The Guardian for this meeting was stevenaia Michinaga. The comments are by stevenaia Michinaga.
cosmic Ghost and Paradise continues the topic of meditationstevenaia Michinaga: helllo again Cosmic
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stevenaia Michinaga: welcome to our meeting :)
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Pila
Pila Mulligan: hi Steve and Cosmic
stevenaia Michinaga: have you met Cosmic before?
Pila Mulligan: I'm not sure we have been introduced, but Cosmic has been here before
Pila Mulligan: nice to see you again Cosmic
stevenaia Michinaga: nods, does not say much
stevenaia Michinaga: hello Doug
Pila Mulligan: hi Doug
Pila Mulligan: have you noticed the tower over by Paradise's plot that is on what is called 'kaiacs land'?
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, the interior is not visible
doug Sosa: :)
Pila Mulligan: does the anme kaiac mean anyhting to you?
stevenaia Michinaga: wondering what that was
Pila Mulligan: me to
Pila Mulligan: unfamiliar name
stevenaia Michinaga: no profile with that name
Pila Mulligan: it was there very early on -- I wonder if Storm had to negotiate with a prior enant on the sim
Pila Mulligan: tenant
stevenaia Michinaga: or an alt of storm
Pila Mulligan: ah, yes, alts :)
doug Sosa: how much discussion has there been about the goal of the new community?
Pila Mulligan: bot too much that I've seen
stevenaia Michinaga: I ahven;t been keeping up on the logs
Pila Mulligan: not*
doug Sosa: so we are about equally ignorant..:)
Pila Mulligan: yep
stevenaia Michinaga: I jsut simply assume that when a community is formed, for meditation or social reasons, a natural evolution will take place if the synergy builds
Pila Mulligan: yep
stevenaia Michinaga: perhaps a SL retreat would be more probable now
stevenaia Michinaga: gues we need a camp director
doug Sosa: (just being thoughtful)
Pila Mulligan: I'm iterested to see what is done with the courtyard idea
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
doug Sosa: was that a Storm invention so to speak?
stevenaia Michinaga: until I figure our who my neighbors are.
Pila Mulligan: I believe so Doug
stevenaia Michinaga: what, the courtyard?
doug Sosa: yes.
stevenaia Michinaga: I belive all the community planning beigns with storm, well at least the plot layouts
Pila Mulligan: hi Paradise
stevenaia Michinaga: hello Paradise
doug Sosa: :)
Pila Mulligan: did you recover your missing objects?
stevenaia Michinaga: the rest is up to us tenants
Paradise Tennant: hiya pila steve doug cosmic
doug Sosa: yes. more or less. moving on.
Paradise Tennant: yes thank storm returned them ..and explained how to set my preferences so i could find them in the future
Pila Mulligan: ah, how is it done?
Paradise Tennant: 14:34] Storm Nordwind: (Saved Sun Sep 20 12:41:41 2009) I returned them to you. You can do it yourself in future. You will need to enable your Advanced menu (ctrl-alt-D) and then enable Advanced > Disable Camera Constraints (which will let you see under the ground). You can find missing things by using sweep edit mode: ctrl-3 to get an edit popup, then drag and drop a rectangle with your mouse looking down at the ground (and ensure the Tools > Select Only* entries are what you want) and you'll see a lot revealed!
doug Sosa: wow.
Pila Mulligan: yes, wow :)
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, wow, how d you figure this stuff out?
Pila Mulligan: PhD maybe
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: PhD in SL
doug Sosa: PhD's are one of the slowest ways to learn.
Paradise Tennant: lol i believe storm does have a phd in sl ;))
Pila Mulligan: there is a ton of stuff to learn about virtual worlds
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Paradise Tennant: :) and the real wold . what was our topic tonight ?
Pila Mulligan: noe, so far
Pila Mulligan: none*
stevenaia Michinaga: thoughts on the future of our new community
cosmic Ghost: ive eatem tpp ,uch pasta
cosmic Ghost: eatne too much*
Paradise Tennant: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: sounds like my weekend
Paradise Tennant: been really enjoying setting up my little plot .. would never have believed it could be so engaging :)
doug Sosa: should we visit?
Paradise Tennant: been homeless my entire sl till now :) always quite happy to pouf on and off in a cloud
stevenaia Michinaga: you seemsed to have the most developed one
Paradise Tennant: surely but perhaps after .. otherwise the log will go awire :)
cosmic Ghost: what kind of plot paradise?
stevenaia Michinaga: I can stick around, wonders if the log can me made portable
cosmic Ghost: plot*
Paradise Tennant: have lots of very talented builder friends
cosmic Ghost: does it have a theme?
doug Sosa: i'd let the log take care of itself..:)
Paradise Tennant: hm if you are member of play as being there are some small plots available
Paradise Tennant: basically meditative garden I would say :)
Pila Mulligan: :)
cosmic Ghost: nice
cosmic Ghost: do you meditate?
Paradise Tennant: yes pretty much daily
Paradise Tennant: find it has a lot of benefits
cosmic Ghost: which technique?
Paradise Tennant: sleep better .. think better .. body is more relaxed
Paradise Tennant: hmm
Paradise Tennant: breath focus . .
cosmic Ghost: anapana?
Paradise Tennant: single pointed focus on a candle flame
Paradise Tennant: and sometimes just coming into the now .. focusing my senses
cosmic Ghost: ah, very well :)
stevenaia Michinaga: do you meditate Cosmic?
cosmic Ghost: not at the moment . no
cosmic Ghost: but have done, yes
Paradise Tennant: find it really helps takes a bit of time .. but yield a better day :)
Paradise Tennant: *yields
Paradise Tennant: ;)
cosmic Ghost: :)
Pila Mulligan: at the earlier session today Doug introduced the idea of ethics, and how our meditations can relate to the world at laer, the material world
Pila Mulligan: world at large*
Paradise Tennant: manifesting our conscious thoughts
Paradise Tennant: believe often what you think comes to be
doug Sosa: i will need to go at the bell. (saved by, actually, apologies)
Pila Mulligan: it is an important matter
cosmic Ghost: TM?
Paradise Tennant: :)
Paradise Tennant: be well doug
Pila Mulligan: :)
doug Sosa: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: bye DOug
Paradise Tennant: do you believe in TM cosmic?
stevenaia Michinaga: what is ethics cept a meditation on an action?
Pila Mulligan: TM has certainly taken on real world activities, Cosmic
Paradise Tennant: great thought steve
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cosmic Ghost: i understand a major part of TM is to cultivate love outwars into the worlds
stevenaia Michinaga: I don;t know much about TM and how it is different than any other type, can you explain cosmic?
cosmic Ghost: I too know little
cosmic Ghost: and i think all meditations are not similar by nature of defnitiion
stevenaia Michinaga: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation
Paradise Tennant: loving kindness meditation
cosmic Ghost: they are all unique i've found, subtle changes perhaps
cosmic Ghost: yes
cosmic Ghost: its akin to metta bhavana
cosmic Ghost: metta - cultivate, bhavana - loving kindness
Pila Mulligan: TM was founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, he passed away last year in the Netherlands -- their organization has done a lot of work in medicine and architecture, to name a couple of their active areas
Pila Mulligan: they also have a spin-oo political arm -- the Natural Law Party
Pila Mulligan: spin-off
stevenaia Michinaga: reading wiki
Pila Mulligan: their work in studying the physiology of meditation has been pretty extensive
Paradise Tennant: wow
Paradise Tennant: interesting
Pila Mulligan: I visited their Univeristy about 25 years ago and it was already deeply into the study back then
cosmic Ghost: i hear david lynch the film director is very much active in spreading the technique
Pila Mulligan: yes, quite a few well known people have been into TM
cosmic Ghost: and has taken our various tests to prove the effectiveness of it
cosmic Ghost: out*
Paradise Tennant: loved the comment on it is like explaining the innards of colour tv set to a tribe of pymies ..when all they need to know is how to turn it on :)
Paradise Tennant: hmm
Paradise Tennant: would bet it works very well
Pila Mulligan: they use a personal mantra method
Paradise Tennant: yes
Pila Mulligan: Steev, you may particularly like this -- http://archive.tm.org/explore/vedic_architecture/
Pila Mulligan: "Four main principles are considered for every building—orientation of the building, placement of rooms, the proportions, and natural building materials."
Pila Mulligan: "The mathematical proportions of the house and each room are calculated according to ancient Vedic formulas."
Pila Mulligan: they really have interesting symmetry in their designs
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, I have looked into Vedic Architecture
stevenaia Michinaga: very old principles
Paradise Tennant: there was a greek school of architecture that believed in the same kind of mathematical precision
stevenaia Michinaga: many civilizations had them
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Pila Mulligan: this one is interesting too -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
stevenaia Michinaga: many proportions have a nature based aesthetic
stevenaia Michinaga: the golden rato is one of them as math and nature are in alignemnt
stevenaia Michinaga: and asthetics
stevenaia Michinaga: there are many books on these principles
Pila Mulligan: that could be a fun project for a village courtyard
stevenaia Michinaga: related to art, architecture, math , and nature
stevenaia Michinaga: project?
Pila Mulligan: building exercise
Paradise Tennant: yes and so so so much easier to do in sl than rl :) given all the a handy scales
Pila Mulligan: making something in SL according to those principles
Pila Mulligan: :)
Paradise Tennant: cool idea pila
stevenaia Michinaga: there are measuring scales in SL?
stevenaia Michinaga: wondering about that
Paradise Tennant: yes when you rezx stretch ..or build
Paradise Tennant: very useful
Pila Mulligan: he depth of virtual world tehcnology is mind-boggling, Steve :)
cosmic Ghost: think so
Pila Mulligan: it is not just pixels
Pila Mulligan: there are SL building tutoirals on You Tube
Pila Mulligan: I watched one for the first time and learned a otn of stuff ion ten minutes
Pila Mulligan: ton*
Paradise Tennant: loves you tube
stevenaia Michinaga: been avoiding building... but give me a video and anything's possible
Paradise Tennant: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-0jNC_w1tSw&watch_response
Paradise Tennant: love me too ..always been just music llstener ..seldom even rezzed anything
cosmic Ghost: what kindof music paradise?
Paradise Tennant: hm there is a wide variety of really good talent to choose from
cosmic Ghost: yea, there is//
Paradise Tennant: some of my favourites .. are . frogg and jaycatt.. montian gilruth .. max kleene... mimi carpenter .. pmbookmite .... so manyh
Paradise Tennant: to choose from ..jaynine scarborough ..
Paradise Tennant: komuso
Paradise Tennant: so many
cosmic Ghost: these are dj names?
Paradise Tennant: no live performers
cosmic Ghost: ok
Paradise Tennant: do a search under events .. for live music
Paradise Tennant: a wide array of concerts .. list
cosmic Ghost: there is a great pianist that plays in the opera house on a sunday
cosmic Ghost: i foget her name now
Paradise Tennant: :)
cosmic Ghost: lady with nice vocals
Paradise Tennant: :)
cosmic Ghost: wher ein the world is everyone form?>
Paradise Tennant: toronto
stevenaia Michinaga: Eastern US
cosmic Ghost: here, i mean
stevenaia Michinaga: lol, I'm from over there
Pila Mulligan: -- was watching the dog video :)
stevenaia Michinaga: lol
Pila Mulligan: I'm from Hawai`i
Pila Mulligan: if that was the question
stevenaia Michinaga: not sure where anywhere is in SL
Paradise Tennant: is eating a cobb's bakery lemon tart ..thinking it could take her to the pure source of mind :)
Pila Mulligan: :)
cosmic Ghost: yum
cosmic Ghost: :)
cosmic Ghost: i like the pastries with jam in them
cosmic Ghost: like apricots and strawberrys
Paradise Tennant: make a great shortbread cookie with a jam filling :) every xmas :)
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cosmic Ghost: sounds lovely
cosmic Ghost: not heard of shortbread with and innings
Paradise Tennant: called melting moments recipe is from lucy waverman .. bet it is on the web
stevenaia Michinaga: I must be off, thank you for joining us tonight cosmic
stevenaia Michinaga: bye Paradise and Pila
Pila Mulligan is going also -- bye for now everyone
cosmic Ghost: bye:)
Paradise Tennant: http://lucywaverman.com/lucy-s-recipes/185.html
Paradise Tennant: nite nite pila
Paradise Tennant: nite nite steve
Paradise Tennant: do you have the info cards on playasbeing cosmic
cosmic Ghost: no
Paradise Tennant: one sec
cosmic Ghost: but i know the deal:) ty
Paradise Tennant: okies
cosmic Ghost: its ok, i know the web ite
Paradise Tennant: interesting group
Paradise Tennant: good conversation
cosmic Ghost: yes
cosmic Ghost: i been coming for a while
Paradise Tennant: sometimes very relaxed and others more structured
Paradise Tennant: :)
cosmic Ghost: just to listen mainly
cosmic Ghost: or watch :)
Paradise Tennant: ;)
Paradise Tennant: well after 11 pm here .. think it is time to scoot too :)
cosmic Ghost: ok:)
Paradise Tennant: nice to meet you cosmic ..hope to see you again :)
cosmic Ghost: bye:)
cosmic Ghost: hehe
cosmic Ghost: :)
Paradise Tennant: byeeeeeeeee ;)
cosmic Ghost: bye:)
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