The Easiest Path to Enlightenment

I suggested in my previous post that we all need to move on to more important things, something that isn't soccer, football, or sports related. 

Here's a video I've watched several times lately about Zen meditation, even without doing any meditation the video itself has been having a calming affect on me which has been nice.

I'm pretty good - Mexico wins Gold Cup 2-1

Well, I think we all kind of knew it, the US wasn't going to win the Gold Cup. 

And I was pretty close with my prediction, I thought it would end 3-1 in favor of Mexico and it actually finished 2-1.

Now that that nonsense is over with we can get on with more important things, and I don't mean college football. Ugh.... that garbage is going to start coming in hot and heavy now.

If there is something that annoys me more than soccer it is all the mind numbing talk of college football. 

"The Utes this, the Utes that, BYU this, BYU that." Good lord, enough is enough.

I actually get joy out of not giving a crap about college football and then watching everyone else get so worked up about it. I just shake my head and smile sometimes when I observe these guys at work go on and on about football. 

But anyway, yeah, time for more important things, whatever that might be it is up to you but just make sure it isn't sports related.

May I suggest some Zen mediation? 

The US is in the final of the Gold Cup?

I've been watching the highlights of the Gold Cup games on YouTube. Why? I don't know.

But I was amazed to see the US has made it to the finals. How did that happen? Light competition I guess. They have to play Mexico though, in Houston of all places. 

I think it is going to be ugly, it will basically be a home game for Mexico and they are going to want to send a signal, especially with the unpleasantness currently between the US and Mexico.

I expect a chippy match from the start, most likely a fight or two with lots of yellow cards and probably a red.

I'm going to predict a Mexico victory, 3-1.

Am I a traitor for not picking the US? 

No, I'm a Nostradamus and this is what I see. 

"Morante en estado puro" "toreo añejo"

I promised a Morante highlight (there have been many this year) so here's one, it's from May 1st in Sevilla during the Feria de Abril. 

Oh, to be in Sevilla in April. 

I have to get there some day, I've never been to Spain but I have to get to Sevilla in April sometime while I am still walking on this Earth. 

Anyway, this video is just a few minutes long, it's from the beginning of the bullfight before any wound has been given to the bull, so the bull is in his purest form. 

It always amazes me how 13,000 people, (the seating capacity of the Plaza de Toros de Sevilla) can be so quiet at times that you can hear birds chirping in the background and the sound of the sand under the bull's hooves. 

Then all of a sudden all 13,000 in unison yell out "¡Olé! "¡Olé!"

Just incredible. 

You don't have to speak Spanish to enjoy the video but it helps. At times Spanish announcers can be a little dramatic to say the least, but I love towards the end of the video how they describe Morante's bullfighting. "Morante en estado puro" or Morante in his purest form. Also, "toreo añejo" which means old style bullfighting, or aged bullfighting. That one is a little harder to translate, that one has more of a feeling in Spanish that doesn't translate well to English. 

I guess you will just have to watch the video to try and get the feeling.