The Guardian for this meeting was Eos Amaterasu. The comments are by Eos Amaterasu.

Eos Amaterasu: Hi Adams
Adams Rubble: Hello Eos :)
Eos Amaterasu: How is your evening?
Adams Rubble: very good. How about yours?
Eos Amaterasu: Not bad - nice day today after some days of thick fog and rain
Adams Rubble: have not had much rain this summer-just threats of rain
Eos Amaterasu: This area is blessed with plenty of water,and lower temperatures than most
Adams Rubble: :)
Eos Amaterasu: Like all the waters in and around this pavilion :-)
Adams Rubble: the fog sounds poetical
Eos Amaterasu: yes... with sounds of foghorns.... interesting quality

Adams Rubble: does Amaterasu have a special meaning for you?
Eos Amaterasu: Yes
Eos Amaterasu: When I first signed up for Second Life, I was presented with a list of last names to choose from, and there was "Amaterasu". I felt I had no choice but to take that.
Adams Rubble remembers the list
Eos Amaterasu: Background being some connection with Amaterasu Kami, and her connection with the Shambhala teachings as expressed by Chögyam Trungpa (who visited her shrine...)
Eos Amaterasu: The choice of name was a bit odd in that it's a name of a female being...
Eos Amaterasu: but I had no choice :-)
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: would you say a bit more about the teachings?
Adams Rubble: how Amaterasu relates to Buddhism
Eos Amaterasu: "kami" and "drala" seem related, the former being the Japanese term for a kind of elemental spirit
Adams Rubble not familiar with drala
Eos Amaterasu: and one description for the latter being "an opening through the phenomenal world to the cosmic mirror"
Eos Amaterasu: (maybe that's a mouthful :-)
Adams Rubble: :)
Eos Amaterasu: "When we allow vastness to enter into our perception, then it becomes drala; it becomes brilliant and luminous -- magical. " - C. Trungpa
Adams Rubble: looking beyond our fog
Eos Amaterasu: You can experience drala in nature - a classic European version being through walking into a forest clearing and being struck with pregnant space and stillness
Eos Amaterasu: yes, looking beyond our fog - when things are not seen through the lens of for me or against me
Adams Rubble: :)

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: and you can also experience drala in your kitchen :-)
Eos Amaterasu: Anyway that resonates a lot with Shinto-style thinking, and Amaterasu is the kami of kami
Eos Amaterasu: "drala" is Tibetan term coming out of pre-Buddhist Bön traditions
Adams Rubble: I did not know that about Shintoism; ahhhh, from Bon
Eos Amaterasu: "lha" is high, above; "dra" is war (drama?): so above aggression
Adams Rubble: thank you for that description
Eos Amaterasu: It's one of these typical judo moves that C Trungpa made - a more common translation of drala is "war god" - he flipped it around

Eos Amaterasu: that's what we need to do with the military world-wide
Adams Rubble: the universal soldier
Eos Amaterasu: truth force
Eos Amaterasu: satyagraha
Adams Rubble: statyagraha?
Adams Rubble: satyagraha?
Eos Amaterasu: Gandhi's term that is often (mis)translated as non-violence
Eos Amaterasu: Martin Luther King understood that difference: he was not afraid to present truth up front (not just retreat from violence)
Eos Amaterasu: but to present truth you have to understand your own potential for aggression
Eos Amaterasu: the discipline of his faith was the discipline of a warrior

Eos Amaterasu: but... what prompted your question about Amaterasu?
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: Very often we do not pay attention to someone's last name in Second Life. I just happened to do it tonight
Eos Amaterasu: so... where does Rubble come from? :-)
Adams Rubble: nothing special but I love the vastness idea
Adams Rubble: nothing as enlightening. The list that was there at the time included it and Barney Rubble was taken already :)
Eos Amaterasu: that's the other Rubble I know :-)
Adams Rubble: but I like the idea it keeps me just a little humble
Eos Amaterasu: & Adams?
Adams Rubble: just a quick decision
Adams Rubble: how about Eos?

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: a dip into vastness for a few seconds ... :-)
Eos Amaterasu: Well, Amaterasu Kami is the goddess of the rising, eastern sun
Eos Amaterasu: and her counterpart in Greek mythology is Eos, the dawn goddess
Adams Rubble thinking of vastness too during the break
Eos Amaterasu: (I didn't want to be biased :-)
Adams Rubble: ohhhhh
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: Riddle was pointing out today that the program announces a different number of seconds each time
Adams Rubble: now I am conscious of it
Eos Amaterasu: William Blake:

To see a World in a Grain of Sand 
And Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

Adams Rubble: getting back though, whenever I do allow my mind to think about vastness, it does seem to arrive at a light of some kind
Eos Amaterasu: can u say more?
Adams Rubble: as you indicated one seems to rise out of the clouds into light
Adams Rubble: sometimes sunlight
Eos Amaterasu: yes, interesting
Adams Rubble: nice having a name to remind one to do that :)
Eos Amaterasu: space, but not just dull space, but radiant
Adams Rubble: Rubble never seems to get me there

Eos Amaterasu: little reminders help invite the space
Eos Amaterasu: like a pin you clip to your suit or collar that glints a little, a little point of light and color
Eos Amaterasu: I think music does that too - opens up the suffering into greater light
Adams Rubble nods
Adams Rubble: I am afraid I must go. Thank you for the explanations :)
Eos Amaterasu: thanks for dropping by - always a peasure!
Eos Amaterasu: pleasure
Adams Rubble: I learned new things tonight :)
Eos Amaterasu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8_HsMQ_AQw
Adams Rubble: have a very pleasant sleep
Eos Amaterasu: bedtime music
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: bye for now
Eos Amaterasu: ciao, Adams!
Eos Amaterasu: Ciao bellissimi world-wide!
Eos Amaterasu: & ((( Mint )))