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One could argue about whether or not Buddhist practices are “designed explicitly” to collar and pacify these monkeys, but there’s no question that mindfulness helps you pay attention to your thoughts in a nonattached manner, which often takes the emotional charge out of them, slows down your experience of time, and reconnects you to the present moment. It’s only in the present moment that you can cultivate conscious flow in your life, achieve optimal levels of performance, and experience that exalted place called “the Zone.
The Mindful Athlete
George Mumford and Phil Jackson
Bannon was still worried, though he saw some positives in the Trump-Pence strategy. They were using Pence well, Bannon believed, running him essentially on a circuit of states—at least 23 appearances in Pennsylvania; 25 in Ohio; 22 in North Carolina; 15 in Iowa; 13 in Florida; eight in Michigan; seven in Wisconsin. The theme was for Pence to campaign as if he were running for governor of those states, focusing on local issues and what a President Trump in Washington could do for the state. “And every now and then we’d pull him [Pence] out to Jesus-land,” Bannon said. Trump, he said, was essentially running as county supervisor in 41 large population centers. Bannon was amazed that the Clinton campaign did not use President Obama strategically. Obama had won Iowa in 2008 and 2012 by six to 10 points. “He never goes.” Clinton never went to Wisconsin in the general election. She didn’t talk enough about the economy. “When I saw her go to Arizona, I said, they’ve lost their fucking minds,” Bannon said. “What are they doing?”
This story of subordination of the Self’s interests to the task of meaning is repeated in various versions in all our lives. And when we live without meaning, we suffer the greatest illness of all.
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
James Hollis
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