“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
-Alan Watts
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Not Tabata.
I like the simplified Google definition of the word — “the ultimate inexpressible nature of all things” — as a perfect encapsulation of baseball player development.
A simplified, modern day explanation of the concept of Tathata would be that “everything is what it is.