Sports, God & Motherhood

Sports, God and Motherhood.

I was startled when someone asked my world's religion professor what eastern religion he thought had the most impact on western society and he replied Taoism. He explained his answer thusly:

Male energy comes in through the front door, announcing, proclaiming and teaching all about itself. Feminine energy slips in through the back door, people aren't aware it's impacting them, and yet it pervades everything. He noted that while gurus and masters of Hinduism and Buddhism have been coming through the front door in our American society, Taoism has come in through the back door. Taoism, (i.e. The Way), has permeated our culture through all the martial arts training that kids all over the country are immersed in. They are learning about The Way and yet not even consciously know they are learning it.

And my contention is that this is also what is happening in all sports, dance, intense physical activity -we are learning "to read" The Way, yet not in a conscious, intellectual way, but through our energy body. In fact, the intellect gets in the way of this direct knowing if it is leading the physical activity...only when the intellect is serving this body/energy Knowing, is it being used at it's highest level.

What does this have to do with motherhood? With all our book reading, research, child development experts, mothers often give their intuitive, body knowing over to the intellect. The intellect is leading, not serving, this energy body/intuitive Knowing. The Way, flows and pervades our homes (both our house/apt. and body) and She is Infinite in Wisdom. We can trust Her, and serve that energy/Wisdom first and foremost in how we raise our children and create Home. Then when we get stuck, we will intuitively be led to the books, experts, sages that will serve our situation best, as The Way knows all...ask any athlete.


Oh and...as part II to yesterday's note, the heroes journey is a universal archtype. It is where a person descends into hell, the underworld, conquers it, is transformed in the process, and re-emerges to Life a changed person, a victorious heroe. Thus, when the heroe in The Departed, has conquered the underworld, and is about the emerge to Life a victorious heroe, he is suddenly he's shot in the head... the archtype was brutally murdered as well as the whole purpose, beauty and power of the story. It's a story I would've returned to, to be inspired by the heroes journey, but now, there is no purpose to see it again. Yes, Matt Damon's character is killed in the end by Mark Wahlberg's, but who cares? They were the characters forcing the heroe to become a heroe...but the story was never about them.