Cosmologia Ludica
Cosmologia Ludica (trans. Play Cosmology), is a whimsical philosophical investigation and prayerbook to “divine play” – defined as joyful listening and responding to the unknown without craving or aversion. When we are able to distance ourselves from the egoic rush felt in most popular games and sports, then, divine play finds us, in the soft shaking of leaves on branches, in the emotions felt in our bodies as we pass through our busy days, in the beautiful conversations that ensue with others, in the vibrant dance of music, in the shared resonance of our moving bodies as we tumble against each other. What kind of listening and responding to the unknown will bring you to your deepest and highest joy? What divine game will you play? This is one of the essential questions of life. The God of Play is asking it of you.https://www.blurb.com/b/11140542-cosmologia-ludica
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 24
- Years Active
- 2023
Episode 24: Finding Divine Play: A Vipassana Story
At first it may seem unclear how Vipassana meditation is connected to divine play. However, upon arriving at the conclusion of this story its connection becomes quite clear. This manuscript represent…
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Fri 08 Sep 2023
Episode 23: Infinite and Finite Games, An Exegesis
James Carse wrote a definitive book on play called, “Finite and Infinite Games.” The book explains how life is composed of two differ- ent kinds of games – finite and infinite. The basic difference b…
00:51:07 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
Episode 22: A Meditation for Thinking with Others
The following is an extract taken from a meditative play manual. In the complete manuscript, this manual describes meditations for various forms of play: musical, imagistic, felt, embodied. This part…
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Fri 08 Sep 2023
Episode 21: Amidah for Divine Play
The Amidah (Hebrew: העמידה) is one of the most important prayers in Jewish liturgy. It is sometimes simply called hatefila (התפילה) or the prayer. This text represents a highly revised version of the…
00:14:47 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
Episode 20: Resistances: The Darkest Darkness
Inside of you lies your darkest darkness – a darkness even greater than fear. Fear is typically some sort of external threat, some- thing that may end your life, or a thing that brings about great to…
00:17:16 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
Episode 19: Resistances: Darkness
Darkness is upon me. It is here, in the room. Everything is weighty and hard. So weighty, so hard, so challenging. Such weight and heaviness. Heavy heavy heavy. Oh God of Play, where are you? Where h…
00:15:39 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
Episode 18: Resistances: Combat
Say I enter into play with a plan – to win, to prove that capitalism is evil, to play in A minor, to eliminate a disease, to cut down a tree. In each of these, divine play is cut off, negated, and no…
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Fri 08 Sep 2023
Episode 17: Resistances: Certainty
You are certain. You say something and what you say has a tone of absolute finality. “Oh actually this is the way things are.” How can one play with such certainty? Play is responsiveness. So then wh…
00:05:55 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
Episode 16: Resistances: Errors
In divine play everything bad or problematic is integrated into the play – every mistake, error, and mess up. But what happens when the mistake blurs one’s entire vision? What happens when we are liv…
00:07:29 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
Episode 15: Resistances: Worry
How to play when there are thousand-fold worries? How to play when [fill in the blank]? When I might get stuck? When I am being graded and evaluated and judged? When my teacher doesn’t care about me?…
00:08:13 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
Episode 14: Resistances: Preamble
Oh God of Play, despite all the words of praise and dedication uttered to you, there are many instances where I cannot find you, where I cannot worship you, where you are lost to me. There are so ver…
00:06:00 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
Episode 13: Experimentation: An Integration
Oh God of Experimentation, what are you really? Why do I desire you? What is your place in my heart? Why you? What are you doing? What is your purpose? What is your calling? Is it that you want me to…
00:24:35 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
Episode 12: Experimentation: A Jealous God?
Oh dearest God of Play, I must confess – there is another God in my heart. I am not a fully devoted play worshipper. Who and what is this God, you ask? Are we related? I’m not quite sure, for this Go…
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Fri 08 Sep 2023
Episode 11: Play's Container Part 2
Oh divine Play, how much do I love your rules! How much do I love your structure – the boundary, the container, the holder, the vessel, the cup that holds the liquid! I love analyzing it, playing wit…
00:14:41 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
Episode 10: Play's Container Part 1
If play is a liquid, we have so far only examined the chemical com- position and molecular weight of the liquid itself – its touch, smell and color. But we have not yet begun to examine how this liqu…
00:12:38 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
Episode 9: Thought-Play: One Entry-Point Into Worship
Oh God of Play, I have by now uttered so many words to describe you, to explain your boundaries and general guiding principles, to show why you are needed, to guide others into you and not the profan…
00:32:48 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
Episode 8: Profane Play
What is this profane play that I keep speaking of? You, dear reader, dearest play worshipper, must know of this most of all lest you get lost on your path towards divine worship. Most of the things w…
00:18:12 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
Episode 7: Which Game?
And another question rises to your lips, dear reader, as you per- haps now consider more fully the possibility of divine play worship. This question is another of The God of Play’s essential question…
00:07:25 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
Episode 6: Why Play?
And so reader (potential play worshipper), you ask, why play? And I say back to you, why breath? Why circulate blood? Why perform any of our life functions? And you reply, but play is not a necessary…
00:12:55 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
Episode 5: Play's Boundaries
And so, God of Play, let us now recount and respeak your teachings. You are grounded in listening and response. This is your communicative aspect – how you move and operate. Then there is an aspect o…
00:08:58 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
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