pic: several weeks ago…feeble yogi ilg enjoying a skiers winter life in our precious, heavenly hamlet beneath the sacred peak of Dibé Nitsaa with my live-in Rinpoche; Dewachen Ilg (8). tis a great Medicine Blessing to have nearly died 3x in this one lifetime for rare is the moment – let alone a day – ever lived without unspeakable gratitude.
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“as i was beginning to die,
a high-velocity movie of my entire life began flashing…
every deep rooted emotion i had experienced gripped and shook my cellular body…
i could viscerally feel the ‘hurt’ i had caused upon people and animals,
i could viscerally feel the ‘good’ my life had caused upon people and animals…
intellect was still firing, barely…filaments of supra consciousness were attempting to take the (Dharma) Wheel…
what was left of “me”…this body/ego known as ‘ilg’ fought a sublime battle dance with Surrendering to Death; she felt sooooo inviting…the magnitude of this Plane(t) Earth and all her complications seemed like such a downer to the elevation of transcending Realms…
yet,
fight for this precious human life ilg did…
3x so far…
coulda gone either way…
the details are not important (but, in my upcoming ‘biography’ you’ll read all the juicy details of my 3 near-death experiences) what IS important is that you understand that the dissolution of the inner and outer sheaths is a TRAINABLE c(om)ponent during this lifetime.
and ilg is ALL ABOUT training, as you know.
so, if we are not TRAINING for the navigation of what we ‘do’ when we cannot manage another inhale?
then, uh…what ARE we training for?
we are training for the PODIUM, of course!
the PODIUM of the HUMAN RACE!
and it’s not called the Human RACE for nuthin’!!!
it is a RACE TOWARD ENLIGHTENMENT!!!!
are you training appropriately?