2011.02.06 07:00 - The Sounds of Silence

The Guardian for this meeting was Adams Rubble. The comments are by Adams Rubble.

Wait, has that title been used before by someone? It was inspired by Steve's comment about hearing the birds during a pause. Steve's comments were partly to answer a new visitor today who had questions about what it was like to stop.

Sunshine Vayandar: hi there ;)
Adams Rubble: Hello Sunshine :)
Sunshine Vayandar: hi - how are you ;)
Adams Rubble: I am well..and you?
Adams Rubble: have you been here before?
Sunshine Vayandar: good too thanks
Sunshine Vayandar: yes I have
Adams Rubble: nice to meet you :)
Sunshine Vayandar: I think we haven't met yet
Sunshine Vayandar: brb
Adams Rubble: Hello Corvi :)
Corvuscorva Nightfire: Hi, Adams
--BELL--
Adams Rubble: Nice that you could come this morning
Sunshine Vayandar: hi sorry I am back
Corvuscorva Nightfire: I'm glad that I could
Sunshine Vayandar: hi Corvi ;)
Corvuscorva Nightfire: Goodmorning, Sunshine
Adams Rubble: That is an impressive set of languages you soeak Sun :)
Adams Rubble: speak
Sunshine Vayandar: morning ;)
Sunshine Vayandar: I like to speak hehe
Corvuscorva Nightfire: haha
Adams Rubble: :)
Sunshine Vayandar: I don't practise them now
Sunshine Vayandar: I am in South africa
Sunshine Vayandar: so I use English and Afrikaans usually
Adams Rubble: nice to have you here :)
Sunshine Vayandar: ty nice to be here ;))
Sunshine Vayandar: I am thinking of being a guardian too
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: It is lots of fun and the hours are good
Sunshine Vayandar: what is required to be one
Sunshine Vayandar: ;)
Corvuscorva Nightfire: Hanging out, being kind and curious
Corvuscorva Nightfire: and direct and honest
Sunshine Vayandar: hmm I might be able to do that ;p
Adams Rubble: One doesn't try to become a guardian; it happens to one it seems
Corvuscorva Nightfire grins
Sunshine Vayandar: how so?
Corvuscorva Nightfire: good, hang out and it will happen!
Sunshine Vayandar: hehe
Sunshine Vayandar: ok
Adams Rubble: yes, Corvi said it
Sunshine Vayandar: I think today u open an exhibition?
Adams Rubble: there is an event at 12 noon SLT
Adams Rubble whispers it is now
Sunshine Vayandar: noon?
Adams Rubble: yes in the village square
Sunshine Vayandar: is there a calendar where I can see these events?
Adams Rubble scratches head
Sunshine Vayandar: on the wiki home I only see these chat events
Corvuscorva Nightfire: is there still one at Kira?
Sunshine Vayandar: ;)
Adams Rubble: There is a builletin board
Adams Rubble: it is around here someplace
Adams Rubble: It has Kira events though
Corvuscorva Nightfire: laughs at the vagueness of us.
Adams Rubble: there are not many scheduled Play as Being events other than the four sessions
Sunshine Vayandar scratches head and things about the vagueness ;p
Sunshine Vayandar: *thinks
Adams Rubble: that is plenty to keep us busy :)
Corvuscorva Nightfire: well, that leaves us a great deal of creative room..but this moment, I think the only "event" is this one that you know of.
Adams Rubble: there is a time session at 6am SLT Fridays
Corvuscorva Nightfire: Where did you leanr of that one?
Adams Rubble: the time session?
Corvuscorva Nightfire: the noon opening
Adams Rubble: It has been talked about for some time
Adams Rubble: not sure if it went out to the friends group
Corvuscorva Nightfire: I meant...sorry...Sunshine, you have heard of one of our events...where did you hear of it?
Sunshine Vayandar: the exhibtion?
Corvuscorva Nightfire: yes
Adams Rubble blushes
Sunshine Vayandar: grr spelling
Corvuscorva Nightfire: ooo...adams, I'm sorry...
Corvuscorva Nightfire: I wasn't clear.
Adams Rubble: we don;t notice mispelling usually
Sunshine Vayandar: hmm I was here at one of the sessions and I stayed after that for a while
Corvuscorva Nightfire nods...well your question about where we post them is a good one.
Sunshine Vayandar: and Aphrodite came with a balloon over her head
Corvuscorva Nightfire: and perhaps we need to consider it!
Sunshine Vayandar: and was "shamelessly advertising" it
Sunshine Vayandar: ;p
Adams Rubble: :)
Corvuscorva Nightfire: laughs
Sunshine Vayandar: hehe
Adams Rubble: We need to hire Aphrodite for the Art History workshop
Sunshine Vayandar: we were busy with a jam session with Yaku and Boxy
Corvuscorva Nightfire: as a billboard?
Sunshine Vayandar: ;)
Adams Rubble: :) I was thinking of shaless advertising
Adams Rubble: shameless
Corvuscorva Nightfire: indeed!
Sunshine Vayandar: ask her if she is interested ;)
Adams Rubble: Hello Steve :)
Corvuscorva Nightfire: Heya, Steve!
Sunshine Vayandar: hi Steve ;)
stevenaia Michinaga: morning
stevenaia Michinaga: Sorry I will meiss the Art History Workshop later, I will be away
stevenaia Michinaga: *miss
Adams Rubble: It is not today but February 20
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles, nevermind
Adams Rubble: the Art of Being Art Sesssion is today
Adams Rubble: I wouldn't be able to make the Art History session if it was today (giggles)
stevenaia Michinaga: I'm sorry I will miss Art of Being Art Sesssion today I will be away
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Sunshine Vayandar: ;)
Adams Rubble: It has been hard to get out on the eats coast lately
Adams Rubble: east
Adams Rubble giggles at the typo
Corvuscorva Nightfire: for shore!
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, things are finally meting and not that icy
--BELL--
stevenaia Michinaga: *melt
stevenaia Michinaga: happy to get away today, all news is Ronold Regan's 100th BD and superbowl, two things I have no interest in
stevenaia Michinaga: so will have lunch with friends and practice Tai Chi
Adams Rubble: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: oops, did I miss the bell, so sorry
Sunshine Vayandar: ;)
Corvuscorva Nightfire: grins at you
Adams Rubble: It is a good day to go out to eat in the US
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, and something other than Doritos
Adams Rubble: hehe
Adams Rubble: or pizza
Sunshine Vayandar: what are doritos hmm
Sunshine Vayandar: like chips?
Adams Rubble: They are a snack food or Mexican derivation
Adams Rubble: of
Adams Rubble: Hello Horia
Sunshine Vayandar: kk ;)
Horia Naxos: hello everybody ... i'm still rezing
Sunshine Vayandar: hi Horia
Corvuscorva Nightfire: Hi, Horia.
Adams Rubble: Have you been here before Horia?
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Horia, nice group tag "Cut Me Own Throat"
Horia Naxos: no, first time, adams
Corvuscorva Nightfire: I've dragged him from a cuppa coffee elsewhere in sl.
Adams Rubble: let me give you a note card
Corvuscorva Nightfire: to hang out with us today.
Horia Naxos: corvus was so kind to tell me about this group
Sunshine Vayandar: ;)
Adams Rubble: :_)
Horia Naxos: and now i'm curious :)
Adams Rubble: Did Corvi tell you we record our conversations and put them on a Wiki?
Horia Naxos: yes, she did
stevenaia Michinaga: wonders what else she told you to get you express interest in joining us
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Adams Rubble: Sun, there is a bulletin board right next to the pavilion here that has the art of being show on it
Horia Naxos: ... well, she told me about an exercise of 9 seconds
Sunshine Vayandar: oh ok let me zoom there ;)
Horia Naxos: to leave oneself or step out of the self
stevenaia Michinaga: That wasn;t ment to be intrusive, jsut playful
Adams Rubble: (Sun, it is almost behind you)
Horia Naxos: .. so basically now i'm eager to hear how people do that
Adams Rubble: Pema calls it dropping what we have to see what we are
Adams Rubble: The best way to learn about it is try it
stevenaia Michinaga: there is much on the wiki , discussion of the hows and whats
Horia Naxos: now my first question is (and i'm a slow typer :))
Adams Rubble: I think there is a timer available on the Wiki as well
Sunshine Vayandar: hi Dash ;)
Adams Rubble: Hello dash
stevenaia Michinaga: I would rather be a slow typer than a bad one (which I am)
Dash Earthboy: hi everybody
Horia Naxos: is it dropping how we see ourselves externaly only or is it about our selves , as well?
Corvuscorva Nightfire: Hi, Dash
Adams Rubble: Have you been here before dash?
Corvuscorva Nightfire: it's about any or all of the above
Corvuscorva Nightfire: one can drop just a little, and a little more
Corvuscorva Nightfire: or dance naked.
Sunshine Vayandar: ;p
Corvuscorva Nightfire: depending on energy and bravery.
stevenaia Michinaga: in 2 minutes or so the bell wil ring, the fountain will mist, let yor mind empty of 90seconds and see
Horia Naxos: okay, i'll try
Corvuscorva Nightfire: oh...Sunshine..you have a great quote in your profile picks
--BELL--
stevenaia Michinaga: whch one corvi?
Corvuscorva Nightfire: from sri Nisargadatta..
Sunshine Vayandar: which one?
Corvuscorva Nightfire: "If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman, or even human, should be discarded. - To be, you must be nobody. Give up all questions except one: 'Who am I'? After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The 'I am' is certain. The 'I am this' is not. Struggle to find out what you are in reality
Corvuscorva Nightfire: one set of words pointing to the idea.
Sunshine Vayandar: ;)
Sunshine Vayandar: I like to spend time with those words often
stevenaia Michinaga: nods, so may words to clearify something so simple
Agatha Macbeth: Hello everyone :)
stevenaia Michinaga: *many
Corvuscorva Nightfire: Heya Agatha!
Corvuscorva Nightfire: Good to see you!
Adams Rubble: Hello Agatha :)
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Agatha
Agatha Macbeth: Corvi! :))
stevenaia Michinaga: gtsy
Horia Naxos: ello agatha
Dash Earthboy: hey aggie
Sunshine Vayandar: what do you think it clarifies?
Agatha Macbeth: You too
Sunshine Vayandar: hi Agatha ;)
Agatha Macbeth waves
stevenaia Michinaga: The 'I am' is certain
Adams Rubble: Hello Alfred :)
Dash Earthboy: he alf
Sunshine Vayandar: yes ;)
stevenaia Michinaga: everything else is elusive
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Sunshine Vayandar: but the rest - I am not sure
Alfred Kelberry: meep!
Sunshine Vayandar: meep ;)
Agatha Macbeth: Meep Meep ;P :p:P :p :P
Horia Naxos: ello alfred
Alfred Kelberry: girls session today :)
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Boxy, missed you
Agatha Macbeth: Hello Mila :)
Alfred Kelberry: aww, stev :)
Sunshine Vayandar: so I think since the I am is certain - I try to focus on that more than the rest
Sunshine Vayandar: how are you boxy ;)
Alfred Kelberry: i'm ok :)
Sunshine Vayandar: ;)
Alfred Kelberry: good to see so many girls around :)
Dash Earthboy: so i'm ok, you're okay alf?
Adams Rubble: That gets us back to the dropping what we have to see what we are
stevenaia Michinaga: I love that "I am" can be certain for each of us, but not for all of us
Corvuscorva Nightfire: what it is that "am?"
Horia Naxos: must say, the first attempt , a few moments ago, was very difficult
Alfred Kelberry: how's your solaris doing, dash? :)
Alfred Kelberry: eliza!
Alfred Kelberry: another girl :)
Agatha Macbeth: Liz :))
Corvuscorva Nightfire: what did you find difficult about it...Heya Eliza!
Adams Rubble: Hello Eliza :)
Sunshine Vayandar: hi Eliza ;)
Dash Earthboy: great!
Sunshine Vayandar: how are you today ;)
Adams Rubble: That is perfectly OK Horia
Dash Earthboy: hey eliza
stevenaia Michinaga: every 15 minutes helps you in time
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Everyone!
Sunshine Vayandar: it was great to see you at the tower yesterday
Alfred Kelberry: what tower?
Eliza Madrigal is well and hopes that everyone is the same :) That was *so* much fun Sunshine :D
Sunshine Vayandar: Schoffer Tower
Horia Naxos: found it difficult to step out of the one i know for so many years now without any associations
Corvuscorva Nightfire nods. I do too.
stevenaia Michinaga: if it helps, the speing began as 9 seconds, which may be easier to start, 9 seconds every 15 minutes
Horia Naxos: perhaps i need turn all sounds off
stevenaia Michinaga: *steping"
Agatha Macbeth: stopping?
Agatha Macbeth: :)
Eliza Madrigal: lovely dress, Steve... sleek (sorry to arrive late, hope not to interrupt)
stevenaia Michinaga: I ahve sound I only hear the birds druing the 90 seconds now
Alfred Kelberry: *notices that someone moved the box*
stevenaia Michinaga: *have found
stevenaia Michinaga: eeek
stevenaia Michinaga: thanks eliza
Horia Naxos: yes, indeed and when i closed my eyes, i thought of mesel as a bird ... that could be the sound association
Corvuscorva Nightfire: laughs
Adams Rubble: it often is enough just to stop and ficus away from what we are doing
Adams Rubble: focus
Dash Earthboy: do birds think about their future?
Agatha Macbeth: Do birds think?
stevenaia Michinaga: I take my 90 seconds as a drain .. emptying, and watch what fills this newly created empty space in my mind
Horia Naxos looks at Polly
Horia Naxos: yes they do
Corvuscorva Nightfire: oh yes
Adams Rubble: :) Steve
Agatha Macbeth: Right
Corvuscorva Nightfire: though it doesn't exactly look like people thinking.
Agatha Macbeth grins
Dash Earthboy: please give an example...
Corvuscorva Nightfire grins
Agatha Macbeth: Maybe some people
Eliza Madrigal: and they do 'drop'... hehe... (actually a conversation about that at retreat, 'micro-droppings')
Corvuscorva Nightfire giggles
Corvuscorva Nightfire: dropping!
Sunshine Vayandar: ;)
Agatha Macbeth: Stoppings and droppings
stevenaia Michinaga: like the birds being heard when attention is let go
stevenaia Michinaga: birds fly in
Adams Rubble: nice observation Steve
Dash Earthboy: so we all leave a little of ourselves behind like the birds do?
Adams Rubble: I often hear music when I stop
Adams Rubble: not noticing it while I work
stevenaia Michinaga: the quiet mind can be a very creative place
Eliza Madrigal: :)
--BELL--
Sunshine Vayandar: "All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness." ~ Eckhart Tolle
Dash Earthboy: i'm curious
Yakuzza Lethecus: hey everyone
Sunshine Vayandar: hi Yaku ;)
Dash Earthboy: hey Yaku!
Alfred Kelberry: yaku 007 :)
Eliza Madrigal: Oh, Sunshine, that quote fits perfectly with Pema's new time chapter (just read before coming here) :)
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Ya :D
stevenaia Michinaga: conciousness is like the parted Red Sea, the open mind lets the held back floods mix,
Adams Rubble: Hello Yaku
Corvuscorva Nightfire: Heya, Ya
Eliza Madrigal: Ohhh, Steve, interesting image
stevenaia Michinaga: such a lovely mess arises
Agatha Macbeth: Hello Yaku
Sunshine Vayandar: Really Eliza
stevenaia Michinaga: http://wiki.playasbeing.org/PaB_Books/Magic_of_Time/11._Space
stevenaia Michinaga: ( had that handy for you Eliza)
Eliza Madrigal: yes, about basic space and natural creativity... really lovely...
Adams Rubble: :)
Eliza Madrigal: hah Steve, you're good :D
Sunshine Vayandar: ty Steve ;)
Dash Earthboy: wonders if the parting of the Red Sea story was a metphor for birth and death?
Alfred Kelberry: parting of the red sea - isn't it from the bible?
stevenaia Michinaga: let;s ask the Egyptians
Eliza Madrigal: yes Alfred
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, boxy
Eliza Madrigal looks for Egyptians
Alfred Kelberry: ah, fiction stories :)
Horia Naxos: yes, it is ... in a way it could be, yes
stevenaia Michinaga: metaphors usually are
Eliza Madrigal: all stories are fictions Alf, by definition, hehe
Dash Earthboy: good Eliza...I've usually found most Bible stories are originally from other cultures
Alfred Kelberry: well, it's not plausible one :)
stevenaia Michinaga: mythology seems to be hardwired to humanity
Eliza Madrigal nods
Horia Naxos: indeed, dash . sumerian being the earliest known one. the epos of gilgamesh
stevenaia Michinaga: the stories never leave us
Corvuscorva Nightfire: nice thing about a story is that we each tell it differently
Corvuscorva Nightfire: imparting a new meaning and myth each time
stevenaia Michinaga: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh
Horia Naxos nods
Eliza Madrigal: ahhh so true Corvi... appreciating 'anew'
Dash Earthboy: chugalug
Alfred Kelberry: corvu, this is how a big fish turns into a loch ness monster :)
Corvuscorva Nightfire: so that if my concern today is about childbirth..you would hear it in every story I tell...or if my concern is about love, every story I hear will speak of it.
Corvuscorva Nightfire grins
Eliza Madrigal: may we all have 'love mind'
Corvuscorva Nightfire: is it....Alfred?
Agatha Macbeth: Yay
Sunshine Vayandar: love mind ;)
Dash Earthboy: *is thinking how a couple days ago a session full of men complained about lack of female attendees...
Alfred Kelberry: corvu, yes, cause people, as you said, add up their own myths
Eliza Madrigal: here Dash?
Corvuscorva Nightfire: nods.
Dash Earthboy: yep
Eliza Madrigal: odd :) lots o ladies in PaB
Dash Earthboy: yep
Alfred Kelberry: eliza, it's wonderfully odd :)
Sunshine Vayandar: ;)
Dash Earthboy: hey observem
Eliza Madrigal: Hiya Ob
Sunshine Vayandar: hi observe
Corvuscorva Nightfire: Hi!
Alfred Kelberry: um... we're not supposed to see him
Eliza Madrigal: we don't know that
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Dash Earthboy: maybe like Rhia?
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: thanks everyone... nice to start the day considering quiet mind :)
Corvuscorva Nightfire: bye for now, Eliza
Sunshine Vayandar: ;)
Sunshine Vayandar: take care Eliza
Adams Rubble: bye Eliza
Sunshine Vayandar: ;))
Eliza Madrigal: bye for now
Alfred Kelberry: ah, that was fast
Corvuscorva Nightfire: nods..the hour, you mean?
Agatha Macbeth: Nearly that time
Dash Earthboy: bye Eliza
Alfred Kelberry: eliza leaving :)
Corvuscorva Nightfire: nods
Yakuzza Lethecus: bye except those whom at the guardian session now
Corvuscorva Nightfire: bye ya'll..I'm headed else ways
Alfred Kelberry: aga, how are you doing, beret girl? :)
Adams Rubble: I will not be able to attend today
--BELL--
stevenaia Michinaga: Hope to see you again Horia
Agatha Macbeth: Fine me boy
Horia Naxos: bye corvus
Alfred Kelberry: good :)
Dash Earthboy: guardian time huh?
Horia Naxos: yes, i will be here again
Agatha Macbeth: Time to relocate
Agatha Macbeth: Bye to all who aren't coming to the meeting
Alfred Kelberry: i love the wooden floor in the guardian building
Sunshine Vayandar: byebyeee ;) have a good meeting ;)
Dash Earthboy: okay...bye y'all
Alfred Kelberry: stormy, when do you make wooden floors here in pagoda? :)
Horia Naxos: see you all ! tc
Sunshine Vayandar: bye Horia
Adams Rubble: bye Horia, nice you could come
Adams Rubble: they took off quickly :)
Sunshine Vayandar: yes hmm ;)
Sunshine Vayandar: hmm I go then too - hope they have a productive meeting
Sunshine Vayandar: will be back as usual ;)
Adams Rubble: Nice to meet you too Sun. I hope yto see you ahain
Adams Rubble: again
Sunshine Vayandar: nice meeting you Adams ;)
Sunshine Vayandar: take care boxy see u soon
Sunshine Vayandar: ;)