Has meditation helped you improve your golf game?
Anirban Lahiri: Yes, understanding that you are always going to be in the process. With Vipassana meditation you’re trying to stay connected to yourself. What you’re trying to do through meditation and through sources of mental training, you’re in the process of living out your life.
I’m not a fatalist but I definitely believe in going through what I need to do, with the best I can do. And then accepting the outcome — could be a positive or negative, but it’s just an outcome at the end of the day, and you have to accept it. Embrace it whether it’s a win or a missed cut.
I think that is the only thing that can take you forward, and to understand how that works, you need to have a certain level of consciousness or certain level of awareness about yourself. Vipassana meditation helps you get to that point because otherwise, you’re stuck in a reaction cycle instead of being in an action cycle.
