2022.08.16 07:00 - Are you Still, there?

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

Riddle Sideways: Good Morning Adams ㋡
Adams Rubble: Good mornign Riddle :)
    --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: is your busy life any calmer?
Adams Rubble: no :)
Riddle Sideways: darn
Adams Rubble: I was sick yesterday though
Riddle Sideways: how are you today?
Adams Rubble: It will quiet down after next week when the medicare runs out
Adams Rubble: will go from too much help to no help
Riddle Sideways: good and bad
Adams Rubble: the help has been helpful :)
Adams Rubble: two people here already this morning
Riddle Sideways: so busy. Even when they are helping
Adams Rubble: the big problem is when they do not come when the are supposed to but it worked out this morning and here I am
Riddle Sideways: good
Riddle Sideways: take a deep breath

Riddle Sideways: just rereading the blog part about living simply and humble
Adams Rubble: so much to remember
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Riddle Sideways: Life here seems not that busy, but can't get a day when there is not something going on that allows a long project to get done
Riddle Sideways: need to do a five hour fun project, but when
Adams Rubble: I find I am distracted so easily
Riddle Sideways: oh yes
Riddle Sideways: ha, did we just both go off on distractions ㋡
Adams Rubble: :)
    --BELL--

Adams Rubble: sometimes it takes a while to slow down and get to the moment
Riddle Sideways: most times
Adams Rubble: :)

Adams Rubble: last night's reading was about prayer being a time to listen
Adams Rubble: that pause came in mid sentence but it was not an important sentence
Riddle Sideways: better to listen
Adams Rubble: it went blowin in the wind

Riddle Sideways: got the Paul Simon lyrics in head, but not quite correctly
Adams Rubble: paul simon?
Riddle Sideways: oh, Ha! did have it right "Who am I to blow against the wind"
Adams Rubble: oh to blow against the wind
Adams Rubble: I was referring to Dylan's becaiuse the sentence went blowin in the wind
Riddle Sideways: yes, I knew the ref was to Dylan, but this mind thing went to the Paul Simon lytic
Riddle Sideways: darn mind
Adams Rubble: :)

Adams Rubble: the mind loves to distarct
Riddle Sideways: and not go where it is told
Adams Rubble: specially when is trying to stay in prayer listening
Riddle Sideways: does not listen
Adams Rubble: it was suggested that the prayer might be "be still"
Adams Rubble: like a mantra
Adams Rubble: be still
Riddle Sideways: Who is it that can't be Still when telling self to be still ?
Adams Rubble: we have two minds working on us
Adams Rubble: we have an active mind and an inner mind which pyschologosts call the subconscious
    --BELL--
Adams Rubble: we have to learn to watch both minds
Riddle Sideways: sometimes it seems like more than two
Riddle Sideways: but, yes
Adams Rubble: I forgot about all those avatars
Adams Rubble: :)

Adams Rubble: my experiments suggest a surface level and a deep level
Riddle Sideways: just tried that experiment
Adams Rubble: a computer with two processors
Riddle Sideways: yep. a quad-core processor
Adams Rubble: Ooooooh, a fancy name
Riddle Sideways: lots more analogies to computers that break the simple comparison
Riddle Sideways: computers have this neat concept of Maskable Interrupts
Riddle Sideways: that one can not take the distractions for a small bit of time
Adams Rubble marvels at another fancy name
Adams Rubble listens to find out what a maskable interrupt is
Riddle Sideways: ha, there are many more ㋡
Riddle Sideways: Non-maskable interrupts are like squeezes. they happen
Riddle Sideways: Then there are just thinks that get forgotten
Riddle Sideways: like having gone to the dentist yesterday, got a temporary crown and told not to eat mussy foods on that side
Riddle Sideways: today banana just went to that side
    --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: So Active mind told both minds to "be still" and 'Pause'
Riddle Sideways: not much listening going on
Adams Rubble: if you quiet the active mind the inner mind might be visible

Riddle Sideways: 'might' is a mighty big meaning changer
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: "might" suggests conditions
Adams Rubble: maybe we should nopt worry our pretty little heads about it and just be still :)
Riddle Sideways: back. went off on distractions in dictionary.com
Riddle Sideways: ok, you are right
Riddle Sideways: be still Listening
Riddle Sideways: well, not right now
Adams Rubble: :)

Riddle Sideways: and we have not talked of Desires
Riddle Sideways: much written about desires
    --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: no conclusions yet. Seems just a loaded word
Adams Rubble: I referenced them when I talked about a deeper, sometimes hidden level
Adams Rubble: the bell is so polite
Riddle Sideways: polite, random, useful,
Riddle Sideways: politely asking us to be Still

Adams Rubble: This morning I was wishing that I could do the 15 minutes, 9 seconds practice for a time because it is such a good way of watching the mind
Adams Rubble: I wonder if I should set something up in my new cell phone
Riddle Sideways: was just thinking that same thing
Riddle Sideways: do have that old PaB app.  Think Google Play took it off the store.
Riddle Sideways: last few times using it, would forget others could hear it too
    --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: was distracted into dictionary.com and typed "Still"
Riddle Sideways: Reaally like the example sentence "Are you still here?"
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: yes, i am still here but was looking for an app
Riddle Sideways: parsed it to 'Are you in Stillness here?'
Adams Rubble: nice parsing

Adams Rubble: thank you for hosting today
Adams Rubble: maybe I will be inspired to be Stiller today (not Ben)
Adams Rubble: I hope you have a very good weekend and week (a little early for the weekend
Adams Rubble: week first, then weekend
Riddle Sideways: whichever order time goes in
Riddle Sideways: by All
Adams Rubble: time marches on (tramp tramp tramp)
Riddle Sideways: oh not Trump Trump :))
Adams Rubble: noooo, not that
Adams Rubble: bye Riddle and all :)