2022.03.29 07:00 - start at some 13th End

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

Riddle Sideways: Good Morning Adams
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Adams Rubble: Good morning Riddle

Riddle Sideways: lots of balloons in the pavillion
Riddle Sideways: must harald a party coming

Adams Rubble: yes, this is the last session of the 13th season
   --BELL--
Adams Rubble: some April Fools joke, eh?
Riddle Sideways: oh, the last show in the season
Riddle Sideways: all the story so far will be (mostly) tied up
Riddle Sideways: whodunit will go to jail
Riddle Sideways: But, there will be a cliff hanger
Riddle Sideways: to hook you for next season
Adams Rubble: like every PaB session
Adams Rubble: WHO is impatient?
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Riddle Sideways: Can't wait for the new season
Adams Rubble: How many seasons will it take for Adams Rubble to cease being impatient?
Adams Rubble: seize being patient
Riddle Sideways: we'll have to Stay tuned
Riddle Sideways: Being the Patient is not good. Better to play being the doctor
Riddle Sideways: Longest running April fools joke

Riddle Sideways: There is to be a party Sunday
Adams Rubble: Bleu works hard to decorate
Riddle Sideways: someday am going to learn how to build|edit|decorate

Adams Rubble: this past week I learned about the Three Gates of Emancipation
Adams Rubble: interesting exercise
Riddle Sideways: /listens
Adams Rubble: The Zen Encyclopedia defines them as meditations

Adams Rubble: 1)meditation on emptiness as regards the self
Adams Rubble: 2) meditation on no-attributes, the concept that all pehnomena lack ultimate reality
Adams Rubble: 3) meditation on no-desire,since phenomena lack ultimate reality, there is nothing to desire

Adams Rubble: I like the idea of thinking about them as mediations
Adams Rubble: Can begin to see that everything is connected
Adams Rubble: can see that all my avatars as "selves" is not reality
Adams Rubble: each of us is made of parts that are always changing

Adams Rubble: working on my local history project, I see that I am living the same life as someone who lived in my town 100 years, or fifty years ago or 50 years from now
Adams Rubble: I am part of my envirnoment
Adams Rubble: I am part of my ancestors
Adams Rubble: living life as they did
Adams Rubble: having the same physical issues as they did
   --BELL--

Adams Rubble: I have learned a few things in my 13 years here :)
Adams Rubble: Ohh, I am part of the PaB sangha although that is a bit dispersed
Riddle Sideways: feeling the sangha of PaB.
Riddle Sideways: as it shifted
Adams Rubble: we helped each other
Riddle Sideways: each gave and each got
Riddle Sideways: asked for nothing. unless asking questions is asking for

Adams Rubble: what does it mean to start at the end
Adams Rubble: slowly learning it means dopping things like our preconceptions

Riddle Sideways: (should leave that typo :)
Adams Rubble had to look hard for the typo
Adams Rubble: dropping

Riddle Sideways: starting at the end, knowing the 13 years. then going
Riddle Sideways: taking yet another step
Adams Rubble: hard to know where the end of PaB may be found
Riddle Sideways: right here. right now
Riddle Sideways: This is the End - The Doors
Riddle Sideways: Look not to the End of . Be at the End
Riddle Sideways: funny to look back on All the Ends that happened
Riddle Sideways: Plus, avoiding thinking through Ultimate Reality
Riddle Sideways: Many of us started at the End so many times ㋡
   --BELL--
Adams Rubble: we get closer to the end each time we learn that one of our beliefs is not true
Riddle Sideways: not sure if Zeno's paradox is the right name. But, moving closer each step
Adams Rubble: that is for those of us that can not picture the end
Riddle Sideways: never getting actually to the End
Adams Rubble: yes, we can't get to the end that way, just get closer :)
Adams Rubble: that is a wonderful insight about the second and third level
Riddle Sideways: or one of our beliefs was not in ultimate reality
Adams Rubble: ahhh, everything is in ultimate reality
Adams Rubble: we just do not see it :)
Adams Rubble: Riddle, you are clarifying things for me this morning
Riddle Sideways: seeing the part that is not
Riddle Sideways: is great to gain clarity

Adams Rubble: we are transfixed with phenomena
Adams Rubble: hard to see past it

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Adams Rubble: yikes
Riddle Sideways: was about to venture off into Phenomenalogy
Riddle Sideways: yikes the End
Adams Rubble: let's go to the museum
Riddle Sideways: please give LM
Adams Rubble: yes

Below is excepts from IM and chats

Adams Rubble: Eos and Dubrovna were here early yesterday morning
Adams Rubble: to talk about the exhibit
Adams Rubble: would have invited you but it was ear;y
Riddle Sideways: oh good
Adams Rubble: yes, and the period of toleration in Spain
Adams Rubble: 5 am your time
Riddle Sideways: ha, was not online :)
Riddle Sideways: sleeping in
Adams Rubble: :)

Riddle Sideways: Looking at this Exhibit; how quickly Spain went out of Toleration
Adams Rubble: I have been reading about the history of Jews in Poland lately
Adams Rubble: toleration is a fragile state
Riddle Sideways: Big history in Poland
Adams Rubble: yes, and I was ignorant of most of it

Riddle Sideways: Recently, found Alexandria in SL
Riddle Sideways: one of the Alts wants to live there
[07:45] Adams Rubble: :)
[07:46] Riddle Sideways: was nicely written up in the Destination Guide
   Which pointed to https://modemworld.me/2021/10/19/cle...n-second-life/

Adams Rubble: Lots of distractions this morning
Riddle Sideways: fascinating phenomina
Riddle Sideways: amid interruptions
Riddle Sideways: disturbances
Adams Rubble: we are easily distracted by phenomena
Adams Rubble: but we can be mindful
Adams Rubble: and look at the connections
Adams Rubble: someone's need to reboot a computer in San Francisco
Riddle Sideways: much less the thoughts of rebooting parts of a Cloud
Adams Rubble: whatever (Adams' shrugs playfully)
Riddle Sideways: goes into the 'whatever' bucket

Adams Rubble: last session of PaB season 13 busted up by the pehnomenon
Riddle Sideways: what was that meditation about phenomenon? :)

Adams Rubble: 2) meditation on no-attributes--the concept that all phenomena lack u;timate reality
Riddle Sideways: :)
Adams Rubble: i.e. all phenomena are inter-dependent
Adams Rubble: all empty if independence
Adams Rubble: when we mediatte we see that they are more than they appear to be
Adams Rubble: can begin to follow the path of interbeing
Riddle Sideways: e.g. the actions of the few in the clouds are connected to all
Adams Rubble: YES! the clouds and the oceans are the same
Adams Rubble: that sounds very silly out of context :)
Riddle Sideways: not as silly as many other sentences in this world
Adams Rubble: both are water

Adams Rubble: thank you for hosting this morning and working through the extra phenomena
Adams Rubble: I hope you have a good week
Riddle Sideways: thank you for this place, your time and insight
Adams Rubble: bye for now
Adams Rubble: just a few more weeks until Passover
Adams Rubble: lots of haggadahs around us here
Riddle Sideways: yes, looking at the Haggadah here
Adams Rubble: Take care friend Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: you too
Adams Rubble: bye