About Golfing Zen: This is the third in a continuing series of short essays dealing with the application of Eastern spiritual philosophy to your golf game.
The surface intent is that, as you apply the ideas, your golf and your enjoyment of the game will grow. However there is also an underlying motive: as you are able to see gains on the course, youll then be moved to alter your approach to life as well.
Todays Topic: You Already Know
The fundamental objective of Eastern spiritualism is enlightenment, a complex idea, sometimes referred to as waking up, or recovering from the illusion.
The illusion again simplifying is the illusion of separation, of being something or someone distinct from, separate from, everything else that we see and experience. Remember, Easterners see reality as being one universal entity out of which everything emerges.
We are born into the illusion, and the search is to recover what we always knew: our true nature as an integral part of the universal consciousness. We already knew it were trying to remember!
So how does that relate to golf?
I would maintain that in a very similar way we already know what...