Lady Persephone in the Zen Garden on Wednesday, May 29th, 2013; she will be parked here for about an hour to meditate, then moved during a lunch-break to the t’ai ch’i open-air program, then in the late afternoon during another break, she’ll be moved to Gorby’s Place for the evening meal and performance.
FREE PARKING. Remember that big square in the corner of the Monopoly board? It meant something then, and it means something now. If you’re looking for a way for your Avatar to Earn Merit without actually having to be there at the controls, your prayer is answered. Here’s how it works:
You park your Avatar in any area of the Ashram you prefer. It may be the Zen Garden you see pictured above, or it may be the little country chapel, or Wizard’s Hill, or the T’ai Ch’i studio, where you can park your Avatar right into the Katha Form being enacted there.
You can park your Avatar in spinning space-rolls with an ever-shifting Universe around it, or relax at the Crown of Creation Lounge, or Club Oz, or Gorby’s Place, or you might want to take a seat at a poetry reading, and just leave your Avatar there while you go to work.
FREE PARKING. Well, it’s not exactly free. There’s the same catch that you’d find with FREE LUNCH. There just plain isn’t any, and I’ve already said that it’s not okay to stick me for the drinks, right?
So for every Avatar that we can support, we spend about USD $30 every month. We ask a support pledge of $30 per month to cover some of the costs, although the cost of building it in the first place and acquiring two full sims was so staggering, we’ll probably never recover it, and that’s okay — we never asked for a break, and you can’t expect one in this or any other Einsteinian Universe. You get to park your Avatar 24/7 at the $30 support level.
Quantum Universes are a different matter entirely. That’s a physics joke, if you’re hip to it. In the Quantum, the mighty Quantum, the lion sleeps tonight.
So you could have an Avatar permanently PARKED in the Ashram, perhaps at your own Meditation Retreat Pagoda, or maybe in the Temple of Ganesh, or another location.
While the Avatar is parked there, you merely ALT/TAB or minimize the window, and you’re doing your work even when you’re AFK (Away From Keyboard).
There are cheaper SIMS to be in, but they have a down-side; you can’t park your Avatar there — it will kick you out if you’re not moving around, and that’s why the Ashram is in Second Life.
You probably aren’t old enough to remember the tv commercial that starts out with a woman driving a sports car through Beverly Hills, remarking, “You aren’t gonna believe this, but right now, I’m cleaning my oven!” — as if she knew what an oven was.
Hollywood models can’t sell poverty. Don’t ask me why.
Yeah…so you could be standing around at the water cooler at work, trying to avoid re-entry into your little workstation cubby, and a friend walks by…you say:
“You’re not going to believe this, but at this very moment, I’m meditating under a Bodhi Tree. Would you like to know how?”
The answer will generally be, “Don’t recall asking,” but you can only try.
Think of the FREE PARKING ZONE as a harbor for you Soul.
So…next time you come by the Ashram and you’re ready to leave, don’t go! Locate a nice place to leave your Avatar — it’s all safe here — or find Gorby’s Karma Park, and park your Avatar there! This only goes for Ashram residents, please. There are only so many Avatar Slots on the Server, and they are mostly filled!!!