In the Ocean of Golf and Life – It’s a Humble Journey
Author – Saji Francis
Edited by Michael Hebron
Golf is so easy yet so difficult.
We make it complicated.
Life too.
Simplify, you will succeed.
Complicate you will suffer.
Golf is a swing.
Success is in your mind.
So is failure.
Golf is wonderful.
It makes you humble.
Down to earth, more patient.
It could even conquer your anger.
Golf is beautiful.
Golf is a swing.
A back swing and a down swing.
It is easy.
Golf is religious.
It is so easy.
Please don’t complicate it.
Golf is graceful.
Accept it and be receptive.
Golf is a science and is artful.
Golf is enjoyable.
And your cells get intoxicated and
You are free
Like the wind.
Golf is exciting.
It is thrilling, it is humbling.
It is rejuvenating.
It is happiness.
Golf is exhilarating.
Don’t get carried away.
Don’t brood over your mistakes.
Don’t curse.
Take your failure like a saint.
Nobody should see your disappointment.
Golf is a swing.
You don’t hit the ball.
You just swing and the
Ball happens to be in your path.
Your club swings
Your upper limbs swing
Your body swings
Your legs don’t.
Golf is a dance.
A club dance.
You move gracefully.
You are the choreographer.
Your shoulders, elbows, wrists, fingers,
Legs feet and belly are dancers.
Practice and dance.
Practice without the ball.
It is a golf dance. It is a club dance.
You learn the moves.
That’s why we like golf.
It is a language.
It is a religion.
It is a way of life.
Don’t attack the holes.
Love them all.
You will be flowering soon.
Smile it will be beautiful.
Tears will roll down of joy.
Golf is science and art.
Art and life.
It is absolutely beautiful.
Dance gracefully with the club
Without the ball in darkness alone.
It will be a treat.
Just dance in darkness with your club.
Relaxation is of the utmost importance
Especially
Your face, hands, forearm then
Bhe fluid
Forget about the distance,
The yardage, the spin,
The roll of that entire sort.
Swing your club away to the
Eternity.
Let us focus on relaxation.
Golf is physical.
Golf is mental.
Golf is spiritual, he said.
People fall in love with golf because
of the green, we think.
You are in the green for couple of hours,
The chlorophyll around you.
the oxygen, the green exhales.
We love golf.
Green is so beautiful.
So soothing,
So relaxing
So therapeutic.
In school we keep on learning.
We think in kindergarten.
We color, then write.
learn about everything.
Then we try to specialize and perfect
Soon we don’t learn anything anymore.
And our brains get stuck.
We become more insecure and
Compete for no reason.
There is no competition for
Being like this.
Let us swing now.
There’s no distance, there is no
competition.
Your arms have to be free like a swing in the park.
This is an important concept.
We are one in the purest
And undivided forms.
We have to seek inside us.
Have to look inside our hearts.
Have to ask who we are,
Then we will be discovered.
Truth changes over time.
The earth was flat then a sphere
Now circling around the sun.
Today’s truth could be tomorrow’s
Ridicule.
Perfection is not absolute.
Argument is senseless.
Nobody wins or loses.
Beautification is salvation.
Detach attachment.
Too much attachment confuses and weakens
your mind, then your body.
Happy are those with less wants.
Wants lead to desires and desires
to unhappiness.
Education is to undo the insecurity of intelligence.
Not to add more insecurity.
Education is not to an end to the means.
It is a means to the end.
It should not be goal oriented.
Then, you will be multidimensional
And enjoy every moment.
And, you are not scared.
You are not insecure.
So, live in the moment and you will be beautiful.
The key is the solid contact.
The club face solid on the ball.
Doesn’t matter how you do it.
On one leg,
On two legs,
One hand,
Two hands,
Upside down,
Whatever.
The contact has to be solid.
If you can learn your swing based on
beauty than distance; you will be
beautiful and the balls will be distant.
Focus on the beauty
Of the swing, not the distance.
Nothing to lose.
Everything to gain.
Be imperfect,
But multifaceted
Be multifacetedly imperfect
Sing, dance, paint,
Create, read, and learn
Imperfectly
And you will be total
And hence perfect
We are capable of
Evolving
Let’s leap
And be imperfect
Life is a gift accept it
And share it, you will be
Blissful.
Accumulation breed insecurity
Insecurity leads to anxiety
And you are constipated
With all the possessions
If you are constipated
You can’t eat, you stop.
Tomorrow’s reality
Yesterdays dream
Love is absolute
An instinct grows
It is in good soil
You will be liberated.
But here, in this moment
Open your windows
Don’t close your doors
Breeze flows free
Mind melts to nothing
Weightless creativity moves
Into you.
You will be free and
Creative, endless
Be here, in this moment.
Future opens to you, visions
Flower, glimpse into future
In the moment, realization reaches.
Be ready, be prepared for today
You cannot prepare for
Tomorrow, too late
You can’t dwell in yesterday
Author – Saji Francis
Edited by Michael Hebron
Golf is so easy yet so difficult.
We make it complicated.
Life too.
Simplify, you will succeed.
Complicate you will suffer.
Golf is a swing.
Success is in your mind.
So is failure.
Golf is wonderful.
It makes you humble.
Down to earth, more patient.
It could even conquer your anger.
Golf is beautiful.
Golf is a swing.
A back swing and a down swing.
It is easy.
Golf is religious.
It is so easy.
Please don’t complicate it.
Golf is graceful.
Accept it and be receptive.
Golf is a science and is artful.
Golf is enjoyable.
And your cells get intoxicated and
You are free
Like the wind.
Golf is exciting.
It is thrilling, it is humbling.
It is rejuvenating.
It is happiness.
Golf is exhilarating.
Don’t get carried away.
Don’t brood over your mistakes.
Don’t curse.
Take your failure like a saint.
Nobody should see your disappointment.
Golf is a swing.
You don’t hit the ball.
You just swing and the
Ball happens to be in your path.
Your club swings
Your upper limbs swing
Your body swings
Your legs don’t.
Golf is a dance.
A club dance.
You move gracefully.
You are the choreographer.
Your shoulders, elbows, wrists, fingers,
Legs feet and belly are dancers.
Practice and dance.
Practice without the ball.
It is a golf dance. It is a club dance.
You learn the moves.
That’s why we like golf.
It is a language.
It is a religion.
It is a way of life.
Don’t attack the holes.
Love them all.
You will be flowering soon.
Smile it will be beautiful.
Tears will roll down of joy.
Golf is science and art.
Art and life.
It is absolutely beautiful.
Dance gracefully with the club
Without the ball in darkness alone.
It will be a treat.
Just dance in darkness with your club.
Relaxation is of the utmost importance
Especially
Your face, hands, forearm then
Bhe fluid
Forget about the distance,
The yardage, the spin,
The roll of that entire sort.
Swing your club away to the
Eternity.
Let us focus on relaxation.
Golf is physical.
Golf is mental.
Golf is spiritual, he said.
People fall in love with golf because
of the green, we think.
You are in the green for couple of hours,
The chlorophyll around you.
the oxygen, the green exhales.
We love golf.
Green is so beautiful.
So soothing,
So relaxing
So therapeutic.
In school we keep on learning.
We think in kindergarten.
We color, then write.
learn about everything.
Then we try to specialize and perfect
Soon we don’t learn anything anymore.
And our brains get stuck.
We become more insecure and
Compete for no reason.
There is no competition for
Being like this.
Let us swing now.
There’s no distance, there is no
competition.
Your arms have to be free like a swing in the park.
This is an important concept.
We are one in the purest
And undivided forms.
We have to seek inside us.
Have to look inside our hearts.
Have to ask who we are,
Then we will be discovered.
Truth changes over time.
The earth was flat then a sphere
Now circling around the sun.
Today’s truth could be tomorrow’s
Ridicule.
Perfection is not absolute.
Argument is senseless.
Nobody wins or loses.
Beautification is salvation.
Detach attachment.
Too much attachment confuses and weakens
your mind, then your body.
Happy are those with less wants.
Wants lead to desires and desires
to unhappiness.
Education is to undo the insecurity of intelligence.
Not to add more insecurity.
Education is not to an end to the means.
It is a means to the end.
It should not be goal oriented.
Then, you will be multidimensional
And enjoy every moment.
And, you are not scared.
You are not insecure.
So, live in the moment and you will be beautiful.
The key is the solid contact.
The club face solid on the ball.
Doesn’t matter how you do it.
On one leg,
On two legs,
One hand,
Two hands,
Upside down,
Whatever.
The contact has to be solid.
If you can learn your swing based on
beauty than distance; you will be
beautiful and the balls will be distant.
Focus on the beauty
Of the swing, not the distance.
Nothing to lose.
Everything to gain.
Be imperfect,
But multifaceted
Be multifacetedly imperfect
Sing, dance, paint,
Create, read, and learn
Imperfectly
And you will be total
And hence perfect
We are capable of
Evolving
Let’s leap
And be imperfect
Life is a gift accept it
And share it, you will be
Blissful.
Accumulation breed insecurity
Insecurity leads to anxiety
And you are constipated
With all the possessions
If you are constipated
You can’t eat, you stop.
Tomorrow’s reality
Yesterdays dream
Love is absolute
An instinct grows
It is in good soil
You will be liberated.
But here, in this moment
Open your windows
Don’t close your doors
Breeze flows free
Mind melts to nothing
Weightless creativity moves
Into you.
You will be free and
Creative, endless
Be here, in this moment.
Future opens to you, visions
Flower, glimpse into future
In the moment, realization reaches.
Be ready, be prepared for today
You cannot prepare for
Tomorrow, too late
You can’t dwell in yesterday
