2018.11.05 07:00 - The Practice

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

Subaru (a newcomer who arrives later in the session), Eden, Riddle and Adams

SL cell

Eden Haiku: Good morning Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: Good Morning, Eden
Eden Haiku: Monkees t-shirt in pink, nice :)
Riddle Sideways: it is already light outside, today
Riddle Sideways: pink? oh the lettering

--BELL--

Eden Haiku: Yes! We had a time change too, the sun goes up much earlier :)
Eden Haiku: Yes, the lettering :)
Eden Haiku: Any nervousness about the upcoming elections?
Riddle Sideways: was wearing the other other t-shirt too long
Riddle Sideways: of course
Riddle Sideways: have no idea how it will go
Eden Haiku: Adams writes something interesting about that in her blog.
Riddle Sideways: welcome leaping Adams
Adams Rubble: Good Morning PaBers :)
Eden Haiku: She is saying whatever happens, you will have to start from there from now. Hi Adams, I was quoting you :) Approximatively I'm afraid .
Eden Haiku: From now on rather :)
Adams Rubble: yes, whatever happens will not be the end of it
Riddle Sideways: paraphrasing
Adams Rubble: we start with a new reality
Riddle Sideways: or pair-o-phrasings
Adams Rubble: hehe
Eden Haiku: smiles
Eden Haiku: A healthy sense of detachment
Adams Rubble: whoops brb
Riddle Sideways: interesting outfit
Riddle Sideways: black and white and red all over
Eden Haiku: yes!
Riddle Sideways: thought it was newspaper articles
Riddle Sideways: or read all over
Eden Haiku: Some kind of patchwork yes, with polka dots on the shirt and squares on the dress...
Eden Haiku: And rectangles
Eden Haiku: Books maybe?
Eden Haiku: And she has her phone with her!
Riddle Sideways: those little 'devices' are still named Phones
Eden Haiku: maybe she's on the phone?
Riddle Sideways: used less and less for talking on the phone
Eden Haiku: Yes, we should have another name for the small devices you are right!
Adams Rubble: back, reading
Adams Rubble: I got the cell phone from San's couch in her new lounge :)
Adams Rubble:my first cell phone
Adams Rubble: I have to go back to the couch for the animation to use it though
Adams Rubble: :(
Eden Haiku: True. Forgot mine home last Friday and was shopping downtown all day. No more pay phones anywhere. Had to ask kind people in stores to let me use their land line to call home.
Adams Rubble: :)
Eden Haiku: Oh nice, Adams! Congratulations on your first time-consuming devilish and funny device :)
Riddle Sideways: there is an animation laying on the couch up there?
Adams Rubble: :)
Eden Haiku: Will try San's couch. I have a laptop in SL but no cell phone.
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: and yes, the devices have the shopping lists on them
Adams Rubble: everyone in PaB can have a cell phone
Adams Rubble: will need an animation at the pavilion
Riddle Sideways: and since many of me can't remember how much milk is at home, have to call and ask
Riddle Sideways: soon the refrig will text how much milk is left
Adams Rubble giggles
Adams Rubble: I am hopelessly out of date
Eden Haiku: I used a stratagem to find some info stored on the cloud. Went to the Apple store, logged in iCloud and got the stored info I needed!
Riddle Sideways: there already are refrigerators with web cams inside to show what is there,but they don't shake and sniff the milk to eval it

--BELL--

Eden Haiku: Not anymore Adams, you are not out of date with this brand new phone!Adams Rubble: hehe
Riddle Sideways: can't be out of Date with a device that has a calendar
Riddle Sideways: and the calendar flips to the new month automagically for you
Eden Haiku: We don't know what will hit us first: a giant storm, AI going crazy or politics of hell...
Riddle Sideways: stay alert
Riddle Sideways: to all directions
Eden Haiku: And changes back to daylight time automatically!
Riddle Sideways: oh Yes! that happened
Riddle Sideways: less then half the clocks here needed setting
Eden Haiku: Same here :)
Adams Rubble is hoplessly out of date,was chasing clocks all over the house
Riddle Sideways: ha, just remembered another clock that did not get changed yesterday
Eden Haiku: Picture Adams with a set of keys running through her house...
Riddle Sideways: all those clock keys

Time is ticking

Eden Haiku: Time is ticking
Eden Haiku: Tic tac tic tac tic tac
Riddle Sideways: too much Time on our hands
Eden Haiku: too little
Eden Haiku: so many things TO DO
Riddle Sideways: To do list is on the phone
Riddle Sideways: got toooo long for paper
Eden Haiku: I keep procrastinating difficult tasks
Eden Haiku: Reaching out to people is always the most difficult for me
Riddle Sideways: Saturday, had set phone down some unknown place, asked a person to call it. they could not find their's
Adams Rubble: :)
Eden Haiku: laughs
Eden Haiku: Andif it is in airplane mode, everything is lost...
Riddle Sideways: abandon hope
Eden Haiku: As we were moving from the country house, packing all sorts of things for leaving in the basement, I couldn't find my phone...
Riddle Sideways: tried to give a person directions to the party and they wanted the street number for their phone's gps
Riddle Sideways: oh dear, one of those boxes
Eden Haiku: Tried to call it. Not ringing anywhere. Not even in the basement. Thought I would have to undo all boxes but it was simply on the floor upstairs between boxes coming to town...Lucky me we didn't step on it...
Eden Haiku: We do become dependent of these intelligent devices :)
Riddle Sideways: yes, that panic of it not in pocket, where is it? what will become?
Eden Haiku: It is snowing here my friends....
Adams Rubble: ohhh. raining here
Riddle Sideways: it is sunning here
Eden Haiku: Just noticed... A wet snow...
Adams Rubble: northern people are tough
Riddle Sideways: paradise people are wimps

--BELL--

Eden Haiku: happier
Riddle Sideways: Ah Ha, just got it ... for a year or more Bleu has had 2 big dice on the side of plot
Riddle Sideways: a Pair-o-Dice
Eden Haiku: Pair-o-Dice :))))
Riddle Sideways: having an Ah-Ha moment and a Bell shhhhhing it
Eden Haiku: Bell is not considerate enough with our Ah-Ha moments :)
Eden Haiku: Hear hear Wol :)
Eden Haiku: Bell could be more sensitive to those :)
Riddle Sideways: should be
Riddle Sideways: was just reviewing all the many 'phone' stories of the last few days
Eden Haiku: Will ring in 786 seconds at 07:46:23: we should remind ourselves not to have any burning desire to share or Ah-Ha moments from 7:46:23 to about 7:48:23 :0
Riddle Sideways: yes, that is bell's time
Riddle Sideways: just be mindfull
Eden Haiku: Most of the time, we are on our best behavior :)
Riddle Sideways:but ever once in a while ...
Eden Haiku: ever once in a while, an irresistible desire to step over the treshold...
Eden Haiku: reading this book recommended by both Eos and Eliza: "Buried Rivers"
Riddle Sideways: /listens
Eden Haiku: A spiritual journey into the Holocaust.[that’s the subtitle]
Riddle Sideways: (instead of looking it up on phone)
Riddle Sideways: Oh! that book
Riddle Sideways: yes
Eden Haiku: The author is so good at showing the benefits of mindfullness in daily live.
Eden Haiku: It's a very compelling book. I love it!
Eden Haiku: She does Shambhala meditation as taught by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, but it appplies to us all, When we do it...
Riddle Sideways: so not too much Holocaust ?
Eden Haiku: oh yes, a lot about the Holocaust.
Eden Haiku: She has to process heavy feelings and she does so through meditation. She goes to live in Poland for a while.
Eden Haiku: VisitsAuschwitz and Lodz where her ancestors lived.
Riddle Sideways:nice AO now, Adams
Riddle Sideways: typing
Eden Haiku: Adams is looking up for some info on her phone
Riddle Sideways: on phone
Eden Haiku: Oh, I missed the snapshot :(

--BELL--

Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Eden Haiku: Mind doing it again for the picture Adams?

Adams typing away on her new SL cell phone

Past horrors and the horrors of now

Riddle Sideways: radio interviewer found a couple of Holocaust survivors in Pittsburgh to interview about the shootings
Eden Haiku: Got it' thanks sweetheart!
Eden Haiku: Listening to Riddle
Adams Rubble: that's better
Eden Haiku: That is so sad...
Adams Rubble: whoops me not watching chat before making comment
Riddle Sideways: giggles
Eden Haiku: That's ok Adams, we understand :)
Adams Rubble: was getting cell hone right
Eden Haiku: Got other pictures, thanks!
Eden Haiku: Saw the Kadish chanted online for the victims, It was beautiful.
Riddle Sideways: phone and beel and camera fighting
Eden Haiku: And so sad
Eden Haiku: Do you remember what the Holocaust survivors were saying about the Pittsburg attackRiddle?
Adams Rubble: religious places have become targets for mass murderers
Eden Haiku: yes
Riddle Sideways: and the worst has happened ... a Yoga center
Riddle Sideways: thought they have not said if it was hate crime
Eden Haiku: I know. Thought about Eliza as soon I heard.
Eden Haiku: But it was in Tallahassee...
Riddle Sideways: long way from Miami
Eden Haiku: A misogynist
Eden Haiku: So much hatred
Adams Rubble: every hater seems to have an automatic weapon
Eden Haiku: seems so
Riddle Sideways: thing is, that every Synagogue has a sign somewhere that reads "We Will Remember"
Eden Haiku: Berlin Wall crumbled down, hopefully one day USA will be free from firerarms..,
Riddle Sideways: one can hope
Adams Rubble sings One Day More
Riddle Sideways: not sure how England survives, without guns
Eden Haiku: Snow morphed back into rain, phew...
Adams Rubble: the Australians did it
Riddle Sideways: and the Morphing goes on
Eden Haiku: We survive quite well without guns up north :)
Riddle Sideways: and the Australians actually have things to hunt
Adams Rubble: nasty spiders and stuff down under
Adams Rubble puts another spider on the barbie
Eden Haiku: :)
Adams Rubble runs from the aspca
Riddle Sideways: need automatic rifles fer dem piders
Eden Haiku: Tomorrow is a very important day for the two of you.
Eden Haiku: And for the rest of the world as well
Eden Haiku: We will suspend our breaths...
Adams Rubble sings "Do You Here the People Sing..."
Eden Haiku: Around what time do you get the results?
Riddle Sideways: so nervous about screwing up helping somebody vote
Adams Rubble: results will be local so from 8 pm until a few days later
Eden Haiku: I will be at a big book party at my publisher's. I'm sure we will be all checking our phones though...
Adams Rubble: will be recounts and challenges and slow counting in some local spots
Eden Haiku: Thank you Adams.
Adams Rubble: some elections may be mighty close
Eden Haiku: I'm sure you will do fine Riddle, but I understand the challenge...

--BELL--

Riddle Sideways: many votes already cast, but not counted and reported
Eden Haiku: I guess you will have Spanish translators with the staff?
Adams Rubble is expecting Riddle to begreat and is proud she knows him
Riddle Sideways: talking to somebody that moved here from Ohio that was excited to see the huge booklet Ca sends out explaining everything
Riddle Sideways: they don't get that there
Eden Haiku: Oh!
Riddle Sideways: have to look up the candidates on phones
Adams Rubble: in red states only the Republican voters get those
Eden Haiku: smiles
Riddle Sideways: hmmmmm
Adams Rubble laughs
Riddle Sideways: hope that was a joke
Eden Haiku: And you have to vote for many many candidates, that must be confusing.
Adams Rubble: we get sample ballots before election
Riddle Sideways:a page per proposion, with the wording, an explanation and 2 opinion statements
Eden Haiku: Mayor, governor. congresswoman, senator...
Eden Haiku: Voting machines?
Riddle Sideways: all the way down to school boards
Eden Haiku: Oh my!
Adams Rubble: I will be voting for borough council people, County Freeholders, Congressional; Representative and State Senator and a ballot initiative to give more money to schools
Eden Haiku: Wow!
Riddle Sideways: yes, little booths to set up so that people have private areas
Eden Haiku: How early do you start tomorrow Riddle?
Riddle Sideways: was 6am, then a guy called and needs 15min earlier
Riddle Sideways: and it is a 15 minute drive
Eden Haiku: Good thing you have a face cat to wake you up!
Adams Rubble: :)
Subaru Arun: oh hello

A newcomer

Subaru, a newcomer

Riddle Sideways: Hi Subaru
Subaru Arun: is this Agatha's group?
Riddle Sideways: yes
Subaru Arun: ahh
Riddle Sideways: but, not right now
Adams Rubble: Hello Subaru :)
Subaru Arun: so you're still here
Riddle Sideways: ha, yes
Eden Haiku: Hello Subaru! Welcome. Please sit down if you like.
Subaru Arun: this looks very different from las time i was here
Eden Haiku:This is the group in which we discuss the nature of reality :)
Riddle Sideways: changed the pavillion and land a couple years ago
Subaru Arun:I used to come to the museum a lot
Eden Haiku: It's called Play as Being.
Riddle Sideways: and discuss the humour of the day
Subaru Arun: I really like it
Adams Rubble: the museum has moved
Riddle Sideways: that was Adams' museum
Eden Haiku: Oh, Adams is a friend of the Museum curator Adams Dubrovna :)
Adams Rubble: the other Adams
Subaru Arun: is it somewhere else now then
Adams Rubble: yes
Subaru Arun: I see
Subaru Arun: well that's good
Adams Rubble: I sent you a landmark
Subaru Arun: xièxiè
Subaru Arun: you are kind
Subaru Arun: I must take a look
Subaru Arun: so it belongs to you Miss Adams?
Adams Rubble: no to Mr Adams Dubrovna
Subaru Arun: how fortunate
Subaru Arun: oh I see
Subaru Arun: confusing
Subaru Arun: ㋡
Eden Haiku: And there is an excellent exhibit at the moment. Quite moving.
Adams Rubble: yes, we get confused ourselves
Subaru Arun smiles
Eden Haiku: We do :)
Subaru Arun: I am confused often
Riddle Sideways: back from crash
Subaru Arun: ♥(`'·.¸(`'·.¸ * ¸.·'´)¸.·'´)♥
Subaru Arun: «´·.¸¸.• WELCOME BACK! •.¸¸.·`»
Subaru Arun: ♥(¸.·'´(¸.·'´ * `'·.¸)`'·.¸)♥
Eden Haiku: WB Riddle :)
Adams Rubble: wb Riddle
Eden Haiku: Nice :)
Riddle Sideways: gigles, have that same wel back song
Subaru Arun: sl has been odd recently
Adams Rubble: yes
Subaru Arun: forgive me were you meditating?
Subaru Arun: xièxiè
Adams Rubble:we were chatting
Subaru Arun: sorry I just came by and barged in
Eden Haiku: gave you a notecard information about our group.
Subaru Arun: yes I saw
Adams Rubble: there is a bell every 15 minutes and we stay quiet for 90 seconds
Subaru Arun: thank you
Adams Rubble: every
Subaru Arun: oh I don't hear the bell
Adams Rubble: it will say it in the chat log in green
Eden Haiku: No, no that's quite fine Subaru. We try to take a step back every 15 minutes or so for 90 seconds, being mindfull, breathing.

--BELL--

Subaru Arun: that's good
Riddle Sideways: Wol added a randomness so that the bell is untimely
Subaru Arun: wonderful
Subaru Arun smiles
Eden Haiku: The bell rings at odd intervals though :)
Subaru Arun:I know of Wol
Subaru Arun: ah now I understand
Subaru Arun: yay
Eden Haiku: And sometimes we talk over and
Eden Haiku: it reminds us to be silent...
Subaru Arun: oh it's short
Subaru Arun: what do you do in this time?
Riddle Sideways: sometimes 90-sec is too short and sometimes sooooo long
Subaru Arun: yes it is relative
Eden Haiku: Rather short yes. We step back, take a deep breath, being mindful of how we feel, what is happening, what is on our mind.
Subaru Arun: ah good
Eden Haiku: This time though, I must admit I cheated and checked your profile :)
Subaru Arun: oh
Subaru Arun: it is what it is
Subaru Arun: I am a very boring person
Eden Haiku: Onmyoji is some animation?
Riddle Sideways: whatttt Eden!! you looked
Eden Haiku: hehe...
Subaru Arun: it is a kind of japanese cosmology
Eden Haiku: Ah like you name meaning Pleiades, I see :)
Subaru Arun: yes ㋡
Subaru Arun: most people think it's a car lol
Riddle Sideways: wha... Subaru is a car brand ㋡
Eden Haiku: Are you a meditator Subaru?
Riddle Sideways: snap
Subaru Arun: see? ㋡
Subaru Arun: hahah
Eden Haiku: A meditative car :)
Subaru Arun: I used to do meditations at Nirvana with Isis
Riddle Sideways: 7 little stars on the hood
Eden Haiku: smiles
Subaru Arun: yes the 7 sisters
Adams Rubble: and Onmyoji includes Shamanic practices?
Eden Haiku: This practice of stopping to take a step back every 15 minutes for 9 seconds has been suggested by the creator of this group Pema Pera.
Subaru Arun: it is a kind of shamanism I think
Subaru Arun: oh
Subaru Arun: a novel idea
Riddle Sideways: putting a 1% time tax on life
Eden Haiku: And we are also supposed to do it inRL for 9 seconds every 15 minutes....
Riddle Sideways: instead of an hour a week
Subaru Arun: really*
Riddle Sideways: a phone app for that
Subaru Arun: all day?
Riddle Sideways: use to do it all day
Eden Haiku: I did apply it quite well in the first months/years. I celebrated my 9th anniversary at PaB last November 2nd.
Subaru Arun: how interesting
Subaru Arun: you have been here so long
Riddle Sideways: so easy to get stuck in this groove
Subaru Arun: sl is very transient in many ways
Eden Haiku: Started writing haikus about my experience, but my practise dwindled down..
Riddle Sideways: morphed ㋡
Subaru Arun: how wonderful
Eden Haiku: It morphed yes Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: had almost all of us writing haikus
Subaru Arun: so good that places such as this still exist
Eden Haiku: How was it for you today to take a step back for a short moment with us?
Subaru Arun: and Mr Storm's place too
Subaru Arun: oh
Subaru Arun: it was hm cute
Eden Haiku: smiles
Subaru Arun: cute maybe not the right word
Riddle Sideways: Kuan Yin is mostly still there
Subaru Arun: I'm not quick with words
Subaru Arun: I need to think of things for a long time
Riddle Sideways: yes, have to do that too
Eden Haiku: That's ok Subaru. You don't have to answer :)
Riddle Sideways: or even have the answers
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Eden Haiku: smiles
Subaru Arun: but I'm used to meditations that last much longer than this ㋡
Subaru Arun: so no time to think ha
Eden Haiku:You have a calendar of all Play as Being meetings on our site. https:/wiki.playasbeing.org

Subaru Arun: thank you

--BELL--

Subaru Arun: I thought the meetings were later than this
Adams Rubble: there is one much later
Riddle Sideways: there are no longer 4 meetings every day
Subaru Arun: was fortunate to find you here
Subaru Arun: and happy you still meet
Riddle Sideways: there are some 1am SLT ones
Subaru Arun: there I was quiet that time lol
Riddle Sideways: there is a dreaming session noon Tuesdays
Eden Haiku: I host this session every Monday morning at 7 am. Riddle does host usually on Tuesday mornings at 7:00 but not tomorrow as he is doing some volunteer work for the American elections. And Adams now host on Thursday mornings at 7:00. There are a few afternoon sessions as well, and evening sessions so you can choose according to your time zone,
Subaru Arun: excellent
Eden Haiku: I was typing away, sorry bell :))
Subaru Arun: that is good news
Riddle Sideways: Aggers, often does the Monday 1300
Eden Haiku: True
Subaru Arun: I notice the sound of the water mostly ㋡
Eden Haiku: Nice :)
Subaru Arun: and the birds
Eden Haiku: It's always refreshing to meet someone new doing the practice, it reminds us how precious it is :)
Subaru Arun: there are no scripts here so I can't smile
Adams Rubble: I must go. It was nice to meet you Subaru
Subaru Arun: yes
Subaru Arun: you too Miss Adams
Eden Haiku: Bye Adams. I'm with you with all my heart for tomorrow.
Riddle Sideways: go have your best day, Adams
Adams Rubble: And have a great rest of the day everyone and good luck tomorrow Riddle and maybe see you thursday
Adams Rubble: whoops
Riddle Sideways: thanks
Eden Haiku: Bye Adams :)
Subaru Arun: what a nice lady
Riddle Sideways: yes
Eden Haiku: Yes, she's great!
Subaru Arun: so the museum belongs to another Adams yes?
Riddle Sideways: yes, it is confusing, but works
Subaru Arun: an interesting coincidence
Eden Haiku: She has been at Play as Being from the start, as well as Riddle. Ten years now?
Subaru Arun: yes, indeed
Subaru Arun: I'm glad that you endure
Riddle Sideways: just happened
Riddle Sideways: find a nice place
Riddle Sideways: and stay
Eden Haiku: We are creatures of habit I guess :)
Subaru Arun: but this used to look more like a pagoda I think?
Eden Haiku: Oh! I forgot to ask Subaru.
Subaru Arun: ?
Riddle Sideways: yes, it did
Subaru Arun: I remember
Riddle Sideways: at first it was a little tea house
Subaru Arun: beautiful
Eden Haiku: We record our conversations and we log them on our wiki. Do you agree? If not, I can remove your name.
Subaru Arun: what did you wish to ask?
Subaru Arun: oh
Subaru Arun: yes
Subaru Arun: I know this
Subaru Arun:I have been here before
Subaru Arun: so yes
Subaru Arun: perfect
Eden Haiku: Good :) Thank you. Yes sorry, I wasn't sure.
Subaru Arun: it was long ago
Riddle Sideways: just sometime Eden had to ask
Subaru Arun: I was blonde lol
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Eden Haiku: By mentioning Storm earlier you reminded me that I started reading his online blog and still have to send him some feedback on his poetry and short stories,,.,
Subaru Arun: that was before Nirvana, so must be...hmm...7 years
Subaru Arun: yes Mr Storm
Subaru Arun: I love his place in Mieum
Riddle Sideways: new owners took it over, but left it the same
Eden Haiku: Haven't return at the temple for a long while...
Subaru Arun: I live 2 sims over in Rieul
Subaru Arun: well, Rieul/Magoja
Subaru Arun: my land straddles the border
Riddle Sideways: that is near the tea house and/or the second pavilion
Subaru Arun: can be quite funny when you fall through the floor
Subaru Arun: yes the pavilion is close I believe
Subaru Arun: near to Yuki and Andi
Subaru Arun: (cannot type today)
Riddle Sideways: same here
Eden Haiku: smiles. Here is the festival of typos, no worries :)
Subaru Arun: fingers get old lol
Riddle Sideways: love typos

--BELL--

Riddle Sideways: spice of chat
Subaru Arun: I have seen some funny ones in sl
Eden Haiku: Our sessions usually last for one hour. We were lingering this morning...
Subaru Arun: oh when did you start
Riddle Sideways: yes, am avoiding taking the garbage and recycling out
Eden Haiku: We start at 7:00 am
Subaru Arun: I see, ty
Subaru Arun: xièxiè
Eden Haiku: And I'm avoiding my to do list :)
Subaru Arun sighs...always too much to do
Eden Haiku: But it was so nice to have you this morning Subaru :)
Riddle Sideways: several times years ago we would go for over 6 hours
Subaru Arun: O.O
Riddle Sideways: and others would show up
Subaru Arun: 6 hrs?
Subaru Arun: omg
Eden Haiku: Never went that long, but 2 hours yes :)
Riddle Sideways: that was when there were 4 a day
Subaru Arun: the most I have been in one place is 4, and that was for dancing? ㋡
Riddle Sideways: life was simplier back then ㋡
Eden Haiku: Yes, the first year at PaB I was attending many sessions a week and reading almost all the logs...
Subaru Arun: the bell makes me smile somehow
Eden Haiku: Nice :)
Subaru Arun: no idea why
Riddle Sideways: yes, smile almost everytime
Eden Haiku: Hope we see you again Subaru. Really nice meeting you :)
Subaru Arun: yes it was good to find you
Riddle Sideways: and thank you
Subaru Arun: take care both
Eden Haiku: Have a great day Riddle and you too Subaru!
Riddle Sideways: by for now
Subaru Arun: I will fly home