01-03 - Outtakes

A red morning sky

For you grasshopper

Are you glad about it?

2009.06.01 13:00 - Appreciation, Theme Session 1

if appreciation is misunderstood, and taken in too small a way, as it is bound to be at first, that by itself is likely to then grow into a larger appreciation

the word basically means "seeing the value of"

"appreciation" tends to open up in different ways for different people.

2009.06.01 19:00 - A dance between circumstances and choices

how do we manage attention and time so that we are truly investing it in value and not just allowing it to slip away

is there an amount of time that can be allocated to each possibility that maximizes the overall benefits of all things combined?

2009.06.02 01:00 - Appreciating presences

appreciation and seeing are very close

any phenomenon, any appearance is something that we label, judge

even if the phenomenon is an illusion, a fantasy of any type, the very *presence* of that illusion is beyond doubt

when we radically doubt the nature of time, we have to reasses what it means to even talk about experience, at the very moment we talk about it, it's already in the past . . .

our sense of self is also given as the appearance of a sense of self -- if not, how would we know ourselves as being a self, or implying the presence of a self

2009.06.02 07:00 - Boundries and Borders

most tell the cruelest jokes about peoples they have no knowledge of

2009.06.02 13:00 - myself as an appearance

as i try to see everything as appearances or appreciate the presneence of appearances i tried to see myself as appearance as well

by learning about myself i am learning about others too

i get some clear moments but not very often

2009.06.02 19:00 - Being in and from the gap

You can't rez into the same river twice

I like open spaces and gaps

the heart opens

2009.06.03 01:00 - Sometimes silence is a gift

Sat and listened to the birds.... so not comepletely silent

2009.06.03 07:00 - Nada

There was no session at this time.

2009.06.03 13:00 - Nature v. Nurture v. No Self

there are definitely things beyond the explanation of science

I think we create the universe ourselves

if you hold your identifications more lightly, you might find there is more to who you really are

If we are not what we call our identities, we are then left with nothing

The flux of the identity suggests that there is nothing grounding our identies as necessary

Understanding we are nothing underneath should make us more compassionate, we can see someone and know that that could be us. We are kind of all connected in a sense, that we can be anyone and still, we are none of them

2009.06.03 19:00 - Niente

There was no session at this time.