Rizwan Virk

But if it's easy to master, they're going to play for a little while and then they're going to go.

But if you make it easy to play but difficult to master, that keeps people playing the game.

And so I think if you take this...

view, you can view the whole world, particularly your life and your story, as a series of quests and challenges, things that come up for you that you may or may not be able to achieve the first time around.

Because we have difficulty levels, don't we, in games, right?

Some people have an easier, you know, they want to play the game where life's easy.

Other people want to play the game where life is really tough.

Like actors, when do they win Academy Awards, right?

Tough roles.

Yeah, exactly.

Tough roles, right?

The ones that really suffer typically, too, right?

And, you know, Swami Yogananda and a lot of the Eastern mystics will, you know, say that

suffering is the nature of this world, right?

That's why we're here is to experience this.

But even in the Western traditions, there's a similar idea.

So I started to look up, you know, different traditions in Islam.

In the Quran, there's like a whole series of verses and they say, we have set up this world as a pastime, as a game for you, as a sport, you know.

This world is really, they use this Arabic word, al-gururi, which means a delusion, but it means like an enjoyable delusion, sort of.

Enjoyable in quotes because it depends on what you enjoy, right?