Healing in D&D doesn't work the same as in video games, you can't really outheal the damage. Time in combat slows way down to handle the minutia, but most combats only last 2 to 4 rounds (cycles through all the PCs and NPCs). Individual game sessions really vary in the amount of combat, some can be almost all combat while other times games can go a few sessions with little to no combat. I suspect the nature of clips vs complete sessions favors the combat, I'd say maybe 1/3 to 1/4 of their gameplay is combat, the majority is exploration and RP.
Relaxation is important, energy is also important. Relaxation can allow energy to flow unimpeded, but if the energy is not there, relaxation is useless. Energy being a big issue for me, I have found this to be true. Therefore it is necessary to arouse energy in some way if it is absent.
A useful supplementary practice can be derived from energy healing practices, Reiki in particular in my case. This discipline envisions energy as entering the body through the crown chakra - an idea which supplies a solid focal point for the practice. Without a focal point, it is very difficult to maintain concentration in the face of the inevitable distractions, but with a focal point the practice becomes pleasurable and difficulties begin to fall away.
The term 'martial arts' is a convenient place marker, but it does not actually define the practices. The practices are what you make of them.
@Jeroen
I agree and would only add that all machinations of the mind, photon-supported or not, will result in disease & suffering, to the degree that attachments are developed to them.
My own comprehension is foggiest about this whenever my mind is dominating over my other sense gates inputs.. and clearest about it when my mind resides in a more collegial relationship with its fellow sense gates. Each new nanosecond, another choice between relative fog or clarity.
It occurred to me yesterday that not only games are virtual environments, but so are smartphones, tablets and computers. A web browser is a virtual environment, a forum is a virtual environment. Looked at it that way I still spend a lot of my time on virtual environments. Especially if you also add reading, which I mostly do on my iPad.
So I was wondering how this speaks to spiritual practice. If I think of other things to do, I could try my hand at mindful gardening, or some form of volunteering, probably helping out some spiritual organisation. I could start going for regular walks in the woods. Or I could start outdoor swimming. I wonder if I would be happier, more joyful, more free…
Today I’m coming to the conclusion that most of my interactions on forums are very much about comfort and fellowship, and not so much about learning about the spiritual life, that it is more about knowing that I have an effect on the world.
Maybe I should try a week’s digital detox, just to see whether I miss it.
While this understanding may even be popular, I will argue that it is wrong and only reinforces samsara-citta.
The first point of error is the belief in a conventional self that you could hold accountable. Convetional truth is "saṁvṛti-satya" in Sanskrit. This term comes from the root "saṁvṛt," which means "to cover" or "to conceal." In this context, it can imply something that is enveloped, hidden, or conventional. Thus, there is no conventional existing self; a self exists only in the minds of samsaric beings, but not in the luminous minds of enlightened beings.
Beings create their own suffering out of their ignorance. Karma cannot be explained without the context of the twelve nidanas. The first is ignorance. Both Vasubandhu and Nagarjuna somehow agree about this in their Thirty Verses and Sixty Verses, respectively.
So instead of reinforcing the actual cause of suffering by clinging to the subjective and objective, try to focus only on practicing equanimity and luminosity.
@pegembara
Indeed, just as we stumble as we travel along the path we have chosen, we get back up, wiser and continue. Just as has been said, "When you carry the lantern, lighting the path for others, your lantern also lights the path for you."
Let us carry our lanterns humbly and with purpose.
Peace to you
Peace to all
Exactly so @Lionduck
I am glad you have never changed your name, that I am aware of. Being simple minded, if people change their name every 10 minute or twice in ten years, I get confused. Same with avatars (personalised logos).
NA-MU-MYO-HO-REN-GE-KYO
as the Nichiren say.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namu_Myōhō_Renge_Kyō