Where is Center?

When bending to the game of golf is one bowing to the teacher? Haven't you heard the golf ball say, "If you stay quiet within I'll travel truer without?"

What direction is the grip end of the golf club pointing as golfers address the ball? Is it not the belly? Where is "chi" which is an expression of eastern energy? Does the belly not move with the hands and the golf club? What is the unifying force of any total swing, but breath energy and the weapon of choice?

In golf, is it not so that the ball is quiet, and the terrain irregular, unlike most games where the playing field is flat and the ball in motion; soccer, tennis, baseball, and football being examples? Golf could be a total training calibration of golf shot diversity in practice and play, because golf s calibration includes trajectory, distance, and swing plane factors that mimic golf course variables. However, movement, feeling, and thought blend with angle totally, for good reason; which is a golf course s challenge. This is golf s uneven lie challenge for golfers at all golf courses. However, the 15% flat lie of the game of golf is practiced in excess of the variable lie angle s 85%. This condition therefore, needs to be understood totally as variable lie angle, which is an uneducated eighty-five percent of golf practice!

Practitioner characteristics in either Martial Arts or golf, in the dojo or the golf range, ones katas or fourteen golf club weaponry, the choice to practice and train are on flat surfaces, but the real experience of either/or is unlike their modified training location. It's time to embrace life s agenda totally: the known, unknown, and unknowable. How can the ocean be separate from the wave? Is it not so that the empi in karate is the enforcer of the other side? If we do not know the 'center' how could we establish yin/yang forces that move freely? Again, how can the ocean be separate from the wave?

Some of us have unwavering faith in traditional wisdom that proclaims, "By mastering one, you may master all." Like in yoga, one chooses one asana and practice until one has mastered it, arranging the rest of their disciplines simply to support this goal. Therefore, practice the pitching wedge on 'crooked lies'. Know the terrain. Know your center. Follow the breath. Find stability in both body and mind.

Will you ask, "How can I grow the game of golf?" As an antidote to profit maximizing business (PMB), socially responsible business (SB) can operate in the same market spaces competing with one another for market share on the new Wedge Course. The Short Game area can fit a single golf club to a poor human being-generating a unity of self and community. Please join in an effort of universal growth-find center, play golf, "Be the ball" and strike the wedge.

On this note, the shortest day, December 21, 2014, this is what has occurred, and is perfectly said from the Bhagavad-Gita, "The time was very short, and naturally Sukadeva Gosvami could have gone directly to the Tenth Canto to make a shortcut of the whole thing, as generally done by professional reciters".....

So it is in the art form golf, instead of proceeding systematically, so that both future readers and hearers might take lessons from the example of the procedure of variable lie angle, those in control seek repetition of the flat lie, without acceptance of the uneven lie in its constant change only on the golf course. Hence, 'a shortcut!' Practice fifteen percent of golf's flat lies, 100% of the time! Then, unwisely accept confrontation from uneven lies the remainder of the time, knowing little about "variable lie angle." This is the same as the putting dilemma: whether to "anchor or not to anchor," but not realizing an education is manifest in the act of training with the Putting Rod, an anchor system, yet one that studies and understands by sharing the value of the anchor's pros and cons, keeping the Rules of golf in tact (no mechanical aid-no anchoring). Why not gain a disciplined arc putting stroke through 'anchored' training? Likewise, why not calibrate one's golf shot with variable lie angle, and create a platform for Social Business?

Is it a gradual process of service and inquiries, or a poor fund of knowledge that one does not know variable lie angle calibration? Why stay uneducated in uneven lies, a diverse system where nothing is the same? Calibration on variable lie angle is the whole human beings center of thought, feeling, and movement. Thought is found everywhere. Feeling is found everywhere. Movement is found everywhere. How can I transcend that which I have never mastered? What if one can use the belly as an important gateway to the whole of yourself, your true center? What if one's use of power and ego associated with this center stem from a lack of understanding, appreciation and training? What if the heart of love and the heart of power are one...