A summary of Play as Being

from: 2008.07.21 07:00 - Seeing the Path  

Pema Pera: The idea is simple
Pema Pera: for a few hours a day
Pema Pera: you pay 1% of your time in a kind of time tax
Pema Pera: 9 seconds each fifteen minutes
Pema Pera: During that time you stop what you’re doing, or at least drop your exclusive focus on it
Pema Pera: and instead you look at what is
Pema Pera: or what you are
Pema Pera: or at “I am”

Pema Pera: and one way to do that is to look at what you have
Pema Pera: we normally say “I am a plumber” instead of “I have the profession of plumber”
Pema Pera: we say “I am English” instead of “I have the English nationality”
Pema Pera: so if we try to rigorously scrutinize all that we have
Pema Pera: then we may see what is left over, as what we are
Pema Pera: temporarily shifting focus away from what we have
Adelene Dawner: Now *that* sounds interesting and useful.
Pema Pera: Thank you, glad to hear that!

Pema Pera: temporarily dropping the role play
Pema Pera: and the remaining 99% we can play all our roles as much as we like, in RL and SL both
Pema Pera: Here in SL we get together four times a day
Pema Pera: to talk about our experiences in RL in the four times an hour practice:
Pema Pera: 1 am 7 am 1 pm 7 pm SLT

Pema Pera: If you’d like to try it, you can start right here, just pick a 9-sec interval :-)
Pema Pera: you may want to just play with it for a few days, and then if you like, you can share with us what happened
Pema Pera: or what kind of questions you have about it