Flash games and meditation?
Why not! But not exactly.
THE Game
This game below is called Chakré Boudha (Chakra Buddha). It is a game in Kadokado.com, a flash based online gaming website. They have clans and missions and such.
It is basically a game of concentration where you have to click on the game screen when a circle appears on any of the chakra points (colored dots). Game rules below:
The Vipassana technique
As mentioned in my previous post, we learned the Vipassana meditation technique on day 4.
In Vipassana, the attention is moved throughout the body. Starting from the top of the head, to the tips of the toes. And back again.
So, when we were given the instructions on how to do Vipassana meditation, the first thing that came to my mind was, as you may have already guessed, Chakra Buddha.
If you watch the video below, you can see the “energy dissipating” with time. Although this is not the concept in Vipassana meditation, the visualisation of this energy flowing down is just like the technique of scanning the body from the top of the head to the tips of the toes.
And as you move down along your body, you can also imagine the chakra points that are hit. Chakras are not really a big topic in Vipassana since the technique tends to be more of the physical aspect, or the gross body. Yet we can’t dismiss it completely, in my opinion.
Mastery of the Mind
Playing the game requires tremendous concentration on those chakra points. You need to click right when the circle appears. Too late and the points are lower. Not to mention, you also need to be attentive/aware when a triangle appears instead of circle.
Just like in meditation, or in life in general, you need to master the mind to attain samadhi. You need to be able to steady the mind, have complete control of the mind – conscious and the subconscious.
You can learn this through the techniques of Anapana and Vipassana.
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