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I'd like to see a list of games the Buddha would play, as I don't think it would contain anything unless the game somehow pertained to discernment of the nature
by kpmcc 5y ago
I'd like to see a list of games the Buddha would play, as I don't think it would contain anything unless the game somehow pertained to discernment of the nature of suffering or the extinction of the cycle of rebirth.
- saargrin 5y agoso Dark Souls basically
- Trasmatta 5y agoYeah, that's the first one that came to mind. Sekiro as well, which explicitly has Buddhist themes and imagery too. I wouldn't say it's specifically a Buddhist game, but it absolutely has the themes of life, rebirth, and suffering.
- lelandfe 5y agoPlanescape: Torment would fit nicely as well
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoOuter Wilds sounds kinda close actually. With the new DLC I think it might be the best game I've ever played.
- ycombinete 5y agoI cannot play it for longer than 10 minutes without feeling motion sickness
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoThat's a shame. You could try playing it in a smaller window or on a smaller TV I suppose.
- rendall 5y agoOr VR. Just, immersion therapy.
- rpdillon 5y agoOuter Wilds is a gem! Very much looking forward to release on Switch, though it seems to have been delayed, since it was supposed to have been released this month. Haven't played the DLC, but I'm looking forward to it sometime in 2022!
- zyemuzu 5y agoI'm playing Returnal at the moment and I'm sure Buddha would have found it pretty rad.
- selimthegrim 5y agoCosmology of Kyoto resurrects you a bunch of times too
- mumblemumble 5y agoSounds like Monopoly to me.
- actually_a_dog 5y agoMonopoly is essentially a stationary Markov process. Decisions are so simple and clear that they essentially don’t matter to this characterization. I doubt the Buddha would find much of the nature of suffering in what is essentially a deterministic mathematical process. Any suffering created by playing Monopoly is really coming from within the players themselves. But, we can say that about most suffering, so there is no reason to play Monopoly to begin with, if all you desire is to know the nature of suffering....
- nabla9 5y agoThose would be games you play with your mind in deep concentration. In Buddhism deep concentration is tool not a goal itself. The bliss you get from deep concentration was the only distraction that can be beneficial. Doing some specific exercises is sometimes called as "games". Any flow state you can get into with games is not very interesting compared to fiddling with your own mind.
- shard 5y agoNumber 2 on the list would seem to contradict that.
- selimthegrim 5y ago[Cosmology of Kyoto]: You rang?
- jazzyjackson 5y agosnakes and ladders seems a candidate, if it dates back that far. “The game was popular in ancient India by the name Moksha Patam. It was also associated with traditional Hindu philosophy contrasting karma and kama, or destiny and desire. It emphasized destiny, as opposed to games such as pachisi, which focused on life as a mixture of skill (free will) and luck.” … “ The morality lesson of the game was that a person can attain salvation (Moksha) through doing good, whereas by doing evil one will be reborn as lower forms of life. The number of ladders was less than the number of snakes as a reminder that a path of good is much more difficult to tread than a path of sins. Presumably, reaching the last square (number 100) represented the attainment of Moksha (spiritual liberation).” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_and_ladders https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_and_ladders
- I-can-explain 5y agoI think that would be eliminated by rule 3: "Games of marking diagrams on the floor such that the player can only walk on certain places" since the pieces are really just representations of the player.