Monday, June 24, 2002
In today's DeepFUN Discussion Group:
Roger the Reviewer says: "I think of Deep Fun as a social event, which is at odds with how I (primarily) think about meditation."
Bernie, the G of G, responds indirectly: Actually, meditation is taught as a social event, though it's not emphasized. And it's the social environment of being surrounded by co-meditators, that makes meditation class so effective. Each person's stillness helps still everyone else.
And, yes, when you think of DeepFUN as meditation, solitairy play is brought to mind. In fact, I think my first experience of DeepFUN as a solitairy meditation was during a game of Solitaire. And certainly the exploration of the Inner Playground - is a meditation-and-a-half.
But the social phenomenon is indeed the big focus, and the fact that we can take the energy and depth of meditation and practice it in a social environment is perhaps one of the most attractive (to me) aspects of DeepFUN as meditation. To play and be aware of play, to be actively engaged in, for example, searching for the Prui - and, at the same time to be practicing awareness of the play between Silly and Serious, between searching and being found, between yourself and the other - well it deliciously deepens the fun that I hope to share with this world in my lifetime.
Roger the Reviewer says: "I think of Deep Fun as a social event, which is at odds with how I (primarily) think about meditation."
Bernie, the G of G, responds indirectly: Actually, meditation is taught as a social event, though it's not emphasized. And it's the social environment of being surrounded by co-meditators, that makes meditation class so effective. Each person's stillness helps still everyone else.
And, yes, when you think of DeepFUN as meditation, solitairy play is brought to mind. In fact, I think my first experience of DeepFUN as a solitairy meditation was during a game of Solitaire. And certainly the exploration of the Inner Playground - is a meditation-and-a-half.
But the social phenomenon is indeed the big focus, and the fact that we can take the energy and depth of meditation and practice it in a social environment is perhaps one of the most attractive (to me) aspects of DeepFUN as meditation. To play and be aware of play, to be actively engaged in, for example, searching for the Prui - and, at the same time to be practicing awareness of the play between Silly and Serious, between searching and being found, between yourself and the other - well it deliciously deepens the fun that I hope to share with this world in my lifetime.
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