01 - 03 Adams' December Holiday Treats

2010.12.01 07:00 - Snowy Meditation

Archmage Atlantis:Well, actually my alts live in my being, SL or no SL.....SL just gave them a place to stand apart for a bit

2010.12.01 13:00 - Swoon

2010.12.01 19:00 - Garden of Thoughts

Geo Solari: What does it exactly mean " being stuck"?
Rosecrucian Roeth: Can 90 seconds really be enough to reflect on this?
stevenaia Michinaga: unable to move, Geo
Paradise Tennant: physically emotionally or spiritually
Rosecrucian Roeth: Geo, that is my question and it is not really being answered!
stevenaia Michinaga: sometimes there is no answer, what do you do then?
Paradise Tennant: rephrase the question :)))
stevenaia Michinaga: and no, 90 seconds is just a place to start
Rosecrucian Roeth: Then you have to keep asking, to acknowledge that there is no answer is to forfeit!!
stevenaia Michinaga: which question, Paradise?
Rosecrucian Roeth: There is always an answer, although it may not necessarily be the one you are looking for.
Paradise Tennant: well when you cannot find an answer sometimes it is because the wrong question is being asked
stevenaia Michinaga: is no answer a forfeit, or acceptance?
Paradise Tennant: acceptance of things that we do not know or cannot know
Paradise Tennant: or at the very least will not know for a while yet :)
stevenaia Michinaga: acceptance of a Mystery
Paradise Tennant: kind of like mystery
stevenaia Michinaga: we can;t know everything
Paradise Tennant: do not want to know it all
stevenaia Michinaga: today
stevenaia Michinaga: but maybe, someday... and I think Rosecrucian, you may know sooner as you ask more questions
stevenaia Michinaga: both may have a place

stevenaia Michinaga: I think that diversity of opinion creates a wonderful garden of thoughts to walk though and learn from

2010.12.02 01:00 - Spiritual Bypassing and Recollective Awareness

Calvino Rabeni: I find the following somewhat negative but also hilarious:
Zen Arado: yes - but a bit unsettling also
Calvino Rabeni: "How to Recognize a Spiritually Transmitted Disease"
Zen Arado: I haven't much immunity to them I think :)
Calvino Rabeni: Its questionable or at least worth questioning the effectiveness of pathologizing these things, but I find it funny :)
Calvino Rabeni: heheh :)
Calvino Rabeni: I've been inoculated in a variety of ways, I think.
Zen Arado: you build up resistance
Zen Arado: but you have to stay open as well

2010.12.02 07:00 - Commenting on commentators

Bruce Mowbray: I think that dialogue with "authorities" is viewed differently by different cultures in different times. . .
Bruce Mowbray: What I mean by that is -- Could you not also make a commentary?
Bruce Mowbray: Would that not also be appropriate from your own experience?
Bruce Mowbray: So, you would then be engaging in a sort of dialogue with whoever else made commentaries.
Dao Yheng: oh interesting! sort of like what we do in the Ways of Knowing group :)
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, exactly. Isn't everyone's experience valuable -- or only the experience and thought of "authorities"?
Alfred Kelberry: yes, but seldom would care, unless you're an american idol judge :)
Storm Nordwind: The difference there is "group". It helps to have such a group. When one is isolated and thinking these things through only by oneself, it is more difficult.
Bruce Mowbray: Mmmmmm. But laying aside an entire book because you disagree with the commentary . . . . seems to me to be a sort of "statement" in itself. . .
Dao Yheng: Hmm, yes -- definitely nice to have some feedback / challenge to my own meanderings
Alfred Kelberry: stormy, they do read books in isolation
Bruce Mowbray: so, I'm thinking maybe one could disagree - and keep a dialogue going.

Alfred Kelberry: dao, i think it also keeps your mind flexible and fresh
Alfred Kelberry: it's important to have an opposite (or differing) view present
Alfred Kelberry: including here at pab :)
Dao Yheng: and yes, just thinking "that person is a doofus" is a sort of commentary, but rather limited. maybe it would be more beneficial at least to me to get a little more specific about it!
Storm Nordwind: It depends what you're trying to get out of it. For example, is it necessarily good if I take a flexible and fresh attitude to driving a car - and perhaps think that experimenting with driving backwards or on the other side of the road is good?
Storm Nordwind: So there comes a time when applying the fruits of thought may be better in a particular way - just to get practical results.

2010.12.02 13:00 - These issues of the heart

Miralee Munro: What I have found is that all knowledge is within us ... it's like we have forgotten it ...
Miralee Munro: but when we see or hear something
Miralee Munro: that reminds us that we already know that.
Calvino Rabeni: Good to notice
Miralee Munro: It hits us like "a smackerblurty" as a friend of mine used to say.
Miralee Munro: smackerooblurty
Bruce Mowbray listens intently. . .
Miralee Munro: (whatever that is!) lol
Miralee Munro: Don't you feel that?
Calvino Rabeni: How I interpret that is that knowledge is all around and we can connect to it through our deep selves
Miralee Munro: That when we hear something inspiring or whatever, it's as though we already know it, we're just having it confirmed?
Calvino Rabeni: our entire self is an organ of perception

2010.12.02 19:00 – Teenage Time Travel!

A group of avatars play with the idea of being 18 again.

2010.12.03 01:00 - Two-spirits

In this session there was much warmth in the sharing. I wonder how the Two-Spirits conceptmight apply to avatars.

2010.12.03 06:00 - MAGIC OF TIME SESSION

Baeric Constantine: I don't think we are 'non-aware' while sleeping, we are not conscious of our awareness while sleeping, perhaps.
Maxine Walden: parallel strands of conversation maybe: as I took off my headphones, the 'traffic' of the day seems to intrude; which suggests that being here at the fountain, in our conversation, is a 'parallel world' of a sort, one which is circumscribed by focussed attention or what I choose to be aware of... for me the notion that Awareness may circumscribe many simultaneous 'worlds' is interesting
Fefonz Quan: that sounds a little paradoxical to me Baeric - so 'awareness' exists 'out there' even when we are not concious?
Baeric Constantine: time is relative to each being.

2010.12.03 07:00 - Penuckle of Life

Zen Arado: being a baby isn't all bliss
Riddle Sideways: an "I am in love with you... light and dark thingies"
Eliza Madrigal: I felt restless when I was a new mom, and read an article called "Baby Buddha"... the mom described how 'having' to rock the baby, and stop, basically gave her permission to get quiet...
Sharry Ragu: I love to journey with her...
Zen Arado: babyhood could be tough
Eliza Madrigal: mmm yes... so see through her eyes Sharry?
Darren Islar: :) Sharry
Archmage Atlantis: It's probably growing up as an only child with older parents, and never having children of my own.......When I thing of babies I think of small adults trying to learn as fast as possible
Sharry Ragu: kind of Eliza.. but perhaps connect with her experiences...
Darren Islar: babies depend on others....... Eliza Madrigal: adult= "ack, those ducks are making a mess in the driveway again" child= "OOOOH ducks!"
Zen Arado: totally dependent
Bleu Oleander: ha! Eliza :)
Zen Arado: adults complain so much :)
Eliza Madrigal: adult looking through child's eyes "I love those ducks for making baby/child so happy, not so bad after all "
Darren Islar: :) Eliza
Zen Arado: yes
Archmage Atlantis: True, children have to learn not to step in duck poo
Riddle Sideways: yes
Sharry Ragu: or perhaps.. child = why do those things affect my parents??
Eliza Madrigal: indeed
Darren Islar: but children can be (honestly) mean too
Zen Arado: adults are strange beings
Baeric Constantine: crispy roast duck :) hoi sin suace
Bleu Oleander: dog = oooo duck poop ... yum :)

2010.12.03 13:00 - voice, hanukkah no sillyness but a nice discussion

Zen Arado: the Dalai Lam says we need all the different religions to cater for different temperaments and cultures
Ingrid Manen: but every religion gives room to spiritual paths even to transcendence or immanence