2009.09.10 19:00 - Dealing with Monkey Mind

The Guardian for this meeting was Sylectra.

doug Sosa: hi, gbye.
Eos Amaterasu: HI Sylectra
Sylectra Darwin: ah, well met :)
Sylectra Darwin: hi Eos, Paradise.
Eos Amaterasu: Hello Paradise
Paradise Tennant: hello eos ... sylectra :)
Sylectra Darwin: Eos, what do you have on your t shirt?
Eos Amaterasu: Ah.... the sun :-)
Eos Amaterasu: It's an Astronomy t-shirt
Sylectra Darwin: oh cool!
Eos Amaterasu: It also goes along with my name "amaterasu", who is the shinto sun goddess
Paradise Tennant: :)
Sylectra Darwin: I can't remember if you wore that last time I saw you.
Eos Amaterasu: I don't recall seeing you in a while.. it might have been a Kanonji t shirt, with a circuly swhirl
Sylectra Darwin: neat.
Sylectra Darwin: how are you guys?
Eos Amaterasu: I've been in a constant swhirl of activity all day
Paradise Tennant: :)) very well thanks ..just making a cup of tea :)
Paradise Tennant: winding down :)
Eos Amaterasu: I looked forward to coming here for a bit
Sylectra Darwin: nods
Sylectra Darwin: make a cup for me?
--BELL--
Sylectra Darwin: thank you.
Sylectra Darwin: Ahhhh
Eos Amaterasu hears the famous Green Tea whispering
Paradise Tennant: :)
Eos Amaterasu: Thanks, Paradise
Paradise Tennant: not quite as tasty as my rl lemon mint but .. sigh .. in the virtual world there are limitations
Sylectra Darwin: lemon mint is good! I have quite a collection
Paradise Tennant: me too ...:) it is kind of an addiction to variety in a way ...
Sylectra Darwin: I am thinking about variety and simplicity because I am listening to a good book on CD in the car.
Paradise Tennant: which one :)
Sylectra Darwin: It's called Eat, Pray Love - you probably already read it?
Paradise Tennant: yes loved the italian part best !
Sylectra Darwin: Just finished that and now delving into her challenges with meditation. :)
Sylectra Darwin: She is very Type A so it's hard to shut off her monkey mind.
Paradise Tennant: yes :)
Sylectra Darwin: She's in this ashram trying to focus on meditating and her mind keeps interrupting.
Sylectra Darwin: Steven L)
Sylectra Darwin: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: :) hello
Paradise Tennant: she has an engaging style .. enjoyed it
Paradise Tennant: hiya steve :)
Sylectra Darwin: Nice of you to "drop" in
stevenaia Michinaga: welcome back Sylectra
Sylectra Darwin: thank you!
Eos Amaterasu: Hi Steve
stevenaia Michinaga: Hello Paradise, Eos
Sylectra Darwin: I see by your shirtless state that you are still enjoying summer, to the last.
Sylectra Darwin: JMe too.
stevenaia Michinaga: the nice thing about the weather in Sl, it's always warm here
Sylectra Darwin: I was just telling the others about the book on CD i have been listening to in the car, Eat , Pray, Love.
Sylectra Darwin: Always warm :)
Sylectra Darwin: Except in the snow sims, which are virtually cold.
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
stevenaia Michinaga: If I could digress a moment and thank Eos for weaving Appearences within the "gift" conversations from the other night
Eos Amaterasu: ?
stevenaia Michinaga: I;m sure it was a little part of the conversatiions but one of the members was talking about gifts with stringes and I believe it was you and paradise that provided a wonderful new perspective for him
Paradise Tennant: yes I remember talking about .. it .. but still blinking a bit :)
Sylectra Darwin: oh how nice, wish I had been there - I'll have to check the log.
stevenaia Michinaga: well it turn the conversation nicely in any case, ler me track down the log so we can post the linl
Paradise Tennant: kk actually I find I always come away with something from these sessions and interesting perspective, thought , new book - something I did not know :) newly discovered
Paradise Tennant: *an
stevenaia Michinaga: http://playasbeing.wik.is/Chat_Logs/...9%3a00_-_Gifts
stevenaia Michinaga: opps, not you Eos
stevenaia Michinaga: my error
Eos Amaterasu feels, "not insane", I didn't just have a huge memory gap :-)
--BELL--
stevenaia Michinaga: but if you were there, I'm sure your comments would be most insightful :)
Sylectra Darwin: haha, nice save, Stevie.
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles
Paradise Tennant: hmm
Paradise Tennant: we could talk about patience ... it is one of life's greatest gifts
Sylectra Darwin: Paradise, the tea is a fun distraction.
Paradise Tennant: :)
Paradise Tennant: beckett ..i believe said the reward of patience is patience :)
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, one of the fuw atributes I possess that seems to annoy many people
Paradise Tennant: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: *few
Paradise Tennant: lol
Sylectra Darwin: yes, Steven is annoying with his patience :)
stevenaia Michinaga: patience seems to have a strange affect on those who are in a rush
Eos Amaterasu: patience is so vast, it's already there, includes everything
Paradise Tennant: an element that dramatically seems to change things ..its absence for example ..creates a different reality
Paradise Tennant: very well put
Sylectra Darwin: I am now driving about half an hour to work, and I think about the miindsets of the people that are trying to go faster in rraffic than everyone around them. Rushing is quite beside the point in that case.
Paradise Tennant: is it a discipline or a perceptual ..shift ..?
Eos Amaterasu can be that way, rushing in traffic
Sylectra Darwin: one could beget the other.
stevenaia Michinaga: seems meditation through life can only result in patience
Eos Amaterasu: yeah, paying attention is both perceptual shift and discipline
Eos Amaterasu: and attention is not going anywhere :-)
Paradise Tennant: ;) yes
Eos Amaterasu: I live in Nova Scotia. My brother said once, it's hard to get to, because it's not on the way to anywhere
stevenaia Michinaga: hello Jake
stevenaia Michinaga: have a seat
Sylectra Darwin: Hi Jake, welcome.
Paradise Tennant: :) loves nova scotia .. a beautiful setting to be patient in :)
Eos Amaterasu: Hi Jake
Paradise Tennant: hiya jake
stevenaia Michinaga: we record the conversations here and post them on the grops Wiki, is it ok to record you?
Sylectra Darwin: All, this is Jake. He has met Pema though a while ago.
Jake1 Silvercloud: hi guys
Sylectra Darwin: ok to record you, Jake?
Jake1 Silvercloud: sure
Sylectra Darwin: cool, thanks
stevenaia Michinaga: wonders what is an " Ian armchair physicist working on a theoretical physics paper"
Sylectra Darwin: We were talking about situations tht seem to require patience.
Eos Amaterasu: The 9 secs can require patience :-)
Paradise Tennant: hmm i find it more like a refreshing long slow breath out...
Paradise Tennant: sort of a letting go
Paradise Tennant: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: it always offers a perspective change
Paradise Tennant: yes
--BELL--
stevenaia Michinaga: even for a moment, the pause that refreshes
Eos Amaterasu: that kind of letting go is patience, ....
Paradise Tennant: I think a big element of patience is accepting the now .. the letting go ..or surrender to the moment.. versus the enormous energy required by trying to exerty your will on a situation.. where usually it is of little import :)
Sylectra Darwin: guys, sorry but I need to go now...minir but urgent fire to put out.
Sylectra Darwin: Please stay and chat. Enjoy.
stevenaia Michinaga: bye e=sylectra
Sylectra Darwin: hehe
Paradise Tennant: nice to see you again .. sylectra :)
Eos Amaterasu: bye Sylectra
Sylectra Darwin: buy Steven
stevenaia Michinaga: children runnin amok
Sylectra Darwin: Nice to see all of you guys :)
Sylectra Darwin: thank you, come again!
stevenaia Michinaga: patience seems to be one of the things that is left when you drop the rush
Paradise Tennant: yes
Eos Amaterasu: I was listening today to someone who says when she goes into a coaching or teaching situation she goes empty, doesn't prepare
stevenaia Michinaga: and here I sit watching a show about "Speeders" in the background
Eos Amaterasu: and then what emerges is on target
Paradise Tennant: :) hangs head got a massive speeding ticket not too long ago lol
stevenaia Michinaga: that is supposed to teach you patience, Paradise
Paradise Tennant: hm yes .. targeted to what her students needed on an individual basis
Paradise Tennant: smiles and nods at steve ... :)
stevenaia Michinaga: jake, have you known Pema long?
stevenaia Michinaga: distracted I presume
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Paradise Tennant: :)
Eos Amaterasu: need body language
stevenaia Michinaga: the nodding head?
Paradise Tennant: well I should scoot too.. the dog was in the lake today ..so if I don't want to be sleeping with the fragrant scent of lake ontario .. he needs a bath ! :))
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
stevenaia Michinaga: good to see you all again
Eos Amaterasu: Ditto, time to sleep, thnx, bye all
Paradise Tennant: nite nite all :)) be well :)))
stevenaia Michinaga: night