A summary of Play as Being

from: 2008.07.21 07:00 - Seeing the Path  

Pema Pera:

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

And one way to do that is to look at what you have. We normally say “I am a plumber” instead of “I have the profession of plumber”, we say “I am English” instead of “I have the English nationality”. So if we try to rigorously scrutinize all that we have, then we may see what is left over, as what we are.

Temporarily shifting focus away from what we have, temporarily dropping the role play, and the remaining 99% we can play all our roles as much as we like, in RL and SL both

Here in SL we get together four times a day to talk about our experiences in RL in the four times an hour practice: 1 am 7 am 1 pm 7 pm SLT.