2021.02.04 07:00 - Buddha in a Box

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

    Adams Rubble: Good morning Riddle :)
    Riddle Sideways: Good Morning Adams ㋡
    Adams Rubble: the bunny is still here
    Riddle Sideways: yes, seems to like it here
    Adams Rubble: I wrote half a blog post this morning
    Riddle Sideways: half full or half empty?
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Adams Rubble: the opening half done but the second part will be completely different (to a degree) :)
    Adams Rubble: so the first half can stand alone
    Adams Rubble: I got my Boehme book last night
    Riddle Sideways: translation? or will you read in German?
    Adams Rubble: hehe. it is a translation. We don;t want to review my history with the german language
    Riddle Sideways: how many currently being read books do you have now? ㋡
    Adams Rubble: many but I finished a number since the new year
    Adams Rubble: I won't finish this one
    Riddle Sideways: great
    Riddle Sideways: wow, you know that going into it
    Adams Rubble: I haven't yet written that Boehme's idea of Sophia will not resonate with me
    Adams Rubble: His theology is a bit complicated and Sophia is mixed up with the Trinity in a confusing way
    Adams Rubble: original sin comes into it too
    --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: interesting to twist all that together and untangle maybe
    Adams Rubble: yes, it is and then I like to return to the simple
    Adams Rubble: I guess I should continue the rest, that I have not written yet
    Adams Rubble: with that I went to sleep
    Adams Rubble: somewhere in the eraly morning (4ish) I woke up
    Adams Rubble: usually I lay there and try to go back to sleep
    Adams Rubble: but my muscles were sore so I sat up to take some Tylenol
    Riddle Sideways: snow shoveling back pain
    Adams Rubble: with the light on I looked around the room at the books, some in piles, some on shelves, some crammed in between the books and the next shelf up
    Riddle Sideways: ㋡ yep
    Adams Rubble: my eyes finally rested in a "Buddha Box" I once bought at an art museum
    Adams Rubble: It was my first Buddha
    Adams Rubble: the Buddha sits in a box in a clear plastic insert
    Adams Rubble: around him is Japanese calligraphy
    Adams Rubble: If you read my blog yesterday you will have seen my description of a toddler nexploring an objst\
    Adams Rubble: object
    Adams Rubble: I picked up the box and turned it over, looked at all side, the top and the bottom
    Adams Rubble: then I opened it.
    Adams Rubble: I already knew there was a little book inside
    Adams Rubble: The opened box has a little platform on which the Buddha can site
    Adams Rubble: sit
    Adams Rubble: The top of the box sextends outward to form a canopy over the sitting Buddhe
    Adams Rubble: Buddha
    Adams Rubble: I opened the book and it said.....
    Adams Rubble: wait for it....
    Adams Rubble: The gift box you hold in your hands is a reminder of your own highest wisdom
    Adams Rubble: no Sophia
    Adams Rubble: the wisdom is already inside you
    Adams Rubble: !!!
    Riddle Sideways: ah-ha
    Riddle Sideways: so many ways to say the same thing
    Adams Rubble: yes
    Riddle Sideways: so that many listeners might hear it in their language
    Adams Rubble: some imensely complcated and some oh so simple
    Riddle Sideways: or hear it finally at the ready to listen time
    Adams Rubble: yes, when sitting up looking around the room
    Riddle Sideways: that that had to be sitting there waiting
    Riddle Sideways: for the Time of looking around to see it
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Riddle Sideways: makes one not want to cleanup/clear the room because the Stuff is waiting
    Adams Rubble: there are many quotes from the Dhammapada in the book. I do not know what that is
    --BELL--
    Adams Rubble: I haven't had a chance to look it up yet today
    Adams Rubble: I gather it is sayings Of Buddha
    Adams Rubble: http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/scrndhamma.pdf
    Adams Rubble: 90 seonds enough time to look it up :)
    Riddle Sideways: ㋡
    Riddle Sideways: had a copy/translation/section of it around here years ago
    Riddle Sideways: another not finished book
    Riddle Sideways: btw - hypnotized watching the bunny look around and get comfortable positions
    Adams Rubble: somehow I missed it maybe because it not affect the creation of art :)
    Adams Rubble: he/she's lucky they are not buried under a foot and half of snow
    Adams Rubble: don't be bitter Adams' typist
    Riddle Sideways: probably hurts your back to look out at the snow
    Riddle Sideways: warm inside, looking out at bitter
    Adams Rubble: It is going to rain tomorrow. More work to do to make sure cellar is not completely flooded
    Adams Rubble: crazy weather
    Adams Rubble: but I am alive :)
    Riddle Sideways: the foreign to us idea of a sump pubp
    Riddle Sideways: pump
    Riddle Sideways: spent much time last night studying Art and Poetry
    Adams Rubble listens
    Riddle Sideways: a zoom Presentation/meeting for Black History Month
    Riddle Sideways: https://www.28daysofblackhistory.com/?grsf=ewrx8u is the main page-invite
    Riddle Sideways: most presentations are not being recorded, saved and available later
    Riddle Sideways: last nights was from the De Young museum in SF
    Riddle Sideways: on an exhibit already seen a couple months ago
    Riddle Sideways: but, did not get all the details that the curator brings to the discussion
    Riddle Sideways: it was on YouTube, so of course at the end there were so many good other links to go to
    Adams Rubble: what was the exhibit?
    Riddle Sideways: https://deyoung.famsf.org/exhibition...ul-of-a-nation
    --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: can find this Tate TEDx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjcgbrw5UiI
    Adams Rubble: the racism, etc has gotten so loud lately
    Riddle Sideways: YES!
    Riddle Sideways: and antisemitism has ramped up a few notches
    Adams Rubble: yes and musogyny
    Adams Rubble: misogony
    Riddle Sideways: and and and
    Riddle Sideways: the Noise
    Adams Rubble: anti science
    Adams Rubble: yes, the NOISE
    Riddle Sideways: that representative from little county in Georgia
    Adams Rubble: who vites for someone like that?
    Adams Rubble: votes
    Adams Rubble: very scary
    Riddle Sideways: Jewish Space Lasers that started the california wild fires
    Adams Rubble: any red meat they think will reonate with their voters
    Adams Rubble: resonate
    Riddle Sideways: it was nice to watch Better Art and Poetry youtubes last night
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Riddle Sideways: got off the computer tubes and went to the Living Room
    Riddle Sideways: found a way for that big TV to get youtube
    Riddle Sideways: some/several Black History Month Artists and Art exhibits
    Riddle Sideways: from this year and the past
    Riddle Sideways: then landed on Amanda Gorman vids
    Adams Rubble: lil ole Amanda of super bowl fame
    Riddle Sideways: YES!
    Riddle Sideways: she was interviewed talking about writing/reading for Inauguration AND Superbowl ㋡
    Riddle Sideways: good TED https://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_gor...litical_choice
    Adams Rubble: lots of video links this morning
    Adams Rubble: I think I saw that one though
    Riddle Sideways: re-re-listened to the Inauguration "The Hill to Climb"
    Riddle Sideways: why not more links; The MOTH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2_uKaugPI
    --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: then along the youtube right side are some older links to talks when the speech impediment is more pronounced
    Riddle Sideways: and yes, sat in front of the Living Room TV watching an evening of youtubes and links and feel OK about it
    Riddle Sideways: it is now up to programming your Own entertainments
    Riddle Sideways: as a child you got what one of the 3 networks gave you
    Riddle Sideways: at the time
    Adams Rubble: and liked it
    Riddle Sideways: then we could record a show and "Time-Shift" it
    Riddle Sideways: that was the height of tech
    Riddle Sideways: we were Free ㋡
    Adams Rubble: what a time to be alive :)
    Riddle Sideways: Those Alan Watts VHS tapes
    Riddle Sideways: what has this world come to
    Riddle Sideways: at sometime the idea of 'skipping' the cigarette adverts came along
    Riddle Sideways: now skip the 'networks' has come
    Adams Rubble: thank you for presence this morning :)
    Riddle Sideways: and yesterday afternoon was a Zoom meeting with the local house Representative (a good person) telling his side of being under sedge
    Riddle Sideways: Entertainment
    Riddle Sideways: and Thank you
    Riddle Sideways: so many presents
    Adams Rubble: there is much to keep us busy while quarantined
    Riddle Sideways: yes, don't want to go out today, so much to do staying here
    Riddle Sideways: "Stay Here Now" ㋡
    Adams Rubble: I keep hearing sounds of wheels spinning on th snow outside. Do not want to go outside :)
    Adams Rubble: it's dark and dirty and full of spiders and snales
    Riddle Sideways: ha
    Riddle Sideways: pull up a seat in front of the big window and watch the world
    Riddle Sideways: the quiet falling snow
    Adams Rubble: we haven't had a good Firesign quote for a while
    Riddle Sideways: "We're all Bozos on the Bus" did not fit into the chat
    Adams Rubble: the bus is stuck in a snow drift
    Riddle Sideways: of course; "If you lived here, You'd be home now" fits into Any chat
    Adams Rubble: yes
    Adams Rubble: instead I am going to have to tp all the way to Mugunghwa
    Riddle Sideways: so nice to have TP
    Riddle Sideways: pun intended
    Adams Rubble: yes, what a time to be alive :)
    Adams Rubble: have a very nice weekend
    Riddle Sideways: ok, comfortable bunny take over watching the fountain
    Riddle Sideways: by All
    Adams Rubble: bye :)
    Riddle Sideways: To the Weekend
    Riddle Sideways: and Beyond

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