“The Field” – A Clip from the feature film, Baggar Vance
This clip is from the film Bagger Vance.
We prepared a transcript of this clip, in case reading along is helpful to some of you. Do you see the True Self/Unique Self teaching in the clip? Do you see how you must first access some dimension of True Self, which then allows Unique Self to emerge? This is a great clip and a wonderful way to get a lived sense of this. Who knew that Will Smith was so deep in the teaching? 🙂
Were you able to hear the True Self / Unique Self teaching in this clip?
Transcript:
I think it’s time.
Time for what?
Time for you to see the field.
The field? I see the field. It’s 445 yards long, it’s got a little red flag at the end of it. It’s 12 strokes ahead of me, come on.
That ain’t it. Cuz if you’d seen the field, you wouldn’t be hacking at that ball like you was chopping at weeds out from under your front porch.
Just gimme the club.
Sorry I brought it up. Here you gonna take that, hack away.
[pause]
Alright, what’s the field.
Here, fix your eyes on Bobby Jones.
Knock it out there, Bobby.
[pause]
Look at his practice swing, almost like he’s searching for something.
Then he finds it.
Watch how he settles himself right into the middle of it.
Feel that focus.
He got a lot of shots he could choose from. Duffs and tops and skulls.
But there’s only one shot that’s in perfect harmony with the field.
One shot that’s his authentic shot.
And that shot is gonna choose him.
There’s a perfect shot out there trying to find each and every one of us.
All we gotta do is get ourselves outta its way;
Let it choose us.
Look at him, he in the field.
[swing noise]
You can’t see that flag as some dragon you gotta slay;
You got to look with soft eyes,
See the place where the tides, and the seasons, and the turning of the earth all come together;
Where everything that is – becomes one.
You gotta seek that place with your soul Junah.
[applause, pause]
Seek it with your hands, don’t think about it; feel it.
Your hands is wiser than your head ever going to be.
I cant take you there Junah; just hopes I can help you find a way.
Its just you, that ball, that flag, and all you are.
Seek it with your hands…
It’s the home of your authentic swing.
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