{"id":929,"date":"2010-02-19T17:06:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T17:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2010\/02\/tiger-woods-buddhism-and-our-cravings-for-more.html"},"modified":"2010-02-19T17:06:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T17:06:46","slug":"tiger-woods-buddhism-and-our-cravings-for-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2010\/02\/tiger-woods-buddhism-and-our-cravings-for-more.html","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods, Buddhism, and Our Cravings for More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our friends at the One City<\/a> blog wrote a beautiful post<\/a> just now explaining the “craving” Tiger Woods mentioned today in his public apology<\/a> about his hugely infidelitous ways. <\/p>\n

Tiger, who was raised Buddhist, said: “Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously, I lost track of what I was taught.”<\/p>\n

One City’s Jon Rubenstein wrote about the idea of taming these unquenchable yearnings for security, for more–that constant itch we all have. Most of us scratch it on a way smaller scale with temporarily filling distractions–food, shopping, sex, TV. Buddhism counsels deepening our awareness of the itch, saying that scratching only makes it worse. Jon writes…<\/p>\n

“So when Woods describes Buddhism as being part of his path, he’s likely referring to the fact that Buddhism provides a path that allows us to see things as they really are, to understand our minds, and to train our minds in a way that allows us to have peace and joy in this very moment, regardless of external circumstances.”<\/p>\n

So well and succinctly put. <\/p>\n

Read the whole post on Buddhism and Tiger Woods.<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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