Sacred Scroll: Pure & Clean Games
All the way out here.
Hey. What’s up?
2 things to talk about before main content (after the flowers)
#1 I host a virtual meditation each month. October’s theme is “Stillness,” and it’s an hour-long exploration into the topic.
It is online, but that doesn’t mean you have to have your camera on.
You don’t have to say anything or be anything.
We’ll all just be spending time together, learning from each other.
#2 If you’ve been considering Bodywork, Reiki, or Psychedelic Integration, here is a loving nudge.
I only have a couple of openings remaining before I will be out of touch from mid-December to mid-January.
If now feels like the right time to begin something, it is.
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In the late 60s, the publisher behind The Whole Earth Catalog Stewart Brand, started the New Games Movement with the intent to replace competition with cooperation, unlocking the creativity and freedom we enjoyed as children that can dim as we don dress clothes and attend university.
One of the games they played required a collection of people in a field with a large ball. There were no teams and no real object of the game beyond getting the ball to one of two end zones. More often than not, loose teams would form and a struggle would ensue to get the big ball to an endzone that a team’d declared as their goal.
Just as often, people would switch teams at random, push the ball in the wrong direction on purpose, some trickster would defect at a pivotal moment just for a laugh. Big-time-me-move.
The point was to have fun.
They were adults in a field in Marin, pushing a gigantic inflated orb around. There was no point other than to EXPERIENCE.
Winning gets us somewhere, but what if you want to be everywhere?
I quit high school sports in the middle of my senior year despite having worked for years to play and only having a few remaining opportunities left.
It wasn’t fun anymore. It was a chore, it was emotionally draining and I had other stuff I’d rather been doing with time. There was no point (because it was a game) but coaches were so serious about it, and “next year”, and “who’s at what stage of development”… at a small school in the middle of Ohio.
It had lost all the magic. And people around you can get lost in the maze of their own attachments.
The point is to have fun.
We play a lot of games in our lives.
Are they fun? Do they have heart?
Do they feel pure? Clean? Full of hope?
We get one go in this body.
One chance to enjoy being in the sun, pushing a ball around, moving just to move, cooperating with each other because we have love in our hearts and that love is pure.
It is a gift.
24,345 steps later,
Bholenath
If you’d like to talk about play, work, the sun, step records, Ohio or something else, please please, please email me (bholenath@altarofnow.com).