Here’s a happy thing. Thanks to this blog, and their own fine internet search-skills, a couple of old friends have actually got back in touch with me after years and years and years. However there are still a few few friends I have sadly and shamefully lost touch with over the last decade or so. So I was thinking that if I put their names up here, then they might just one day google-search themselves, find me and get back in touch again, and that would be swee-t! Here they are:

Matt (Matthew) Fernyhough
Judith Cox-Rogers
Jonathan Irwin
Ester Fleischer-Brown

Oh GREAT and POWERFUL INTERWEB let your mystic magic work!
Now, let’s see what happens…

Here are some snippets of conversation/burbling with Rik:

DREAMS:
michael: I had a dream that I was waiting at a bus stop with HJ and there were bluebirds fluttering around a nest on the building behind us
what does this signify?
rikabel: er…love?
michael: nah
rikabel: a desire to actually settle down?
michael: hmmm
rikabel: you tell me, dream interpreter man
michael: erm…. currently waiting in transit between one part of life’s journey and the next… not sure when things will start up/settle down…. bluebirds signify happiness/freedom?
something like that
rikabel: ok – yeah

BLOGGING:
rikabel : your blog is great man
michael : thanks
rikabel: i wish i had time to read it properly
michael: as do I…. by the way… I’ve been looking at Google Analytics
rikabel: go on
michael: I don’t understand the difference between page view and visit
rikabel : nor do i
michael: crap
ok well after studying all the different and very confusing data I think I’ve figured out that the vast majority of people look at my blog once and never return (although there was a remarkable upsurge of returnees last week)
also I think I have approximately 12 regular readers
considering the time I put into it this seems less than adequate
rikabel: you gotta keep on truckin’ dude
early days
michael: I think maybe I need to change tack….
rikabel: you just need one break to get a much bigger audience
maybe you need to refine your focus?
michael: I like burbling on about whatever though
However I have nothing to burble about today
rikabel: there’s always something to burble about
michael: I think I’ll just put up a list of people I’d like to get back in touch with in the vain hope they google themselves and find me
rikabel: what about ‘an inconvenient truth’ winning an oscar?
michael: for a song?
rikabel: what?
best documentary
michael : oh it got that too eh
cool
rikabel:yeah
michael: did Al Gore make an acceptance speech?
rikabel: dunno
michael （after a quick search）:
He said: “People all over the world – we need to solve the climate crisis. It’s not a political issue, it’s a moral issue,We have everything we need to get started with the possible exception of the will to act. That’s a renewable resource – let’s renew it.”
rikabel: what a dude
he gives me renewable wood
sorry, i mean sustainable wood
etc…

DIAMOND WAY BUDDHISTS

michael: why are you always meeting diamond way buddhists?
rikabel: yeah, i do
maybe i’ll become one
michael: gosh
how does one become one?
rikabel: go to a meeting i guess
and get inducted
apparently they have REALLY REALLY good parties

If we look at what the Buddha discovered about mind 2550 years ago, we find that he realized that mind is clear light. The mind hasn’t been born, and it cannot die. Even though bodies, thoughts and feelings appear, change and disappear again, mind itself, being open clear limitless space, can in no way be hurt or harmed.
So when the Buddha obtained liberation, he found that he was not the target anymore. He wasn’t that body which could be in trouble, nor was he those thoughts and feelings which could change and disappear – instead he was radiant awareness. This led to enlightenment, the realization that there is no separation between space and energy at any time or place. He knew and was aware of all things. He felt the great joy and expressed the great love which is the meaning of all things; which makes every atom stick together and vibrate and which makes all things happen in the world.

michael: did you just make that up?
rikabel: yeah
etc…