Huggybear's Stories
August 23-29 Edition
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The Authentic Swing of
Bagger Vance
I am a young man in search of meaning. Yet I know I am more
than who I am. I came here to find my way back. The most profound revelations
that transformed my life came from within. I had it all, all this time, but I have
been blinded by illusions. I thought I needed to learn, until I realized that
all I had to do is to remember.The real me transcends time and space. My
greatest agonies came from forgetting my true nature. This is what happened to
Rannulph Junah as he competes in the game that will define him forever.
"Junah's problem is
simple," says his caddie, Bagger Vance. "He thinks he is Junah."
I have read more books that a lot
of men in their lifetime, though only a few have moved me to the core of my
being. One is The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield (Harper Torch,
NY). I identified with Junah, and never have I found a character as true and
mesmerizing as Bagger Vance.
"This battle, like Reality
itself, takes place in a higher plane," says Bagger. "That higher
battle is the one you are losing, Junah. It is why you are losing here."
Spiritual Journey.
Junah was forced to join the
historic match between golf legends Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen to bring honor
to his hometown. As a testament of hope at the height of the Depression, the
game was held on May 1931 in the new course built in Krewe Island in Georgia.
Junah is a war hero and scion of one of the most revered families in the South,
but he is tormented by his own private demons.
His search for inner peace is a
mirror to my own quest for enlightenment. Junah had traveled to Tibet and India
on a spiritual journey, seeking that elusive Oneness with the Source of All
Life. I have felt that ephemeral sense when I dive alone deep in the sea.
"All sport is holy, for it
embodies the objectified search for the subjective experience of yoga, meaning
union, union with the divine," says Bagger. Golf "more closely
mirrors the Reality of the way to Self-realization."
(To Be Continued)
Seeing The Field
From The Legend Of
Bagger Vance movie
2 comments:
“The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?” ~ Bhagavad Gita
"Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do." ~ Bhagavad Gita
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