Being Sessions

Bruce Mowbray: I literally live 50 miles from even the POSSIBILITY of finding something like PaB in RL.

Bruce Mowbray: So, PaB is first and foremost ACCESS to people who think, who care, who explore, who stay in the Open Questions about life.

Bruce Mowbray: and I am SO GRATEFUL for this.

Bruce Mowbray: To me, playing and loving are very close. . .

Bruce Mowbray: I cannot really PLAY without being myself and without being honest.

Bruce Mowbray: Nor can I love without being myself and without being honest.

Bruce Mowbray: So -- PaB is a place where I have access to Playing and to Loving - - - and at the bottom of it all, that's why I'm here:

Bruce Mowbray: to play to love to be played with and to be loved.

 

see two more exerpts on Adams' scribe entry

The first official session was on January 8 and began with everyone having a chance to define what PaB meant to them. Bruce conjured up a wonderful image:

 

Bruce Mowbray: PaB is a campfire - one with unimaginably ancient roots - around which we gather, dance, and share our many diverse tales and ponderings.

 

Later in response to prodding Pema said a bit more:

 

Pema Pera: for me, my relationship with Being is deeply devotional

Pema Pera: but not in a way like with an external God
Pema Pera: it is very paradoxical
Pema Pera: but devotion can be without separation
Pema Pera: and without supplication
Pema Pera: or begging in any form as from a needy position
Pema Pera: I don't know whether that makes any sense at all
Pema Pera: does anyone like to respond or add their angles?

 

Maxine Walden: I resonate with a sense of reverence toward the vastness of being and the universe

 

Archmage Atlantis: For me there are degrees of the awareness of Being, and the fluctuation of that awareness is Being itself
Archmage Atlantis: An example is easiest......today I look at the sky and see the blueness of it, tomorrow I look at the sky and see the vastness of it, some other day I look at the sky and see the birds flying in it......yet in each awareness, I look at the sky

 

During the next Being session, Maxine was guardian. the question about what PaB meant to people was posed again.

 

Wol Euler: well, I came to it by chance, except that I tend to believe that there is no such thing as "by chance" :)
Wol Euler: in retrospect I was looking for a way to get back into meditation, and certainly found that here.
Wol Euler: the practices were a great help, and the discussion of mindfulness and appreciation and such were very interesting and ... mentally invigorating, can one say that?
Wol Euler: PaB is three things, a community, a set of practices, and a place where people meet to talk. It seems to me that the talking is drifting from the others, and I know I'm not the only one who feels this.