8. The Game of Life - Part 2 Welcome back to the mindfulness for everyday life workshop. In this episode, I'm going to talk about some of the exercises and meditation techniques that work well with understanding the game of life. First, I want to address a common misconception when it comes to meditation. We often think of meditation as a form of escapism. [00:00:34] And meditation is not a form of escapism. That is to say, if I'm experiencing life in this way, and I use meditation as a way of going and escaping my day to day life to some other way of life, it's not beneficial because when I leave the cave in the mountains, or when I leave the closet in my room where I've been practicing, I go back to the very thing I've been running from, which is every day, ordinary life. [00:01:01] So meditation is not a form of escapism. It won't be beneficial if it's treated as a form of escapism. And instead it's a way to be more skillful with playing the game of life just as it is. And ...