Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Sorry I missed it, I was feeling pretty asocial and spaced out. Hopefully I can join you all next week!

Asocial and spaced out? That describes me every week and I still go!

Seriously though, missed chatting with you this week...hope to see you at the next one!

Gassho,
Dosho

:lol: I resemble that also, perhaps it would have been more accurate to say "moreso than usual" :lol:

Look forward to chatting with you next week!

[Dosho]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Sorry I missed it, I was feeling pretty asocial and spaced out. Hopefully I can join you all next week!

Asocial and spaced out? That describes me every week and I still go!

Seriously though, missed chatting with you this week...hope to see you at the next one!

Gassho,
Dosho

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Sorry I missed it, I was feeling pretty asocial and spaced out. Hopefully I can join you all next week!

[Shohei]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

EDITED EDIT will be there.
Gassho
Shohei

[Shohei]

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Will be there, as always, with kids (yeah!! i can fill any dead air with the sounds of my sweet screaming monkey children )
Talk to ya next week Dave. Be safe.

Gassho
Shohei

[Hogo]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Out of town this weekend, see you all next week.
Gassho ~ Dave.

[Tb]

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Hi.

Just putting in a reminder of the teaparty.
Same time, same place.
Thank you for your practice.

Mtfbwy
Fugen

[Tb]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Hi.

Thank you stephanie and all who joined in to the teaparty.
C u next week, same time same place.

Mtfbwy
Fugen

[Sven]

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Thank you for the recap, Stephanie. I had wanted to join this week, but ended up having to work today. Hopefully next week...

[Engyo]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Good job, Stephanie!
Gassho.

[Shohei]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

haha that sound ab00t right Thank you very much Steph! and all that joined in nice to see so many folks

Gassho
Shohei

[Dosho]

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Thanks Stephanie!

[nadia_estm]

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so sad i couldn´t join, but it is nice to see what happened ....sounds like it was fun!

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Summary of today's Tea Party chat:

We talked about various aspects of Ango commitments, and our experiences with them.

One topic that generated good discussion was the times of day that people sit. We talked about how people with different personalities, circadian rhythms, etc., might tend to sit more at certain times of day, and this might vary across the population. Some of the people on the chat were "night sitters," some "morning sitters," and even a couple of "noon sitters." We talked about the ideal most likely being to sit both morning and night.

We talked about difficulties with mindful eating, and it was a near universal agreement that people were experiencing more resistance and difficulty with mindful eating than they expected. Saying a verse or verses before eating can feel either self-centered (committing this food to good outcomes or practice) or grandiose (may all beings be nourished by this slice of pizza I am about to eat). And many of us have developed a habitual tendency to eat quickly and/or while in a distracted state.

There was some discussion of fitness practices and dietary choices, different impacts of vegetarianism on different people, eating multiple times a day when dieting or fasting intermittently, and the possibility of incorporating a commitment to regular exercise into an Ango commitment.

There was some discussion of video games, new games coming out and levels of interest in them, and taking a break from video games.

I shared my pastoral fantasy of getting a house with a yard where I could own and raise goats so I could milk my goats in the morning and make my own organic, local goat cheese.

We talked about other pets including cats, dogs, and iguanas, and the appeals and drawbacks of each. Dirk shared that he briefly entertained the idea of raising chickens.

There was a bit of discussion about what role religion plays in our human makeup, reference to levels of religiosity being very low in Sweden and Denmark, and how early religious thinking may have appeared in our human ancestors.

We came up with some Treeleaf t-shirt ideas including "Silence Thread," "I need to go sit with that," and "I need to go shit, sit, and sleep," which was Janne's parting comment :wink: After he left we had a bit of discussion about what it would entail if one were to try to do all those things at one time. We agreed that a padded toilet seat might make that more feasible.

And probably some other stuff too that I've forgotten.

It was a good showing, I think maybe there were eight people involved or so in the chat.

[Tb]

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Hi, I might join this time, have given my skypename to Fugen. Are we using webcam or just voice chat?

Janne

Hi.

Voice chat.
Only those that have skype 2 beta 2 can see more than 1 people as the conversation is on...

But we'll see you there.

Mtfbwy
Fugen