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Fertile Void, Why We Play Golf

Golf is an exercise in perspective:
every shot requires that you estimate 
where you are in relation to the target.
Enough golf springs you free.
Free from what?
From your attachment to any point.
Some part of your mind begins to sense
the relativity of things and the fertile void.
It is believed that somehow, by some unconscious process,
the constant exercise of the sense of perspective required in golf
sends a message through to our higher centers that
you can never be in the same place twice in relation to the target.
Every moment in the course, like every moment in life,
is to some degree unique and unrepeatable.
And from that realization the mind begins to grope,
perhaps unconsciously, for some secure place that
never requires a final standpoint in this always shifting world.
The mystics have described such a place, or such a no-place,
and have called it by names like
the God, the Brahman or the Fertile Void.

Such exercises in perspective, golfing, are a good thing
for nothing seems satisfying to us short of that.
Not that we golfers are against a sense of duty
and doing our work in the world. Far from it.
But part of our human duty is
is to bring Being into higher definition and
not to save it any more for the Judgement Day.

from the book, "Golf in the Kingdom"
by Michael Murphy
slightly paraphrased by me.
 

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