Tiger Woods Talks about His Buddhist Practice in Statement to the Media

by Danny Fisher

The full video is below, but, over at Shambhala Sun Space, our bud/editor Rod Meade Sperry pulls out the specific mentions of Buddhism:

I have a lot of work to do, and I intend to dedicate myself to doing it. Part of following this path, for me, is Buddhism, which my mother taught me at a young age. People probably don’t realize it, but I was raised a Buddhist, and I actively practiced my faith from childhood until I drifted away from it in recent years. Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously, I lost track of what I was taught. As I move forward, I will continue to receive help, because I’ve learned that that’s how people really do change.