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For the shake of this article allow me to focus on those called mind and strategy games. There, usually, chess rules. It is indeed a magnificent game as long as ancient.

A small prologue

I enjoy playing chess, but usually I have no partners interested in playing so. Last time it was in summer where I had some interesting encounters.

But, surprisingly, a new opportunity arose. I like excercise and attend a gym. The gymnast there started a conversation about how he liked to play chess but his only opponent so far was the computer. We had some discussion and eventually we arranged a game this Saturday. Today. So, after doing our exercises we got a snack and setup a chess match.

The game was very interesting and we both had many opportunities to win and loose in various phases of it. At some point I was close to win, but I missed something and I didn’t.

So, we ended the game and said we will arrange another one next Saturday.

The interesting part for me came after that

What did I noticed was this. All the time during the game I was there to fight inside me not letting any thoughts buzz in my mind. I managed to be clear most of the time. Yet, after leaving the building I wondered what was the lesson of this chess match. And there it stroke me!

All the time during the game I was trying to dissolve any negative thoughts related to conquering my game partner, or praying that he did not see my plans, or next move, or to be careless so for me to win. Thoughts like that also came through – in a low volume but they did came – and I destroyed those thoughts and kept playing.

So, I found out how most of us usually play a game. Isn’t there a winner/looser situation? Where the winner is the obvious winner and the looser the same? But how interesting would a game be if participants “prayed” for each other to be able to see instead of getting blind. To be more wise instead of hopping to get a “stupidity attack”. To be more careful instead of careless. And, getting more extreme here, to pray that your game partner, get more wise during the game.

Don’t you think this could add up to the quality of the game and send it to a new level? Just imagine it. Both players, praying inside them: “…Please let him be more wise and better and help him be more clear and see the secret plans I make, and my bluff…”.

Now take this up and search how actually do we start to play a game with others or even with a computer. Don’t we put the “auto pilot” into “destroy him, make him loose, trap him, disorientate him, fight him, eliminate him”, or “I have to win no matter what, or it is either him/her or me, or eat my dust, and such”.

Yet what is the outcome of this. When we win, we feel good for a while until the next match where we may loose. When we loose we feel depressed until the next match where we may win. And around and so forth. Yet where is the fun in this way of acting? Really?

I find that if we play a what seems innocent game like chess and we pray inside us for negative things for the other opponent, in order for us to simply win, eventually we loose. As we miss the lesson of the game. Each activity in our life is either to teach us something. It doesn’t exist by chance. In fact, we need to pray for others to get better than us. This way we all evolve and help others evolve.

But isn’t also the same way we act in our daily life? In business, school, gym, wife, kids, friends, cars. Everywhere. How many emotions get into there? Let’s start from this recreational type of life. Games with others. Like chess.

What do you think?

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