In fact, you may already be playing the game in exactly this way. Maybe you meditate, practice mindfulness, and feel very spiritually grounded when you do, and later the ego comes back online and is frustrated to find out that you've run out of coffee. You take a yoga class and feel great, but curse the person that left a scratch on your car when you leave to go home. To become aware of these machinations of the mind without becoming attached to them is a kind of modern middle path.