The Guardian for this meeting was Adams Rubble. The comments are by Adams Rubble.

Adams Rubble: Good morning Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: yet another Good morning
Adams Rubble: yes, lots of them lately :)
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: + Adams ㋡
Riddle Sideways: yes
Riddle Sideways: darker later too
Adams Rubble: It is a completely different morning in RL than yesterday now that the tropical air has moved out
Adams Rubble: yes very dark in mornings lately
Riddle Sideways: and now for some completly different weather
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: a cloud with three legs
Riddle Sideways: back to the walking through a dark house carrying coffee
Riddle Sideways: must be very careful
Adams Rubble nods
Adams Rubble: watching the radar screen
Adams Rubble: blip blip blip
Riddle Sideways: and SL viewer updated yet again
Adams Rubble: so many updates
Riddle Sideways: release date 9/5, yet it has installed that update at least 3 times
Adams Rubble: do you use the SL viewer?
Adams Rubble: oh I see, yes
Adams Rubble: The SL viewer and my virus protector do not like each other
Adams Rubble: my virus protector thinks it is a virus and doesn;t believe me when I put it on the list of OK programs
Riddle Sideways: yes, have to go into virus protector and set it that SL is ok
Adams Rubble: that works for the first one or two times
Riddle Sideways: seem to not have had to do that in months now
Riddle Sideways: /knocks on wood
Adams Rubble: I like Firestorm better so it matters only when I am having ram or bandwidth issues
Riddle Sideways: only this av on this computer uses SL viewer
Riddle Sideways: wonder why, still

I ask Riddle what is on his mind and compassion and peace becomes our topic.

Adams Rubble: Is there anything you would like to share or talk about?
Adams Rubble: that is interesting :)
Riddle Sideways: well, was thinking to talk about compassion and peace
Adams Rubble: OK
Riddle Sideways: compare the two
Adams Rubble: ohhh
Adams Rubble: like one we do and the other is given to us?
Riddle Sideways: which is ... (not sure of the words)
Riddle Sideways: hmmmm,

I say the opposite of what I mean but it gets accepted into the log

Adams Rubble: like when we think of others, our self stops to act up for a short time?
Adams Rubble: whoops bad sentence
Adams Rubble: our self stops acting up
Riddle Sideways: works for both words
Adams Rubble: Would you like to do a little experiment and both of us do some tonblen during the next 90 second stop?
Adams Rubble: I've never done tinglen with someone else
Riddle Sideways: ok
Adams Rubble: still another 5 minutes
Adams Rubble: or so
Adams Rubble: any other thoughts on compassion and peace?
Riddle Sideways: who knows when? The Wol Does
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: when's Wol's typist is not in the sweat shop
Adams Rubble makes a note to include Wol's typist during the break
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: that was very nice
Adams Rubble: the time went very fst
Adams Rubble: fast
Riddle Sideways: Soooo much suffering in this world
Adams Rubble nods
Riddle Sideways: funny to wonder were we breathing in sync or alternating
Adams Rubble: I did not want to stop the exercise yet
Riddle Sideways: started early
Adams Rubble: me too :)
Riddle Sideways: Please continue to be mindful
Adams Rubble: OK
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: It seems compassion and peace topic may not involve lots of talking :)
Riddle Sideways: true
Riddle Sideways: went silent here
Riddle Sideways: Plus, the desired words are not coming out right

Fearless in compassion

Adams Rubble: Pema Chodron talks about compassion and fearlessness together
Adams Rubble: it takes courage to be compassionate in many situations
Adams Rubble: yesterday I argued that cpmpassion was equivalent to wisdom and knowledge
Adams Rubble: maybe more likely it derives from wisdom and knowledge
Riddle Sideways: and it takes courage to be peaceful
Adams Rubble: quiet all my "selves"
Riddle Sideways: still back at: [07:08] Adams Rubble: like one we do and the other is given to us?
Adams Rubble: sometimes all my "selves" are like Golum
Riddle Sideways: really can't guess which word would be which
Riddle Sideways: maybe Golum inside
Riddle Sideways: *many
Adams Rubble: compassion flows out and peace flows in
Adams Rubble: need some peacefulness to bnurture compassion I guess
Adams Rubble: nurture
Adams Rubble: it is close to break--shall we do it again?
Riddle Sideways: yes
Adams Rubble: lots of people to go yet on my part :)
Riddle Sideways: whole earth
Adams Rubble: we are not just connected to all the people living on earth...
Adams Rubble: we are connected to all who ever lived and all who WILL live
--BELL--
Adams Rubble: our religions makes some connections to the past
Adams Rubble ponders
Riddle Sideways: repeating the same words that have always been said
Riddle Sideways: and teaching them to the future
Adams Rubble: is there some place in our minds or in our hearts that we all share?
Adams Rubble: is that the great space?
Adams Rubble: yes Riddle
Adams Rubble: connections
Riddle Sideways: yes, AND
Adams Rubble: connections, a path to compassion
Riddle Sideways: has been described so many ways

Background radio Signals broadcasting Great Wisdom in First Language

Riddle Sideways: always liked the background radio signals connections
Adams Rubble thinks about compassion for sufferings we all share
Adams Rubble: say more about background radio signals
Adams Rubble: please :)
Riddle Sideways: was a cute little therory
Riddle Sideways: story?
Riddle Sideways: when we become quiet enough
Riddle Sideways: the radio station can be heard
Riddle Sideways: Or was it that there is a common braodcast/receivers
Riddle Sideways: that we all have in common
Riddle Sideways: in the part of the brain
Riddle Sideways: in that part of Great Wisdom
Riddle Sideways: in that First language
Adams Rubble: This is WGOD, your compassionate radio station bringing peace and wisdom and peace to quiet men and women and boys and girls
Adams Rubble: sorry to break in on your explanation
Riddle Sideways: no, shared story
Adams Rubble: I think any way we see what we share is a step in the right direction
Adams Rubble: a toddler who does not speak words still can cmmunictae
Riddle Sideways: or a story by scientists that say we are all sharing DNA parts
Adams Rubble: as we approach another break, shall we continue our tonglen?
Riddle Sideways: noted that it would be 7:46

Riddle suggests a particular way of doing tonglen and we both try it in next break

Riddle Sideways: starts simply, on the first breath of assigning one person known to be suffering the most
Adams Rubble was watching wrong clock :)
Riddle Sideways: each breathe includes more people
Riddle Sideways: then crows, trees, worms
Riddle Sideways: then all the News broadcasters
Adams Rubble: avatars
Riddle Sideways: actors
Adams Rubble: people testifying before congressional committees
Adams Rubble: police people
Adams Rubble: prisoners
Riddle Sideways: people throwing plastic straws away
Adams Rubble: ohhh
Adams Rubble: people picking up plastic straws on beach and river banks
Adams Rubble: and gutters
Riddle Sideways: people thinking your thinking is not correct
Adams Rubble: (that is all of them)
Adams Rubble: :)
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: such a big breath
Adams Rubble: I'll huff and puff and blow compassion your way
Riddle Sideways: got so reversed, that it was hard to Get which direction was which
Riddle Sideways: in comes the compassion
Adams Rubble nods
Adams Rubble: me too
Riddle Sideways: in comes the Peace
Riddle Sideways: sharing out the ...
Adams Rubble: The Tibetan Buddhists have a practice in which Chenrezig (Avalokitesvara) sits on ones head in a lotus and then as the practice goes on descends into ones heart, and bands of light go out in all directions (love and compassion)
Adams Rubble: Sometimes it is the words Um Mani Padme hum that are spinning around the hearts and the reays come from that
Adams Rubble: that image comes to me now wothout the practice
Adams Rubble: it makes me feel peaceful
Riddle Sideways: in both complete inclusion and reductionism it becomes Aum
Riddle Sideways: all the noise
Riddle Sideways: becomes the music
Riddle Sideways: and at peace
Adams Rubble nods
Adams Rubble: I hope we got close to where you hoped to go today Riddle
Riddle Sideways: yes it get somewhere
Riddle Sideways: however, will still need more work ;)
Adams Rubble: I think this is the quietest session we have had
Adams Rubble: mostg peaceful
Riddle Sideways: btw - "om" typed into Google translated the Vietnamese to English "braised"
Adams Rubble: ouch
--BELL--
Adams Rubble: Thank you Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: Thank you Adams
Adams Rubble: I hope you have a very peaceful and pleasant weekend
Riddle Sideways: go in peace
Adams Rubble: et tu Riddle
Adams Rubble: bye for now
Riddle Sideways: and thanks for the laughs
Adams Rubble: :)