2014.01.02 19:00 - Embracing in a Strange, Quiet Way

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[19:13] Paradise Tennant: Says to herself :
[19:13] Paradise Tennant: just watched a great documentary
[19:14] Paradise Tennant: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Ai...1?locale=en-US

[19:14] Paradise Tennant: really wonderful
[19:14] Paradise Tennant: https://www.google.ca/search?q=ai+we...w=1920&bih=855

[19:16] Paradise Tennant: should be watched to the end .. at the end he sings a song :)) that just makes your heart brim :)

[19:18] Paradise Tennant: smiles hiya san :)
[19:18] Paradise Tennant: how are you :)
[19:18] Santoshima Resident: well thank you :)
[19:18] Santoshima Resident: how're you?
[19:19] Paradise Tennant: you look lovely tonight :)) love the hat :)
[19:19] Santoshima Resident: ty

[19:19] Paradise Tennant: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Ai...1?locale=en-US
[19:19] Santoshima Resident: yes, i love that film
[19:19] Paradise Tennant: have you seen this ? just finished watching it :)))
[19:19] Santoshima Resident: i watched it a few days ago
[19:20] Paradise Tennant: loved the song at the end had me skipping around the living room :))
[19:20] Santoshima Resident: yes!

[19:20] Paradise Tennant: frogg and jaycatt are playing
[19:20] Santoshima Resident: ah, are you going to the show?
[19:20] Paradise Tennant: http://38.96.148.16:4236
[19:20] Paradise Tennant: no just listen to the url :)
[19:20] Santoshima Resident: oh
[19:20] Santoshima Resident: easier
[19:21] Paradise Tennant: yes !

[19:21] Paradise Tennant: are you still book keeping ?
[19:21] Santoshima Resident: yes, still sorting
[19:22] Santoshima Resident: it will take me the next couple weeks
[19:22] Paradise Tennant: good girl
[19:23] Paradise Tennant: always better to face it and get it done :)
[19:23] Santoshima Resident: oh, thanks for the encouragement
[19:23] Paradise Tennant: then you can do something extraordinarily indulgent because you were just so good :)

[19:23] Paradise Tennant: hiya stev
[19:23] Santoshima Resident: ha!
[19:23] Santoshima Resident: hi stevenaia
[19:23] stevenaia Michinaga: waves
[19:24] Santoshima Resident: fever still down?
[19:25] stevenaia Michinaga: all better, seems quite a few had this over the weekend

[19:26] stevenaia Michinaga: we have about 4" of snow now and it's just starting
[19:26] Paradise Tennant: lucky you we are minus 31
[19:26] Santoshima Resident: yoiks
[19:26] Santoshima Resident: to both
[19:26] stevenaia Michinaga: yikes,
[19:26] stevenaia Michinaga: was in montreal once at -40

[19:27] Paradise Tennant: had an orange and banana in my backpack - walked outside for 8 minutes and my orange froze went to eat this afternoon and it was mush
[19:27] stevenaia Michinaga: think margrettas
[19:27] stevenaia Michinaga: pack them warm and drink when frozen
[19:27] Paradise Tennant: apparently tiimmins was -55
[19:27] Santoshima Resident: wow
[19:28] Paradise Tennant: we were all congradulating ourselves on our balmy weather
[19:28] Paradise Tennant: really cold
[19:28] stevenaia Michinaga: thank you for sending the cold to us
[19:28] Paradise Tennant: take you hand out of your mitt for say 2 minutes .. it stings for 10 :)
[19:29] Paradise Tennant: http://www.google.org/publicalerts/a...=CA&source=web

[19:32] Paradise Tennant: I had a dream I was sitting here with you folks and I think luci too .. and I had this great topic :)) just trying to remember it is just on the edge of my memory
[19:33] Paradise Tennant: something about parsing the moment
[19:33] stevenaia Michinaga: :)
[19:33] Paradise Tennant: splitting the moment the now
[19:34] Paradise Tennant: 1parse verb \ˈpärs, chiefly British ˈpärz\ grammar : to divide (a sentence) into grammatical parts and identify the parts and their relations to each other : to study (something) by looking at its parts closely
[19:36] stevenaia Michinaga: splitting time? the moment between thoughts, I was talking to Eos briefly about that the other week

[19:37] stevenaia Michinaga: A speaker at our RL daoist group discussed meditation and watching thoughts pass, suggested we begin to watch for the spaces between the thought until they widen
[19:38] Paradise Tennant: smiles widening spaces like the feel of that

[19:39] stevenaia Michinaga: sounds like an interesting approach to seeing in between what you are watching,
[19:39] stevenaia Michinaga: haven;t tried it yet, been too sick
[19:39] Paradise Tennant: smiles and hands you some scotch :)) to celebrate your return to health :)
[19:39] stevenaia Michinaga: he said eventually the thoughts dissolve and the spaces expand
[19:40] Paradise Tennant: yes
[19:41] Paradise Tennant: wonder if the thoughts dissolve into space ?
[19:41] Paradise Tennant: I guess thoughts take up space ?
[19:41] stevenaia Michinaga: shall we try 90 seconds worth?
[19:41] stevenaia Michinaga: at the gong
[19:41] Paradise Tennant: ok
[19:41] Santoshima Resident: ok

[19:42] stevenaia Michinaga: or we can try now until the return gong to give it extra time :)
[19:43] Santoshima Resident: okie doke
[19:43] stevenaia Michinaga: (it wasn;t as easy as it looked... to find the spaces
[19:43] Paradise Tennant: ok :))) breaths in .. and swipes away at her mental clutter :))
[19:48] stevenaia Michinaga: I didn;t hear the ending bell
[19:48] Paradise Tennant: smiles you were in the spaces :))
[19:48] stevenaia Michinaga: my thoughts were too noisy
[19:48] stevenaia Michinaga: or that :)

[19:49] Paradise Tennant: you know music works well for that because you can focus on the notes and there are always spaces between the notes
[19:49] stevenaia Michinaga: I kept watching, only once did I sence the space as black behind a partially opened old wooden door
[19:50] Paradise Tennant: did you knock on the door ?
[19:50] stevenaia Michinaga: no, just looked at the black silence beyond

[19:50] stevenaia Michinaga: my tai chi teacher suggest as little external distraction while meditating as possible
[19:52] stevenaia Michinaga: although, once outside a beeping car alarm went off while the class was meditating, I just went with it and embraced it in a strange quiet way
[19:52] Paradise Tennant: think we should always embrace the now :))
[19:53] Paradise Tennant: happiness is attitude not situations
[19:53] Paradise Tennant: so much

[19:55] stevenaia Michinaga: Sorry, I must be going
[19:55] stevenaia Michinaga: enjoy
[19:55] Santoshima Resident: me too
[19:55] Santoshima Resident: bye
[19:55] Paradise Tennant: smiles thank you two for the company :))
[19:55] Paradise Tennant: sweet dreams
[19:55] Santoshima Resident: thank you both ~