2010.08.05 19:00 - Finding the Path

The Guardian for this meeting was Paradise Tennant. The comments are by Paradise, stevanaia, Dream and Ewan.

Paradise Tennant: hiya steve
stevenaia Michinaga: hello Paradise
Paradise Tennant: how are you :)
stevenaia Michinaga: thanks for picking up last night
Paradise Tennant: no worries
Ptevenaia Michinaga: I am good, although my computer was repaired, I ahd a dinner w/ friends in
stevenaia Michinaga: then this dinner thing came up w/ spouses friend in town
Paradise Tennant: nice
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, outdoor dining was nice
Paradise Tennant: smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: this was her HS friend from a catholic girl's school, she convered to to be Jewish after she went to college
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: she made a major decision very early :)
stevenaia Michinaga: she always felt she was switched at birth
Paradise Tennant: lol
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: wonderful to find your place I think
Paradise Tennant: a faith that fits
stevenaia Michinaga: nods, or just a way
Paradise Tennant: yes often just a way .. a path
stevenaia Michinaga: hello Ewan
Paradise Tennant: hiya ewan :)
stevenaia Michinaga: brb, need an ice cream refill
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: how are you ewan :)
Paradise Tennant: hiya dream ;)
Dream Wrexan: hello :-)
Ewan Bonham: i am well..sorry, just came from dancing...
Ewan Bonham: No time to change
--BELL--
stevenaia Michinaga: hello Dream
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: what shall we talk of tonight .. anyone have a topic ?
Paradise Tennant: a question to explore ?
stevenaia Michinaga: finding one's path
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: great choice !
Ewan Bonham: hhmmm..lol
Ewan Bonham: I think the only way to find my path is to start walking..
Paradise Tennant: nods yes
stevenaia Michinaga: and I suppose, more importantly, finding the patience to wait for it
Paradise Tennant: nods
Ewan Bonham: perhaps notice where I am walking..
Ewan Bonham: And if i want to be there again..
Paradise Tennant: they always say when you are ready the teacher will appear :)
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, fate has its ways
Dream Wrexan: waiting... patience
Dream Wrexan: being comfortable with not knowing
Ewan Bonham: And like all paths, it canges and turns and twists
Ewan Bonham: changes
Dream Wrexan: yes, and we don't care much for those turns, do we?
stevenaia Michinaga: I learned so much anout so many things here at Play as Being, there is a cornacopia or perhaps a smorgasborg of pathes to see and touch upon here
Ewan Bonham: hard to see around the turns
Paradise Tennant: yes each one valid
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
Dream Wrexan: yes - life as a maze
Ewan Bonham: and which is MINE?
Dream Wrexan: lol, Ewan
Dream Wrexan: yes!
Paradise Tennant: hmm think surrender plays a big part
stevenaia Michinaga: the one that fits, like a shoe
Ewan Bonham: surrender to the process of discovery
stevenaia Michinaga: yes
Paradise Tennant: accepting where ever you are .. is the right place to start
Paradise Tennant: perfection in its own right
Ewan Bonham: ã‹¡ para
Dream Wrexan: Paradise - I like the concept - starting where we are
Dream Wrexan: over again with each step
Dream Wrexan: life with new eyes
Paradise Tennant: yes ! life with new eyes
Paradise Tennant: open eyes :)
Dream Wrexan: there was a commedian many years ago who used the term "new eyes"
Ewan Bonham: changing eyes
Dream Wrexan: imagine what things must look like to a baby - everything new
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Dream Wrexan: no preconceived notions
Ewan Bonham: And...all the time
stevenaia Michinaga: welcoming the everything
Dream Wrexan: some of my alzheimers patients are like that too :-)
Paradise Tennant: delight in every new thing .. a fresh discovery ..full of wonder :)
Dream Wrexan: yes!
Dream Wrexan: a world of wonder
Dream Wrexan: like the birds chirping here
stevenaia Michinaga: I usually hear them clearer during the 90 seconds
Paradise Tennant: yes
Paradise Tennant: being on the right path .. means progress ..of sorts .. with each defining that a little differently I think
Ewan Bonham: Each being willing to define it as we go along
Dream Wrexan: I do hope you'll excuse me - but I need to say goodnight
stevenaia Michinaga: I was just thinking of it not as a direction, but as clothes that fit, what you wear
Dream Wrexan: enjoy your discussion, everyone
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: good nite dream
stevenaia Michinaga: ight Dream
Paradise Tennant: sweet dreams :)
Ewan Bonham: good night, Dream
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: hmm ... in buddhist .. thought eventually even the path falls away .. you are at the destination .. no longer need it and it is part of the illusion too :)
Paradise Tennant: sort of a diappearing path :) like footprints that .. erase as you walk through wet sand
Ewan Bonham: reminds me of being with a good friend...and it doesn't matter just where you meet...it is all the same
Paradise Tennant: yes
stevenaia Michinaga: in stevieism they way you are seems perfectly applicable in every situation
stevenaia Michinaga: like an old friend, yes
Paradise Tennant: tell us more about stevieism :)
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: seems more like a daoist approach as I understand it , since I have done little study, but jsut let things be and things happen
stevenaia Michinaga: resolution seems to only requilt ever so slight movment sometimes
stevenaia Michinaga: *require
Paradise Tennant: ahhh like tai chi :)
stevenaia Michinaga: yes :)
stevenaia Michinaga: and Wei Wu
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: so just relaxing into now .. and slight stearing .. :)
Ewan Bonham: stearing?
Paradise Tennant: hmm steering smiles late in the day for me .. my typing is less than to be desired
stevenaia Michinaga: when will SL get spellcheck?
Ewan Bonham: Me too
Paradise Tennant: nods .. smiles ..
Paradise Tennant: sometimes .. I get a sense of .. deja vue and it always makes me smiles somehow gives me a sense yes ..this is the suppose to be how it is now .. this is right
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: hmm
Paradise Tennant: wonders at what motivates us to try .. sometimes
stevenaia Michinaga: it;s the the trying, it;s the waiting that sometimes brings things to us
stevenaia Michinaga: it;s not the trying, rather
Paradise Tennant: ahh lol so he who waits will win :)
stevenaia Michinaga: perhaps, sometimes
Paradise Tennant: smiles .. once .. you achieve enlightenment than all of this disappears .. as though it never happened you wake up from the dream .. like we wake up from sleep
stevenaia Michinaga: I find that patience often brings opportunity
Paradise Tennant: yes
Ewan Bonham: waking up...but still wanting to turn over..
Paradise Tennant: the reward of patience is patience .. samual beckett :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: yes I am winding down was up at 5 this morning in time to catch the second hour of the 1:00 session
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: nods
Paradise Tennant: long day
Ewan Bonham: yes
Paradise Tennant: how was the early session
Ewan Bonham: I will only be here at that time if something is out of wack..
Paradise Tennant: yes 4 am my time
Ewan Bonham: me too
stevenaia Michinaga: night, thanks and sweet sreams
stevenaia Michinaga: dreams
Ewan Bonham: Good night , Steve.
Paradise Tennant: smiles nite steve ;) sweet dreams
Ewan Bonham: Well, good night.
Paradise Tennant: good nite ewan thank you for coming for sharing :)