25-27 breathes in strength, breathes out gratitude
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- In a different sense of appreciate than is used in Pema's musings...I appreciate the community of Play as Being. I've been taking a break from it, for about a month, and coming back to meetings in the last few days. I realize a little better in those meetings and in reading these logs what it is that I am getting from the conversations. It IS important to me to sit in them..even if I have nothing to say, and even if sometimes the topics are now familiar. It is always new..and it keeps me grounded and focused, this sitting together, our typed words, the community of Play as Being. -Corvi
Pema Pera: what is great about virtual worlds, like Second Life, is that for the first time in history we can combine monastic and lay practice: having a job and family while getting together with the community several times a day which is something only monastic people could do throughout the history of humankind
Eos Amaterasu: Yes, this is an incredible opportunity... a truly worldwide community
Pema Pera: so yes, lowering the walls: between sacred and secular, between monastic and lay practice, If SL is about anything, it is about lowering walls, boundaries
Eos Amaterasu: and allowing building of spaces that are meaningful(thinking of the details of the design of this Pavilion)
Eos Amaterasu: This convening of meetings 4 times a day, and the process around that, is an emerging form. The logs can be quite moving. Sometimes it's the interactions of people, how they support each other, the genuiness of the questioning, inquiry
Pema Pera: yes . . . a real sense of sangha, of community, of exploring together with deep respect and trust
So many thoughts here..I am pulling out Sophia's as one of many important thoughts..but it reminded me that one of the things I am doing in the nine seconds is appreciating that I am present...in a very material world that includes my body. I wonder if that is what she and Pila were talking about too? Of course..once I find it...I am onto something else about it in my busy mind...questions like..what does material mean? What is "present" and what is this body now that I know it is here? Then I move back to just experiencing it as it is, as it appears to be.
SophiaSharon Larnia: at work I do not have a body; so you can see the problem
Pila Mulligan: maybe the stone dropping to the water is part of your finding your body
Vajra Radikal: and are you an architect? stevenaia Michinaga: yes :) Vajra Radikal: have you translated your new found spirituality into your work ? stevenaia Michinaga: I;m not sure I can say that, but what I have found is that certain philosophies seem to be more in alignment with how I view my work and life stevenaia Michinaga: so I am understanding my self more, in that sense Vajra Radikal: the thing is that i have always perceived architecture as an art Vajra Radikal: thus it can help you express a whole cosmo vision stevenaia Michinaga: a large part of it is stevenaia Michinaga: yes, it can reflect much of the universe stevenaia Michinaga: and ideally it does stevenaia Michinaga: it's the nature of the process 2009.07.26 13:00 - the beauty in everyday life Nymf Hathaway: the human body is a piece of art by itself
SophiaSharon Larnia: maybe by portraying the human form, you look closer at the human being
Nymf Hathaway: well for example the pic I just showed...it tells so much about the human sitting there...she seems vulnerable for example
SophiaSharon Larnia: its easy to see desire in abstract principles, but harder to see what looks back for some
Eliza Madrigal: I love to see work by an artist who is able to key in on a certain feature or aspect which maybe you've never thought of
Eliza Madrigal: yes she does seem vulnerable, and yet... exposure takes strength
SophiaSharon Larnia: wouldnt take much strength for me, if I looked like that
Eliza Madrigal shakes head. I think that may be the difference between putting oneself in the hands/trust of an artist rather than just a person taking a picture
Gaya Ethaniel: Why do you think it's strength Eliza?
Eliza Madrigal: Gaya, I'm thinking that it takes inner strength for a model to not cover up. She has to let go of control to the artist
Pema Pera: before judging and labeling
Pema Pera: and that ties in with spontaneity
Pema Pera: judging and labeling smothers spontaneity
Pema Pera: as I tried to express at the end of the session you refered to, by now I often feel that when I look back a few months, or a month, or even just a week, I shake my head seeing how limited my understanding was then, and how much deeper I now "get" what the same words were trying to point to
Eliza Madrigal: yes! It honestly is a wonderous thing
Pema Pera: yes, and that is the other side of the coin: often when we fall into a really deep experience, we realize we felt/saw something very similar way back when, but we couldn't integrate it then and we seemingly lost it again
Pema Pera: it is very non-linear, not a steady progress
Eos Amaterasu: little sensory bombs exploding the nature of the cosmic mirror back to you :-)
Eos Amaterasu: Also, little reminders of that in the environment, home, not separate from that
SophiaSharon Larnia: but phenomena to me has meant things that are observable with my senses, and i wonder how other experiences fit into this
SophiaSharon Larnia: I had often refered to myself as a mirror, usally in a derogatory way, this is a new interpretation for me
SophiaSharon Larnia: and will have to think about it a bit
SophiaSharon Larnia: what do you mean by little reminders?
Eos Amaterasu: reminders of that state of mind, or of that kind of perceptual openness;
Eos Amaterasu: how form and space, objects and space, play together
sophia Placebo: i was itching so my mind was focused on toucing , i discarded it
sophia Placebo: i heard the fan and discard what ever thought may arise from there
sophia Placebo: i adjust to the invironment and closed my eyes
sophia Placebo: i saw a sea
sophia Placebo: then i was thinking how this image arise
sophia Placebo: i open my eyes and closed them again and saw a green field with a lonly tree
Eos Amaterasu: things arise, attention goes to them, from them; high alert; recharge
sophia Placebo: then i thought islamic meditation
sophia Placebo: then i the sentence how things work pop up
sophia Placebo: and finally i was thinking should i report that im not sure if i was astonished about my thoughts cause thats how i would feel if i saw something for the first time :) end
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Thank you Corvi and what a wonderful title!