Ogyen Trinley Dorje – The Karmapa Lama, and only senior Buddhist leader recognized by China, Tibet, and India – was recently interviewed during a visit to Delhi, India. There he revealed his penchant for video games.

Well, I view video games as something of an emotional therapy, a mundane level of emotional therapy for me. We all have emotions whether we’re Buddhist practitioners or not, all of us have emotions, happy emotions, sad emotions, displeased emotions and we need to figure out a way to deal with them when they arise. So, for me sometimes it can be a relief, a kind of decompression to just play some video games.

If I’m having some negative thoughts or negative feelings, video games are one way in which I can release that energy in the context of the illusion of the game. I feel better afterwards. The aggression that comes out in the video game satiates whatever desire I might have to express that feeling. For me, that’s very skilful because when I do that I don’t have to go and hit anyone over the head.

That’s pretty freakin’ sweet. The Karmapa Lama plays video games, and loves mindless violence and killing. While obviously not your average 24 year old male, Trinley seems pretty cool.

So, all you out-of-touch old hacks/geezers that claim video games cause all kinds of emotional turmoil and violence, can officially SUCK IT, courtesy of the Karmapa Lama. Because PWNING nOObs is good for you.

I wonder if he’s on Facebook? Maybe we could invite him to our Community Playdate for Modern Warfare 2 on November 15th?