2013.08.28 19:00 - How has your investigation gone so far?

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

Riddle Sideways: Hello
stevenaia Michinaga: greetings Riddle
stevenaia Michinaga: not your usual time here
stevenaia Michinaga: welcome
Riddle Sideways: nope, was available
Riddle Sideways: not your usually dress with feathers
stevenaia Michinaga: I've been changing seasonably lately
Riddle Sideways: summer? high holly days? back to school?
stevenaia Michinaga: usually winter/summer
Riddle Sideways: so many cycles
stevenaia Michinaga: cold/hot
Riddle Sideways: ah, more cloths and less clothing
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
stevenaia Michinaga: formal informal
Riddle Sideways: any occasion SL apparal
stevenaia Michinaga: I actually have a problem finding clothing sets in my inventory, so I do not change that much, I think you have been wearing that for several years
Riddle Sideways: yep, it has gone thru 7 changes. and nobody noticed
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Riddle Sideways: well San noticed
Riddle Sideways: very seldom wear this in RL, so might as well in SL

--BELL--

stevenaia Michinaga: same here as well
Riddle Sideways: :)
Riddle Sideways: funny, this started years ago as an experiment
Riddle Sideways: how has your investigation gone so far?
stevenaia Michinaga: "this"? PaB?
Riddle Sideways: yes
stevenaia Michinaga: which all relates to this week's theme of "Intention Investigation"
Riddle Sideways: sorry, that was sneaky intro
stevenaia Michinaga: I actually had that typed a few lines ago, seems all too applicable
Riddle Sideways: a Stevenaia returns here over and over and what has been investigated
stevenaia Michinaga: wonders if you begin with intention or they become more realizes as you spend time with... an experiment
Riddle Sideways: (also sorry) no Pema here now to ask the tough questions
stevenaia Michinaga: so far I have found that there is still much to do and look forward to where it all leads
stevenaia Michinaga: so much has happened in the past 5 years which has its roots here
Riddle Sideways: yes, a Stevenaia has-has an intention, but is continuing with an investigation
stevenaia Michinaga: look forward to more..change
Riddle Sideways: each year the local temple has a food festival. There is a person that is only met once a year.
stevenaia Michinaga: an open ended investigation bears more fruit than one that has concluded, that appeals to me
Riddle Sideways: 5 years ago was told the intro PaB story
stevenaia Michinaga: ..listens
Riddle Sideways: and each year an update
Riddle Sideways: this year was sad (a little) because of not as much particapation
stevenaia Michinaga: what has the experiment brought you?
Riddle Sideways: an awakening
Riddle Sideways: a base
stevenaia Michinaga: base?
Riddle Sideways: a place where personal pronouns are dropped
Riddle Sideways: a place of experimentation
Riddle Sideways: a virtual oneness
Riddle Sideways: a glimpse at the oneness of us
stevenaia Michinaga: and openness and listening
Riddle Sideways: and spontinaity (sp?)
Riddle Sideways: thinking of knowing how a chat will go... then seeing the turns
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, nice mixture of minds here
stevenaia Michinaga: you never know when the road will turn
stevenaia Michinaga: (path)
Riddle Sideways: people from around the globe who chalenge the zeroth time idea
stevenaia Michinaga: even after 5 years, there are suprises
Riddle Sideways: the multi-dimentionality of nothingness
Riddle Sideways: yes, look at the group here now

--BELL--

Riddle Sideways: e.g. music is central to many
stevenaia Michinaga: we are like a meal with each of us representing an ingredient, many ways to combine them to create a mutlitude of results
Riddle Sideways: Art projects of many visual implementations of the same theme
stevenaia Michinaga: mostly delicious
Riddle Sideways: hahahha, some of bad taste
stevenaia Michinaga: ..mostly, as I said
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Riddle Sideways: :)
Riddle Sideways: what if this dinner was not available
stevenaia Michinaga: reading your Profile, I never knew Melanie's last name
Riddle Sideways: when-who-how would non-dualism be discussed
stevenaia Michinaga: Sfka
Riddle Sideways: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: every day is something new
Riddle Sideways: did a show with her once
Riddle Sideways: her voice as gone
Riddle Sideways: so I had to sing :((((
Riddle Sideways: TMI
stevenaia Michinaga: I once asked Paradise about non-dualism, she gave a good explanation , someday it will be clear to me
stevenaia Michinaga: I loved her voice in my youth
Riddle Sideways: many stories
Riddle Sideways: first son was in arms at Melanie concert. He cried (a bit) and she commented
Riddle Sideways: we were friends from then
Riddle Sideways: imagine a reality where you are not separate
Riddle Sideways: where we are connected and one
Riddle Sideways: the false image of a separate you from all does not exist
Riddle Sideways: Play with that
stevenaia Michinaga: yes
Riddle Sideways: Play with Being it ALL
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Riddle Sideways: that is this investigation
Riddle Sideways: this is one
stevenaia Michinaga: it's not so much that these concepts exist, but that they were discussed mellenium ago and are still relevant today, non-dualism , wu wei, Being,
stevenaia Michinaga: they remain with us in a timeless way
Riddle Sideways: always existing and present yet put in some foreign light
Riddle Sideways: why not live in them
stevenaia Michinaga: I think I do, more and more
Riddle Sideways: 50 years of "I have a dream"
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Riddle Sideways: hope you listened to a recording today
stevenaia Michinaga: a good way to "progress" all in a few words
stevenaia Michinaga: yes
Riddle Sideways: to have that speech as a growing point
stevenaia Michinaga: once that dream was considered a threat (by the FBI)

--BELL--

Riddle Sideways: very sad... that dream is still a threat to many (crys)
Riddle Sideways: hi San
stevenaia Michinaga: hi San
Santoshima Resident: hi Riddle, hello Stevenaia
stevenaia Michinaga: n ice jacket
Riddle Sideways: an I has a dream in which ALL can live in peace and love
Santoshima Resident: ty, the designer i gave you the LM for
Riddle Sideways: growing up, wondering what to BE. Seeing MLK on a TV. hearing the words
stevenaia Michinaga: before PaB I knew nothing of many of the concepts we discussed, yet they were all part of me without me knowing, that has been richly rewarding
Riddle Sideways: that dream speech has as much power today as 50 years ago
Riddle Sideways: before PaB there were several things close to it, but fleeting
stevenaia Michinaga: some dreams can never be fully realized, and that can be a good thing, there is always work to do
Riddle Sideways: to dream the imposible dream and by doing so make it possible
Riddle Sideways: to dream of a life in which the current (perseived) problems do not exist
Riddle Sideways: or maybe just say that is over and was yesterday. we start today differantly
stevenaia Michinaga: brb
Riddle Sideways: so many dreamers
Riddle Sideways: at least Martin Luther King got to voice his dream
Riddle Sideways: and it lived past his murder
Riddle Sideways: sorry for being passionate... in foritive years MLK spoke words needed to be heard and was killed
Riddle Sideways: it warped a young riddle
stevenaia Michinaga: back
Santoshima Resident: informed
Riddle Sideways: wb
Santoshima Resident: hiya
stevenaia Michinaga: cat made me sneeze
Santoshima Resident: {i need to get some sleep ... please excuse me }

--BELL--

Riddle Sideways: need to go dinner
Riddle Sideways: bye and thanks
stevenaia Michinaga: poof
stevenaia Michinaga: night