2021.12.14 07:00 - Michael Nesmith and there is no IS

The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways.

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Riddle Sideways: Good Morning Adams ㋡
Adams Dubrovna: good morning Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: it is Raining here YaY
Riddle Sideways: still dark
Adams Dubrovna: yes, J heard California is getting heacy rain and snow
Adams Dubrovna: haevy
Adams Dubrovna: heavy
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Adams Dubrovna: and the Donner Pass is piled high
Riddle Sideways: the settlers are stranded
Riddle Sideways: not heard|read any news yet

Riddle Sideways: nice outfit changes
Riddle Sideways: what period is this one?
Adams Dubrovna: thank you
Adams Dubrovna: this is an Indian outfit - no period mentioned
Riddle Sideways: tried to change a t-shirt today. It was easier to replace the whole body
Adams Dubrovna: oh my

Riddle Sideways: A monkee died Friday
Adams Dubrovna: yes.you were at the Video ranch, yes?
Riddle Sideways: remembered having this shirt
Adams Dubrovna: with Pema
Adams Dubrovna: doing qwak
Riddle Sideways: yes, spent much time in VR3D
Adams Dubrovna: so you knew Michael?
Riddle Sideways: yes, but did not meet Pema when he did the talks in VR3d
Riddle Sideways: not until qwaq
Riddle Sideways: read the Pema talk sessions though, from the times he was there
Riddle Sideways: peaked the interest
Riddle Sideways: Was pretty good bet that anybody Nez said "Get to Know them' was a good thing
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Adams Dubrovna: he said to get to know Qwaq
Adams Dubrovna: ???
Riddle Sideways: no not really
Riddle Sideways: said to hear Piet
Adams Dubrovna: wow
Riddle Sideways: VR3D even had a little cabin on a nice pond named for him
Riddle Sideways: more of a Hut
Adams Dubrovna: Piet?
Riddle Sideways: when no music and dancing were going on, would go sit on the dock of Piets Hut and be still
Adams Dubrovna: :)

Riddle Sideways: read that his new thing was the Ways of Knowing
Riddle Sideways: that sounded just right
Riddle Sideways: I could dig it
Adams Dubrovna: :)
Riddle Sideways: that turned very serious study
Adams Dubrovna: yes siree
Riddle Sideways: and deep presentations
Riddle Sideways: slide decks of presentations
Riddle Sideways: neuro science
Adams Dubrovna: you can't get to level 3 while playing fiddle-de-dee
Riddle Sideways: Then it was mentioned that we might go 'Okay'
Riddle Sideways: Play even
Adams Dubrovna: I think Steven liked qwaq better han SL
Riddle Sideways: think so too
Riddle Sideways: not sure which Maxine and (Doug?) and others liked
Adams Dubrovna: Dug too?
Riddle Sideways: Eliza too, maybe
Adams Dubrovna: did not know about Doug
Adams Dubrovna: Eliza???
Riddle Sideways: probably have the wrong person/name
Riddle Sideways: so long ago
Adams Dubrovna: yes I think so
Adams Dubrovna: she came to PaB cold
Adams Dubrovna: would have had to be someone in first batch
Riddle Sideways: then she backed up into WoK

Riddle Sideways: not Storm. Storm was standing in SL waiting for us
Adams Dubrovna: yes
Riddle Sideways: Bill?
Adams Dubrovna: along with Dakini
Adams Dubrovna: I thought it was just Maxine, Piet, Steven and you
Adams Dubrovna: I wonder what the Chronicles say
Riddle Sideways: Yes. Dakini was waiting here in SL with a hut to sit in
Riddle Sideways: oh! that would be like research and fact checking
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Riddle Sideways: opps, did a peek. Caledonia
Adams Dubrovna: Caledonia makes sense

Adams Dubrovna:

Pema Pera: so with this orientation as a reminder, Stim, how is your "Is" similar or different from our "Being"?
Stim Morane: I am not at all sure.
Stim Morane: There really is no such thing as Is, or Being. This is because in the ordinary way of viewing things, they literally don't correspond to anything … and because in clear Seeing they are “empty”. So either way, they’re “nothing”.
Stim Morane: Powerful nothings.
Stim Morane: “Is” is a particular facet of reality available to one type of Seeing. Such Seeing, in turn, is revealed through Stopping. So Is and Seeing and Stopping are linked to each other and to Being.
Stim Morane: Maybe we could say Is is the entry into Being, where Being is a much broader term.
Stim Morane: :)
Pema Pera: So in PaB, our attitude is to play, and specifically to play as if "all is Being" already, before we even try in any way to see that -- and our activity is to stop, to drop activities, frequently, in a gentle way, to ease into this powerful Nothing
Stim Morane: If so, that is a perfectly legitimate and interesting new approach
Pema Pera: play as Being -> stop -> drop -> see -> see Being (let Being see)
Stim Morane: I see. Well why not? P

Riddle Sideways: Thank you so much for that quoting
Riddle Sideways: wonder if that is the first 'See Being' and/or 'Being See'
Riddle Sideways: reference
Adams Dubrovna: I do not know

Riddle Sideways: aww, the revered Egyptian bunny
Riddle Sideways: photo op. with new sleepy bunny too
Adams Dubrovna: /smile

Riddle Sideways: What is really So Great about Playing, is the ability/form to super fast shifts from deep serius to light funny
Adams Dubrovna: "Be all that you can be. Join PaB"
Riddle Sideways: From there is no IS to aww cute bunny
Adams Dubrovna: That would make a good title
Adams Dubrovna: or poster
Riddle Sideways: to remembering the lost part of history where bunnies were gods of cuteness to the whole world
Riddle Sideways: probably futility godesses too
Adams Dubrovna: fertility?
Riddle Sideways: right
Adams Dubrovna: I dodn't mean to distratc from serious but I did
Riddle Sideways: or a cute typo
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Riddle Sideways: just for completion... Caledonia mentions Zenon, Davina, Bob M and Karen in WoK
Adams Dubrovna: I met Bob M in RL
Riddle Sideways: the names get mixed up, because WoK-qwaq used real names and SL got one to make up something
Adams Dubrovna: yes
Adams Dubrovna: and so we all became Adamses
Adams Dubrovna: including the bunny
Riddle Sideways: ㋡ yes
Riddle Sideways: see that
Riddle Sideways: an Adams did a great job on the chronicles
Adams Dubrovna: Barny's niece

Riddle Sideways: as is the personal tradition lately, when an artist dies, is to spend a late evening going through lots of youTubes
Riddle Sideways: there were some video ranch interviews saved
Riddle Sideways: well not on youTube
Riddle Sideways: Nez had so much Play in each sentence
Riddle Sideways: yet much was so deep
Riddle Sideways: used some vocabulary words that no other song lyrics ever tried to
Riddle Sideways: would be good to have a few examples here, but alas ...
Riddle Sideways: Later, he did 'The Prisoner'
Riddle Sideways: which was a book with a sound track
Riddle Sideways: one of those deep thought-ful looks at the human condition
Riddle Sideways: then became a trilogy (not sure how many)
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Riddle Sideways: There were so many facets to people who were Nez.
Riddle Sideways: reading FB comments of how he was remember for Being
Riddle Sideways: there are no recordings of Douglas Adams (yet another Adams) and Michael talking
Riddle Sideways: wish there were
Riddle Sideways: so many philosophers that get labeled comedians
Riddle Sideways: Even Scott Adams (yet another Adams) is deep and funny

Adams Dubrovna: well it is time to go anyway
Riddle Sideways: yet time to region restart
Adams Dubrovna: take good care Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: have your best day
Adams Dubrovna: bye
Riddle Sideways: by All