looking for burners in a default world

missy · Post by **missy** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:14 am

I flew through Burning Man like a dream. I didn't worry about life after. I am surprised how much I wish I would have kept track of the people I met.

David O are you there?
The boys from the Bubble Bar are you still smiling?
Where are the pictures you promised, my sweet bearded lover?

Does anyone remember me as I was on the Playa (strong, assured, bare breasted, ecstatic)?

How do you integrate the playa into your default life? Do you have to wait until 2007?

Just wondering
Missy

pbmaniac2000 · Post by **pbmaniac2000** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:23 am

One word. Regionals.

Get connected with your local regional network. The local regional group here in colorado does an event about once a week. They are not "sanctioned" events, but its a lets get together at a bar or something of that sort. It keeps you sane for those other 51 weeks.

ubu · Post by **ubu** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:01 pm

how about waving randomly at people? saying hello to everyone you feel like saying hello to? talking to someone completely outside of your game? How about noticing the infrastructure?

works for me.

ubu · Post by **ubu** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:06 pm

missy wrote: Does anyone remember me as I was on the Playa (strong, assured, bare breasted, ecstatic)?

Yes, I know you in the larger sense. I am the playa mind.
One of my classic lines is a response to people when they ask me how many burns I have been to. I ask them, naively "
What is burning man?"

When people ask me my name, I tell them that people call me, "name here", but that is just a placeholder.

skygod · Post by **skygod** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:42 pm

When I was a kid I used to go to downtown LA to help my Dad, he had an attorney service. I would occasionally see an old crazy homeless guy at a busy intersection waving his arms and shouting "Hello" to every body that passed by-"Hello" "How ya doing?" "You have a nice day!"
Now I am that greeter, now I know what he was doing.

ubu · Post by **ubu** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:58 pm

skygod rocks. he got it down. you've caught the rabbit. you are the rabbit. throw away the trap.

You are that big. Give it away now!

I ain't no beyoodist, but I love a good yarn, and it is hard to top the jataka tales for pure yarn spinning. The jataka tales are used to get the listener to realize how big they are, how overfull they are, with too toomuchness. So that they know they can give it away. that giving is their only need.

They call it mahayana. the great way. anyway, in one of these stories of the many lives of the buddha, he is a rabbit. He comes across a starving hunter in the woods, near death with need, living in a world of scarcity. The hunter is boiling a few wild onions in a pot of water.

What does the rabbit do? He jumps in the pot! Boil me baby. Eat me. Taste me!

You don't need no regionals. you are the rabbit!

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