Wholistic Fitness

where i get the WF Teachings? ilg cannot stop the torrential Divine Downpour of WF. not for 30 years, at least. sometimes, i just need to run into the bottom of the Grand Canyon and go upside down to stem the Flow and experience a quaint sense of Kailavaya. photo by Craig Ilg.

a couple of things before the DharmaTeaching from Rinpoche Sogyal.

1) thank YOU for all the Metta regarding Ananda and my’s Food Poisoning…
truly, i tell you, it was fantastic, enlightening Practice for those of
right at the nucleated fitness paradise of Wholistic Fitness! we do not take ill
often, so this was a great, needed, and important Gift from Shiva.

2) the reason why i coach yogis to Practice in and forge equanimity within
cold environments is not just because i love to ski!

it’s because a very early m(om)ent in the Dying Process includes the experience
of utter cold without being able to warm again. i have Taught extensively on this
subject in earlier DL’s. go fish if this important to you. if it is not? what is?

3) yes, both my HP YOGA STANDARD SLOW FLOW and STRONG FLOW PDF’s have been translated into Americanized (bastardized) terms…i must be getting soft in my old, Fatherhood age. check them both out plus all the other great Pay-Per-PDF’s right here:
coach’s Pay-Per-PDF’s

4) yes, the Random Rotation of pictures is now back in place at WholisticFitness.com
you may need to hit your Refresh button.

5) yes, ilg is on Facebook. another thing i ain’t exactly kicked up about, however, the tremendous outpouring of Sanghic Love is truly, truly, truly mesmerizing to my HeartMind.

6) yes, it is blizzarding here beneath the Sacred Peak. time is ripe for those of you who are using Doko Oosliid as an ishta deva to deepen your meditation time upon Her.

here, then, is Rinpoche’s DharmaTeaching:

At the time of Buddha, there lived an old beggar woman called Relying on Joy. She used to watch the kings, princes, and people making offerings to Buddha and his disciples, and there was nothing she would have liked more than to be able to do the same. But she could only beg enough oil to fill a single lamp. However, as she placed it before Buddha she made this wish: “I have nothing to offer but this tiny lamp. But through this offering, in the future may I be blessed with the lamp of wisdom. May I free all beings from their darkness. May I purify all their obscurations, and lead them to enlightenment.”

That night, the oil in all the other lamps went out. But the beggar woman’s lamp was still burning at dawn, when Buddha’s great disciple Maudgalyayana came to collect the lamps. He saw no reason why one lamp was still alight and tried to snuff it out. But whatever he did, the lamp kept burning.

Buddha had been watching all along, and said: “Maudgalyayana, do you want to put out that lamp? You cannot. You could not even move it, let alone put it out. If you were to pour the water from all the oceans over this lamp, it still wouldn’t go out. The water in all the rivers and lakes of the world could not extinguish it. Why not? Because this lamp was offered with devotion, and with purity of heart and mind. And that motivation has made it of tremendous benefit.”