Comments | avad: The Breath Connects All Realms

avad

The Breath Connects All Realms

Feb 18, 2005 13:02

This morning I searched for and found a beautiful Temple of Buddha on SecondLife and my avatar and I meditated together for the first time. It was wonderful. The meditation script is pretty amazing...the slowww and subtle breathing movements...the eyes...I felt myself relax right into it just watching her/me. This is something quite profound when ( Read more... )

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chaizzilla February 18 2005, 19:25:05 UTC

what is SecondLife?

pancake_meow February 19 2005, 08:08:56 UTC

Is this a game you are playing? or did you make this game?

avad February 19 2005, 16:48:34 UTC

SecondLife is a huge 3D immersive virtual world that is completely and continually built by the users themselves. It's less a 'game' than a social space that you can explore in and meet up with others in. It's so wonderful to fly around and see what's been built...and everything is interactive. It's like a shared dreamworld.
You get to create your own avatar (there are simple guidelines in the orientation and it's really intuitive and doesn't require any previous 3d skills)...so I tried to make mine look a little like me...you change the face shape, the hair, the body etc...dress it and go! Then the avatar is you and you explore this place. It's reaaaally amazing. If your system can handle it, I'd recommend you check it out yourself- there's a free trial.Here's their FAQ page

avad February 19 2005, 16:38:19 UTC

SecondLife is an ever-growing, ever-changing 3D immersive virtual world that is Completely built by the users themselves...It's less a 'game' than an open-ended social space...there are events and classes that you can attend in avatar form...or just fly around and explore...
The part that interests me most is that what it becomes is up to us.

For a skilled techie one like yourself, I'd refer you to this page:
secondlife.com/developers.php
That's all beyond me, but I and others get to experience whatever is built there!

And here's a good post about SL on Tony Walsh's blog
Clickable Culture

resipisco February 19 2005, 10:22:18 UTC

That's pretty cool. I'm not surprised that 2L has a buddhist temple.

avad February 20 2005, 19:18:49 UTC

Do you have a second life?

resipisco February 20 2005, 20:00:47 UTC

Nah. I volunteer with an NPO called the ASF and Cory Andrejka (Linden Labs' primary internal developer) gave a presentation on 2L at our conference last year. From the audience's response, you'd think he was a marketing exec. Afterwards, everybody was talking about getting a second life, but first life sunk in and none of us had the time.

more importantly: your avatar's hair. minorsecond February 19 2005, 17:17:28 UTC

are those extensions?

minorsecond February 19 2005, 17:17:50 UTC

be honest

avad February 19 2005, 17:23:48 UTC

hehe. hmm well it's a hard question. I'd say yes, in that they were not available from the regular set of options and I had to get them from elsewhere and 'attach them' to my avatar's head.
For an embarassing while they would only attach sideways.haha
You're such a Girl.

rosylavie February 20 2005, 05:42:37 UTC

How do you landmark a place as a favorite?

rosylavie February 20 2005, 07:25:46 UTC

O.K., that's fine, I found out how to landmark a place. But I don't know how to meditate... or use special gestures. I found a special spot I'm really interested to buy, but it's $7995 and I only have $900. Do you know of any trick I can use to make money?

Peace,

Julie

avad February 20 2005, 15:32:22 UTC

hey julie ( ... )

rosylavie February 21 2005, 00:27:49 UTC

thank you :-) it seems we don't have a free land by default, but I found a list of cheap small lands for sale. The thing is that they're not very interesting -- I keep searching/shopping.

I discover something at each visit in SL!

Julie

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A copy of my IM to Ava in SL rosylavie February 22 2005, 20:48:21 UTC

Hello Ava - I invite you to visit Lotus (208, 56) - it would be a great place to build peace environment -- what about a gallery for your artwork for example and where to talk about 10% practice and humanitarian actions -- do Better World have a space of their own?

I'm thinking of becoming a Premium member, because I want to build.

Also visit the Philosopheum. Imagine a place like this to create a gallery of your artwork. ;-)

Re: A copy of my IM to Ava in SL avad February 22 2005, 21:09:40 UTC

hey there!! I was just about to try to log into SL when I heard the email 'bell'.!
hehe. Pam omidyar says she has a 4 person meditation mat if I want to try it out with her.
Don't know if she's online now but i was just going in. Meet you if you're in?

Re: A copy of my IM to Ava in SL rosylavie February 22 2005, 21:12:36 UTC

O.K., let's meet in SL!