Well Sports is the Domain of the Ego Self.

We have the intelligence to end disease on this planet what do you really think is more important?

Sports scores or ending disease? What does it say about those that engage in this Illusion?

Well I can see what the general populace considers important. Therefore I suppose one can expect that they won't be complaining about the consequences of their chosen ignorance.

I suppose sports are a part of man’s evolution, but it is time for change of focus.

The winner and loser are one and the same.

Too many people get caught up with and identify with the game.

Why don't we end disease as a team?

Sorry - the link is down. hopefully they will fix it. otherwise i will try to find it somewhere else. it's really a fascinating video!

Bharat

Sports does change lives in many ways. It brings joy to people, unites and creates a sense of belonging and identity across a diverse population, and helps get rid of obesity and related diseases. And it is so much fun! What other social force can do all of this?

PS: Bharat, re: your question in a previous post - am based in Bangalore, but currently in the UK for a month. You have my email ID (I don't have yours).

How Love changed the world
one person at a time
we are encoded with this beautiful
molecule of dna, divine natural appreciation
on our voyage home we mingle with souls
in this wonderful play of life.

Love to all

I saw the basketball clip and if this does not warm your heart and honor your EXISTENCE nothing much will. I have coached children for 20 years and I can honestly say I have experienced the pure potential that we are as humans, the power of the Self in overcoming preconceived conditioning and the love of humanity beyond the manifested form. You can only access Pure Consciouness by first going through the portal of human beingness, whether we like that fact or not has no bearing. We can rail against it, we can dimish its natural effects or we can embrace the the human aspects of sport. It is a vehicle for going beyond the physical realm, to access talents and abilities that will evolve latter on in life. This autistic young man in Rochester acheived something personally that is almost beyond belief in sports. The crowd was in a Consciousness collectively that is rare in a public setting. Inspiation comes in many packages, enjoy them all.

Hi Bharat,I will watch the video when it is available. I have probably about a dozen or so patients with autism. Each one is different.They are sooooo sensitive. The day one of them lets me check him/her out with out any fuss I congratulate myself on being especially patient, and tactful. Some times before going into the exam room,(you can hear the crying all over the office, they hate going to the doctor) I say a prayer that I am able to examine the child with out causing too much stress for the child.

Your mother has probably told you something similar. Most of my colleagues experience the same thing.These children are a challenge for every body, parents, teachers, doctors, dentists, siblings. But when one of them shines, like your hero Jason, it makes it all worthwhile.

I believe very special, brave souls come to earth with autism.

God bless you Bharat.

I have wondered often about the many forms of autism and what realy means as a label ...

is it an oversensitivity to the density of vibrations on this earth ???

an inability to connect with that which we know???

or maybe just an expression of a mystery far beyond the physical senses we have been given ...

as alliens ...

we plead ...

like angels

we move deep within ...

who knows???

hummm

the endless rocking

back and forth

when human forms give no comfort ...

cutting like knives

penetrating like barbed wire ...

no emotion

no fear ...

a coldness so frozen

there is mercy

in its natural shutting down ...

as if learning ...

how to bow ...

In the context of the above post, I would make the following comment in relation to sport and politics.

India is due to play England in Goa on the 3rd April. It's interesting how sport is equated with nationlism (obviously), however, in the UK, this was politically polarised by an ex Conservative Minister, Norman Tebbit. He essentially tested the loyalty of immigrants in the UK by emphasising that the country they lived in (whose passport they carried), should be translated onto the playing field. This famous comment became known as the 'cricket test'. In other words, you are supposed to support the team which represented the country you lived in, rather than the team that represented the country you originated from. An interesting thought?

Norman Tebbit made the following comment:-

He called specifically for white British people to note who black British people were cheering for when England played the West Indies. If they supported the West Indies (and he knew, of course, that most of them did) then the implication was that they therefore constituted some sporting version of 'the enemy within'.

Now, this is interesting for me-as, who will I/am I supposed to support. England, the country which has nutured me, educated me, allowed me to have freedom of mind and expression (of course my parents are really responsible for this), or the country where I currently live and work which is feeding me, housing me-India, (my country of origin). Or perhaps even Australia, the country where I was born, but never really lived in?

I'm not sure, who I will support-but if I support England I am living out the firang that I am constanty accused of being. However, if I support India-I am being disloyal to the country which I have sworn allegiance to when I took on its nationality through my British passport?. (however, I do not equate being British with holding a British passport, as I have no British blood in me and was not born there). I always say to people I am in Indian who has been brought up in the UK. Now Norman is not going to be happy if I have dual nationality with India and the UK, then what the hell do I do Norman? lol. Perhaps enjoy the game for what it is and feel happy for whoever wins, without pressuring myself to wear a British or Indian shirt?

I really don't know what I will feel (in terms of my loyalty to either country), but knowing me..I will support the underdog, regardless. This is what I always do-which caused concern for my brother once-when I was loudly cheering on Pakistan when they played against India two years ago,and were winning at one stage.

This was not really wise, as it was in a bar in Delhi..at the time, and I was the only loud cheer being noticed everytime a 6 was made by Pakistan.lol..mmmm

One disease in the modern world is obesity. The aerobic element of sports is an important part of the cure for most obesity. Bowling, racecar driving, poker, modern hunting, most fishing, etc..these have no aerobic element. They give sports a bad name.