A. April 2012

April 1 was the fourth anniversary of the founding of Play as Being. In addition to celebrations at the four sessions, there was a two hour party on the village lawn in front of Pema's House. No this is not a Toulouse-Latrec painting but a photograph by Bleu.

Theme Sessions

Around mid April some buzz began about having more theme sessions. It appears to have been first discussed at the April 14 13:00 session followed by another session on April 15 13:00. It was decided to come up with a weekly theme. It was decided that the theme for the first week, April 15-20 would be What Has the 9 Seconds Meant to You? The first of these sessions was held on April 16. It also was decided the theme would not be mandatory but would depend on whether everyone wanted to discuss it.

A list of possible topics was posted on the wiki.

The Second weekly theme, April 22-28, was What does equanimity mean to you and what are you trying to balance to achieve this blessed state?.

This Chronicler also slipped in a theme session on Using One's Own Tradition as a Resource. Sometimes in our exploratons it is easy to forget that there are many within our own tradition who have covered the same ground and have left descriptions of those experiences. Turning our back on our traditions is like the prverbial throwing out the baby with the bath water.

This theme, Using one's own tradition as a resources (for loiving and being), became the weekly theme for April 29-May 5.

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New Guardian: There were no new guardians in April