Wholistic Fitness

A monsoon squall grasps the Sacred Peak last week like the Fist of Shiva! The monsoon summers in Kinlani*? like Paradise on Earth. please come, visit the mountain town wherein your WF Temple hides! Kinlani and the Sacred Peak of Doko Oosliid is right on your way to the Grand Canyon!

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Noble Sangha,
thank you for the great input about my DL yesterday. i’ve filed it in the DL Most Popular.

and now, for something completely different…which of course, what WF is all about; Artistry of the Extremes! just a peruse of the DL Archives proves that WF is not just another ‘personal fitness’ program! Nor have we ever been! Since 1982, baby…always out, way out, in front of the pack!

How sad it is that most of us only begin to appreciate our lives when we are on the point of dying. I often think of the words of the great Buddhist master Padmasambhava: “Those who believe they have plenty of time get ready only at the time of death. Then they are ravaged by regret. But isn’t it far too late?”
– Sogyal Rinpoche

as at least my more seasoned WF Warriors realize, the Path of WF is a Bardo Training Path. it is derived from a powerful spiritual lineage that does not use our precious Human Incarnation to pretend Death and Dying does not come. it trains us to use the beauty and mystique of training our bodies and minds in the playground of this life in order to carry with us very, very fit and fearless fibers of Consciousness into our Dying Workout. The study, understanding, and Practice of this notion would qualify nearly every aspect of our training for that which matters most…not just to ‘us’ but for All Beings Caught In All Realms; Enlightenment.

You may have already seen this image on the Internet rounds. however, it’s worth another gander. with our addicted eyes – used to just receiving and accepting the Reality brought forth from our Conditioned Patterns of elements, names, and forms…we see a very beautiful cliffside lake. turn our head to the left (female side) and our expansive Sight receives a totally new image.

Through the course of WF Study, particularly Early Morning Ritual, Meditation, and engagement of the 4 Lifestyle Principles, like tilting your head to the left in this exercise, so too does the WF Path tilt our conditioned views and play judo with everything that we once thought was ‘important’ only to see what a crock of poop most of our Belief Systems, opinions, judgments, goals, and possessions really are. The Masters don’t call it, “Awakening” for nothing. As we begin to Awaken through a spiritual Path like WF, we Begin to See and Feel the fact that we ARE in a DreamState…we are like zombies walking through a deluded Hungry Ghost Realm, searching, seeking, clinging…not all Free like Hawk Sister or Cloud Nature.

Expansive Practice in the Disciplines and Principles of WF
invites Expansive Mind.
Beauty in every breath and
a two-fold Consciousness that sees the humor and grace of the very Predicament of our habit of taking lives…

when are YOU gonna Wake Up
and REALLY
Do
The
(Inner) Workouts
that get YOU
FREE?!?

I love you all so deeply that the image of your ego drips away from me like
the sweat from my 43-mile high country cyclecross ride yesterday among the Deer, Coyote, and Hawk Beings…

i ‘found’ this ‘new’ ride by doing what i’ve always done; pushing myself into new, unknown trails and roads, bonking, getting scared by the size of the coyote tracks in the mud all around me, following the Signs from the Spirit and Animal Realms; in yesterday’s case, when i kept getting lost, i followed the way that a Wild Turkey Feather was pointing, and then Hawk*** himself came to Guide me when i was confused and bonked at the bottom of a remote ravine surrounded by meadows.

my ‘new’ ride, once i hook it up without getting lost – will be a 43-mile, 90% forest road and singletrack course that keeps me above 8,000′ for 75% of the time. right outside the WF Temple H(om)e. Watch for my 2008 Mountain Bike Training Camps and maybe you and i will share the Sacred Sweat on this route itself?!

i love each of you enough to deeply not care deeply about who you ‘think’ you are…

know this to be True
and
break a (w)holy sweat today for All Beings Everywhere, okay?

Watch For The Signs; i send them to each of you each day in many Ways…

Om So Ti,
the mountain yogi

* Kinlani is the Native American name for Flagstaff. it means; The Place Where The Thunder Lies.

*** A complimentary Temple Gift for the first DL Subscriber that emails me with what are the Native American Animal Medicine of Turkey and also of Hawk. i have Taught you their meanings more than a hand-full of times in DL!