To observe as well as to listen requires a quality of attention in which thought stops running, and without goals. However we only seem to function through challenges and targets. Sport is a good example. In this activity we set ourselves goals in order to surpass ourselves. We have a certain image of what we would like to accomplish and become, so we work on ourselves in order to become what we are not. Out of this gap, contradiction and conflict are born. Then there are the physical efforts, pain and violence.
Sport also generates disappointment, self-judgment and psychological injuries : having failed, not being up to it... Then comes competition and the need to measure, to compare oneself, to defeat one's opponent. It has to do with fighting, victory and defeat and a warlike approach. Wanting to crush your enemy naturally leads to violence.
The real enemy is ourselves, our ego.. So here is the origin of wars, embodied in the so-called values ​​of sport..
Then we make it a religion we preach to our children. The doctrine of sport is an activity that prevents us from thinking, from seeing the current state of our life. And while we wage war, internal conflicts remain. We find pleasure and satisfaction in suffering and self-inflicted violence. Overcoming entails efforts, physical and psychological pain, because in order not to let go and keep the distance, we force, we strive. Self-judgment and guilt justify all suffering.. It is for the good cause we say, it maintains the body healthy.. It's rather masochism in disguise isn't it ? Let's not be afraid of words.
There is also a form of narcissism to work on oneself, to polish oneself, to sculpt one's body, to look at oneself through images, to find oneself beautiful, desirable and virile. There is starification in all that, to look at oneself as in a mirror. Sport is above all an activity of thought, of the ego. We have a lot of sports friends for whom we have the utmost respect so we don't want to hurt anyone through this.
A healthy body does not make a healthy being, far from it. We tend to prioritize the health of the body, not knowing how to maintain that of the spirit. Going to church has nothing to do with it. Seeing with the mind is the domain of distraction. However it is necessary to have a healthy mind in order to have a healthy body (the two are inseparable), with a certain state of order in his life. Without a healthy mind the body starts disfunctioning in the long run. Despite sports activities we come to develop all kinds of symptoms, illnesses, stress, anxiety.
Sport cannot create the overall balance on its own. But it is possible to maintain the health of the body naturally, without violence, without conflicts, and without competition. This is called living, moving, walking, cultivating one's garden, playing with his children, tinkering, sailing, swimming, surfing, golfing without counting the score, for the ride.
As long as we are in something other than measure and competition, without violence, without goals, harmoniously and holistically so to speak. Have we ever considered this approach ? The incessant activity of ants in our lives is the result of endless actions and inattention. We neglect the essential : the perception of what constitutes us. By understanding the whole psychological structure of activity, sport, pain and violence, it is possible to put the house in order, to solve one's problems, and not just move them, to devote the right time necessary for the different aspects of our life, without exaggeration, without imbalance, without violence nor suffering, and with accuracy and precision.
To perceive is to observe attentively first, then to act. The action is no longer of the same nature.
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