Purpose
Unlike you, the universe has no purpose.
No aim, no goal, no point.
I’m not having a go at it.
I think the universe is a good idea.
I’m in favour of it.
I wouldn’t vote to leave it.
The universe is everything to me.
An unconditional explosion of energy.
Allowing everything there is to appear.
Unlike you, the universe loves everything
For every thing you love about the universe there’s another thing you hate about it.
The universe has no favourites, you do.
The universe loves your misfortune as much as your success, you don’t.
The universe is love. It is unconditional impersonal love, containing and inseparable from everything.
Wherever you are and whatever you apparently find yourself doing, you will notice that it’s always this.
This moment, now.
‘Then’ is just another word for ‘now’ and ‘now’ is a word for whatever appears to be happening.
Whatever appears to be happening cannot be really be known, understood or explained beyond the apparent appearance of it in this moment.
So in Reality Games we play with this.
Life is like a deck of cards in that you can only play the games you know the rules for.
Reality Games shares new rules to play with.
The rules of each card game vary but the cards we play with are always the same. Sometimes the ace that’s the most valuable, at other times it’s the 2, the 9 or the king. Sometimes it’s hearts you want to find in other games you need to get rid of them. What can this teach us about life? Everything, each moment, is like a card you've been dealt. However what it means depends on the rules of the game you’re playing . What are the rules of cards? Well there are no rules of cards because the rules depend on the particular game you’re playing! Alternatively we could say the first rule of cards is to make up the rules. It’s the same with life. Each moment is what it is, just as each card is what it is. The queen of spades is never the 9 of hearts, and a rainy day is never a hot, sunny day or a snowy day. However, the meaning of each thing in life, like the interpretation of cards in a particular card game, depends on the context or the rules of the game we find ourselves playing.
In life we're usually given the rules by others or society. We think there’s just one game and its name is life. But that’s like saying there’s just the one game of cards. There is no ”game of cards” There is a universal deck of playing cards. And there are countless games to be played with them - if you know the rules. Few of us realise there’s more than one set of rules to play with. So we go around seeking only for specific "cards" with fixed meanings because they're the only ones we've learnt are valuable within the rules of the game that we've unconsciously learnt to play and which we unconsciously assume is the only game available. However when we realise the "cards" themselves have no intrinsic value we can find ourselves creating our own games and rules for whatever life deals us.
Q. So I can just change the rules so that everything that happens, every card life deals me, is the one I want?
A. Give it a try! See how it works out for you! This analogy of a card game can help us comprehend why we can’t be perpetually happy. In fact, a card game where all the cards have the same value essentially means they have no value. So, how could you possibly play with them? What we perceive as “good,” “correct,” or “happiness” exists because there’s something else called “bad,” “wrong,” or “suffering.” It’s the difference between getting the card we desire and getting the card we don’t. You can only obtain the card you want if you already have cards you don’t want or if there’s a chance you might get a card you don’t want. Happiness can only be experienced in a world that includes unhappiness.