we have created all sorts of great ‘fitness systems’ yet rare indeed is the Personal Fitness Path which interweaves our most important aspect of sweat and our spirit which animates it; our death entry. yet, you tell ilg: what higher fitness training is there? name a more Sacred Workout than the one which begins when we cannot take another inhale. does YOUR fitness path train you for this most precious mOMent? oh, there are also a lot of nice theories about death…which seem great…until one is dying…
There are those who look on death with a naive, thoughtless cheerfulness, thinking that for some unknown reason death will work out all right for them, and that it is nothing to worry about. When I think of them, I am reminded of what one Tibetan master says: “People often make the mistake of being frivolous about death and think, ‘Oh well, death happens to everybody. It’s not a big deal, it’s natural. I’ll be fine.’” That’s a nice theory until one is dying.
– Sogyal Rinpoche
how deeply saturated is YOUR Blessed Mantra…will you default to it upon your Bardo Entry? if not,
what will be your Bardo Entry thought which dictates soooo much about our Next Time Around?
No thoughts of taxes, mortgages, job, wealth, playoffs, etc…
Just thoughts of my kids, distinct images of life as a child on the reservation
all to the tune of my breath and hawk cries…..
Most precious moment indeed! Thank you coach Ilg for this post. What an amazing photo too!