tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post730327144226310371..comments2009-05-08T06:10:10.593-04:00mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10978313265796058909noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-80016455709891669382009-05-08T04:55:00.000-04:002009-05-08T04:55:00.000-04:00Arpita, I would like to say that having a goal and being goalless constitute a dualism. If one sets non-dualism as ones goal, then playing the game entails recognizing that there is no difference in the real nature of having or not having a goal. Achieving the goal in a non-dualistic game is empty in the same way as striving for the goal and having no goal. <br /><br />Succeeding at the game of non-dualism means not playing the game and not not playing the game.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-17807234919956391622009-03-15T09:18:00.000-04:002009-03-15T09:18:00.000-04:00Arpita,<BR/><BR/>Ha! Fun to be "schlepping along" with you.<BR/><BR/>You bring up a good point. Can the ego-self be completely goal-less? I imagine NOT, otherwise how could it believe it exists. However, I think that to engage in the 'infinite game' one should be aware of the playing. Unfortunately, many are not. <BR/><BR/>To realize one's status as an infinite player reduces outcomes or goals to a non-serious level of play. This may diminish the suffering bound to attainment of any goals or outcomes. <BR/><BR/>I think one can engage in playing for the sake of playing. This means that outcomes will appear, but not taken seriously. We then have a goal of extracting seriousness from the goals or outcomes that arise so as to experience a sense of freedom from it all.<BR/><BR/>Ha! I seem to be developing these ideas as we go along, so thanks for playing this game with me.<BR/><BR/>mikeSMikeShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10978313265796058909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-68568876162053060212009-03-13T23:28:00.000-04:002009-03-13T23:28:00.000-04:00hi Mike<BR/>i like the questions that you finish with. i don't know if mind can ever separate itself from goal or intent... even to be goal-less is a goal - if there is any conceptualizing at all... seems to me that goals (or what it means to win) become subtler - but are still there for most of us schleps(despite of what my friends who label themselves as awakened/enlightened think)... <BR/>signed<BR/>madame schlepping alongarpitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03104673218514262727noreply@blogger.com