Wholistic Fitness

okay, so who am i to speak about Active Laziness? True, i have spent the better part of my adult life, living out of a vehicle; climbing, cycling, skiing, adventuring around Turtle Island. however, the difference between a bum and a wandering yogi? the yogi maintains his or her Sadhana (spiritual practices) and applies their wandering nature to keep themselves whole. That’s right; ilg is defending his ‘bum-dom’ tendencies! Below, Rinpoche’s counsel is absolutely essential to recognize, and following His counsel, i offer a Proven WF Technique that has been in my humble Temple for decades to help conquer “Active Laziness.” May it help. Oh, SUNRIDERS: don’t miss going “on air” with me tomorrow morning on Trish Childer’s Conference Call! i’ll email you specifically later today…ONWARD, UPWARD, and EVER INWARD!

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How many of us are swept away by what I have come to call an “active laziness”? Naturally there are different species of laziness: Eastern and Western. The Eastern style consists of hanging out all day in the sun, doing nothing, avoiding any kind of work or useful activity, drinking cups of tea and gossiping with friends.

Western laziness is quite different. It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time left to confront the real issues.

If we look into our lives, we will see clearly how many unimportant tasks, so-called “responsibilities” accumulate to fill them up. One master compares them to “housekeeping in a dream.” We tell ourselves we want to spend time on the important things of life, but there never is any time.

Helpless, we watch our days fill up with telephone calls and petty projects, with so many responsibilities—or should we call them “irresponsibilities”?
– Sogyal Rinpoche

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As far back as 1987, i created the “Beeper Guru” system of WF Lifestyle Training. There are now over a dozen of these highly effective “Beeper Gurus” that i assign WF Online Students. Their purpose is to periodically restore a degree of inner spaciousness into our Way of Being in a ‘busy outer world.’ If we do not use such proven Techniques like the WF Beeper Guru System; then we easily get caught up in what Steven Covey calls, “The thick of thin things…” before we know it, we are 50 years old and lack all of the Soul Fitness and Physical/Mental Fitness that we need to deepen our spiritual Practice before Bardo Training starts in earnest by age 75.

My most basic Beeper Guru is known as the “Beeper Guru; Breath and Posture”:

Beeper Guru: Breath and Posture

Set a timepiece, a computer timer, or using a cell phone ring tone as your “Beeper Guru.”

Each time you hear your Beeper Guru ‘go off’, consider it a WF Temple Gong ringing and 1) take a deep Cleansing Breath (extra merit points if you grip Mula Bandha!) and 2) adjust your posture into her most elegant demeanor.

Carry on with your day with renewed sense of Centeredness.