“‘People sometimes say I’m ‘locked in,’ but that’s not it,’ Kobe said, referring to the times when he’d been in flow or in the zone and had performed at a particularly high level. ‘When you’re there, it’s something that’s free and easy.
It’s not about being ‘locked.’ It’s about being loose.’
‘That’s right,’ I said. ‘It’s really about unlocking. It should feel perfectly natural and unencumbered. It’s about just being. Just doing. The way a river flows.’
‘Or the mamba moves!’
How I miss that cat. There will never be another like him. The rabbis say that when a person dies, a whole world dies with them. What a world Kobe built in his short, intense life.
Kobe’s death is a great example of the Buddha’s fundamental teaching of impermanence—that everything changes, that nothing is here to stay. Kobe’s death added urgency to my desire to help people unlock and access the divinity inside them. Until we do that, it’s impossible to recognize it in others. And that is why it’s so important that we find it in ourselves.
That is my definition of success.”
As a wise friend tells me on a regular basis, Stay Loose!
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