Djokovic the meditator!

a hero

You probably know this already but I didn't know that Djokovic, the wonderful tennis player, handsome chap with pin up good looks is a meditator.  This very day in an interview with The BBC, he said that he used meditation to keep himself fit.  I searched about the internet to find out more and discovered that in an article in 2013, Theo Merz revealed that Djokovic calls into a Buddhist monastery and temple when at Wimbledon to spend time because he says"it's a very calm and very beautiful environment".  That same year,  one of the monks at the temple, Phramaha Bhatsakorn Piyobhas suggested that meditation improves concentration and focus, which could in turn help someone play tennis, or any sport, better. 

Matthew Syed, in today's Times says that Wimbledon, though a place of civility and tradition is also a jungle.  where "the painful beauty of sport" is so clear. He describes watching "a succession of dreams being shattered, .....humiliation so graphic that the head and shoulders of one loser literally dropped as the second set reached it's" end.  

One pointed attention.

If Wimbledon Tennis is a jungle, it is because the highs and lows of success and failure are clearly on display  alongside strawberries and cream, pimms and champagne and the great and good watching coolly from the Royal Box.  If Djokovic finds that meditation is a key to his success, it must be because it is a key to the part of him which doesn't get stressed ever.  Meditation has been given to realise the beauty and peace of the soul in the midst of the maelstrom of life.  Grannies do it to realise that they are unchanged when looking at the legs and arms and face and hair, everything thatsuggests that you have become old.  In meditation, oldness and youngness disappear and this Granny is happy that Djokovic should be standing up for such a wonderfully intelligent choice of practice.  And good luck to him say I!