THE ABOVE DESIRE AND THE BELOW DESIRE

      Consider the arcade game writer.

      After he writes the game, he then plays it.

      If he doesn't like the game, he goes back to writing the game, and
then he starts to play it again.

      In this way he eventually comes up with a game he likes to play.

      The arcade game writer has two desires, the above desire and the
below desire.

      The above desire is what he desires OF the game.

      The below desire is what he desires IN the game.

      While in the game his desire is to shoot the enemy, win the girl,
defeat the evil wizard and run off with the loot.  That's the below
desire.

      While out of the game, he desires a game that will keep his
interest in the play and put a load on his abilities to the max.  That's
the above desire.

     If the game is too easy to play, he will make it harder, if it's
too hard he will make it easier.

      Eventually he will have fine tuned the game so that when he plays
it he loses all interest in tuning the game, and puts all his attention
into the play.

      He forgets he has written the game himself, and that he CAN change
it if he wants to.  HE HAS NO NEED TO CHANGE IT, all his attention is on
winning!

      Notice the desire to play the game takes precedence over the desire
to win the game.

      If he wins too early he loses the play, and that violates his above
desire to play the game.

      If he loses too early, he also loses the play, and that too
violates his above desire to play the game.

      So the above desire to have and play the game is actually somewhat
in opposition to the below desire to win the game, and it is this
tension between the two desires that powers the thrill of the game.

      So life is the same way and you are the arcade game writer and
player.

      Sometimes you play games written by others, and sometimes you play
your own, but you always have access to the writer and the player of any
game unless you think you don't.

      You wouldn't play a game which didn't give you access to both, and
neither would anyone else.

      The game of life is powered by the two desires both operating at
the same time.

      The higher desire is to play a game in the first place, that puts
you in the game.

      The lower desire is to win game, that makes the game move forward.

      Withdraw either desire and the game stops.

      Now if you were outside the game of life, and someone offered life
to you to play, would you jump right into the seat of control and start
playing?

      Or would you tune it back a bit because it's too rough?

      Or perhaps you find it too tame, and you would up the ante a bit
before starting the play.

      WHERE DO YOU STAND RIGHT NOW ON THE GAME OF LIFE?

      That's two questions, you see.

      WHAT IS YOUR DESIRE TO PLAY?

      WHAT IS YOUR DESIRE TO WIN?

      If you can touch both desires at once, you can operate both the
writer and the player in equal measure.  This is pure magic, because the
way out of any game is the way in, thus the way out lies in contacting
YOUR DESIRE TO BE HERE AND PLAY.

      But the power of the desire to be here and play gives you the
ability to play better and win more often!

      Trying to play merely on the desire to win is a downward spiral,
like wet wood, you can light it, but it will never burn on its own.

     People may think that merely wanting to play a game is sufficient
power to be in the game.  But if they think they didn't CHOOSE to enter
the game, if the game chose them, or the circumstances of life threw
them into the game, their play will be tainted by the fact they are
being forced to play a game even if they adore playing it.

     Most people consider that they didn't choose to be born, thus no
matter how good life is to them, life will be tainted by the fact that
they had no choice in the matter.

     A player who is playing a game he thinks he didn't write or choose
to play, EVEN IF IT IS A GAME HE WOULD OTHERWISE WANT TO PLAY, doesn't
have enough power to play the game properly let alone win.

     For the power to play the game comes from the fair chosen decision
to come in and play it.  *THAT* is the power of the Author God.

     Without that power behind you, the game will end up playing you
rather than you playing it.

     You become a ball on the pinball field with everyone else whacking
you around.

     Without the power of choice and desire behind you to play the game,
you will resist and protest that you have to play at all, and winning
will become near impossible, and losing the only way out of the game at
earliest opportunity.

     How well can someone play a game if they don't want to play?

     You can't win a game while trying to back out of it.

     Once you contact the desire to come in and play the game, other's
will be hard pressed to beat you at all.  And those who are playing only
to win will be your balls to whack around as you see fit.

      Once you contact the two desires that power a game, you can tune
them however you wish, including detune them altogether, leave the game,
turn off the arcade and walk away from the console.

      But it's such a good game!

      So no chance.

      Homer

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