Wholistic Fitness

SO, WHAT’S SO BAD ABOUT DUST?

Dearest Mr. Ilg,
A friend suggested I look at your site, and so I did. Your practice and principles seem sound. This caught my attention.

“The powerful Meditations within this room left an outline of Chenreezig Buddha on the wall above where my Puja table had been.”

Mr. Ilg, as a practitioner of the somatic and contemplative arts/sciences for over twenty years I feel it is my duty to inform you that the outline is not due to powerful meditations. It is due to dust.

Namaste,

JB
Boone, NC

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Most Noble One On The Path Of Awareness…

i bow to the time and effort you took to write, to your body/mind Practice, and to your metta.

So, Kalyana Mitra, what annoys you about Chenreezig’s “Dust” upon my wall?
Are these Dust particles somehow less Sacred to your “twenty years” of Practice than the
red smudge of Kum Kum powder upon a forehead on a yogi in Benares?

Is a Bench Press that much less holy than a Chaturanga?

You judge my personal meditations as not powerful? So be it. For i am the first admit
my feebleness as a yogi.

So, Kalyana Mitra, how do you think my Chenreezig Dust get there, upon my Zendo wall?

by me watching TV
or
by me watching my mind-waves during an average of 6.50 hours of Meditation per week
as predawn smoke of Incense arose like fingers intertwined among my Puja table deities?

you come quickly and intellectually into my Warrior Temple of Sweat and Stillness
of a quarter century
to accuse me like a child of sophomoric and false Teaching and weak meditation skills?

perhaps it is my duty to
“inform you”
oh Fellow Traveler on the Path,
that It is my Duty
my SvaDharma assigned to me by my Teachers
to attempt publicly and without reservation the bridge between western Fitness enthusiasts
and a noble Eastern Lineage of
Mountain Yogis…
no easy feat, especially for such a feeble yogi as i.
i trust you could have Served my Teachers far more capably than i,
of that i do not hold doubt. though i have always started well below average in nearly everything i have attempted,
i can endure.

in-Deed, if i have learned one thing in this incarnation,
it is how to keep my Practice strong and consistent within all physiologic realms.

many
read of my words of the Wholistic Fitness Path on DL
and are Internet-quick to write to me
without
first
Sweating
through the brilliance of WF training
month after month,
let alone decades.

My Temple is strong,
enjoy your tea.

in strength and spirit,

coach ilg