ahhhh…
sport bikes, babes, and the incredible Vibe of LA!
sorry BLOGGER is not letting me post pics…
yet wanted to just drop my Noble Sangha a Direct Line
before Ananda and i go teach in Brentwood.
Let it be known that yes, yes i do Love LA!
palm trees,
warm, soft as velvet air
laced with a pranic punch so sweet that even the Metro Bus’s sway to it.
some of you that are new to DL might wonder how a Mountain Yogi adapts like water to the Big Smoggy City.
answer is; my Teachers made me.
They told me that the genuine yogic warrior learns how to adapt to all environments; we consider it Bardo Training like everything else. people that get down on Big Cities might do well to look with and find the Seed of Fear that might be responsible for making them just too scared to Rise Up to what is required to live in one. That Seed of Fear was as big as a Ponderosa in my spirit. Yet, worse than i once “hated” Big Cities, was my hate of Being Afraid To Develop Skills to Deal With My Fears.
To make sure that narrow mindedness and lack of skills did not hammper my own personal journey was vital to me. Thus, i have lived in both New York City and Los Angeles as part of my spiritual training and i know that my courage to Rise Above my Fear in this way has made me a far better person, a more balanced yogin, and a more equipped spiritual athlete.
Ananda and i have a beautiful little condo coddled in the intersection of Lankershim and Magnolia in the very hip and vibrant Theatre District of “NoHo”. It truly is sooo totally fun here in North Hollywood. The access is quick to Muholland Drive and the ocean canyons, and everyone seems so, well, young, fit, and beautiful. That realization used to scare me. Now, i find it as charming as the crush of ever blooming flowers that jump out everywhere here in So Cal. Especially here in the TVVLAND of NoHo, where nearly everyone is a struggling or working actor, the Vibe to Drive Higher is like living in an Olympic Village. I can dig that Vibe. I like it. It helps keep me focused on my own Podiums, both inner and outer.
Besides, the juxtaposition of living in Flagstaff and chillin’ in LA is just a little tooooo go(o)d!
instead of Puja yesterday morning, it was…okay, i admit it; a Pumpkin Latte at Starbucks! and it was GREAT! i watched one of my Most Fierce Upa Guru’s= the LA Metro Buses. can i even TELL you how many times these buses have nearly killed your ol’ coach during the hundreds of training miles i have logged on LA Streets? talk about enhancing my bike skills! yeah baby! bring it on! better to die in the gutter, slaughtered by a Metro Bus, than live in a car like a bleating sheep, too afraid to stand up and PEDAL to help Mother Earth and Father Sky!
I will do best to post some pics of our day yesterday, whereupon Ananda took me for a hike in Fryman Cayon, her Sacred Workout Loop where she trained herself and put her private clients through utter hell.
sorry, losing Internet Connection…
more soon…
i can’t WAIT to teach in Brentwood today!
maybe i will see YOU there
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