Is sports needed in life?
QUESTION: Masters, we have always been crazed Brazilians in football but this year we will host a world cup and people seem anesthetized. They are not caring about the event, are looking disconnected and without feeling and think only to protest the money spent on the event – it is all about protests. Why have they lost the love of football? ~Fabiana, Brazil
ANSWER: A lot of people in Brazil are becoming very spiritual getting away from matters of the ego and pursuing a higher path. Sports are a divergence from life, a way to forget about the difficult lessons and to put one’s energy into cheering on the home team. But to what benefit of the soul?
Sports are ego based. Every aspect of the game and every player is judged and rated to determine their “worth” to the team and the fans. This plays out in the Earth plane in the positive/negative polarity of humanity. Nothing that happens during a game helps a soul along their path of enlightenment. It has no place in the reality of life lessons.
Societies use the success of their teams for indicating to their citizens the power, importance, and strength of their economy and standing in the world – but it does none of that. The ego is the one “selling” such a notion to the people. Winning makes a country join together in celebration while losing may lead to riots and disobedience because the team (in most minds the energy of the government) has failed to conquer.
Those who have recognized the lack of any beneficial result from winning a game, have taken up the banner of objecting to their hard earned money being spent to make money for the over paid players, team owners, and sponsors. The only benefit many see is as an entertainment and video games and movies are much less expensive.