Sunday at the Masters

Sunday at the Masters is a religious experience for those of us who truly love the game. If you have been to Augusta, GA and actually walked the hallowed ground; you understand it even more. If Scotland is the Garden of Eden of golf, then Augusta is Calvary.

I guess it is because of that I am thinking on a very spiritual level this morning. I was contemplating Tiger Woods making the statement that he was a Buddhist and he started his behavioral problems because he quit being a Buddhist. Now he is a Buddhist again and is wearing a little string bracelet to remind him of that.

Because of that, I googled "Karma" this morning. Here is what I found:

We ourselves are responsible for our own happiness and misery. We create our own Heaven. We create our own Hell. We are the architects of our own fate.

Basically, Karma is moral causation. What we do in this life or past lifes causes or rewards or punishment in this and future lives.

If I had run around with 14 woman on my wife I think I would want to find a belief system that did not espouse (like the use of the root word spouse, I thought that was witty) this concept. I think I would try out something that involved forgiveness.

I think this Sunday at the Masters totally disproves Buddhism and Karma. Tiger being back from the lead after a five month layoff is what he deserves? No Frigging WAY! Now if he is 8 under on todays round and walking up the 18th fairway waving to the crowd when lightening comes out of the clear blue sky; striking one of huge pine trees on the left causing it fall square on his head; pile driving him into the ground, then; and only then, I will become a Buddhist.