[MD] The Leela of self-knowledge

[Squonkriff at aol.com]

"Chutes and Ladders, the popular children’s game, is derived  from the 
ancient Hindu game Leela, or Snakes and Arrows, which charts the ups  and downs of 
the soul’s path toward reunion with the Infinite. Snakes and Arrows  was 
designed by the seers and saints of India as a tool for understanding the  
relationship of the individual self to the Absolute Self. For thousands of years  the 
72 spaces on this game board have enabled players to chart the paths that  
represent the course of their lives. Each space represents a virtue or a vice,  an 
aspect of consciousness, or a plane of reality and is accompanied by a  
commentary explaining its meaning. The player’s progress on the board is  dictated 
by the fall of a die corresponding to the forces of karma. Repeated  
encounters with the snakes and arrows on the board reveal the full meaning of  the 
commentaries and can give shape to habitual patterns of the player,  resulting in 
greater self-understanding and even a gradual detachment from the  ego’s 
delusions."
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It occurs to me the game 'Snakes and Arrows' is a good way of  describing 
coherence as the interplay between sq and DQ:
1. The Arrow is coherence itself because it is the 'sweet-spot'  life aims at.
2. The Snake is Chaos of destructive collapse of sustaining  patterns.
3. Stasis is a habitual pattern or circle going nowhere within  the game.
 
Love,
Mark