Wholistic Fitness

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hint for optimal chi maximization:
calm your mind and lower your breath and make your spine elegant before reading…

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as i write this,
Momma Robin is outside on a limb of “Vishnu” Ponderosa/crying.

She is crying comfort calls to her beautiful baby daughter who is in shock on the ground below her.

Grandfather Sun has set for the day. ironically, i captured the final rays of light on the face of my statue of Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals, birds, and the environment. He is also the saint for which – of course – the Saint Francis Peaks or the San Francisco Peaks are named which hover over the WF Temple H(om)e.

“Some Temple,” perhaps thinks Momma Robbin…for a long, long night of unimaginable parental stress is probably in Momma Robbin’s karmic deck of cards tonight.

Pappa Robin is flying higher, doing repeated fly-bys trying to protect the space which is our backyard, going from “Yab Yum” Ponderosa to “Shiva” Ponderosa and back again, like a frenzied track athlete doing laps out of their mind. putting myself in his place, i too would be scared out of my feathers i am sure, for the safety of my probably injured baby daughter 30′ below.

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One of the most overlooked Teachings of the Buddha – from my perspective – was His Dharma Teaching on “Abiding Interest.”

Earlier this evening, Ananda was doing Walking Practice with Dewa and Charlie. i took over, as Ananda prepared Dewa’s bath. Dewa and i were in another one of our endlessly linked Zen M(om)ents. i recall the m(om)ent with crystal clarity. Rinpoche Dewa was sitting in Konasana beneath Small Aspen, tripping out on Tanned Bark which provides the ground cover of that particular garden. being the former Zen Junkie that i am, i was all too willing to yogi squat beside my precious Rinpoche and do Tanned Bark Zen with Her.

it was then that i heard the duress cries from what i recognized as our neighborhood American Robbins.

sensing the Peril Arising, i walked Dewa immediately inside to Ananda, telling Ananda briefly that i suspected Temple Cat Being Charlie may have gotten a baby Robbin and i had to quickly act, possibly to save a life.

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Robbins, like humans, mate for life. Only, they are better at it than we.

which made the poignancy of the following m(om)ent that much more, well…poignant.

sure enough, there sat Charlie behind Split Tree…his favorite Killing Field. beside him, in shock, sat quivering the world’s most precious Baby Robbin.

i chased, lovingly, Charlie away with a nearby fallen ponderosa limb. brought him inside. locking all the doors.

went back outside.

Momma was going off. beside herself. would not you?

i chanted, audibly, the Mantra to her 21x. opening my Heart, letting her know how terribly, terribly sorry i was.

then i went inside to tell Dewa and Ananda what had and is happening. i gave Charlie love. he sensed he may have done something “wrong,” yet at his Level, he was not quite able to Connect The Dots, so punishing him for something that is his Nature, would not be appropriate.

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i went back outside.

Baby Robbin, in her shocked, confused state of possibly fatal injury was gone.

Momma was still leaping from low branch to low branch in a different spot leading me to think that perhaps Baby Robbin was at least mobile and possibly could live. i kept that positive thought in my heart as i looked at Momma, chanting for another 21x.

in the fading light of the Sacred San Francisco Peaks, i saw – way up high – Pappa Robbin, still doing his desperate fly-bys.

i Prayed and then came inside to write this to my Beloved Sangha, thinking somehow,
someway…

doing so might just Shift the Vibrations of the Plane(t) enough to keep that Precious Baby Robbin alive. which is why it is really, really important – especially on nights as these – to check DL for new entries…for the Dharma comes fast and quick and the World of Beings may need your Help via Conscious Thought.

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in Buddhism
my taking notice of the frenetic calls of Pappa and Momma Robbin
and taking Appropriate Action (WF Lifestyle Principle #3)
is known as
“taking Abiding Interest.”

may this entry one day help my Baby Daughter be a more Awakened Human.
may this entry inspire all Beings to be Knowers and Lovers of Bird Beings.
may this entry inspire all Beings to take Abiding Interest in the sounds around them and take Appropriate Action when necessary.

may this humble, feeble entry…

help
Momma, Pappa, and Baby Robbin on this night of all nights
beneath the Sacred Peak.

May All Beings In All Realms Be Happy,

your loving mountain yogi

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