There's nothing lazy about keeping your heart open. Meditation is hard work. Takes all your effort and energy if you really want to keep pumping through the bright light and love.
Can't sleep your way to enlightenment. Still gotta work for those meditative achievements.
There's your problem! Professional gamers often don't know how to have fun. They're neurotically focused on winning at all costs.
I was semi-pro also. Was at the top of the games I played and made money doing it, had corporate sponsors, everything.
I believe the state of mind that most people utilize to become #1 in these games is very much adrenaline-based. I think that some pros do it in love and others do it in fear. I've seen both. I've seen pro gamers who clearly come from a place of love and love everyone and the game and everything, and others who are totally fear based, motivated by fear, and hostile towards others. I would agree that among the pros there is more fear than love, in my opinion. But it also varies between games. I like the vibes of the Korean pro-gamer community, some really nice people.
Casual gamers on the other hand are a totally different breed from the elites.
Games in themselves are neutral for polarizing in my opinion. I think they can easily be time wasters though -- actually just as I wrote this I recalled the part of the LOO where Ra says that the effect of most entertainment media is just to waste time, and does not cause significant polarization in either direction.
I think some aspects of the media complex are definitely there to control the masses and many have essentially negative effects (ranging the gamut really) but there are others that have clear positive effects (there are some tv shows and movies that vibrate with so much love and joy!).
Anyway I still play games in a casual way but I strictly avoid getting pulled into negative vibes while I play. My main focus is just social actually, to have a good time playing LittleBigPlanet with friends.
It's the message that counts, never the medium. Also you can't underestimate the power of what you bring to something!
I really really really don't believe in rigid rules that can apply to everyone. Everyone needs to figure out what best helps them get what they want. You just can't for sure tell someone else what is going to be uplifting to them.
(Although I absolutely believe that you can statistically measure the effect of a particular artwork on the population as a whole. But these facts are only relevant to those with their hands on the pull-strings of society, not individuals like us.)
Can't sleep your way to enlightenment. Still gotta work for those meditative achievements.
(03-09-2011, 02:20 PM)Namaste Wrote: 3DMonkey: yes indeed it's the player, as with any type of experience in the Game of life :¬)
I used to be a semi-professional gamer, and I can say from experience that the many, many people I encountered over the years played in a mental state that stems from fear (protection/aggression/jealousy), rather than love/peace. The same applies to friends while growing up (from childhood through to university).
There's your problem! Professional gamers often don't know how to have fun. They're neurotically focused on winning at all costs.
I was semi-pro also. Was at the top of the games I played and made money doing it, had corporate sponsors, everything.
I believe the state of mind that most people utilize to become #1 in these games is very much adrenaline-based. I think that some pros do it in love and others do it in fear. I've seen both. I've seen pro gamers who clearly come from a place of love and love everyone and the game and everything, and others who are totally fear based, motivated by fear, and hostile towards others. I would agree that among the pros there is more fear than love, in my opinion. But it also varies between games. I like the vibes of the Korean pro-gamer community, some really nice people.
Casual gamers on the other hand are a totally different breed from the elites.
Games in themselves are neutral for polarizing in my opinion. I think they can easily be time wasters though -- actually just as I wrote this I recalled the part of the LOO where Ra says that the effect of most entertainment media is just to waste time, and does not cause significant polarization in either direction.
I think some aspects of the media complex are definitely there to control the masses and many have essentially negative effects (ranging the gamut really) but there are others that have clear positive effects (there are some tv shows and movies that vibrate with so much love and joy!).
Anyway I still play games in a casual way but I strictly avoid getting pulled into negative vibes while I play. My main focus is just social actually, to have a good time playing LittleBigPlanet with friends.
It's the message that counts, never the medium. Also you can't underestimate the power of what you bring to something!
I really really really don't believe in rigid rules that can apply to everyone. Everyone needs to figure out what best helps them get what they want. You just can't for sure tell someone else what is going to be uplifting to them.
(Although I absolutely believe that you can statistically measure the effect of a particular artwork on the population as a whole. But these facts are only relevant to those with their hands on the pull-strings of society, not individuals like us.)
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