19 - 21 Fanning Flames of Practice

(In Progress!)

2010.05.19 01:00 - yoga talk

Pema Pera: Bolonath, how have you been?
Bolonath Crystal: not too bad, ty pema
Pema Pera: you have been away, or on retreat?
Bolonath Crystal: yes, i spent some time in thailand, practicing yoga and giving lessons
Pema Pera: That must have been an exercise in contrasts, with the current political situation there . . . .

Bolonath Crystal: the political situation in thailand wasn't so bad. i left bangkok before the shooting started

Pema Pera: Are you teaching there to foreigners or people from Thailand, or both?
Bolonath Crystal: mainly to foreigners
Bolonath Crystal: but of course i would also teach thai ppl, if they'd like to
Pema Pera: what kind of yoga, if I may ask?
Bolonath Crystal: hatha yoga and meditation
Bolonath Crystal: only very few ppl like to do raja yoga...
--BELL--
Pema Pera: and if I can keep asking :-), how would you characterize the difference in atmosphere or energy between teaching in Switzerland and Thailand?
Bolonath Crystal: of course ppl are more relaxed in their holidays - at least before the lessons
Bolonath Crystal: and the setting in thailand is much more beautiful, with the beach and the sea in the background
Bolonath Crystal: but the lessons are the same
Pema Pera: as for Raja yoga, that includes bhakti and jnana?
Bolonath Crystal: no. bhakti and jnana are different things
Bolonath Crystal: raja yoga is more about meditation and insights
Bolonath Crystal: bhakti yoga develops devotion

Bolonath Crystal: jnana yoga is yogic philosophy
Bolonath Crystal: raja, bhakti, jnana and karma yoga in combination is called integral yoga. hatha yoga is a subdivision of raja
Bolonath Crystal: hatha yoga by itself has no big influence on the spiritual development
Bolonath Crystal: it gives you health and a good feeling, but doesn't lead to enlightenment
Bolonath Crystal: ppl in their holidays like to feel relaxed, but don't like to have insights which may lead to a change of lifestyle ;)
Pema Pera: :-)

Pema Pera: why is raja yoga called "royal" (if that is the correct translation); does it somehow unite or transcend the other ones?
--BELL--
Bolonath Crystal: good question...
Bolonath Crystal: it is regarded as the "highest discipline" in yoga
Bolonath Crystal: maybe because you cannot do it once a week or so. it is a 24/7-job
Darren Islar: If I remember well, it is not recommended by some to do that in this society?
Darren Islar: making you too vulnerable
Darren Islar: do you know something about that ?
Bolonath Crystal: i never heard this recommendation. but i think i know the backgrounds to that
Bolonath Crystal: in our society ppl use to have money as their highest value. that doesn't fit with raja yoga
Bolonath Crystal: so a raja yogi is usually not a really successful member of our society
Darren Islar: :-)
Pema Pera: :)
Bolonath Crystal: and btw there is no use of taking efforts to have a better reincarnation if one doesn't believe in reincarnation at all
Bolonath Crystal: christianity is a typical bhakti yoga teaching
Darren Islar: and that is an important part of raja yoga?
Bolonath Crystal: important in raja yoga is to let go of everything which ends at the end of this incarnation

Pema Pera: you mentioned 24/7 -- does it include working with dreams too?
Bolonath Crystal: yes, there is a technique which is called dream yoga or sleep yoga
Pema Pera: do you have experience with that too?
Bolonath Crystal: it is not a technique which uses dream contents to gain insights. it is more about keeping the mind centered on yogic things during sleeping

2010.05.19 07:00 - A Dream Circle

Gaya Ethaniel: I'm curious about your dream practice Lucinda. Would you say a bit about it?
Lucinda Lavender: It is a ceremonial form...sort of from the native american tradition...where several dreams come together(unplanned)...and are listened to and then woven together.
Gaya Ethaniel: wow, sounds fun :)
Lucinda Lavender: It is in the listening and looking from a non personal viewpoint that one can see how we are all working together to deliver our gifts etc
Adams Rubble: Could you explain more about the "unplanned" weaving together
Adams Rubble: is that something that happens from practice?
Lucinda Lavender: The dreams are brought without any discussion beforehand.
Adams Rubble: in a group?
Lucinda Lavender: So as happened at my last dream circle there are connections that pop out...and bring one into a place of humbleness
Lucinda Lavender: yes
Adams Rubble: ohhh
Lucinda Lavender: a group of 3 meet here in Seattle
Adams Rubble: very interesting
Lucinda Lavender: we have been doing it since 2002
Eliza Madrigal: Its like pouring them into something like this pool in front of us... releasing attachment
Eliza Madrigal: and seeing what floats up
SophiaSharon Larnia: it is interesting and would be fun to try sometime
Gaya Ethaniel nods :)
Lucinda Lavender: yes with a "virtual stone...we do it in 2L as well.
Lucinda Lavender: there is a deepening in how the dream is seen
Gaya Ethaniel wonders if we can try next week.
Lucinda Lavender: and there is no need to repeat the ideas either
Eliza Madrigal is game :)
Lucinda Lavender: I would love to try it sometime.
Gaya Ethaniel: Shall we try at this session next week then?

Eliza Madrigal: Sure!
Lucinda Lavender: sure
Gaya Ethaniel: :)

2010.05.19 13:00 Missing

2010.05.19 19:00 - Who "owns".....

Calvino Rabeni: Who "owns" the PaB information? A question never formally discussed
stevenaia Michinaga: it may have never been asked
stevenaia Michinaga: or never needed to be

Calvino Rabeni: Suppose someone - whether associated with PaB or not - wrote a book and made $10,000,000 using the chat logs

Calvino Rabeni: Or, suppose I converted to some religion, then decided all my PaB statements were heresy, and wanted them all expunged?

Calvino Rabeni: Or, many quotes were used on some talk show in a derogatory way

stevenaia Michinaga: there have been discussions about what gets posted and how in the early days, that was left to the guardians
stevenaia Michinaga: extensive discussions

Calvino Rabeni: Suppose MIT or some think tank, had a way to reformat the chat log, to become part of a big spiritual database along with other sources

stevenaia Michinaga: isn’t that what google does

stevenaia Michinaga: with everything?
Calvino Rabeni: No google indexes, but doesn't digest, reformat into other intellectual products

stevenaia Michinaga: we each have the ability to modify the wiki, or correct spelling, the edit trail will vanish when the wiki gets moved
Bertram Jacobus: to me it’s the "one world" thought which comes more and more to reality through such ...
stevenaia Michinaga: one world in what sense
Calvino Rabeni: I was trying to go in that direction Bert
Calvino Rabeni: What ideas have you ?
Bertram Jacobus: more the aspect of being linked then being divided
Bertram Jacobus: more share then hold

Bertram Jacobus: my impression is, many points like "ownership" especially are changing through the phenomenon which is called "the net" - only not understood fully by many yet ... ;-)
stevenaia Michinaga: some ahve taken on various financial responsibilities for the "upkeep" of the group, others may choose to profit from it or its ideas, what of it? each to their own abilities
Bertram Jacobus: yes. and to me that is a wonderful development
Bertram Jacobus: may it change the world - and help the poor and may help the rich
Calvino Rabeni: google is making ever-more complex ways to commoditize information
Calvino Rabeni: and to find different ways to make money from it
Calvino Rabeni: to buy, or to compensate the creators etc.
Calvino Rabeni: But what I am wondering is, will this create a more rigid capitalist system,
Calvino Rabeni: or will it be adaptable for the kind of sharing we like to do
Calvino Rabeni: which is more like a gift economy
Bertram Jacobus: all directions and developments always are thinkable - in my eyes
Bertram Jacobus: the good and the bad ones
Bertram Jacobus: i try to support the good ones ;o)
Calvino Rabeni: Yes, they’re thinkable, but the systems that get built, commit us to do things in certain ways
Bertram Jacobus: i don’t think so : in the end, it may be a question of personal freedom. the realities of dropping and all that

stevenaia Michinaga: there have been articles written about the group, I never thought that there may have been compensation, as it never seemed to matter
Bertram Jacobus: i know. but i mean : does the mind create the world or does the world constrains us ? i prefer the first idea ;-)

Calvino Rabeni: We trade attention to products, for "free" information we think we want
Calvino Rabeni: The mind and the world are lovers - long ago they ran madly together into a passionate embrace
Paradise Tennant: smiles at cal ..very well put !

2010.05.20 01:00 - Anger and Babies

Zen Arado: I'm still reading 'Book of not knowing'
Zen Arado: it gets tough at the end

Zen Arado: I liked the way he deals with emotions
Calvino Rabeni: How's that?
Zen Arado: well, for example, anger
Zen Arado: he makes 4 points
Zen Arado: 1. anger is always related to the past
Zen Arado: agree?
Qt Core: probably
Zen Arado: migh only be a minute in the past or years ago
Calvino Rabeni: Well, I think it's equally about the future too
Zen Arado: you can't be angry about something that will happen in the future
Zen Arado: a friend said that to me too
Zen Arado: but only if you were told about something that will happen in the future?
Zen Arado: anyway - not so important
Calvino Rabeni: An expectation
Zen Arado: 2. anger is caused by being hurt
Zen Arado: though you could be angry at someone elses mistreatment?
Qt Core: don't really agree but it may depends on the definition of anger and hurt

Zen Arado: yes I suppose these definitions are only guidelines
Zen Arado: you could say that anger is mostly caused by someone hurting you some way?
Calvino Rabeni: Did we get to (3) and (4)?
Zen Arado: no:)
Zen Arado: he says the hurt is caused by some incapacity we thing we have
Zen Arado: some*
Zen Arado: and 4. we often lash out destructively to restore a sense of power again
Zen Arado: maybe this is a bit heavy
Calvino Rabeni: Well that's one view of it that people can often identify with
Calvino Rabeni: Not that I disagree, but you can see power in different ways
Calvino Rabeni: The part about the incapacity I basically agree with
Zen Arado: I have seen this in myself
Calvino Rabeni: But about the power - not sure - it feels like an expression of power, but there might be no expectation of a kind of contest between two people
Calvino Rabeni: For instance, anger can be a way to make a demand, to send a message
Calvino Rabeni: The meaning, the message would matter, significant more than the confrontation of power
Calvino Rabeni: but the power backs up the message
Calvino Rabeni: and it could be a bluff I suppose
Zen Arado: yes sounds sensible
Zen Arado: lots of different forms of anger

Strannik Zipper: How about an injury to one's sense of identity or ego, with the anger being to resolidify that ego or identity?

Zen Arado: yes Strannik

Zen Arado: think that’s what he is meaning
Calvino Rabeni: Not sure, I think anger defends boundaries primarily.
Calvino Rabeni: Ego seems a little abstract
Strannik Zipper: identity boundaries?
Zen Arado: the anger response was designed to give us more energy if attacked in evolutinary terms?
Calvino Rabeni: When you create the boundaries, for some "reason" then, you call could call that ego, But people don’t so much defend ego as defend the boundaries the ego feels important about
Strannik Zipper: energy-clarity-focus?
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: hmm, sometimes anger is also a child of sadness

Calvino Rabeni: Hurt comes before anger. Often a sadness could be the first reaction to some hurt, what the anger appearing as effort to a solution
Zen Arado: yes - to restore ego
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: or just sometimes its needed to "thunder"
Zen Arado: so what should we do when angry?
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: two possibilities;
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: let it out
Calvino Rabeni: Hmm, no, I wouldn't say that. The ego is the abstraction, the boundaries of the self are what is at stake more than that
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: or explode inside
Zen Arado: yes Cosmic - that's what Cal was saying - as a message
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: its kind of paradox
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: if not want to anyone get hurt, exploding inside
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: on the other hand
Cosmicflower Ushimawa: sometimes it raises up as naturally

2010.05.20 07:00 - Gone gone. Every last one.

Eden Haiku: How much more time have you have left in our lives?
Eden Haiku: My father is turning 86 next week. The question is in the air for him and I think about time a lot too. Time left.
Storm Nordwind: Yes. I have been writing poetry to that effect recently too
Eden Haiku: Would you share one of your poems Storm?
Darren Islar: mine is turning 83 next week
Darren Islar: some age
Storm Nordwind: Where are the saints and heroes / my teacher taught me about? / Gone gone / Every last one / Summer turns to fall
Eden Haiku: "Gone gone / Every last one..."
Storm Nordwind: one day / we will kiss / for the last time / better not to know / when
--BELL--
Lucinda Lavender: I am thinking about how they have had many years ...much experience
Storm Nordwind is also reminded of the Zen poem: "not twice this day inch time foot gem"

Eden Haiku: When my father's father died, my father got into a frenzy of buying clocks, offerings watches to every one of us, buying all kind kinds of time devices...
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Bleu Oleander: buying time
Eden Haiku: Yes ;-)
Storm Nordwind: A thief can steal my money, or property, and I can replace it. But if someone steals my time, that is lost forever.
Eden Haiku: Yes, that is true.
Storm Nordwind: But I observe, that "someone" is usually me!
Bleu Oleander: :)
Eden Haiku: How do you steal time to yourself Storm?
Storm Nordwind: Procrastination. Dallying with distractions Eden. Not acting in accord with my own priorities

2010.05.20 13:00 - Random noise, just a nice chat

Agatha Macbeth: Silence has its place, certainly
Zon Quar: that’s what is so nice in music
Zon Quar: the pauses

Wol Euler: "music is the wine that fills the cup of silence" Robert Fripp
SophiaSharon Larnia: lovely

Zon Quar: no, it reveals the silence
Darren Islar: maybe silence is a good topic
Agatha Macbeth: 'Enjoy the silence'
Zon Quar: let talk about silence, lol
SophiaSharon Larnia: yes, i can't seem to stop talking about it
Agatha Macbeth: Aw
Darren Islar: we seem to have the urge to break silence
arabella Ella: some silence is nice as life today is too noisy
Darren Islar: so we better talk about it
Zon Quar: in some cultures it is more difficult to be silent than in others
Wol Euler: in German, it's an active verb. "I silented"
Wol Euler: as though it took effort
Darren Islar: nice
Agatha Macbeth grins
Zon Quar: in some cultures it is polite to be silent, in some it is an insult
Darren Islar: I guess silence can be an activity
arabella Ella: could you say that in German Wol pls?
Wol Euler: ich schwieg
Wol Euler: (schweigen)
Agatha Macbeth: Cultural stuff, yes
arabella Ella: ah ... interesting
Darren Islar: ik zwijg
SophiaSharon Larnia: what culture is it an insult Zon, so I can hopefully remember?
Wol Euler: heh, yes
Darren Islar: you’re right
Darren Islar: didn't realize that
Wol Euler: the North Sea languages have a common root :)
Zon Quar: in many southern european
SophiaSharon Larnia: ty :)
arabella Ella: well in the Med where I am ppl are expected to fill in all the conversation gaps with 'noise' and chatter
Agatha Macbeth: West Germanic
arabella Ella: so yes Zon
Zon Quar: if u don’t talk, u r considered rude

Agatha Macbeth: Yes, I always find it strange how some people feel threatened by silence

arabella Ella: i found it strange when i visited Denmark and for example in Copenhagen with a crowded railway station it is so quiet ... nearly silent

Zon Quar: in northern europe it is polite to keep distance
--BELL--
Zon Quar: and not disturb by nonsense
Zon Quar: it must be the climate, lack of sun that make cultures different in this respect
SophiaSharon Larnia: that would be odd though, to me too
Agatha Macbeth: Sorry Zon, don't see the connection...
SophiaSharon Larnia: Ara
arabella Ella: perhaps less density where population is concerned as in Finland Zon?
SophiaSharon Larnia: sunnier climate, more expansive culture??
Zon Quar: yes
Darren Islar: more outdoor living in the south
Agatha Macbeth: (Just me perhaps)
Zon Quar: more joyous attitude to life
Agatha Macbeth: Yes, possibly

2010.05.20 19:00 - The Art of Being

Bleu Oleander: are you all working on your photos for the Art of Being photo project?
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles, of course
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Bleu Oleander: i thought so! :)
Paradise Tennant: but I know you are :)
Paradise Tennant: what are you working on :)
Paradise Tennant: something fantastic Bleu :)
Bleu Oleander: it's actually a challenge for me .... the subject is

Paradise Tennant: blinks .. errr what was the subject again :)
Bleu Oleander: Being in/as Time
Bleu Oleander: based on a post by Pema under his drop day report
Paradise Tennant: oooooo
Calvino Rabeni: How can time be shown in SL photography ....
Paradise Tennant: hmmmmmmmm
Calvino Rabeni: Hmmmm .... mmmm
Bleu Oleander: that's the challenge
--BELL--
stevenaia Michinaga: art is a wonderful medium to transcend words
Paradise Tennant: and time :)

Bleu Oleander: I love to see what people create in sl
Paradise Tennant: it is a almost a barrier free zone for creativity
Bleu Oleander: almost!
Calvino Rabeni: what are the barriers to creativity?
Bleu Oleander: it's a lot to learn on the tech side
Bleu Oleander: just learning the medium
Calvino Rabeni: Dreaded learning curve, right
Paradise Tennant: hmm I guess .. the physical constraints sometimes to articulating what your imagination can see so clearly ..
Bleu Oleander: so much to learn if you come from an artist background
--BELL--
Calvino Rabeni: I was thinking about collaborations
Bleu Oleander: yes, would be good to have tech work with artist
Calvino Rabeni: Not much really, just whether I could team up with someone and co-create the artistic SL settings
Bleu Oleander: yes, great idea
Calvino Rabeni: Maybe, a little tech rubs off, a little creativity rubs off, on the partners
Bleu Oleander: they each learn
Bleu Oleander: that was the original idea of art of being
Bleu Oleander: to have people work together
Bleu Oleander: and learn

2010.05.21 01:00 Missing

2010.05.21 07:00 -"Genuine Mind of Sadness"

Eos Amaterasu: I met a friend there whom I had not seen in 32 years

Eos Amaterasu: We explored a few places.... with background in meditation, how to relate to "genuine mind of sadness"

Eliza Madrigal: mm, 'genuine mind of sadness'... Say more?
Eos Amaterasu: being touched, with unrequited transparent/full quality

Eos Amaterasu: also feeling karmic burdens, and effect of that on you

Eliza Madrigal: karmic burdens over generations?

Eos Amaterasu: Yes... we're both children of concentration camp survivors, for example

Eos Amaterasu: could also be extra twist: you could think of yourself as so affected because you're one of the victims, reborn
Eos Amaterasu: but also you could be one of the victimizers, reborn

Eos Amaterasu: She is writing a book on that theme...

Pema Pera: that must be quite a challenge . . . .

Pema Pera: is she writing from a particular angle from a tradition, like Hindu or Buddhist, or more generally about the idea of being reborn?
Eos Amaterasu: yes: how to hold that in a mind/heart that does not look away                                                                     

Eos Amaterasu: She is also a student of Chogyam Trungpa (in fact she was my meditation instructor at Karme-Choling)
Pema Pera: ah!
Eliza Madrigal: Oooh

Eos Amaterasu: So yes, Pema, the point of view, or the practice, is "with a genuine mind of sadness (ie, vulnerable to be touched), suddenly free from fixed mind"

Eliza Madrigal: So sadness in the sense of softness...
Eos Amaterasu: And also exploring how that happens, and can be found, in this case in the culture and ancestral ethos of that country (Poland in this case)
Eos Amaterasu: as well as applying that to herself, and people like her, who are second generation descendants...
Eliza Madrigal: Did you discover something in particular from the conversations?
Eos Amaterasu: I feel I just dipped in a bit; will be ongoing process to digest, work further
Eliza Madrigal: rich material
Eos Amaterasu: one thing is that experience is felt and "ours", but in a sense is not owned by us
Eos Amaterasu: feeling of ownership turns it into a thing
Eliza Madrigal: mmm, yes
Eos Amaterasu: letting go of owning opens it up to a much bigger world
Eliza Madrigal: So hm.. a sense of 'sharing' the sadness even?
Pema Pera: how nice that you could share that, Eos, on such deep topics!
Eos Amaterasu: yes, sharing the sadness was perhaps a key theme (is perhaps)

And later in this wonderful session…

Sometimes we turn away from serious topics due a sense of not being able to go back, but as Eos mentioned there can be residuals to learn from.
Also we consider that each person faces day-to-day, situations that require 'staying with' AND 'letting go' at once...

Eliza Madrigal: maybe this stance of non-ownership re our experience, etc. is the 'difference', in a way, between sadness and depression... Depression causes someone to close in/not share, feel the weights as theirs to bear alone?
--BELL--
Eliza Madrigal: but the letting go part is important too... Seems that in some psychological models that isn't present... so sharing becomes a way to be stuck?
Eos Amaterasu: Did you mean "to be unstuck"?
Eliza Madrigal: No...
Eliza Madrigal: I probably didn't phrase myself well there....
Eliza Madrigal: There is a way of 'telling' things which doesn't include 'release' in the same way as perhaps in a hm... mindful/meditative way one would share and let go...
Eos Amaterasu: It becomes a reference story?
Eliza Madrigal: yes
Yakuzza Lethecus thinks about the issue that he felt sometimes stuck after talking about problems and focused on the ,,problem" issue without actually letting go of a problem and really felt more stuck after taking about it
Zen Arado: or feel sorry you did share....
Eliza Madrigal: Well, like we were talking about the dream circle, and sharing what seems very personal, in a non-ownership way...
Eliza Madrigal: which allows for a different kind of view
Zen Arado: I still can't quite see the benefit of that if there isn’t any feedback or interpretation?
Eliza Madrigal: So I was thinking what you were describing is similar Eos
Zen Arado: to me sharing isn't sharing without feedback

: sometimes when we hold things within our inner walls unexpressed they simply lie dormant, and cant be healed
Zen Arado: it's always ego's fault :)
: just because they never breathe or come to the surface
Eliza Madrigal: and yet there is often a sense that if one shares then they'll be 'pinned down' into what they shared...
Eliza Madrigal: identified with that
Zen Arado: yes
Eos Amaterasu: exactly, Eliza!
Zen Arado: maybe part of my uneasiness
Pema Pera: which is probably why we tend to hold things within our inner walls
Zen Arado: and fear people will talk about us....
Lucinda Lavender: and in listening to dreams when certain topics come up they are seen as being "understood" by the dreamer.
Pema Pera: shared acknowledgement
Eliza Madrigal: so it is quite a practice then, in various ways, to trust the 'space in the middle' as it were

Eliza Madrigal: Art can be cathartic in the same way... thinking about that...
Lucinda Lavender: we are simultaneously working together on many aspects of experience I think... dreaming together all aspects
Eliza Madrigal: often born of sadness and facing fears
Bleu Oleander: yes Eliza
Eliza Madrigal: and of dreams, too :)
: we have muc which is hidden within the unconscious, that is so deeply imbedded. Were we to have access to much of that and be able to express that and actualize the understanding of such, our experience would be incredibly different
Bleu Oleander: we feel vulnerable when we share our private thoughts, ideas and often fear rejection from others
: which is the fear of fear we spk of bleu
Bleu Oleander: fear of rejection, yes
: sometimes we also fear were we to acknowledge our pain, how we might also judge ourselves not just others
Zen Arado: nods
Eliza Madrigal: yes.... I guess what I find powerful about trusting the space, in a sense. Eos Amaterasu: also the fear that were we to put out our story, with the possibility that feedback on it could change it or question it, we would not longer have the same story to refer to
Eliza Madrigal: Ah, yes
: yes we all identify through our story and play this out, its a manufacturing of the ego
Eliza Madrigal: Or what if the story had 'no' end and beginning...
Eos Amaterasu: but then a deeper, and wider, story could emerge; sharing that opens vs sharing that reinforces
: what if there was no story
Eos Amaterasu: heh - good luck!
Eliza Madrigal: heheh
Zen Arado: or if we dumped the story
Eliza Madrigal: storyless nature of stories
Bleu Oleander: we are story tellers
Zen Arado: untold stories
Eliza Madrigal: It seems powerful to be able to be part of the sharing
Lucinda Lavender: I once attended a story telling event.
: well to dump the story might mean we simply open to real experience for no longer are we placing constraints in order to live our story
--BELL--
Lucinda Lavender: in it at the end we were invited to say what we were struck by. This was the gift of the experience as both the teller, the story, and all the ancestors were participating and "Being Together". Opening the story in a sense..
Bleu Oleander: are stories how we experience reality?
Eos Amaterasu suspects there is no "reality" without story
Zen Arado: think we do mostly Bleu
Eliza Madrigal: I think its definitely material, and 'how' a group works with it seems important... the process, in anything
Zen Arado: or interpretations
Eos Amaterasu: even, or especially, perception is a story
: i think maybe our inner internal story can in a symbiotic sense affect our experience, by the choices we make unconsciously due to our inner story
Eliza Madrigal: Ah, yes
Zen Arado: the story of 'me'

2010.05.21 13:00 - friday sillyness 2.0

Wol Euler: well, that was highly amusing.
Agatha Macbeth: Better than spontaneous combustion
Yakuzza Lethecus: :)
Eliza Madrigal: didn't know we had it in us after a long week...
Agatha Macbeth: Gets us ready for the next one

Wol Euler: let's all sing together :)
Agatha Macbeth: Tanner?
Zen Arado: if my friends could see me now
Wol Euler: "what good is sitting alone in your room?"
Wol Euler laughs.
Zen Arado: they'd be disgusted
Bleu Oleander: come join the cabaret
Zon Quar: come to the cabareeee
Agatha Macbeth: Ah, but we aren't alone
Wol Euler: why?
Eliza Madrigal gets out her jazz hands
Eliza Madrigal: "come hear the music play...."

2010.05.21 19:00 - Quiet nap

After playing so hard, the Guardians must have needed some rest!