2009.10.13 19:00 - Misting as Freshness

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

Eos Amaterasu: Hi Stevenaia
Eos Amaterasu: I was playing around with the pool and cushions
Eos Amaterasu: Now I am the lotus-born :-)
stevenaia Michinaga: you can make this place smaller you know (and drier)
Eos Amaterasu: Doesn't always seem to work
Eos Amaterasu: Now we can bow to each other :-)
stevenaia Michinaga: nice for small groups

Eos Amaterasu: Is there an aspect of PaB we could explore?
stevenaia Michinaga: I am open
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
Eos Amaterasu: That is a big exploration!
stevenaia Michinaga: grin, true
stevenaia Michinaga: amazed you can always be more open, yet so many have a difficult time gasping that
Eos Amaterasu: they gasp at it :-)
stevenaia Michinaga: even in this group
Eos Amaterasu: it is hard to grasp.... a paradox
Eos Amaterasu: How about in the next 90 secs we "touch" openness?
stevenaia Michinaga: I have some distractions, but it might be interesting, how do you propose we begin, methodolgy is also interesting
Eos Amaterasu: maybe just use "touch the openness" as an instruction?

--BELL--

stevenaia Michinaga: touch openness, inages of fog parting at a movement of a finger though it
Eos Amaterasu: heh heh
stevenaia Michinaga: must be vision of the misting lotus, almost like a dream
Eos Amaterasu: nice image
stevenaia Michinaga: how does it touch you?
Eos Amaterasu: I was finding that openness doesn't need touching, but allowing the touching that does happen is to touch that openness
stevenaia Michinaga: metaphors are such an sweet way to communicate
Eos Amaterasu: the lotus is a nice one 
Eos Amaterasu: misting also
stevenaia Michinaga: those were literal of what is before us
Eos Amaterasu: I was in Cape Breton for Canadian Thanksgiving, experiencing the "triple point" where water, mist, ice come together: freshness itself
Eos Amaterasu: both open and tangible
stevenaia Michinaga: we also celebrated canadian Thankgiving with our canadian friends down here
Eos Amaterasu: cool :-)
Eos Amaterasu: I'm now looking forward to doing American Thanksgiving as well
stevenaia Michinaga: seems we tend to eat more
stevenaia Michinaga: my wife has been to Truro
Eos Amaterasu: Yes, drove through it on this trip
stevenaia Michinaga: she went to school in canada
Eos Amaterasu: We could at some point have an RL retreat there
stevenaia Michinaga: seems they are becoming world wide events
Eos Amaterasu: There's one spot, Windhorse farm - has 600 year old trees - would be ideal for group up to a dozen or so
Eos Amaterasu: http://www.windhorsefarm.org/
Eos Amaterasu: Actually, you will be at Princeton, is that right?
stevenaia Michinaga: for a day, yes
stevenaia Michinaga: are you coming
stevenaia Michinaga: PRinceton has a wonderful energy
stevenaia Michinaga: I live quite close
Eos Amaterasu: Yes, look forward to seeing you in RL, and to doing the retreat there
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, I enjoyed my time there last year
Eos Amaterasu: Always an adventure to meet an embodiment of someone you know :-)
Eos Amaterasu: Seemingly
stevenaia Michinaga: true, ful of interesting suprises
Eos Amaterasu: Stevenaia, do you have a suggestion as to how to approach the next 90 secs?
stevenaia Michinaga: I am not sure 2 minutes is enough time to think about what arises
stevenaia Michinaga: much better to continue on openness
Eos Amaterasu: we could do it for longer
Eos Amaterasu: oh, no boundaries with the 90 secs?
stevenaia Michinaga: I was speaking about the suggestion, not the action

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: This was interesting, being close up with mist
Eos Amaterasu: mist is somewhat where things dissolve from solid to gaseous
Eos Amaterasu: or they go back and forth
stevenaia Michinaga: yes
Eos Amaterasu: like touch and go
stevenaia Michinaga: a great vehicle to explain things
Eos Amaterasu: Maybe we should have misty places in the village
stevenaia Michinaga: I have a fountain on my little plot
Eos Amaterasu: I've noticed that that's a theme in the village, fountains and variations
Eos Amaterasu considers he may want to get a mist generator
stevenaia Michinaga: I am in the process of takeing building lessons
stevenaia Michinaga: misting may be something I can learn
Eos Amaterasu: great!
stevenaia Michinaga: feels like something wizards should do
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
Eos Amaterasu: definitely!
Eos Amaterasu: Point to a cloud and make it rain!
Eos Amaterasu: I will check out your site...
Eos Amaterasu: I'm building kind of a forest clearing
Eos Amaterasu: a clearing is an opening in thingness :-)
stevenaia Michinaga: at this point they are hard to locate except by touch
stevenaia Michinaga: I will look for your forest..clearing
stevenaia Michinaga: as you can't have a forest clearing without a forest
Eos Amaterasu: I'm next door to Paradise :-)
Eos Amaterasu: It's tricky putting up a forest in such a small plot
Eos Amaterasu: Need viewplanes for avatars, so need some space
Eos Amaterasu: You architect in RL?
stevenaia Michinaga: yes
stevenaia Michinaga: hence my reluctance to build here, too much like my day job
Eos Amaterasu: do you include PaB type openness in what your build?
stevenaia Michinaga: wonders what that might look like
Eos Amaterasu: boundary plus openness?
stevenaia Michinaga: I think I identify with PaB openess and that is why I am here

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: here there is circular form, with openess in the middle
stevenaia Michinaga: but spaces need definition, as your clearing requires a forest
stevenaia Michinaga: not sure mental openess, as one aspect translate simply into spacial openess
Eos Amaterasu: the bells on either side of the 90secs define a special space
Eos Amaterasu: just like a particular instruction can outline openness and make it more visible
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, a speace in time
Eos Amaterasu: the openness doesn't reallly need a boundary
Eos Amaterasu: but a boundary helps make it visible
Eos Amaterasu: that must be the play of it :-)
stevenaia Michinaga: there are many aspects of space, as we are illuminating here
stevenaia Michinaga: avoiding the word "see"
stevenaia Michinaga: space is all play, in that regard
Eos Amaterasu: play and highlights
Eos Amaterasu: maybe mischievous too?
stevenaia Michinaga: Play is certainly that
stevenaia Michinaga: it is what makes my job so much fun... defining space for a living
Eos Amaterasu: and then you see people living in that space?
stevenaia Michinaga: living, playing
Eos Amaterasu: Was that an inspiration for you for play as being?
stevenaia Michinaga: not sure I understand the question
stevenaia Michinaga: "That"?
Eos Amaterasu: working with creating space for people, how did that lead to play as being, or was it already that?
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, I came here only to find what I knew, it was nice
stevenaia Michinaga: and what I didn't know, sometimes
stevenaia Michinaga: I think finding new definitions was of great interest to me
Eos Amaterasu: new definitions around openness?
stevenaia Michinaga: openness, PaB, Being, and much more
Eos Amaterasu: Can you describe one such definition, explorable in the next 90 secs?
Eos Amaterasu: (I will have to leave after that)
stevenaia Michinaga: will try
stevenaia Michinaga: hello Taliesin
Eos Amaterasu: Hi Tellesin
Taliesin Python: hello
Eos Amaterasu: Have you been here before?
Taliesin Python: no i haven't
Eos Amaterasu: We discuss and practice the nature of things
Eos Amaterasu: I'm giving you two notecards
Eos Amaterasu: Every 15 minutes we have a 90 second pause - there's one coming right up
stevenaia Michinaga: we meditate for 90 seconds every 15 minutes, feel free to join us

--BELL--

stevenaia Michinaga: hmmm
stevenaia Michinaga: I was too distracted to sit into a concerted result
stevenaia Michinaga: but directed thought was helpful
Eos Amaterasu: 90 seconds over everything :-)
Eos Amaterasu: directed thought?
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, think about "this" or that
stevenaia Michinaga: structurd 90 seconds
stevenaia Michinaga: as opposed to see what arises
Eos Amaterasu: "No one can describe That by saying 'it is this'." - Rangjung Dorje
Eos Amaterasu: (a fav quote)
stevenaia Michinaga: I tend to respond construtively and creatively to direction
Eos Amaterasu: Ah, that sounds great
stevenaia Michinaga: part of what I do , and enjoy
Eos Amaterasu: This was a great conversation - good night, stevenaia!
stevenaia Michinaga: night. looking forward to meeting you in RL
Eos Amaterasu: Yes!