The New York Times: “The art of hitting a baseball starts with emptying the mind.” As Jonathan Fader, a psychologist who works with Mets players, told me: “Essentially, what we’re trying to do in sports psychology is helping people to not think.”
James: I came across this statement in an editorial in The New York Times lamenting the emphasis on statistics in understanding baseball. Of course “not thinking” is not the whole story. It means being present without distractions. When the mind is quiet, the next step is swinging the Vedantic mental bat and knocking the ball of ignorance out of the park.
People often assume that Vedanta is some kind of mystical, otherworldly science, but it is just the science of life. It applies to every human endeavor.