Gaming as a Spiritual Practice
Buddhist Geeks24 Tammi 2011

Gaming as a Spiritual Practice

Leading game designer Jane McGonigal joins guest host Rohan Gunatillake to explore the relationship between games and well-being, and see what clues they might hold for the future of Buddhist practice. Jane starts with a surprising disclose: she is a meditation practitioner and has been studying Buddhism for the last 5 years, since she was a grad student in Berkley. She explains how her work with game design and development ties in with her interest in meditation, explaining the strong overlap between the positive qualities cultivated through good games, and those cultivation through mental training. Rohan proposes that the Buddha’s own story could be likened to a type of epic video game, and building off of that discusses the likelihood of being able to design a game that actively cultivates the 7 factors of awakening—a classic Buddhist list on the qualities that lead to enlightenment. Jane speaks about enlightenment as an “epic win” and maintains that gaming has the very real potential to cultivate the factors of awakening.

Episode Links:

www.JaneMcGonigal.com

Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World ( http://amzn.to/hFADgH )

World Without Oil ( http://www.worldwithoutoil.org )

Superstruct ( http://bit.ly/1MslRdl )

Institute for the Future ( http://www.iftf.org )

www.21awake.com

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