Can racing be spiritual? Can competition in general be spiritual? Of course that's open to opinion - many might say no, even though team prayer is a weekly ritual across the country. My thoughts are that everything can and is spiritual - it's our urge to seperate things that keep the concept of "unspiritual" alive. And on that note - I'm going to seperate something. Running, racing, competing- from a ego perspective is certainly not spiritually based- but only because it's ego that seperates spirit from worldly. From the light of spirit there is no seperation becasue there is only spirit- ego is an illusion and the world that springs from it is illusion as well. We could debate the issue of what's real and what's not - many have and many always will - but from a Vedic, Buddhist, mystic, shamanatic vision the world is neither real nor unreal - or it's both, or it's nothing. Confusing? Yep. So what to believe? For me, I believe that my heart sees spirit and my ego see's a materialistic world. Carlos Castaneda urged his readers to ask - "does this path have heart?" If so - then that's the path to follow.
So back to racing -
Does the path of your race have heart?
You'll know what to do.
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