– NYOSHUL KHEN RINPOCHE
Such is the benefit, the beauty of being born into a Warrior Caste…
study the Scriptures of the Ancient Enlightened Ones…
you’ll quickly find Realization that
loving the sweat,
cherishing the stillness,
skillfully befriending breath and mindwaves
during sport,
during practice
has elevated us Warriors closer toward Awakening
then the common man
– rooted in lethargy, addicted to sense pleasures, slovenly grasping for
convenience over nobility.
How Blessed are We
to know the necessity of lifestyle fitness?
Of sweating each day to rinse clear the Clouded Mind and Eye and Heart?
Even if we remain scared of meditating,
too frightened to close the chambers of input
and sit still?
It’s okay,
for at least you are unplugged from the iPod as you sweat
and
that alone,
might just be enough fodder for Awakening Higher
in the next life.
Tell feeble ilg if it is not.
Is not everything that is your Weakness
also your Gateway Higher?
Is not the muscle that is tight and restricted
also the the same springboard to Sacred Joy
as you soften it
and grow
more accurate in your silent m(om)ents?
Dharma Blessings upon thy Practice today…
your Rever-End ilg
photo: Leg of ilg. there is actually a rock climbing route in Eldorado Canyon named after these wheels of my current incarnation. Let us all be grateful – those of us who have two legs – let us use them as Go(o)d intended:
as our Dharma Wheels! Get out and do…sweat so you can begin to See.
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