As a person who loves games and has some experience of mindfullness/zen meditation: Games are about reasoning and reacting to external stimuli. Meditation usua

As a person who loves games and has some experience of mindfullness/zen meditation: Games are about reasoning and reacting to external stimuli. Meditation usually involves more passive observation of self's inner self. To put it another way - games are dissociative, while meditation (the mindfulness kind anyway) aims to be anti-dissociative. One more point of view: I can play a game hours without being aware of the time that has gone by. When meditating I'm aware of each breath I take. I have no vocabulary to exactly specify how games and meditation are different - I can only state that the experience is different.