Brian Cashman, the General Manager of the New York Yankees, contemplating a big loss earlier this week:

If we can cleanse our minds and continue to realize that if we win our games,
get the job done, we’re going to the playoffs.

    Chuang Tzu on the "fasting of the mind:"

Stop listening with your ears and listen with your mind.  Then stop listening with your mind and listen with your primal spirit.  Hearing is limited to the ear.  Mind is limited to tallying things up.  But primal spirit’s empty: it’s simply that which awaits things.  Tao is emptiness merged, and emptiness is the mind’s fast. (51).

     Maybe Joe Torre, the Yankee’s Manager, needs to keep a copy of Chuang Tzu on the bench…