Wholistic Fitness

Dark Masters Of Confusion

“The Buddhist meditation masters know how flexible and workable the mind is. If we train it, anything is possible. In fact, we are already perfectly trained by and for samsara, trained to get jealous, trained to grasp, trained to be anxious and sad and desperate and greedy, trained to react angrily to whatever provokes us. In fact, we are trained to such an extent that these negative emotions rise spontaneously, without our even trying to generate them.

So everything is a question of training and the power of habit. Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we�re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, the mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.”

– Sogyal Rinpoche



WF Online Teacher and HP Yogini Ananda meditates in a Tsankawi ruin near Los Alamos, New Mexico. the opening to the cave reflects the dark mirror of the untrained mind. Since 1982, i’ve kept Meditation as one of the 5 Fitness Disciplines of WF…why? because there can be no authentic personal fitness in he or she that does not allow the Light Of Meditation to illuminate our inner darkness. Prescribed and recreational drugs and an addiction to entertainment only shove our Real Inner Work to a different chamber. Thus, samsara (endless suffering through life/death/rebirth) remains intact until we are brave enough of a fitness warrior to Dance our Genuine Nature. We can only free ourselves from difficulty by devoting ourselves to it. this ‘door’ into this ancient ‘condo in a cliff’ was hand cut into the ‘soft’ volcanic tuft by the Ancient Ones.



some of the chambers within the eon-old and perfectly wholistic cliff condo! these little chambers, if you will allow me to draw out the above metaphor, to me, reflect the many inculcated and preconditioned grooves and negative, lazy tendencies of the untrained mind. Staccato Technique in the gym, the 4 WF Lifestyle Principles, Eating Elegantly, 3 x 30, and Non-Dominant Hand assignments are examples of just a few WF techniques i created to help you and i destroy our unconscious habits which, as Rinpoche teaches above, only enables us to become, “a dark master of confusion.” photos/ilg

May your Practice be strong and sincere today…

question everything; particularly your Breath and Posture (WF Lifestyle #1)

i bow to you from the humble helm,

coach ilg