The Guardian for this meeting was stevenaia Michinaga. The comments are by stevenaia Michinaga.

stevenaia Michinaga: hello sam
oO0Oo Resident: hiya Stevenaia... how was your day?
stevenaia Michinaga: I was about to begin a pillow poem after the bell
stevenaia Michinaga: hello Susan
oO0Oo Resident: hi Susan
stevenaia Michinaga: I had a lovely day out and about runing into friends
iwandertoo Resident: waves
stevenaia Michinaga: how are you Susan
iwandertoo Resident: waking up...bit tired
oO0Oo Resident: nice :) what's a 'pillow poem'
stevenaia Michinaga: I don;t know but I though it would be nice idea to compose a poem with my friends the pillows sitting with me, thank goodness you showed up
oO0Oo Resident: hahahaha.... i see now..
stevenaia Michinaga: sometimes you can be quite creative talking to yourself
stevenaia Michinaga: an audiance of inanimate objects can only help
stevenaia Michinaga: have you started your new work, susan?
stevenaia Michinaga: welcome abck
stevenaia Michinaga: back
iwandertoo Resident: thank you
stevenaia Michinaga: hello Alfred
stevenaia Michinaga: hello Arch
oO0Oo Resident: hi Arch, hi Boxy (^ - ^)
oO0Oo Resident: SSL! :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi peeps, taking a long time to rez here :)
stevenaia Michinaga: welcome sophia
Alfred Kelberry: wuff!
Alfred Kelberry: hi :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi everyone :)
Alfred Kelberry: neko girl :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: nice bark Boxy so cute lol
stevenaia Michinaga: everyone find a pillow :)
Alfred Kelberry: stev the biker girl :)
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles
oO0Oo Resident: the all accomodating blue and brown friends
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Archmage Atlantis: I will be here, on diamond mountain.......I will be here, when you need me
SophiaSharon Larnia: haha
Alfred Kelberry: wuff!
iwandertoo Resident: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: you boxy tire biter?
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Alfred Kelberry: no, just like jogging :)
Archmage Atlantis: I have a dream
Alfred Kelberry: thought i'd make you a company :)
stevenaia Michinaga: Arch? listens
Archmage Atlantis: That someday all life forms shall live in harmony
stevenaia Michinaga: hello Paradise
Alfred Kelberry: utopia, but a good one :)
Alfred Kelberry: para!
stevenaia Michinaga: can you tell me about harmony? Arch?
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Paradise
oO0Oo Resident: hi Paradise... welcome :)
Archmage Atlantis: yes, a bit, Stevenia
Archmage Atlantis: It is not agreement
Archmage Atlantis: It is not being the same
Alfred Kelberry: oh, ruffly skirt :)

--BELL--

Archmage Atlantis: It is hearing the notes
stevenaia Michinaga: everyone seems to be crashing tonight, Paradise and Susan
SophiaSharon Larnia: i looked around for a cuplrit, wondering if i was next :)
stevenaia Michinaga: wb paradise
SophiaSharon Larnia: wb Paradise :)
stevenaia Michinaga: what a lovely new dress
SophiaSharon Larnia: hehe
Alfred Kelberry: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: is that new boxy, we leave fingerprints on your nose now?
SophiaSharon Larnia: (knew it was just a matter of time lol)
Alfred Kelberry: *wiggles his nose*
SophiaSharon Larnia: eep Paradise, come backkkkkk
Alfred Kelberry: at least we saw her new dress :)
stevenaia Michinaga: poof...again
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: :P
Archmage Atlantis: None are culpable, for a culprit to exist, someone must actively desire to harm
stevenaia Michinaga: you speaking of harmony, Arch?
Archmage Atlantis: There are none here who desire harm
SophiaSharon Larnia: frowns at the lag monsters
Archmage Atlantis: As best as I can see it, yes, stevenia
Archmage Atlantis: That is the difficulty of being human.....to be limited in scope, in the ability to see
stevenaia Michinaga: what isn't that true for?
Archmage Atlantis: It is also a gift
Archmage Atlantis: take one step closer, solving the riddle.....it echoes all over the world :)
oO0Oo Resident: i like that the heart can encompass, what the mind cannot grasp
Archmage Atlantis: Namaste, Samúð
stevenaia Michinaga: how can you ever explain that?
stevenaia Michinaga: yet it is so true
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Storm :)
Storm Nordwind: Hi everyone
Alfred Kelberry: stormy :)
oO0Oo Resident: hiya Storm Bloody good to see you!
stevenaia Michinaga: I was to a lecture today about the Dao and Wu today at a local univerity
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Storm
SophiaSharon Larnia: neat Steve
oO0Oo Resident listens
stevenaia Michinaga: was actually about Dao and Ecology 

(A Daoist View of Ecology: The Co-existence of Dao and Wu and The Interrelationship between Humans and the Natural World.)

Although the link was to her Brown University lecture, she also gave the lecture at Lehigh University today

 
stevenaia Michinaga: Wu = material things, all of which possess Dao
stevenaia Michinaga: how things can posses something indescribable :)
Alfred Kelberry: isn't wu = without? as in wu wei
oO0Oo Resident: in the same way the heart can stretch around the unknowable maybe Stevenaia?

--BELL--

Archmage Atlantis: The limestone rocks in the ground around my residence are wu?......then dao is the the fundemental aspect of those rocks?
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, I was getting there sam :), I wasn;t doing the translation, Boxy, but seems it also means without
Alfred Kelberry: funny how "not" denotes material world :)
stevenaia Michinaga: seems so, Arch
Archmage Atlantis: nod
stevenaia Michinaga: just like love is in the air :)
stevenaia Michinaga: or so says the Almond Brothers
oO0Oo Resident muses... ecology of...
Archmage Atlantis: Allmand Bros?
oO0Oo Resident: maybe ecology is a word for the relationship between Dao and Wu
stevenaia Michinaga: Musical group
Archmage Atlantis: kk
stevenaia Michinaga: yes Sam, something that needs to be fond again in chinese society as well
SophiaSharon Larnia: bye all rl calls ;)
Archmage Atlantis: Something seems to come to me that we live in a creative cauldron of life, death, being and tryng not to be
Storm Nordwind waves
stevenaia Michinaga: night SSL
oO0Oo Resident: bye SSL
stevenaia Michinaga: how do we try not to be?
Archmage Atlantis: Not sure why we try not to be......to embrace what one is is the best freedom
Alfred Kelberry: dao as a reference to "natural order of existence" - i like that :)
Storm Nordwind: I thought you meant not being as in "no self" Arch
Storm Nordwind: But I see you were talking of oblivion instead
Archmage Atlantis: Storm, no self is to not be in the existence that can be imagined........to be as we are created is to be fre
Storm Nordwind: People live lives of such separation, however, that I can understand that imagination - when well used - can be a tool towards that freedom, a stepping stone.
Archmage Atlantis: In this we both agree and differ........
stevenaia Michinaga: I must leave, RL arrives early tonight
stevenaia Michinaga: night my friends
Storm Nordwind: Bye Steve
oO0Oo Resident: Bye ty Steve

--BELL--

Storm Nordwind: In the end one has to discard imagination :)
Storm Nordwind: Pure Awareness! :)
Storm Nordwind: The thoughts may be there. Or they may not. You can watch them arise and pass. But yes - pure awareness is beyond the thought that most people have described to me.
Storm Nordwind: I think one of the strengths of Play as Being is the "lightness" with which we're encouraged to contemplate or, perhaps better, experience being.
Storm Nordwind: The intensity and fervor about which I've seen some people go about their "spiritual" pursuits seems to me to encourage separation - and not being oneself (as you said before).
Storm Nordwind: The lightness and play of Play as Being seems a good antidote to that tendency
oO0Oo Resident: there is some quality that also accomodates everything... and the circle, and group help to work with all the energies and insights... assisting the lightness and flow

--BELL--

Storm Nordwind: Please excuse me gentlefolk :)
Storm Nordwind: Bye for now
oO0Oo Resident: Cheerio Storm... ntsy
oO0Oo Resident: :)) Paradise
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: finally had to load a new viewer
oO0Oo Resident: glad you kept trying
Paradise Tennant: smiles how is everyone tonight :)
oO0Oo Resident: i feel fairly relaxed and content
oO0Oo Resident: ty
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Alfred Kelberry: glad you made it, para :)
Alfred Kelberry: and your flowery dress :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles :) yes took a while for some reason my viewer 2 stopped viewing
Paradise Tennant: what did I miss :)
Alfred Kelberry: metaphysical conversation of storm and archy
Paradise Tennant: hmm will look forward to reading it .. did we solve the big questions :)
Alfred Kelberry: not sure
Alfred Kelberry: i was away :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles :)
Paradise Tennant: listened to stephen hawking talk one night .. was thinking that he just might figure it all out and humanity's luck would have him finally be at a stage in his disease where he could not communicate it .. so you would look in his eyes and know he knows :) and wonder
Alfred Kelberry: a bitter-sweet story
oO0Oo Resident nods
Paradise Tennant: yes a man blessed with both amazing intelligence and a great sense of humor
Alfred Kelberry: yet i think we're not capable of "figure it all out"
Alfred Kelberry: just insignificant creatures on a rock in space
oO0Oo Resident: to figure enough.. to be happy... is a workable goal perhaps
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: yes
Alfred Kelberry: sam, very much so :)

--BELL--

Paradise Tennant: no matter how much .. you understand it is always likely only a scratch on the surface :)
Paradise Tennant: lol
Paradise Tennant: very cute
oO0Oo Resident wonders playfully if Boxy's noes could serve as a sort of 'talking stick' lol
oO0Oo Resident: nose*
Paradise Tennant: smiles a fun one :)
oO0Oo Resident: wuff rufff rufff
oO0Oo Resident imagines Boxy version 23.00 RC-gold - code named 'irresistible'
Paradise Tennant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYooZOEWo0Y
Paradise Tennant: at least we have not put peanut butter on it :)
oO0Oo Resident: lol
oO0Oo Resident: that is a workable goal that one lol
Paradise Tennant: use to feed our family dog peanut butter :) still do with blue he eats in delicate little bits , nipper would .. gallump it down and then not be able to open his mouth :) to chew :)
oO0Oo Resident: hehehehe NOM NOM NOMMMM NOOOM
Paradise Tennant: smiles :)
oO0Oo Resident: Thinking both, of how Steven Hawking has a good sense of humour, and also of how visiting a planetarium, or observatory, can be a big relief, bringing perspective to life at times.
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: yes :))
oO0Oo Resident: heya Lucinda :)
Paradise Tennant: hiya lucinda good to see you :))
Lucinda Lavender: yes nice to see you all...:)
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: how have you been :)
Lucinda Lavender: very something or other...
Lucinda Lavender: just finished listening to music ...
Lucinda Lavender: and had concert this weekend...
Lucinda Lavender: during the concert my friend died
Lucinda Lavender: lymphoma
Paradise Tennant: blinks
Lucinda Lavender: really!
Paradise Tennant: at the concert
Lucinda Lavender: no he had been in the hospital with a nother round of chemo and such
Paradise Tennant: so sorry .. always hard to lose .. friends ..
Lucinda Lavender: but he was so brilliant:)
Lucinda Lavender: yes:)
Lucinda Lavender: I shared about his blog lymphomartini:)
Paradise Tennant: oh yes the 31 year old ?
Lucinda Lavender: yes...
Lucinda Lavender: he was quite questioning...investigative
Paradise Tennant: an enquiring mind :) full of curiousity :)
Lucinda Lavender: an had several internet things...one for Haikoo
Lucinda Lavender: haikoo.org? maybe
Lucinda Lavender: and another for deciding where to go out to dinner or coffee, called Obey the Decider!
oO0Oo Resident: hi Hokon :)
Lucinda Lavender: you could pick the neighbor hood and then thee website would decide for you
Lucinda Lavender: Hi hokon:)
Paradise Tennant: hiya hokon :) gtsy :)
oO0Oo Resident: your friend had a good sense of humour Lucinda... sorry he passed away
Paradise Tennant: so startling one someone so young dies
Lucinda Lavender: that is so true:)
Lucinda Lavender: his humour was so fun...
Lucinda Lavender: haikoo.org is correct
Lucinda Lavender: collaborative
Paradise Tennant: we really do not know what death is .. though still think it is not so bad .. not a negative
Lucinda Lavender: yes..
oO0Oo Resident nods
Paradise Tennant: maybe just a reset button :)
Lucinda Lavender: when someone inspiring to you dies it draws us along to work as they worked somehow
Lucinda Lavender: give like they gave
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: yes they know how precious every moment is

--BELL--

Paradise Tennant: well almost the witching hour here .. I will put your friend on my ton glen list lucinda .. they say they can still feel love .. if you think of them :) it is helpful :)
Lucinda Lavender: thank you Paradise:)
Paradise Tennant: :)
Paradise Tennant: namaste my friends ..sweet dreams :)
Lucinda Lavender: sweet dreams to you!
oO0Oo Resident: namaste Paradise
Paradise Tennant: nite nite all :)
Lucinda Lavender: any topics still floating around?
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Lucinda Lavender: that is ok:)
oO0Oo Resident: hehe...
oO0Oo Resident: sadly, i must logoff... but hope to see you all soon
Lucinda Lavender: I wake slow;y as well...
Lucinda Lavender: ok:) bye Samuo:)
oO0Oo Resident: thank you for letting me know of your friend Luci friends and associates become the players in continuance, when our body passes away... a concert continues... rippling outward... touching many :)) happy continuance to all
Lucinda Lavender: see again:)
Lucinda Lavender: thank you Samuo:)
oO0Oo Resident: :))
Lucinda Lavender: maybe it would be best for me to go too...feeling a little restless...hard to sit still even in 2L
Lucinda Lavender: bye Boxy:)
Lucinda Lavender: may you have sweet dreams also hokon and arch and koya
Lucinda Lavender: byeee