the game

A menu from which one chooses one’s life focus has been famously derived from consideration of the types of population that are present at the games of ancient Greece: those seeking glory and honor, those seeking gain and profit, and those detached few seeking to understand the entire process. Each of us, I perceive, contains elements of all three and goes about each day in pursuit of each. 

I add a fourth item to the the menu, the menu itself. We are not just things, objects, isolated particles worshipping this personal trinity of glory, gain, and knowledge. We are in relationship. Though we like to think of ourselves as sovereign, we exist only as an interrelating, a continuous dynamic of ebb and flow with all that is.

We are not arriving at the game. We are the game personifying.

As the game personifying, we have five deep ways of moving. We can move toward. We can move away. We can move against. We can move with. We can move as. These are the five moves of Wu Chi Ku. Advance, Withdraw. Force. Dance. Merge.