Golf's Three Noble Truths: The Fine Art of Playing Awake by James L Ragonnet (9781577319023)
James L Ragonnet Release Date: 06 April 2010 Format: Paperback Pages: 237 Publisher: New World Library ISBN: 9781577319023 ISBN-10: 1577319028
The Buddha's seven years of wandering in search of enlightenment ended in frustration. So did the author's 30 years of traversing golf courses. Neither found what they were looking for until they stopped searching outside and started looking within. The result for James Ragonnet was the kind of "second birthday" Eastern thinkers describe when "you wake up to everything happening around you." Through delightful anecdotes and practical lessons, Ragonnet reveals the power of awareness, balance, and unity to banish the dissatisfaction and stagnation so many golfers experience. He shows how "all golf Buddhas -- Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus, Annika Sorenstam, Tiger Woods -- play with their outer and inner eyes wide open," describes his twelfth-green OOGE ("out-of-golf-experience"), and offers readers simple truths that prompt flashes of understanding. These awakening insights invite birdies, drop handicaps, and transform experience both on and off the course.