Wholistic Fitness

“I cannot pretend I always practice bodhichitta,
but it does give me tremendous inspiration.
Deep inside me,
I realize how beneficial it is.
That is all.”
– Dalai Lama

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Bodhi = Awake
chitta = consciousness

the term, Bodhichitta is generally translated as, “Awakened Heart”

most of the Spiritual Fitness Warriors attracted to Wholistic Fitness
come to this Path
with Bodhichitta
at one Level or another.

my SvaDuty is to do my best to keep Awakening
my Student’s already Awakened Heart through transformational personal fitness.

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This DL is for my LA Sangha.
when i lived in LA,
i too experienced the raging fever of Shiva
in the form of wildfires.

air so acrid,
training on my bike would be impossible for a week or longer.

a small price to pay
relative to the FireFighters fatigue,
the wild animals, their adrenalin level matched only by their Zone 4 Heart Rates;
desperate to escape the flames
wondering where their children,
their mate
might be…

ilg teaches often of Bardo
– how unthinkably fast life can change –
to many of our ears
my BardoSpeak may sound like fiction that we do not need to worry about
– there so much to worry about these days –

however, in the calm of our Practice,
when enough years wear away our arrogant edges,
memories of our countless deaths,
tortures, and killings to and by animal, nature, and self
arise
wicked with pain
from the complete solidarity of cellular,
tribal
memory.

Thoreau: “Convince me you have a Seed there,
and I am prepared to expect wonders.”

Will we use our Pain for what it is; a Portal into our Past, Present, and Future?

Or will we run away
again
and
again
and endlessly again
until
that day
when we are Brave enough
to run
into
the raging Brea(d)th of Fire
within.

Only our Pain Portals
can lead us to our (Inner) Guru.

We will not find a Powerful Guru in the Outer World,
not even in India,
or Santa Monica burning,
until
we Find,
Study,
and
Devote thyself
to
our
Inner Guru.

Yoga is easy;
do that which is most Painful for you
and
Trust The Conscious Breath.
Regulate the Breath into the Pain,
and
that
My Noble Friends Along the Bodhichitta Way,
is known as,
Yoga.

God Bless my LA Sangha during this time;
feeble ilg loves you and misses you.

i am sending Clear Air,
Clear Light,
and Divine Love to all of you…

Eat More CONCO from SUNRIDER; it will help.

Om Mani Padme Hung,

the mountain yogi

photos:
1) AP photo of my Cherished Santa Monica Mountains burning. Those mountains kept the Heart and Soul of this mountain yogi alive during my decade in that great city.

2) performing the Ai Imawa posture; HOLDING UP MOON at La Ventana, New Mexico. I am facing Tsidool; Mt. Tayor, the site of the Mt. Taylor Winter Quadrathlon