Wholistic Fitness

If you are sitting, and your mind is not wholly in tune with your body—if you are, for instance, anxious or preoccupied with something—your body will experience physical discomfort, and difficulties will arise more easily. Whereas if your mind is in a calm, inspired state, it will influence your whole posture, and you can sit much more naturally and effortlessly. So it is very important to unite the posture of your body and the confidence that arises from your realization of the nature of your mind.
– Sogyal Rinpoche

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Perhaps the largest advantage of securing a WF Blessed Mala and Mantra from the WF Temple is that once received, the Transmission from the Higher Ones quickly infuses our motivation to sit. This combined with knowing an exact mental and postural drill when we do sit, gives rise to the subtle energies, making meditation a much more engaging Practice. Without Higher Guidance and Dharma Blessings from ones Lineage, the spirit of perseverance in meditation is often quickly lost.

We must all-Ways remember that we are citizens of Two Worlds; an Outer One which is full of temporary happiness and relationships that are doomed to illness, dis-eases, aging and death. Yet we are all also citizens of an Inner World which is endless, joyful, and liberated from the bonds of flesh and mind.

If anything is important to cultivate in our experience before death; it is the skillful Ways of abiding in Meditation.

May your Practice be strong and sincere today and may your senses be turned ever inward with Appropriate Action guiding your speech, body, and mind in your Outer World travels today…

head bowed,
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ps; snowboarding was SICK yesterday! 15″ of fresh POW! right now, that “Blessed Slope” is utterly dope!

photo of coach in Mala Meditation by Melissa Grimes
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