliza Madrigal: :)

Spaces within notes 

Eliza Madrigal: This idea that you mentioned a few weeks ago Eos, about the spaces within the notes...
Eliza Madrigal: I've thought about that so much
Eliza Madrigal: It came up the other day... in the 'music playing itself' session...
Eliza Madrigal: and afterward it connected with something a friend (and Eckhart Tolle for that matter) talk about..'being danced'
Eliza Madrigal: WB Travi :)
Travieso Sella: thank you
Eos Amaterasu: I think that's a bit like, sometimes I notice, that, from being "in the gap", that's where appearances arise from
Eos Amaterasu: and actually never leave
Eliza Madrigal: the first part, yes... see that. The second part, though... Go on?
Eos Amaterasu: Well, usually I'm in my normal sorts of preoccupations, with thoughts kind of going on their own
Eos Amaterasu: and things, appearances, also seem to be coming along with great solidity
Eos Amaterasu: but from relaxing into just letting be, letting appear, when things do appear, that's where they come from, and haven't lost their connection to that
Eos Amaterasu: very transparent, also vivid
Eliza Madrigal: Ah...when you see they arise from the gap then that element of the gap is there in perception of what has arisen....illuminated seems the word I keep coming back to.
Eos Amaterasu: yes, there's such an interesting connection with light
Eliza Madrigal nods
Eos Amaterasu: also illuminated by that space itself
Eliza Madrigal: that's what heart brings in a sense...the light
Eos Amaterasu: (I read George Eliot's "Middlemarch" a while back, and it had that quality)
Eliza Madrigal: yes?
Eos Amaterasu: Sense of the characters being transparent and illuminated
Eos Amaterasu: with great sympathy
Eos Amaterasu: as you say, the heart opens
Eliza Madrigal: Ah :)
Eliza Madrigal makes note of perhaps further summer reading
Eos Amaterasu: Part of the 9 secs, 90 secs, suspension has to do with the heart, giving up in some way
Eliza Madrigal: that's interesting... let go of whatever you were thinking or planning to say before the bell...
Eliza Madrigal: sometimes it has that effect

The energy that shows up at the festivals will light up the world 

Eos Amaterasu: Travi, I notice you're a Nine Inch Nails fan - this evening my 16-yr old son is at his first rock concert, with NiN, in Toronto
Travieso Sella: ah sweet...I just saw them a few weeks back..that was the first time in a long time for me
Travieso Sella: Jane's addiction belew me away too, I didn't really know their music. But I did go to lollapalooza, the singer of which put that together
Travieso Sella: and as he descirbes it, the energy that shows up at the festivals will light up the world
Eos Amaterasu: That's good to hear!
Eliza Madrigal remembers dancing to the one NIN song she knows... almost 20 years ago... suddenly does not feel timeless...heheh
Travieso Sella: heh probably not going to tour anymore ...
syros Soulstar: thanks everyone:)
Eos Amaterasu: That was another kind of leaping into the gap - we decided that since NiN may not tour again, why not just go for it now?
Travieso Sella: cya
Eliza Madrigal: Bye Syros :)
Eos Amaterasu: Bye
Eos Amaterasu: Maybe we're always kind of holding back from being in that space

Eliza brings up the D word 

Eliza Madrigal: This may seem a morbid idea...
Eliza Madrigal: to some...
Eliza Madrigal: to me I think not... but we talk about letting go... and acceptance and such...
Eliza Madrigal: but don't often use the word death..
Eliza Madrigal: even when it might be appropriate...
Eliza Madrigal: for instance... we appreciate people often when they die...
Eliza Madrigal: once we let go of them we can see them
Eos Amaterasu: we should have wakes - appreciations - while we're still alive :-)
Eliza Madrigal: yes... exactly
Eliza Madrigal: Thinking about this has helped me a lot with forgiveness. I thought about people who could never say a nice word about someone... then they die.. and only positive things are remembered...
Eliza Madrigal: or negatives are funny..lighter.
Eastor Westland: lol
Travieso Sella: I don't know if it's what you're getting at. But that made me think we should celebrate who we are and each other more in general, rather than just our ability to turn beer into urine.
Eliza Madrigal: hehe

Enter six griefers 

Travieso Sella: *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*Griefer!!!!*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*
Travieso Sella: Is this a attack?
Travieso Sella: griefer* attack
Sasha Intikhab: ~{ whatz up with dis, vanilla face? }~
Sasha Intikhab: ~{ err, me and my homey, Arzmin, just parked our slab outside ]~
Travieso Sella: ah it is

Eos has not included the chat contents that went down.

Eliza did a mute on the one dancing in the pool. Eos had never used such powers before. After Travi and Eliza left, Eos muted the remaining five, and eventually ejected them one by one, and was left contemplating what it means to be a guardian of playing as being.