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Yeah, I like early morning and evening as well
Cool the way you employ your passion for RPG's into your personal practice.
For me, I enjoy gaming for the sense of movement and interplay it brings. Same goes for stories. The plot and characters don't hold a strong attraction, but the overall sense of busy-ness of it all does.
It's why I like living in the city. I enjoy the hustle and bustle, but don't really care to get very deeply involved with whatever people are hustling and bustling about
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How do you sit?
I'm gifted with flexible knees, so i sit full lotus.
There are 3 types of role-players...
you are immersionist.
Take a shoot on the other two types, if you like )))
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I just sit on a chair, facing a wall . I was not gifted with flexible hips or knees. I don't lean back, though...sitting upright with spine erect and body relaxed, eyes open. I'd probably get some stern looks from your sensei
I do like immersion, you're right about that. What are the other 2 roles?
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My teacher is a very kind man, he does rarely send stern glances.
If want to correct he does it sternly and almost only and the monks or senior lay bothers
You could request Kesaku if he passed you
The two other kinds are
Dramatist and Gamer
Guess what I am
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The "awakening stick" on the shoulder.
I don't know, you like to game and you like theater. Could be either! Which one is it?
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Kesaku I was told meant encouragement stick, but I agree with the other name! I have experienced that effect, both from sleepiness and as an energy kick straight into samadhi.
Actually I would say 40% immersion 40% gamer 20% drama.
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I've got a lot of gamer in me, too. My favorite games are the ones that engender the most immersion, of course.
Struggle is to remaining centrally aware while gaming. Which is very difficult to do. Because cultivating awareness like this seems to dampen the "thrill" of gaming by taking me "out of it" so to speak, instead of being immersed in it.
I shudder to think I'll have to give it up, which I may very well have to do...but for now, I simply endeavor...again and again...to recover and hold on to that awareness while gaming.
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Shifting to gaming. Computer and consol I guess?
To be 100% immersed into something is call positive samadhi. It a good thing to be one with what you do, in my book.
Why do you want to recover reflective mind processes?
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I don't. As you say, my goal is to become one with what I do, whatever that is....including gaming
There is no reflection in total immersion.
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what do you like to play Glance?
heh... currently i taken up medivale total war - Britannia as Norwegians. Year 1260 or something. The cannon just being introduced. But hey My raiding army just finished with London.
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I like the Battlefield series the most Currently playing Battlefield 1 a lot. Set in WWI. It's the most immersive multiplayer game I've ever played....totally insane
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Hey !! I played battlefield 2 a lot and 1 and 3 a bit.
Great fun!
WWI.... hmmm hope you dont get a shell chock ....
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I only played a little of BF2 on PC. I started logging in the serious hours with Battlefield Bad Company 2 and then BF3 on console. Games have a very epic feel to them combined with dynamic strategy and squad-based play. Tons of fun
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becoming friend with a former special force guy, killed my joy of fps as it be came ridiculous compared to his experiences. Sitting with a mouse in the hand and all...
now buddhist suggestions makes me hesitate to start playing, well did shoot at some zombies last night. a 3 min experience
not my thing, but cool setting.
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Yeah, playing a military shooter video game and being in a live military operation are 2 totally different things, to be sure. I agree, its ridiculous to compare the two.
My feeling is, if there's inner conflict associated with it, may be best to leave it alone. I personally don't feel any inner conflict, a part from the challenge of trying to stay conscious while playing.
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Sorry, my reply was a little rude. Retaliation. I'm fiercely independent...which means there's something going on here which needs dissolving. Independence is good....but not if it's in recoil from something perceived as unpleasant. In general, I don't trust people. It's a prisoner's reaction to the perceived harshness of being imprisoned. The reaction helps to solidify the bars in the cell.
Anyway, I'm intrigued by your endeavor to unify the laser-like and unifying empty focus of Zen and the diverse, exploratory nature of Shamanism.
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Hey Glance, no offence taken.
Self-importance is a %!$#* and I strive to have my buttons dismantled, a few people here have helped me with that with their rudeness towards me )))
After trying out one shooter I ended up with a sci-fi one based on the aliens movies. Damn intense. No problem with shooting up these creeps )))
You are now the third person asking for me sharing a bit about my shamanic experience, so I see it as a sign to get my fingers beating the keyboard and telling stories of spirits and magic. Thank you !
Zen and shamanism&sorcery has been difficult to have going both at the same time. Yet my karmic roots are in both, so that is why I ended up with doing both paths.
(to be continued in another post)
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Yeah, I've had this distinct impression that the modern seers path would involve something of a marriage between the diverse exploration of perception inherent in shamanism and the core of perceptual freedom inherent in Zen.
Looking forward to those stories
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