ABSTRACT
In a world that seems to determine people's lives, Zen and most humanistic therapies assert the possibility of achieving liberation from the internal and external chains that would bind them. Furthermore, Zen paradoxically says this can be achieved by realising that people are not separate from the rest of the universe; the ego which impoverishes both their pinball and their lives. Technically, most of peoples have more than enough information to control their lives, but it is only as they learn to realise their oneness with their environment that they discover that the small choices they make at each moment can come together into a pattern of life of their own choosing. In accepting the game, and knowing that it will end some time, people can play their game at their highest level of skill, and then, when the time comes, withdraw and leave the table to others.
