2017.05.08 07:00 - Onigokko in RL

The Guardian for this meeting was Eden Haiku. The comments are by Eden Haiku.

Eliza, Eden, Riddle and Adams

A koan

Riddle Sideways: will wait to select proper sit for today

--BELL--

Riddle Sideways: Howdee Leaping Adams
Adams Rubble: Hello Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: Eden will be right here
Adams Rubble: yes, i see :0
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: has to get today's proper dressings
Adams Rubble: honey mustard
Adams Rubble: ohhh, no, French for today
Riddle Sideways: :)
Adams Rubble: I am here in the middle of working out something. This is something that used to happen when I first came to PaB.
Riddle Sideways: good morning, Eliza
Adams Rubble: Hello Eliza :)
Eliza Madrigal: Morning ^.^
Eliza Madrigal listens
Riddle Sideways: /listens
Adams Rubble: I used to make the mistake of trying to talk about ti then and reading back, i sounded like an idiot. hehe
Adams Rubble: I will say that I got Pema's koan all wrong, well actually I limited it
Adams Rubble: Hello eden :)
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Eden :)
Riddle Sideways: Hi Eden, was it a hard choice of outfit today? :)
Adams Rubble: It was broader than just impatience, could include confusion, being bored or sick of PaB (Pema's wods)
Eden Haiku: Good morning Eliza, Adams and Riddle :)
Adams Rubble: words
Eden Haiku: Just woke up ...
Adams Rubble: happy morning Eden
Eden Haiku: Right Riddle, I put on the almost first outfit I found in my inventory....
Adams Rubble: reading the logs, we lost so many people even in those first months
Riddle Sideways: image of letting a fine koan age for a few, then taking it down to taste again
Adams Rubble: the sick of paB made me think that (hehe)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: 'losing people' seems an integral part of the SL/PaB experience
Riddle Sideways: dropping people
Adams Rubble: yes, it clearly is. The difference is that back in the old days there were always new recruits reading for basic training
Eliza Madrigal nods and smiles, having just come from writing a small book in answer to questions sent in email and having similar sensibilities
Adams Rubble: back in the old days when we used to walk three miles through four feet of snow to get to the Tea House
Eden Haiku: May I ask wis Pema's koan you are talking about?
Eden Haiku: What is/ which?
Eden Haiku: Mind not set into English yet :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Adams Rubble: Back in the old days, I was very impatient and Pema gave me a koan which I though was WHO is impatient
Adams Rubble: thought
Eden Haiku: Ah, thanks Adams...
Adams Rubble: This art gallery exercise has me going over old stuff
Eden Haiku: Ah yes :)
Adams Rubble: trying to figure out what i am doing here :)
Adams Rubble: and hoping not to get rubble all over the place :)
Eden Haiku: smiles
Eliza Madrigal: nice, so you are trying not to control it so much?

--BELL--

Adams Rubble: Everything I have said about what I am going to do with this has turned out to be wrong :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Adams Rubble: I am not sure what is going to happen
Riddle Sideways: good ... that is a start
Eden Haiku: Yes, an excellent start Adams: it's a living project, it's alive!
Adams Rubble: we'll see :)
Riddle Sideways: these sessions are as much a part of it
Riddle Sideways: friends that have known you and a glad to share
Riddle Sideways: and some might be going through introspection toward an art project also
Eden Haiku: Coughing lightly :)
Eliza Madrigal smiles
Adams Rubble: the interview also will encourage introspection
Adams Rubble: I might interview myself :)
Eden Haiku: Eliza, you booked one session at the gallery I think?
Adams Rubble: along with you all
Eliza Madrigal: wonderful
Eliza Madrigal: I did Eden, for August
Eden Haiku: yes, good idea Adams :)
Eden Haiku: And Riddle is still pondering?
Eliza Madrigal: number of photos isn't my issue... but how to convey why particular moments were iconic or what have you
Adams Rubble: loads of photos in the logs
Eden Haiku: Yes, I see...
Adams Rubble: yes Eliza
Eliza Madrigal nods
Adams Rubble: I may end up taking new photos
Adams Rubble: actually I did already :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eden Haiku: :)
Adams Rubble: I have hardly changed since coming to PaB
Riddle Sideways: ha, New Old photos
Adams Rubble: like Maxine except I change clothes :)
Eden Haiku: Only hopes her horrible outfit of today won't be in Adams' Art of Being...a leather pant....
Eliza Madrigal giggles
Eden Haiku: laughs
Eliza Madrigal: you are a rock star Eden, no matter what you wear :)

Exhilarating dancing

Eden Haiku: Spent all day Sunday with my dark glasses on, inside and on a rainy day. Rock star yes, indeed...
Eliza Madrigal: oh my
Adams Rubble: ohh, how are your eyes doing?
Eden Haiku: Felt the need to protect myself during a dance workshop

Eden Haiku: My eyes are great :)
Eliza Madrigal: excellent
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: great
Eden Haiku: The Biodanza workshop all week end went deep deep at the cellular level...
Adams Rubble: what is that?
Eden Haiku: It awakened some dormant cells in my reptilian brain....
Eden Haiku: It’ a South American dancing method, movement on music and a teacher who gives instructions.
Adams Rubble: oh
Eden Haiku: It rewires the living cells through dancing and musics and it’s mostly exhilarating
Riddle Sideways: and opening

--BELL--

Eliza Madrigal: sessions are very long, aren't they?
Riddle Sideways: rock til ya drop
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eden Haiku: Yes, this was Friday night. Saturday from 2 to 9 and Sunday from noon to 6 pm
Adams Rubble: oh my
Eden Haiku: We take a pause to share food and take a nap. but it's taxing, even though some dances are very slow and quiet and consists mainly of being on the floor all together in a heap...
Eliza Madrigal: sounds so fun
Eden Haiku: Yes, it is :)
Eliza Madrigal: pack animals :)
Eden Haiku: There was a young man from Malta just passing through Friday night and Saturday. On a world tour, The next day he was going to Quebec City then San Francisco, then Honk Kong a few days and so on...He heard about Biodanza by someone and decided to dance with us on Saturday.
Eden Haiku: He had no training in it whatsoever and just jumped into it, it was amazing to watch!
Eliza Madrigal: Arabella says everyone in Malta knows each other... wonder about possible connections :)
Eden Haiku: I did ask :)
Eliza Madrigal: oh :))
Adams Rubble: :)
Eden Haiku:He knew about Second Life and I mentionned "Artabella" but I guess it’s not her real name :)
Eliza Madrigal smiles
Adams Rubble: that happens
Riddle Sideways: :)
Eden Haiku: This was over dinner because we don't talk during the dance :)
Eliza Madrigal: that is something that even all these years in, I haven't found a good way to do... talk coherently about PaB with RL people
Eden Haiku: He was hard to decipher at first: we didn’t know he was a foreigner so the non-verbal was quite different,,,
Riddle Sideways: yes, agreed, Eliza
Eden Haiku: Yes, it is....we always sound weird don't we ?
Riddle Sideways: hmmm, is non-verbal french different then non-verbal english? [missed that: very much so Riddle, some non-verbal is universal but there are lots of cultural hues]
Eliza Madrigal: there is this book I like, where everytime this woman who is under a spell,is asked about what she sees, she speaks gibberish

Hard to imagine Eliza speaking gibberish...

Eliza Madrigal: that's how I feel :)
Eden Haiku: Had to repeat ":to discuss the nature of reality"
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eden Haiku: Funny Eliza :)
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: is it really gibberish?
Eden Haiku: So, guys.what is the nature of reality?
Eliza Madrigal: long elaborate stories, but nonsensical and disconnected
Adams Rubble:gibberish is in the ears of the beholder
Riddle Sideways: exactly
Eden Haiku: LOL
Riddle Sideways: ummm, what is that old old Root language
Eliza Madrigal: nature of reality = can't pin it down
Eden Haiku: indo-european Riddle ?
Riddle Sideways: nature of Reality... still here trying to figure that one out
Adams Rubble:if we were better at this nine second thing, maybe we'd know (giggles)
Eliza Madrigal: hahahaha
Eden Haiku: Yes Adams: practice, practice and practice...
Eliza Madrigal: perhaps must speak in dance

--BELL--

Onigokko in Real Life

Eden Haiku: onigokko
Eliza Madrigal: oops!
Eliza Madrigal giggles... changed clothes this morning...
Eliza Madrigal: stop
Eden Haiku: stop
Eliza Madrigal: onigokko
Eliza Madrigal: wow, it was right before our eyes the whole time
Eliza Madrigal: stop
Riddle Sideways: or not ... maybe
Eden Haiku: Just noticing now how "onigokko" has the same exhilarating feeling as Biodanza :)
Eden Haiku: Imagine doing something like that from Friday to Sunday with a bunch of people,,,
Eliza Madrigal: difficult to imagine :)
Eden Haiku: I guess I found onigokko in RL :)
Riddle Sideways: great
Eliza Madrigal: nice
Adams Rubble: :)
Eliza Madrigal: I love that idea
Eliza Madrigal: Wol and I tried to do crane dance in RL once, hehehe
Eden Haiku: We also dance at 2, at three, in litlle trains, in a circle... I will post some link to a recent post about a flash dance organized in Belgium
Riddle Sideways: any youtube links to that ? :))
Riddle Sideways: Eliza?
Eliza Madrigal: No, was probably 30 seconds long, spontaneously at NS retreat
Eliza Madrigal: :) but it is one of those moments that stands out
Eliza Madrigal: for its very PaBness, peculiarity
Eden Haiku: A biodanza flash mob...looking up
Eliza Madrigal: "the dance of life"
Adams Rubble: I must go. Thank you for the session :)
Adams Rubble: have a great day everyone
Adams Rubble: bye
Riddle Sideways: thank you, Adams
Eliza Madrigal: bye Adams! you too
Eliza Madrigal is excited for Adams art exhibit, and to read many interviews soon :)
Eden Haiku: here it is, it was on April 22th of 2017 in Antwerp, at the train station. A Flashmob: [Here is the corrected link: https://t.co/nOUhdVO854 ]

Riddle Sideways: and read Eliza's small book

Eliza Madrigal: :) will be whittled
Eliza Madrigal clicks
Eden Haiku: Sorry I missed you going Adams, good luck with your project :)

--BELL--

Eliza Madrigal: I'm not able to use that link, and when I search there are several that come up
Eliza Madrigal: particular song?
Eden Haiku: Not sure if the link works: had to find it on my phone and copy it here...Desktop computer is still not friendly with the Internet...
Riddle Sideways: yes, link did not work
Eliza Madrigal: ah
Eden Haiku: Oh sorry Eliza, I will post the right one in the log...
Riddle Sideways: ok
Eliza Madrigal: ok thanks :) most that come up are 'do re mi'
Eliza Madrigal: thanks for this session.... nice to start the day for a second time :))
Eden Haiku: Thank you Eliza :)
Riddle Sideways: nice way to first start day, too
Eliza Madrigal: bfn <3
Eden Haiku: have a nice day....
Eliza Madrigal: you too, hope you're able to enjoy some light soon
Riddle Sideways: thanks and have that best day again
Eden Haiku: Have a nice day too Riddle :) Sorry I was a bit off today...