Very funny that the 'Silly' people are back on track with PaB issues in chat.
Riddle Sideways: welcome Adams
Riddle Sideways: ummm leaping Adams
Adams Rubble: good morning Riddle :)
Adams Rubble: What is Being?
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: had 'fun' with your email questionaire last night
Adams Rubble: oh good. I need to fill out one
--BELL--
Adams Rubble: I read all the early logs I attended and a few more
Riddle Sideways: simple, clear, seemingly easy questions
Riddle Sideways: that are extemely hard to answer
Adams Rubble apologizes
Riddle Sideways: don't
Adams Rubble: in order to answer them we need to at least some self-reflection
Riddle Sideways: re-read the interview. really wondering who that Riddle is that wrote all that (correctly).
Adams Rubble: I have arrived at a peaceful understanding that Pema is gone and now it is up to me
Riddle Sideways: good
Adams Rubble: that is my intention with the first question. each of the interviews catured only a small portion of each avatar. there is so much more
Adams Rubble: captured
Riddle Sideways: it was at the end of the first year?
Adams Rubble: in those first weeks we spent much time on Being
Adams Rubble: there should be a date on it Riddle
Adams Rubble: or at least reside in a month
Riddle Sideways: yes, we did not get to Play for a long time
Adams Rubble: yes, April 2010
Adams Rubble: for your interview
Riddle Sideways: you were nice to send the interview questions ahead and give a week to answer
Adams Rubble: the first anniversary edition :)
Adams Rubble aks no "gotcha" questions
Riddle Sideways: thank you for that
Adams Rubble: Even reading back my first two weeks seemed so long because I went to so many sessions in those days. This is no longer possible
Adams Rubble: I could see my PaB self grow in those two weeks :)
Riddle Sideways: and some sessions lasted 6 hours
Adams Rubble: the first sessions were embarassing :)
Riddle Sideways: yes!
Adams Rubble: well it was a while until we did those long sessions
Adams Rubble: the first were just a half hour
Adams Rubble: we packed lots in :)
Riddle Sideways: couple long ones were in the second pavillion
Adams Rubble: yes
Adams Rubble: I was at the first 6 hour one then no more
Adams Rubble: people were trying to top it :)
Riddle Sideways: :)
Riddle Sideways: it just happened
Riddle Sideways: "I remember it well"
Adams Rubble: Guiness records
Adams Rubble: Although I was eager to learn about Buddhism in those days (still am) Pema used to get through to me in Christian terms. I found a nugget
Adams Rubble: This is from my blog this morning:
At an early session in 2008, Pema spoke to me as a medieval mystic:
“In Gods eye, each moment is already showing the fullness of eternity”.
Pema suggested I meditate on that statement.
Adams Rubble: I haven't done that yet but plan to :)
Riddle Sideways: there is still time
Adams Rubble: yes, because there is no time (giggles)
Riddle Sideways: or you think you have no done enough on it
Riddle Sideways: *not
Adams Rubble: I plan to :)
Adams Rubble: We can find so much in our own traditions
Riddle Sideways: and you did (a little) into the blog
Riddle Sideways: ha! yes
Adams Rubble: I was thinking about the old Gospel hymn this morning :in the Garden
Adams Rubble:
I come to the garden alone
While the dew is still on the roses
And the voice I hear falling on my ear
The Son of God discloses.
Refrain
And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own;
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.
He speaks, and the sound of His voice,
Is so sweet the birds hush their singing,
And the melody that He gave to me
Within my heart is ringing.
Adams Rubble: I want to note that the bell hushed the sound of Adams Rubble pasting
--BELL--
Adams Rubble: substitute "Son og God" for Being
Riddle Sideways: giggles
Adams Rubble: I have more :)
Riddle Sideways: /listens
Riddle Sideways: important to have the original quote
Riddle Sideways: then modify
Adams Rubble: Thiese are the middle versions of Beautiful Savior. Substitute Being for Jesus
Adams Rubble:
2. Fair are the meadows, Fair are the woodlands,
Robed in flowers of blooming spring;
Jesus is fairer, Jesus is purer;
He makes our sorrowing spirit sing.
3. Fair is the sunshine, Fair is the moonlight,
Bright the sparkling stars on high;
Jesus shines brighter, Jesus shines purer,
Than all the angels in the sky.
Adams Rubble: Hints to Being
Adams Rubble: That was one of my favorite hymns
Adams Rubble: I have one more, if you can stand it
Riddle Sideways: of course
Adams Rubble: substitue Being's for "My Father's"
Adams Rubble:
This is my father's world
And to my listening ears
All nature sings, and round me rings
The music of the spheres
This is my father's world
The birds their carols raise
The morning light, the lily white
Declare their maker's praise
This is my father's world
I rest me in the thought
Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas
His hand the wonders wrought
This is my father's world
Oh, let me never forget
That though the wrong seems oft so strong
God is the ruler yet
This is my father's world
Why should my heart be sad?
The Lord is king, let the heavens ring God reigns,
let the earth be glad
This is my father's world
He shines in all that's fair
In the rustling grass, I hear him pass
He speaks to me everywhere
Adams Rubble: Everytime I hear grass rustling in the woods I think of Being now
Riddle Sideways: as with every Deep breath now
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: These are the thoughts I woke up with today
Riddle Sideways: as a mantra or koan or fortune cookie is given to some, that would not work as easily with your traditions
Riddle Sideways: Being reminded of a song heard since childhood
Riddle Sideways: and getting/giving new meanings
Riddle Sideways: yet more depth
Riddle Sideways: twist a word
Riddle Sideways: see the path the new word took it/you
Adams Rubble: we often hear the childhood-learned-songs in our head, or we are humming or singing them
Adams Rubble: (notice the German grammar phrase in that sentence )
Adams Rubble: adjectival clause
Adams Rubble: hehe
Riddle Sideways: :)
Adams Rubble: my German teachers are also rattling around my brain
Adams Rubble: but I digress
Adams Rubble: Waht is being?
Adams Rubble: hehe
Adams Rubble: What is Being?
Riddle Sideways: the first hymn, had that separateness
Riddle Sideways: finding, walking, nearing, beside God
Riddle Sideways: as a separate person. not Being
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: I had another thought when i woke up that i just remembered. uh oh
Adams Rubble: All the human beings who ever lived were Being. Are they still being?
Riddle Sideways: /listens
Riddle Sideways: yes!
Adams Rubble: Being
Riddle Sideways: yes, upper case B
Adams Rubble: their atoms are floating around and many of their ideas live on in our brains; behavioor they taught is still with us
Riddle Sideways: so the first quote was ... had to go to a garden ... had to meet up ... walk beside
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: that morphed here ... to "Play As ..."
Riddle Sideways: yes, Same atoms
Adams Rubble: or I found myself in the garden and I was able to Appreciate the Presentation as the Presence of Being :)
Adams Rubble: Being
Adams Rubble: shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Riddle Sideways: there
Adams Rubble: Presentation of Appearance
Riddle Sideways: :)
Riddle Sideways: all that PoV stuff
Riddle Sideways: that Riddle is still on and on about
Riddle Sideways: maybe almost the most important as personal mindset
Riddle Sideways: the Point of View
Riddle Sideways: of any idea, stance, person, Being, Time, (wisdom?)
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: what PoV did you bring to that hymn
Riddle Sideways: then and now
Riddle Sideways: in modifying the words to 'Being' oriented
Riddle Sideways: in Playing
Adams Rubble: for a long time I rejected all fundamentalism which included the whole gospel hymn thing so I wrote it off as shlock
Adams Rubble: but I often then found the tune coming into my head while walking in the woods
Adams Rubble: now I have learned to appreciate the personal experience of the person who wrote the words
Adams Rubble: by the way, lots of terrible version of the hymn on the web :)
Adams Rubble: but the suimpleness speaks to me
Adams Rubble: I have often felt as if someone was walking with me when walking alone in the woods
Riddle Sideways: And to appreciate the timing, placements, thoughts of the music coming when-where it does
Adams Rubble: can interpret that many ways of course
Riddle Sideways: ok, go ahead
Adams Rubble: what is unknown to us incites our imaginations
Riddle Sideways: one would be that there is a Sound Track to life
Riddle Sideways: incitement is nice and good
Adams Rubble: well it can be the Son of God or the ghost of Native Americans or Mother Ann or good ole Being :)
Riddle Sideways: Yes!
Riddle Sideways: some of those do not 'get' a me or have the same powers
Riddle Sideways: the name-word is not as powerful
Riddle Sideways: blown off
Adams Rubble: Mother Ann is the founder of the American group called the Shakers and once when I felt a presence of someone in the woods at night up in NY State someone told me that I had walked past the cemetery where she was buried and it was probably Mother Ann walking with me
Adams Rubble: now I know it was Being :)
Riddle Sideways: hmmm, possibly remembering being near that place also
Adams Rubble: maybe not night--more like dusk--getting dark
Adams Rubble: in the winter
Adams Rubble: not sure what Mother Ann would want with some ole rubble
Riddle Sideways: most time "what is the sound of one hand clapping" gets written off as shlock
Adams Rubble: but I digress again
Riddle Sideways: then in some moods and some times it 'hits'
Adams Rubble nods
Riddle Sideways: that Great Space and Great Time are always 'here'
Adams Rubble waves
Riddle Sideways: sometimes goes to 'Duh!'
Riddle Sideways: and sometimes... :wow that is a real comfort"
Riddle Sideways: same atoms that always were
Adams Rubble: star stuff
Riddle Sideways: same as it always was, seem as it always was - Talking Heads
Adams Rubble: bullioons and bullions
Adams Rubble: now and forever more
Riddle Sideways: in your best Segan voice
--BELL--
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: Sagin?
Riddle Sideways: ty
Riddle Sideways: possibly/maybe can answer some of #5 now
Riddle Sideways: "WAYS of knowing" was a thing needed to know/explore
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: It is wonderful that some of you are getting to work on this project so quickly :)
Riddle Sideways: but, "Play As Being" were/are/will be so important to core life
Riddle Sideways: yes, since it is a Long project
Adams Rubble: now it is up to us
Adams Rubble: Pema always said he was not our teacher but what a wonderful teacher he was :)
Riddle Sideways: OK!! everything is now known
Riddle Sideways: you stand on It's shoulders
Adams Rubble: could speak to each individually
Riddle Sideways: knowing what you know
Riddle Sideways: #6. now summarize
Adams Rubble: going back to find what I missed :)
Riddle Sideways: yes, good method
Adams Rubble: so nice that everything is recorded
Adams Rubble: don;t know if I have enough years left to read my blog :(
Riddle Sideways: Welllll.... many times it is like the little recorder taken to the studio and gigs
Riddle Sideways: listening back at the mistakes, off-timeness, errors ...
Adams Rubble: hmmm, yes
Riddle Sideways: so many times a comment written is way past its time
Adams Rubble: seeing the song get better
Riddle Sideways: :)
Adams Rubble: hearing a song get better :)
Riddle Sideways: feeling
Riddle Sideways: how come we don't smell it getting better
Riddle Sideways: all the tiiie-e-e-e-m
Adams Rubble: probably because it did not stink
Riddle Sideways: laughs
Adams Rubble: Did we fill up the log yet?
Riddle Sideways: nearly
Riddle Sideways: oh wait! there is more room
Adams Rubble: What is Being?
Adams Rubble listens
Riddle Sideways: think we covered some of that
Adams Rubble: Being is US
Riddle Sideways: all that is and isn't and was and will be
Riddle Sideways: oh dear the the royal U.S.
Adams Rubble: Being R' Us
Adams Rubble: no not U.S.
Riddle Sideways: ok, US
Riddle Sideways: Us
Riddle Sideways: us
Riddle Sideways: you
Adams Rubble: Being
Riddle Sideways: Being
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: Bell
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: What is Play? and most importantly What/How/When/Where/Etc. is "As" ?
Adams Rubble: Wol, Pema, Stim, Riddle, Storm, Maxine, Genesis, Solobill, Sky, Dakini, Fael, Stevenaia, Eliza, Neela, Corvi, Aprhrodite, Eden, Bruce, Druth, San, Raffi, and many many more
Adams Rubble: Agatha
Adams Rubble: my memory is too poor for tis--can see avatars and not remember their names
Adams Rubble: Propser
Adams Rubble: Posper
Adams Rubble: Prosper
Adams Rubble: Gambhira
Adams Rubble: Gaia
Riddle Sideways: 2 lions, Llama, grocery bag, swirl
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: box
Riddle Sideways: a small ball of fur
Riddle Sideways: ha, good ones
Riddle Sideways: sounds, spit
Riddle Sideways: and photos
Riddle Sideways: very wild
Adams Rubble: Hello baby Elephant
Adams Rubble: can you do the baby elephant walk?
Riddle Sideways: hi
Riddle Sideways: hmmm, think not
Riddle Sideways: can you sit up once more?
Riddle Sideways: there got many photos
Riddle Sideways: hmmm, which to use?
Adams Rubble: I am still wearing my skirt :)
Riddle Sideways: plaid legs
Riddle Sideways: what have you learned from Being the PaB Llama?
Riddle Sideways: and spitting in the pool
Adams Rubble: that it takes work to switch back :)
Riddle Sideways: ha
Adams Rubble: also I have ways to react to stuff I do not like in the conversation :)
Riddle Sideways: lol, so noble
Riddle Sideways: interlocked hooves
Riddle Sideways: and talking mouth
Adams Rubble: otherwise this avatar has not worked for me
Riddle Sideways: interesting
--BELL--
Adams Rubble: Bleu will have to drain the pool when I get done
Riddle Sideways: we won't tell anybody
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: big day today... new stove coming... replacing a 33 year old one
Riddle Sideways: taking bets on the marble counter needing cutting
Adams Rubble tries hard to spit
Riddle Sideways: pool water is fine
Riddle Sideways: ummm, elephants don't float
Riddle Sideways: here
Riddle Sideways: so, this is what Being is
Adams Rubble: oh?
Riddle Sideways: Being together
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: in the pool
Riddle Sideways: as friends float
Adams Rubble: me and my llama
Riddle Sideways: da-da-da-dadada
Riddle Sideways: Harry Nielson - The Point
Riddle Sideways: fav movie
Adams Rubble: I walk in the pasture alone while the dew is still on the grasses...
Riddle Sideways: fits... what llamas do
Adams Rubble: maybe I should do my art gallery talk as a llama
Riddle Sideways: ok, my friend. gotta go
Riddle Sideways: RL interrupts, stove delivery.
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