How many of you reading this are truly present? In the moment? In the now? Having an experience and not just thinking about one. You see thoughts are like clouds that float across the blue sky they arrive and then they go again but most, see a cloud/thought and attach themselves to this idea and it is pritty save to say they are not truly present, you may have felt this in a golf lesson where for some unknown reason you feel like the coach does not really care, I have had this told to me by many pupils who come seeking my advice explaining to me that their old coach had switched off after only 5 mins into the lesson, that's because they are locked into mind, thinking about the dinner they are having that evening or relationship problems, your coach should be with you completely from start to finish, make sure they are.
So remember this you cannot cure something with the same thing that created it, you cannot cure mind with mind (psychologists take note), we have to learn to escape this illusion, we are not talking of an empty mind we are looking at it like an empty container, it is a mind that is fully present, aware and free. When was the last time you played your best golf? Did you have an experience that was like you had left your brain behind in the locker room? Free you mind, free your golf, do not get attached.
Here is a Japanese Koan for you: So you put a baby goose into a bottle and feed it, when the goose has grown to full adult size, you then want to get the goose out of the bottle without hurting the goose or breaking the bottle, how do you get it out?
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