2015.04.28 18:00 - house of me burning down

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

     

    Adams Rubble: Hello Eos :)
    Adams Rubble: Sorry to be so late
    Eos Amaterasu: np... hi Adams.... continuing in mindfulness, early or late :-)
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Eos Amaterasu: You are in the middle of many activities....
    Adams Rubble: yes :)
    Adams Rubble: been a busy day


    --BELL--


    Eos Amaterasu: I guess idea of warrior is both busy and still....
    Adams Rubble: I found the idea of being identity being tied to a house or something interesting in the article you gave us Sunday
    Adams Rubble: I had not quite thought of it that way
    Eos Amaterasu: "what you have", perhaps as Pema used to say
    Adams Rubble: certainly jobs are like that
    Eos Amaterasu: but it's true, especially if you grow up in a "family house", that's a big part of your identity
    Adams Rubble nods
    Adams Rubble: or raised a family in the house
    Adams Rubble: but more so growing up
    Eos Amaterasu: yes... I just left such a house :-)
    Eos Amaterasu: was there pretty much a generation's length of time
    Adams Rubble: yes, me too but still there
    Adams Rubble: we moved half way through my childhood so I guess it was easier to let those houses go
    Adams Rubble: well almost gone :)
    Eos Amaterasu: the house is its own ghost whether you are still there or not
    Adams Rubble: yes, the spaces are still so real
    Eos Amaterasu: literally memory spaces in a way
    Adams Rubble: nice that we can check in on the houses on Google maps
    Eos Amaterasu: that house _is_ certain times
    Adams Rubble nods
    Adams Rubble: I have walked around the neighborhood of the first house on Goggle maps
    Eos Amaterasu: yeah, I street-viewed my former house in Berkeley, and saw they had put out the green bins
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Adams Rubble: in any case it was good to realize I was giving up my occupational identity and I would still be there
    Eos Amaterasu: you're a different person but still there?
    Adams Rubble: I think the same person without the attachment
    Adams Rubble: maybe a freer person
    Eos Amaterasu: interesting, yes
    Eos Amaterasu: that's one thing that struck me about the Scharmer story [Chapter 1, page 18, "Facing the Fire"] about his family home burning down completely

    Eos Amaterasu: the generative power of being in the open naked space that was left
    Adams Rubble nods
    Adams Rubble: I was very much struck with the grandfather
    Adams Rubble: his one concern being the father
    Eos Amaterasu: wonder if we're burning down the house in a climate-change sort of way
    Adams Rubble: uh oh
    Adams Rubble: not sure we will be feeling good seeing the results
    Eos Amaterasu: upside of house burning down is clarity and rebirth (perhaps)
    Eos Amaterasu: but a lot doesn't survive
    Adams Rubble: yes
    Adams Rubble: we don't have a place to move on from the earth house
    Eos Amaterasu: hmm


    --BELL--


    Adams Rubble: unless you believe we can be reincarnated on another pllanet :)
    Adams Rubble: It has been a rough week for humanity this week
    Eos Amaterasu: yeah
    Adams Rubble: I think it has been getting me down
    Adams Rubble: even the president seems to feel helpless
    Eos Amaterasu: yeah, it can be horrifying
    Eos Amaterasu: PaB Bell is very precise :-)
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Adams Rubble: I think it was programmed by an architect :)
    Eos Amaterasu: being still and being busy, being still and seeing clearly
    Adams Rubble: you have a way of coming out with some profound little statments :)
    Eos Amaterasu: there are individual exemplars of humanity and care and open eyes and heart that are inspiring in the midst of darkness
    Adams Rubble nods
    Adams Rubble: I was struck with the images of people cleaning up the streets in Baltimore
    Adams Rubble: and those flying in food and flying out wounded in Nepal
    Eos Amaterasu: even Everest shook
    Adams Rubble: yes
    Adams Rubble: being still and being busy would make a nice topic
    Adams Rubble: what that means
    Eos Amaterasu: :-)
    Adams Rubble: as pema would say
    Eos Amaterasu: I guess "flow" is when they come together
    Adams Rubble: there is a certain point when we begin to deteriorate when we are busy
    Adams Rubble: or CAN deteriorate
    Eos Amaterasu: yeah, get pulled away in all directions and can't even feel that you're in one place, or doing one thing
    Adams Rubble: yes, that
    Adams Rubble: that is one place I have found the 15 minute stops helpful
    Adams Rubble: bring vack the focus
    Adams Rubble: back
    Adams Rubble: and the "why" one is doing something
    Eos Amaterasu: hmm, yes
    Eos Amaterasu: step out of the ongoing burning
    Adams Rubble: thank you for reminding me of that :)
    Eos Amaterasu: :-)
    Adams Rubble: I think it is time for me to get ready for tomorrow. It was good to see you :)
    Eos Amaterasu: Thanks, Adams, great to talk and share this space
    Adams Rubble: Have a good night
    Eos Amaterasu: Ciao!
    Adams Rubble: take care. bye

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