As I mentioned a couple posts ago, I’ve been getting hooked (pun certainly intended) on bowling a bit lately. It’s been sort of a interesting experience for me, because historically I have loathed most sports.<\/p>\n
As I get further into it – and, bear in mind, I’ve only been doing it for two weeks – I’m noticing more and more how often my strikes coincide with a detached, dissociative, almost completely blank mind.\u00a0 I suspect this is what the Zenpeople are trying to acheive with meditation, and I can really see the appeal.<\/p>\n
I think I’m getting better at attaining this state – I still can go entire games without obtaining it, but it’s also becoming more and more common for me to have a game in which I bowl a significant portion of the game in this mindset.<\/p>\n
There must be a name for this – I’m sure thousands of people have written about the experience – but I’m not really sure what it would be. I haven’t get put ‘bowling meditation’ or ‘bowling zen’ into google – perhaps I’ll try that and see if anything comes back.<\/p>\n
I always thought the point of sports was to not think, but it never occured to me that not thinking could be so much fun..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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