2013.01.31 19:00 - Spontaneous Music

eliza posted this playful and celebratory session from the auto-listener database...

[19:08] Eos Amaterasu: Hi Para
[19:11] Paradise Tennant: smiles hiya eos
[19:12] Paradise Tennant: how are you sorry was off making tea ;)))
[19:12] Eos Amaterasu: np
[19:12] Eos Amaterasu: this enoughness ain't going nowhere
[19:12] Paradise Tennant: smiles what a lovely thought !!!!
[19:13] Paradise Tennant: how is your 99 days coming ??
[19:14] Eos Amaterasu: oh, I haven't been part of the current cycle
[19:14] Paradise Tennant: ahh ok
[19:14] Eos Amaterasu: & u?

[19:14] Paradise Tennant: hmm well I have to say I have back slid
[19:14] Paradise Tennant: I have let life's clutter get in the way
[19:15] Paradise Tennant: my practise was to be "contemplative housework"

[19:17] Eos Amaterasu: As was said in "The Night of Living Dangerously", 'watch the shadows, not the puppet"
[19:17] Paradise Tennant: smiles
[19:17] Paradise Tennant: yes .. the puppet is a red herring
[19:17] Eos Amaterasu imagines a red herring puppet
[19:17] Eos Amaterasu: billions of blistering blue barnacles!

[19:19] Bleu Oleander: evening :)
[19:19] Eos Amaterasu: lady of darkness, bleu!
[19:19] Paradise Tennant: hiya bleu we were talking of shadows and you appeared :)))
[19:19] Bleu Oleander: :)
[19:20] Bleu Oleander: how r u both?
[19:20] Paradise Tennant: http://38.96.148.16:4236
[19:20] Paradise Tennant: frogg and jay are playing
[19:21] Bleu Oleander: nice ty!
[19:21] Paradise Tennant: I am well
[19:21] Paradise Tennant: thanks

[19:21] Paradise Tennant: I am trying to get back on track re the 99 day effort
[19:22] Eos Amaterasu: housework can be very 99-day-y
[19:22] Bleu Oleander: not sure I can commit to doing anything for 99 days :)
[19:22] Eos Amaterasu: especially if you do it every day :-)
[19:22] Paradise Tennant: lol

[19:23] Eos Amaterasu: I find there are these moments, like you're moving the dish from the water to the rack....
[19:23] Eos Amaterasu: there's a sweep of movement opening up a gap
[19:23] Paradise Tennant: well I am fast tiring of the contemplative housework idea .. may launch into a nice series of bon visualizations I have a book on
[19:23] Paradise Tennant: lol yes
[19:24] Paradise Tennant: there is that sweep but you have to be ready for it
[19:24] Eos Amaterasu: any transition
[19:24] Paradise Tennant: I kind got bogged down tidying the sock drawer
[19:24] Bleu Oleander: :)
[19:24] Eos Amaterasu: you've left here and you're not there

[19:25] Paradise Tennant: smiles a big big smile :))) there is absolute perfection in dusting !!
[19:25] Bleu Oleander: can't say i've ever thought of dusting in that light :)
[19:26] Eos Amaterasu: can't say I dust all that much

[19:26] Paradise Tennant: I guess there is absolute perfection in everything
[19:26] Bleu Oleander: my pups can take care of dusting at tail level hehe
[19:26] Paradise Tennant: everything is sacred .. even the dust bunnies
[19:27] Paradise Tennant: lol

[19:27] Eos Amaterasu: there is no place the dust alights
[19:27] Paradise Tennant: I often threaten to spray Mr. Blue with endust and send him under the bed after a tennis ball :)
[19:27] Bleu Oleander: yes!
[19:28] Bleu Oleander: big fuzzy pups come in handy
[19:28] Eos Amaterasu: [19:26] Paradise Tennant: everything is sacred .... <-- can you say more?
[19:28] Paradise Tennant: blue is good with the cheese crumbs :)) never a speck left anywhere
[19:28] Paradise Tennant: smiles
[19:29] Bleu Oleander: never a cheese left !

[19:29] Paradise Tennant: we are in a web of the magical and the sacred seeing it seems to be just a breath away .. or breath taking moment away
[19:32] Eos Amaterasu: "is it a fact, or have I dreamt it, that by means of electricity this world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating soundlessly in a breathless point o time"
[19:32] Eos Amaterasu: maybe it was "vibrating thousands of miles..." (pieces of the quote coming back)
[19:33] Eos Amaterasu: so we are vibrating here, thousands of miles from one another
[19:33] Paradise Tennant: ooo
[19:33] Eos Amaterasu: yet right here in this picture frame :-)

[19:35] Eos Amaterasu: Is your body negative space, Bleu?
[19:35] Bleu Oleander: interesting question
[19:35] Eos Amaterasu: seems very black
[19:35] Bleu Oleander: shadow space
[19:35] Eos Amaterasu: ah!
[19:36] Eos Amaterasu: now we can ask you questions (since "only the shadow knows")
[19:36] Bleu Oleander: hehe
[19:37] Bleu Oleander: one of my fav artists - Rachel Whiteread
[19:37] Paradise Tennant: smiles
[19:37] Bleu Oleander: casts negative spaces
[19:37] Bleu Oleander: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/r...whiteread-2319
[19:38] Paradise Tennant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Whiteread
[19:38] Paradise Tennant: snap
[19:38] Bleu Oleander: http://www.luhringaugustine.com/arti...chel-whiteread

[19:38] Hana Furlough: hi all!
[19:38] Eos Amaterasu: Hi Hana!
[19:38] Bleu Oleander: hi Hana
[19:39] Bleu Oleander: one of my fav pieces of hers is her library
[19:40] Bleu Oleander: the cast of the negative spaces around the books
[19:41] Eos Amaterasu: I guess the nine or 90 seconds is a kind of negative space?
[19:41] Bleu Oleander: could be
[19:41] Bleu Oleander: one could also view the space around the 90 sec as negative space too
[19:42] Hana Furlough: : )
[19:42] Bleu Oleander: a switch in perception
[19:42] Paradise Tennant: hiya hana

[19:42] Eos Amaterasu: is that a half-full half-empty sort of thing?
[19:43] Paradise Tennant: smiles oh could only be full a entirety of abundance
[19:43] Bleu Oleander: kinda like a shadow in a way
[19:43] Bleu Oleander: the space that holds the space
[19:44] Paradise Tennant: very compelling very beautiful
[19:44] Bleu Oleander: yes

[19:45] Eos Amaterasu: if we touch that, the space that holds the space, then everything is playing from that
[19:46] Bleu Oleander: interesting to manipulate perception ... move ones fixed point of reference
[19:46] Hana Furlough: seriously
[19:47] Eos Amaterasu: shift a little, see what happens
[19:47] Bleu Oleander: :)
[19:47] Paradise Tennant: smiles I do that at work .. will sit in the chair opposite my desk
[19:48] Eos Amaterasu: what do your co-workers think of that?

[19:48] Paradise Tennant: every change in perspective helps .. why I usually change jobs after 5 years .. find a new window .. so helpful
[19:48] Bleu Oleander: like an OBE
[19:48] Paradise Tennant: lol
[19:48] Bleu Oleander: :)
[19:48] Paradise Tennant: never had an obe except in a dream
[19:48] Paradise Tennant: would so love to have one
[19:48] Eos Amaterasu: sometimes life imposes changes of perspective

[19:49] Bleu Oleander: we're having one now :)
[19:49] Eos Amaterasu: :-)
[19:49] Eos Amaterasu: ORLBE
[19:49] Bleu Oleander: :)
[19:49] Eos Amaterasu: Out Of RL Body Expereience
[19:50] Eos Amaterasu: and even here, default perspective is behind and above you
[19:50] Eos Amaterasu: like you perception is floating a bit behind you
[19:50] Bleu Oleander: yes

[19:50] Bleu Oleander: a shadow avatar distances you more in a way
[19:51] Eos Amaterasu: how so?
[19:51] Bleu Oleander: feels somehow here and not here
[19:51] Eos Amaterasu: embodied as shadow of embodied?
[19:51] Bleu Oleander: exactly

[19:52] Eos Amaterasu: the universe is about 140,000,000 lifetimes old (human lifetimes of approx 100 years)
[19:53] Hana Furlough: : 0
[19:53] Paradise Tennant: we are so visual :)) interesting that it can make you feel so differently
[19:53] Eos Amaterasu: puts my lifetime in perspective :-)

[19:53] Eos Amaterasu: I am this temporary wiggle of awareness

[19:53] Paradise Tennant: feels llike a fruitfly
[19:53] Bleu Oleander: lol
[19:54] Hana Furlough: does it make you feel like you have things to do?
[19:54] Eos Amaterasu: hmm, not really... puts a kind of distance or wondering during the doing
[19:55] Hana Furlough: interesting
[19:55] Eos Amaterasu: but also yes, transitory & precious

[19:57] Eos Amaterasu:

"Sadder than blossoms swept off by the wind
A life torn away in the fullness of spring"

[19:57] Eos Amaterasu: (-- Chushingura)
[19:58] Hana Furlough: : )
[19:58] Paradise Tennant: hmm you know I think the whole ball of wax is good ..even the dying
[19:58] Eos Amaterasu: yes
[19:58] Paradise Tennant: maybe it is the most interesting part

[19:58] Eos Amaterasu: Q (to Karmapa XVI): what happens when you die?
[19:59] Eos Amaterasu: A: Nothing happens

[19:59] Eos Amaterasu: what if there is no pressure drop, so to speak?
[19:59] Eos Amaterasu: the vase breaks
[19:59] Bleu Oleander: we're not around to know?
[20:01] Hana Furlough: but isn't it already broken?
[20:01] Eos Amaterasu: :-)
[20:01] Paradise Tennant: smiles
[20:01] Eos Amaterasu: full of 9 second gaps :-)
[20:02] Hana Furlough: : )
[20:02] Eos Amaterasu: every 9 seconds is full of a nine second gap
[20:02] Paradise Tennant: if not we should be rattling it a little
[20:02] Eos Amaterasu: that's why we're here, perhaps
[20:02] Bleu Oleander: why?
[20:03] Eos Amaterasu: to rattle the 9 or 90 or 900 seconds a bit
[20:03] Bleu Oleander: to dance

[20:04] Paradise Tennant: smiles float ..shimmer .. be dark and mysterious ..
[20:04] Eos Amaterasu: touch, go; stick, rebound; sink, rise
[20:04] Bleu Oleander: all of the above :)

[20:04] Eos Amaterasu: for Hana it's greeting day time
[20:04] Paradise Tennant: lol
[20:04] Eos Amaterasu: for me it's greeting night time
[20:04] Hana Furlough: yes
[20:05] Hana Furlough: night greetings to you, eos
[20:05] Eos Amaterasu: thank you all, cheers!
[20:05] Paradise Tennant: sweet dreams eos thank you
[20:05] Bleu Oleander: night Eos

[20:06] Paradise Tennant: I am rereading a book on bon religion that I found while doing my contemplative housework practise :))
[20:07] Bleu Oleander: what is that?
[20:07] Hana Furlough: oh nice
[20:08] Paradise Tennant: The Tibetan Art of Positive Thinking by Christopher Hansard
[20:08] Bleu Oleander: ah ok
[20:08] Paradise Tennant: full of lovely visualizations
[20:11] Paradise Tennant: he has written two books ..
[20:12] Paradise Tennant: I liked the ideas expressed in both of them ..though there are online challenges to his authenticity as a bon teacher
[20:13] Paradise Tennant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kum_Nye
[20:13] Hana Furlough: great chatting with you all
[20:13] Hana Furlough: but i should sneak out and get back to work
[20:13] Hana Furlough: bye for now
[20:13] Bleu Oleander: nice being with you too
[20:14] Bleu Oleander: sleepyness coming on ... :)
[20:14] Paradise Tennant: smiles nite nite bleu :)
[20:14] Paradise Tennant: nite nite hana
[20:14] Bleu Oleander: take care Para ... nite nite