2022.04.19 07:00 - Oh My Omer

 

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

 

Riddle Sideways: Ha, may have gotten all this old tech to work :)

Adams Dubrovna: Good morning Riddle :)

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Riddle Sideways: Good mid-Morning Adams :)

Riddle Sideways: was now worrying about PaB.org connections

Adams Dubrovna: The museums are not showing up in searches. I will have to figure that out

Adams Dubrovna: what about pab.org connections?

Riddle Sideways: slow or not ? still under investagations :)

 

Riddle Sideways: once again, Funny how the mind works

Riddle Sideways: before some test yesterday, was feeling oh so fine

Riddle Sideways: a test reports sick and all the aches and pains are fatal indicators :)

Adams Dubrovna: :(

Riddle Sideways: A Mind is a terrible thing to just let go rambling off on it's own

Adams Dubrovna: yes

Adams Dubrovna: best to keep one's mind chained up

Riddle Sideways: back. a nice person was taking the prisoners coffee order

Adams Dubrovna: :)

 

Riddle Sideways: Today kids, we have a long rambling story to explain and get us back to a final point that you will like.

Riddle Sideways: It involves a Jewish Kabalist sortof traditon named counting the Omer

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Riddle Sideways: (this may have been discussed in PaB before, but did not search it, will just talk more)

Riddle Sideways: the Omer is a period of days from the second night of Passover until Shavuot (from Exodus to receiving Torah)

Riddle Sideways: 49 days

Riddle Sideways: which is 7 weeks of 7 days

Riddle Sideways: Kibalists' love number things like that

Riddle Sideways: a special name and meanings is put to everyday of the week

Riddle Sideways: and moves from general to specific to universal as the days go by

Riddle Sideways: then the next week gets the intention of the number day for the whole week added to the day intent

Riddle Sideways: so, the first is "Chesad" or "Loving Kindness"

Riddle Sideways: so day 1 in week 1 gets double the Loving Kindness mindfulness

Adams Dubrovna: can't beat loving kindness

Riddle Sideways: there becomes a very nice organized 7 week mindfulness practice

Riddle Sideways: Each sunset you change slightly the theme/practice/intent/focus of the whole next day

Riddle Sideways: #3 is Compassion (one of your other favs)

Riddle Sideways: that makes today Compassion and harmony in Loving Kindness

Riddle Sideways: a really good one

Adams Dubrovna: :)

Riddle Sideways: week 3 will be (each day's theme) in Compassion

Riddle Sideways: All this is oh so good, that it is worth doing each year at this time.

Adams Dubrovna: :)

 

Riddle Sideways: However, the Kabalists could not quite leave it that simple

Adams Dubrovna: ohhhh?

Riddle Sideways: there were many other rules, traditions and right ways to do things added

Riddle Sideways: that have messed it up for me the last few years

   --BELL--

Riddle Sideways: Having read some rule about the strict people say that if you miss the prayer at sunset on any one day you have messed the whole thing up and must quit now

Riddle Sideways: This year, read The Reform version of counting the Omer

Adams Dubrovna: spoil sports

Riddle Sideways: and get the Relaxed version

Riddle Sideways: the 'Don't be so hard self' version

Riddle Sideways: best one was 'How about at your waking each day, you then count the Omer and dedicate this day to the intent'

Adams Dubrovna: as an outsider, I think the spoil sports miss the meaning of the practice

Riddle Sideways: much better

Riddle Sideways: yes, many times they do

 

Adams Dubrovna: in a way this is a calendar practice

Riddle Sideways: yep

Adams Dubrovna: I must tell you my recent experience with the calendar

Riddle Sideways: /listens

Adams Dubrovna: For the past week or so, I thought I had an eye doctor appointment for Tuesday at noon

Adams Dubrovna: I scheduled my week around it

Adams Dubrovna: Yesterday morning, I looked at the calendar and the appointment was written in for Monday. I thought, ohh I have an eye doctor appt at noon on Tuesday as I wrote some things on to the calendar for Monday

Adams Dubrovna: at 12;30 I got a telephone call as I was approaching you in SL

Adams Dubrovna: "where are you? you had an appt at noon"

Adams Dubrovna: whoops

Adams Dubrovna: so I left everything and rushed off

 

Adams Dubrovna: That is an example of a wrong view when all signs point otherwise

Adams Dubrovna: needless to say it has left me a little shaken

Riddle Sideways: a little shaken that lingers on and on. Should have been a bigger shaking the 'shook it all off' :)

Riddle Sideways: whoops, easy for observer to say

Adams Dubrovna: we are not always seeing what we think we see

Adams Dubrovna: Mind has one view; eyes have a different view. Who wins?

Riddle Sideways: memory has a long list of times that has happened and often still punishs for missed things, times, etc.

Riddle Sideways: still have a list of 4 times that have shown up an hour early because the mind did Not read the clock like the eyes should have

 

Riddle Sideways: fav quote: In 'Stranger in a Strange land' whatzhisname says "I'll give you an example, '(whatzhername), what color is that house over there?" she answers "This side is white"

   --BELL--

Adams Dubrovna: ohh, an eye test

Riddle Sideways: an eye-mind test

Adams Dubrovna: maybe I need an appointment with the mind doctor

Riddle Sideways: would just tell you to heal thyself :)

Adams Dubrovna: doctor, my brain hurts

Riddle Sideways: "put the Lime in the Coconut and calll me in the morning"

 

Riddle Sideways: sorry, need to go tag team babysit

Adams Dubrovna: well, it was good to see you

Adams Dubrovna: bye for now

Riddle Sideways: might be on anytime, we can talk then

Riddle Sideways: and next week

Riddle Sideways: by All

Adams Dubrovna: OK, I have to figure out ahy mueuj is not searchable

Adams Dubrovna: bye