Playing Hard!

Taking life seriously is to take ourselves seriously. It is to take our bodies, our minds, our emotions, our exterior, our interior, our skills, our thoughts, our ideas, our appearances, our speech, our relationships, our money, our spirit, our beliefs, our dreams, our passions, our food, our health, our sexuality, our homes, our surroundings - our everything seriously. 

Taking life seriously, is NOT to be serious, or boring, or stuck up, or rigid, or narrow, or fundamentalist, or closed. It is being serious about taking life seriously and that can sufficiently happen when life is seen as a 'play'. Games, Drama, Dance, Plays are great illustrations that bring together life in all their fullness and make it worth living. No wonder ancient texts talk about creation and the world in terms of a dance, or a play and the idea of delight or bliss  (ananda) is so central to conceptions of the good life.

To play is not to be unserious, rather it is to be serious of the highest order, so serious that it is no longer constrained by our normal understandings of seriousness. The Gita calls this world as Lila or as the play of the divine. So let's play at the highest levels, nationals, internationals and 'universals' and make this short-spanned life beautiful.

Let's play hard!

beautiful example of playing hard

Don't! don't read any further, Please

Don’t

Don’t read any further

Stop

Stop reading I say

You don’t want to know

You really don’t

And yet you read

But why

Why do you read on?

Why can’t you just stop?

STOP! Stop reading, I beg!

I am sure you are NOT reading this

Alas, I am wrong

You still are reading!

What can I do to make you stop?

Make you give up, abandon

Move on as if you have not read

I say don’t but yet still you do

But you can’t help yourself, can you

Because it’s not really you

it's actually not even about you, really

Its the words seeking their whole

Semantic unity, they say

Half in your consciousness

The others in the lines below

Condemned to meaning

Its tyranny not a travesty

Memes says Dawkins with a glee

But it’s the mother of memes

The one who bore them

The eternal goddess

道 λόγος शब्द Word

Call what you may
She lives on forever

In and through you

And of course beyond you
Humans come, humans go
She lives on

Ancient of days

Creating, destroying, recreating

Forming, reforming, multiforming

Tower of Babel, mustn’t forget

Nor the Pentecost

Regaining regal power

In her being

The universe came to be

She lifted her voice

And the walls came tumbling

She has seen the beginning

And in her is the end

You and I

Her playmates in time

Must stop now

Can’t let her always...