Our Mind Moves
“Two monks were arguing about a flag. One said: ‘The flag is moving.’ The other said: ‘The wind is moving.’ The sixth patriarch happened to be passing by. He told them: ‘Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving.’” The moral of the movement story is that once we focus on movement, we become distracted from the truth. We don’t move. Our mind moves… or does it?
’The wind, the flag, and their minds move.
They each have the same understanding.
However, when their mouths open
All are wrong.’
Each monk focused on movement as if it was the dominant characteristic of their query. Even the Mind-is-moving monk was wrong, because he played their movement ‘game’. He was correct, right up and until the point he spoke. Then, he too, was immediately wrong.
Once subjectivity is spoken, it nullifies the speaker. Which, is why I stopped teaching movement long ago. We do have a consensus. There is an objective ‘first thing’. However, if shared, it becomes invalid. That thing is Adaptation.
Therefore, any discussion of a commonality post-thought is folly, because thought is the commonality. Hence, our only pure, objective expression of the divine, individual, golf swing thought-to-action is silent, subjective adaptation to a common set-up philosophy.
Open your stance, and play golf.
John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy
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