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Sounds dangerously powerful. If I put myself into relaxation state, and going thru a script of auto-suggestions. Would that count as self-hypnosis? What are the proper procedures? What are the key elements to make it work? Thanks.

Yes, the book is really about practical poker rules and it is going to be tricky to combine trading and meditation anyway. I think all the posts about meditation are just for the sake of interests in meditation. But I do found the mindsets required are similar in both trading and meditation...

If there is awareness, then it is meditation. If your mind is not AWARE of what's going on then even if you are meditating in a shrine room, then you are probably not meditating at those time you lost your awareness. The real difficult thing for me in the beginning is having preconceived idea...

"POKER RULE#7: Regard patience as a central pillar of your game and strategy... Don't assign it a secondary or lesser role..." Mark Weinstein interviewed in Market Wizards by Jack Schwager: "Although the cheetah is the fastest animal in the world and can catch any animal on the plains, it...

Thanks again. Marty Schwartz has a checklist item: "Do I really want to have this position? Do I really want to win with this?" I am going to put yours on my checklist.

Hi Ursa, In case you ever run into fuzziness and blackboxes from the newer materials, see if going back to the traditional source helps. You don't have to ever be a Buddhist to study this stuff. It was written for everybody. It might take more time to dig through it to find what you want...

"POKER RULE#6: To win at poker you must embrace the idea of breaking even... A distaste for breaking even can lead us into the valley of pressing and overplaying and other wrongful activity." We have to have a positive mindset for the long run. But one-sided expectation for a short...

Sorry, I can't help repeating myself... People practice tranquility meditation is indeed to let the mind settle on its own accord. I know a still tranquil mind is nice and cool but the nature of thought and stillness (non-thought) are not different and practitioner should not accept one and...

Thanks. You are right. In Buddhism, there are many schools of thoughts suitable for different people and many intellectual debates about this by the great masters... there are progressive stages of explainations about "emptiness." But I choose to simplify and take a safer stand while posting...

It's every practitioner's dream to integrate the spiritual practice into his or her daily endeavors. Just for fun, I have post a mystical life story of one of the eight-four siddhas lived in the eighth to eleventh centuries India - Tandhepa, 'the Dice-player.' Translated from Tibetan version...

I am taking dbphoenix's advice to slow down the posting of the rules so that more people can contribute in their leisure. All suggestions are welcomed. Please share more of your trading experiences and thoughts. Thank you.

I just want to get some of my sources straight: "H.A.L.T. (Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired)" "If you can't play with a smile, don't play at all." --- "Poker : The Real Deal" by Phil Gordon, Jonathan Grotenstein "Precision = Speed" --- Richard Machowicz

Typo: A Buddhist principle like Mahamudra ("the Great Seal of a King") is really all pervasive because the mind is all pervasive. The result of Mahahmudra is freedom from hope and fear (acceptance and rejection). "POKER RULE#5: Sometimes others get to play and you don't... But the most...

"POKER RULE #4: Don't feel like a martyr when folding. Don't start feeling self-righteous about all this folding you are doing... as if now it owes you (because you've b een so good, so disciplined, so patient...). This is a trap... As you keep folding, you must feel neutral about it."...

Good stuff!

Typo in my first post: "Buddhist scriptures explained how we are like people stricken with proverty living in a house not knowing there are immeasurable treasures buried underneath." Everest, thank you for sharing. As Ursa mentioned, I think they have a book on this type of peak...

Actually the book is about poker rules with an eastern twist. It is less about Zen. I have not read the archery book. I did study Zen Buddhism a little but I felt it gets a little fuzzy as I get more into it so I ended up with Tibetan Buddhism later in life. Anyway the book is not about...

I have started a new thread "Zen and the Art of Trading" for open discussions on my favorite book "Zen and the Art of Poker" written by Larry W. Phillips and how to apply his poker rules to trading. Your inputs are most welcomed.

I am starting a new thread to discuss the book "Zen and the Art of Poker" written by Larry W. Phillips. Some of you might have read my thread on Marty Schwartz where I post highlights on parts of his book "Pit Bull." This is not going to be the same deal. I hope there will be open...

I think I am going to stop for a while at this point and focus on my trading and other things. It has been fun. I thank you all for your input. I will try to reply any post... I hope this thread has been helpful in studying parts of Martin Schwartz's great book "Pit Bull - Lessons from...