Favorite saying

• "There was a Zen master, he was watching somebody in a competition, archery, and a man trying very hard to win this competition but he just couldn’t make it. And then somebody asked the Zen master, “What’s he doing wrong?” And the Zen master said, “His need to win drains him of power.” And so his need to win, some future, he wants to have some future moment where he is going to be fulfilled. So his attention is not totally in the now. So, the now, where all power resides, this power that resides in the now cannot flow then into what you are doing. The openness isn’t there. Because to have mastery in any endeavor, whatever it is, you need to be total in what you do. That’s what athletes know, the great ones, and when they enter that, they call that the zone-focus and be 100% present."