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

Eos Amaterasu: Hi Eline
Eline Adjani: hello
Eos Amaterasu: welcome to Play as Being
Eline Adjani: no crowd today, i see
Eos Amaterasu: no.... a little unpredictable

Eos Amaterasu: how have you found the sessions?
Eline Adjani: i have only attended a few, but they have been interesting
Eos Amaterasu: what is the attractor for you?

Eline Adjani: intelligent conversation....that is a rarity on second life

Eline Adjani: also tolerance, and spirituality

Eos Amaterasu: :-)
Eline Adjani: and a fairly wide range of topics...or so i have seen so far

Eos Amaterasu: sounds like how the world could be :-)

Eline Adjani: alas...

Eos Amaterasu: this week's theme is "empathy, compassion, pity"....

Eline Adjani: there is mileage in those
 

Eos Amaterasu: so, how would you walk a mile in your shoes?

Eline Adjani: its not something i would wish on anyone

Eos Amaterasu: hmm

Eos Amaterasu feels some empathy, feels some pain

--BELL--

Eline Adjani: i find i cannot empathise with people who cannot empathise generally
Eline Adjani: it is not a position i can understand
Eos Amaterasu: I think some people hide their reactivity under a hard shell
Eos Amaterasu: kind of a self protection
Eline Adjani: certainly true for some
Eos Amaterasu: which tries to forget what it's protecting, the object being not to feel it
Eos Amaterasu: maybe we forget our inherent soft, aware nature
Eos Amaterasu: even empaths, maybe especially empaths, need to protect themselves
Eos Amaterasu: like what if you could really see other people's emotions and thoughts? would be overwhelming
Eline Adjani: yes
Eline Adjani: our own emotions and thougts are scary enough
Eos Amaterasu: yes, maybe those are the first objects of our empathy
Eos Amaterasu: softness, friendliness, with ourselves
Eos Amaterasu: or, somewhat like the process of empathizing is held in a kind of clarity, without borders or opinions or protections
Eos Amaterasu: just let be
Eos Amaterasu: (maybe that's the most scary of all :-)
Eos Amaterasu: that's a kind of gift I've noticed some people can give
Eos Amaterasu: let you fully be, express your being, with complete acceptance (more than you give yourself), and yet not reinforcing
Eos Amaterasu: not buying in
Eline Adjani: yes
Eline Adjani: it is a rare person
Eos Amaterasu: maybe that's a kind of "playing as being"....
Eline Adjani: being is a serious game
Eos Amaterasu: say more?
Eline Adjani: a game of life or death, indeed...
Eline Adjani: being - life - is not something to take lightly. in my opinion
Eos Amaterasu: personal pain?
Eline Adjani: yes

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: hmm... the 90 seconds, and times/spaces like that, are ways to experience that pain "in neutral" - let it be, no stickyness
Eos Amaterasu: (if there is stickyness it's part of the pain)
Eline Adjani: switching off is important
Eline Adjani: if it can be achieved
Eos Amaterasu: there's always little gaps, tiny moments of switched off
Eos Amaterasu: they could be embarrassing to the felt importance of the pain, or whatever the emotion is
Eos Amaterasu: true laugh, true pain
Eos Amaterasu: all within the same bubble between life and death
Eos Amaterasu: what comes after empathy?
Eline Adjani: i do not know
Eos Amaterasu: there's probably different sides
Eos Amaterasu: one could be, how do I respond? how can I help? how can I concur?
Malinson Resident: 's current display-name is "Malinson Bloobury".
Malinson Resident: whats cookin?
Eos Amaterasu: Another side could be, let it be, acknowledge through presence
Eos Amaterasu: like not buying in, but not cashing out either
Eos Amaterasu: Hi Malinson
Malinson Resident: sup
Eos Amaterasu: this very world :-)
Eos Amaterasu: Have you been to Play as Being before?

--BELL--

Eline Adjani: hello malinson
Malinson Resident: which one?? I loose count
Malinson Resident: 's current display-name is "Malinson Bloobury".
Eos Amaterasu: I was thinking of one aspect of compassion
Eos Amaterasu: has an aspect of being with someone else's passion
Eline Adjani: how do you mean
Eos Amaterasu: but also being with the heart of their passion, the heart that it's coming from
Eos Amaterasu: and feeling that from the heart of the openness that allows empathy
Eos Amaterasu: so something like feeling the heart of their passion from a totally open heart, which is really the nature of their heart
Eos Amaterasu: maybe that is the gift that is not sticky
Eos Amaterasu: that is the gift of the 90 seconds
Eos Amaterasu: of a moment of playing as being
Eline Adjani: sharing empathy
Eos Amaterasu: being present
Eos Amaterasu: your shoes are flashing :-)

Eline Adjani: i was not aware
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
Eos Amaterasu: your shoes are playing
Eos Amaterasu: even as you walk a mile in them
Eline Adjani: they are independent thinkers
Eos Amaterasu: not too independent, I hope (the shoes, that is)

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: Well, must head to bed.... good night, Eline, nice to meet you
Eline Adjani: ok goodnight
Eline Adjani: sleep well