Chapter 12 - More Voices

Antonia Braveheart (at PaB session on January 19, 2009)

Antonia Braveheart: in Italian, we have different kinds of love :P
Antonia Braveheart: it depends on who's addressed
Antonia Braveheart: for example, the kind of love for friends
Antonia Braveheart: it's " bene"
Gaya Ethaniel: Good?
Antonia Braveheart: yes
Antonia Braveheart: when you say "ti voglio bene" it kinda means "I love you" but it is addressed to a friend
Antonia Braveheart: when we address to someone who love, or God as well....it is proper love..."amore"
Antonia Braveheart: "ti amo" means properly "I love you"

Arabella Ella (at PaB session on March 21, 2009 13:00)

Arabella Ella: if you are christian i think the two most important things are Love God and Love your neighbour
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Arabella Ella: we as humans are social beings and we have an innate need to share our experiences
Arabella Ella: but sharing experiences does not imply either conflict or power

Arisia Vita
Artemisia Svoboda
Aurora Kitaj
Bertrum Quan
Chiaiu Chiung

Delani Gabardini On the nine seconds (from June 6, 2008 13:00 session)

Delani Gabardini: well before that let me say that I like letting my mind go free to “dance” so to speak
Delani Gabardini: and of course, play

Delani Gabardini: my first thought was “No I ams - more what ifs”

Eliza Madrigal (3/27/09)

I am not sure what I expected to discover when signing on to Second Life, but it wasn't a thriving, beautiful, meditative community. And it wasn't the richly diverse, sometimes-overwhelming-but-always-welcoming environment of Play as Being. What is difficult to articulate, is how *at home* I feel here, and how natural it seems, that I am.

As to 9 second practice, for me it is simply a lovely way to "check in" and re-set Intention to Be. Perhaps the most resonating PaB idea to my mind, is that of greeting each experience and person anew...of, as Pema might say, "bracketing" preconceptions and time.  

Hana Hendrassen
Mickorod Renard
Myna Maven
Myoko Fang
Neela Blaisdale
Nostrum Forder
Quilty Bookmite

Rajah Yalin On the nine seconds (from May 28, 2008 19:00 session)

Rajah Yalin: seems short but seems like a large accomplishment when you take into consideration how much is being done daily
Rajah Yalin: keeps the positive energies going

Shilv Tigerauge

Sonic Moonites (from February 24, 2009 07:00 session)

Sonic Moonites: thats one of the reasons i find running so useful for meditations, the movement and sense of the body makes it harder not be aware of
Sonic Moonites: especially as SL makes us even further away from our RL bodies
Sonic Moonites: easy to disconnect

Sky Szimmer (from May 19, 2008 07:00 session)

Sky Szimmer: yes. it reminded me of our conversation in RL, last month
Sky Szimmer: i think I was talking about there is always going to be a connection with “Being” and the body
Sky Szimmer: anyway, the explanation is consciousness has an “I” and in awareness not
Sky Szimmer: ‘I” being a bundle of memories and experiences, the five senses, etc.
Sky Szimmer: so in death, those attribute fades
Sky Szimmer: finer states of consciousness remains
Sky Szimmer: awareness being not a form of consciousness

Susi Alcott
Vertigo Ethaniel (at PaB session on July 27, 2008)

Vertigo Ethaniel: adelene, i view conversation like a river... it has many components, and all contribute to a greater whole
Adelene Dawner: And there is a joy in being here.
Vertigo Ethaniel: there is joy wherever you want to see it
Vertigo Ethaniel: or feel it
Vertigo Ethaniel: or experience it in any way

Wester Kiranov (at PaB session on December 2, 2008)

Wester Kiranov: i was just thinking, if you keep on doing something like the 9 second practice, you punch tiny holes in Ego, until it starts falling apart automatically
Becka Finesmith: That hasn't happened for me so far. The 9 seconds has so far made me more aware of it. It looms large like I didn't know it was there
Wester Kiranov: very important first step
Wester Kiranov: first notice how much you are wrapped up in what you think is real
Becka Finesmith: COuldn't be more wrapped up unfortunately.
Becka Finesmith: at what point do we stop unwrapping
Wester Kiranov: You could be more wrapped up, otherwise you wouldn't be here
Wester Kiranov: You stop unwrapping when you get to the Present ;-P
Wester Kiranov: actually, you don't stop unwrapping at all