2020.01.30 07:00 - Thoughts on Two Sessions

The Guardian for these meetings with Riddle Sideways was Adams Rubble. The comments are by Adams Rubble.

Snippet from January 16 (it was a shortened session):

Adams Rubble: any more thoughts about avatars?
Riddle Sideways: some thoughts, but even less connected/organized then tuesday
Adams Rubble listens
Riddle Sideways: a bit to scattered to start on any one
Riddle Sideways: what have you thought?
Adams Rubble: Alas I haven't thought too much about it
Riddle Sideways: we talked of the difficulty of getting others to re-think us
Riddle Sideways: to allow us to grow, change
Adams Rubble: do you mean, past appearance?
Riddle Sideways: and yet, do we allow them to change and grow
Adams Rubble: ahhh, recognizing change and growth
Riddle Sideways: thinking of a child that is now a father

We then talked about children growing up.

January 30 snippet (This one was fairly short as well):

Adams Rubble: last night I opened Shantideva before turning out the light and it opened to something very profound
Adams Rubble: it was a question and answer
Adams Rubble: the question was how does one know that there is no permanent self?
Adams Rubble: the answer was that yesterdays mind is gone and tomorrow's mind has not happened
Adams Rubble: or something like that
Riddle Sideways: so gone mind = no permanent self
Adams Rubble: that's what the writer suiggested
--BELL--
Adams Rubble: it doesn't deal with the self parts that our outide the mind :)
Riddle Sideways: and one part of self mind is memory that forgets what yesterday was
Riddle Sideways: however any part of mind keeps computing
Riddle Sideways: *anyother
Riddle Sideways: *another
Adams Rubble: it gets messy :)
Adams Rubble: however there is an important message in the answer
Adams Rubble: to focus on the present
Riddle Sideways: student thinks to impress teacher with a really good question
Riddle Sideways: organizes words of the question
Riddle Sideways: teacher hits student with the stick
Riddle Sideways: "Pay Attention"
Adams Rubble: somebody had some rough teachers :)
Adams Rubble imagines Pema with a stick
Adams Rubble: "Rubble open the door for Christ"
Adams Rubble: Rubble collapses into a heap of rubble
Riddle Sideways: steps Sideways
Adams Rubble: :)))
Riddle Sideways: It was so many yesterdays ago, when reading why you took on the name Rubble
Riddle Sideways: can't remember that mind
Adams Rubble: Blame it on Barney
Adams Rubble: Uncle Barney
Riddle Sideways: Barney Rubble was always a fav
Riddle Sideways: no, there is a vague image of it being something about your living in or being in or surrounded by or something to do with the state of Rubble
Adams Rubble: Mubble kept me grounded
Adams Rubble: I thought of my mind as a pile of rubble
Adams Rubble: so liked the name but chose it before knowing about PaB