Wholistic Fitness

as a yogi – one who seeks Union over separation,
struggle comes often in attempting to
live by Direct Experience instead of second-handed
opinions and ‘book knowledge.’ Of the relative Truth which
visits my feeble Awareness, extraction of Truth from the eon-fashioned
veils of my ignorance, is a Herculean task each amazing day. a task
in which i take supreme and constant delight. of my attempt to remain
spiritually connected to the enormous exquisiteness
of Lila* each day, there is one opinion to which ilg remains firmly of:

For those of us who sincerely
Practice a dharmic life – a life devoted toward cultivation of virtue/Truth – we must do so while serving society.

Here, let me save you from more of my chronic and feeble floundering in dharmic expression. i’ll hand you over to one of the most tapped in, wily, rascally, tough, and super kind cats still hanging out on our plane(t) for our self-realization assistance, Tenzin Gyatso also known among a few of us as The Dalai Lama:

“Too often we make what we call “the happiness of all beings” the object of our prayers and meditations, yet when we rise from our meditation cushions we fail to give practical help to our neighbors and others in need. If we are to fulfill our altruistic wish, we cannot discriminate between spirituality and our life in society. Without the support of our fellow beings we could not practice at all, and without a concern for their welfare our practice has little meaning.”

May your Practice be strong and sincere
and grounded in practical assistance for others,

your loving coach

*the Dance of the UniVerse comprised of rhythm (sattwa), activity (rajas),
and inertia (tamas)

photo 1) The Dalai’s padas, by Gabriel Ortega Berger
photo 2) His Holiness by Elton Mello