PLAYING THE GAME

What is the game?

The Game is life and everything it has to offer.  It is composed of the decisions we make and the choices we do not make.  Whatever we do or choose not to do creates a change in the plays.  This in turn sets the game in a new direction. There are three types of personalities in the game:

1.      THE WATCHER – Those that stand back and watch life go by. Happy with what they have and where they are.  These people are not wrong; they just no longer or never did have the ambition to push forward to try to beat the next level (to evolve).

2.      THE FILLER – This is that person that wishes he had the courage to achieve his goals but always fall short.  Taking their position on the playing field, but still only watching the game never understanding the basic principles.

3.      THE PLAYER – The one that shines and makes the Game his own.  The player never plays by others rules he is innovating and creative.  Always thinking and looking for ways to improve.  He is the shining light that others are drawn to, not afraid to stand out in a crowd and be noticed.

Is it possible for us to understand what life really is and how it may work?  What is there about playing the game that allows some to succeed through a process of trial and error rather than set rules?  To be able to picture, imagine, or perceive the ground lines of that greater human existence.  What types of play best illustrates such a zenith of both, as a norm and as a goal?  The next pages will dramatically change the way you experience life and your normal thought patterns.  Creating in you, by you and for you the person you wish to be. 

Games are the contests of everyday life; the games we use in business, politics, in the bedroom and on the battlefield need not to have winners and losers, a beginning and an end.  Games of life are more mysterious and eventually more rewarding.  They are unwritten and very unpredictable; they are the source of freedom.  By Playing the Game, you gain insights into the nature of property and power, of culture and community, of sexuality and self-discovery, opening the door to a world of infinite delight and possibility.

One thing about the game is there are no concrete rules or set plays.  The rules at the beginning can be used as a guide but as you involve yourself and become more experienced these guides should be set aside for a more natural flow.  The writings Tao Te Ching (the way, the virtue, the writing) are a great guide to the game:

Knowing others is wisdom,

Knowing the self is enlightenment.

Mastering others requires force,

Mastering the self requires strength,

He who knows he has enough is rich.

Perseverance is a sign of will power.

To die but not to perish is to be eternally present.  (chap. 33, tr. Feng and English).                  This piece shows the wisdom needed to succeed and excel in the game.

 Each move either is for the purpose of a dramatic response, or is such a response, or is both.  However, these bring to mind a memory or feeling and responses that are merely imaginative recreations.  The responses, that is not merely portrayals of such interplay, as is the case of staged performances.  The players are, in a way, writing a script at the same time that they are performing it.  In making each move or choice we create a variation of the play changing its direction.  This is especially, related to the seduction scene, any choice you make creates a new path and with each new path a new adventure.