Comments on: My Buddhist adventures in Second Life. http://quietwatercourse.co.uk/2007/09/01/my-buddhist-adventures-in-second-life/ Musings on Buddhism, Free Software, Ethics, Philosophy. Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:08:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jan http://quietwatercourse.co.uk/2007/09/01/my-buddhist-adventures-in-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-2414 Jan Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:38:20 +0000 http://quietwatercourse.co.uk/2007/09/01/my-buddhist-adventures-in-second-life/#comment-2414 Hi Richard i want to quote from this posting and use the photo's for an article in the print media on -The Virtual Road to Enlightenment will that be ok? cheers Jan Australia Hi Richard i want to quote from this posting and use the photo’s for an article in the print media on -The Virtual Road to Enlightenment

will that be ok?
cheers
Jan
Australia

]]> By: Richard http://quietwatercourse.co.uk/2007/09/01/my-buddhist-adventures-in-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-401 Richard Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:09:13 +0000 http://quietwatercourse.co.uk/2007/09/01/my-buddhist-adventures-in-second-life/#comment-401 It can be very spooky, when you wander into an empty area, a bit like one of those horror films where everyone has vanished for some reason. I think the TV Show you mean is The Prisoner? The village in that was Portmeirion. I'm finding that it's giving me cause for concern that so many people happily admit to being addicted to it. I know people who claim to have lost friends to it. Personally, I'm finding that SL can be very immersive and is (along with a few other things) responsible for my lack of updates recently, you have to be very careful how you approach it. I think if you take the view that it's a communications and networking tool, then you can be fine. But when you start looking you find an economy and people running businesses and getting jobs in there, I'll write more when I can put organise my thoughts into coherent prose. It can be very spooky, when you wander into an empty area, a bit like one of those horror films where everyone has vanished for some reason. I think the TV Show you mean is The Prisoner? The village in that was Portmeirion. I’m finding that it’s giving me cause for concern that so many people happily admit to being addicted to it. I know people who claim to have lost friends to it.

Personally, I’m finding that SL can be very immersive and is (along with a few other things) responsible for my lack of updates recently, you have to be very careful how you approach it. I think if you take the view that it’s a communications and networking tool, then you can be fine. But when you start looking you find an economy and people running businesses and getting jobs in there, I’ll write more when I can put organise my thoughts into coherent prose.

]]> By: Peter Clothier http://quietwatercourse.co.uk/2007/09/01/my-buddhist-adventures-in-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-400 Peter Clothier Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:32:02 +0000 http://quietwatercourse.co.uk/2007/09/01/my-buddhist-adventures-in-second-life/#comment-400 Am I alone in finding this a bit spooky? It puts me in mind of that wonderful, disturbing old TV series--I forget the title--about the village in Wales (?) where no one could get in or out. A kind of virtual bubble of a place. I have to say, it disturbs me, and I'm not sure how it works with my understanding of Buddhism, which is very much about the here and now and not about some imagined "yonder" place. Perhaps there's something here that I'm not getting? Am I alone in finding this a bit spooky? It puts me in mind of that wonderful, disturbing old TV series–I forget the title–about the village in Wales (?) where no one could get in or out. A kind of virtual bubble of a place. I have to say, it disturbs me, and I’m not sure how it works with my understanding of Buddhism, which is very much about the here and now and not about some imagined “yonder” place. Perhaps there’s something here that I’m not getting?

]]> By: Tara Yeats http://quietwatercourse.co.uk/2007/09/01/my-buddhist-adventures-in-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-398 Tara Yeats Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:36:42 +0000 http://quietwatercourse.co.uk/2007/09/01/my-buddhist-adventures-in-second-life/#comment-398 Thanks for the lovely review, Richard! Bodhi was, and is, very much a team effort, and the group synergy has been quite apparent from the early planning discussions. If you haven't discovered the sky builds yet, you have even more to discover at 500m and up! Metta, Tara Thanks for the lovely review, Richard! Bodhi was, and is, very much a team effort, and the group synergy has been quite apparent from the early planning discussions. If you haven’t discovered the sky builds yet, you have even more to discover at 500m and up!

Metta,
Tara

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