Just wanted to say I hope your DL’s keep rolling out of that Chi filling mind! Almost every week one just speaks right to my heart!
-Joe, a WF SanghaLounger Extraordinaire
Spokane, WA
Meet and talk with Joe and nearly 60 other WF worldwide warriors exchanging Practice insights and encouragements and inspirations each day in the WF SanghaLounge, available only to DL Subscribers.
The Masters have always warned the aspirant along the Path of Awakening not to seek too wide; learn and develop a few Proven Tools of Transformation from your Teacher, then Practice going DEEPER for years. Too many Students do not know how to control their hunger for spiritual growth and turn outward to become addicts to new styles of yoga, meditations, personal growth seminars, books, etc. Meanwhile, they do not See the magic of Transformation available to them right beneath their noses; such as a toilet, a stairwell, or a toothbrush. This type of spiritual ignorance is the root cause of all human suffering; assuming to know things without truly Seeing their intrinsic nature. If we constantly think we need a new mantra, a new Teacher, a new Teaching…you know what happens? Our most important, basic Tools that we first learned from our Teacher(s) – perhaps something as simple as “Conscious Breath and Posture” throughout the day – becomes dull, cold, and useless. In WF Online Training, i have a 25-year old Path of Progressive Proven Tools that are only given when the Online Student is READY and has shown mastery in his or her current Level of Attainment. This type of one-on-one training beneath a Teacher for each Student ensures that the Student does not become a “Spiritual Materialist” or an Addict to thinking that More Is Better. Remember one of my first Teachings to you so long ago:
“Less is more.”
enjoy the following Teaching and i will see you in the WF SanghaLounge!
photo: snow is falling at the WF Temple H(om)e yet my Ax of Awareness is never allowed to become dull by searching outside my current Practice or Teachers. Deep, not Wide. That is how we strike the true Go(l)d; the Awakening of Kundalini through strong and capable gross, subtle, and refined anatomy. photo by coach
DEPTH NOT WIDTH; Look Within, Not Wider
by coach ilg for the WF Sangha
Why is it a wise notion for a Warrior to hang out and check out all the new Posts in the WF SanghaLounge? Cause every now and then I pop my head into the various caves in there and facilitate for free. That’s right; occasionally you get complimentary coaching from me if you just show up in the SanghaLounge and contribute.
Below is an example of how I chose to keep Online Student JJ of Chicago (Go Bears!) working on depth of practice instead of grasping for more “tools”. Remember my quote, Noble Yogins, whenever you think your Practice is stalling out. Just repeat to yourself:
“In this moment,
Am I concentrating or
Am I grasping?”
– coach ilg
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Dear WF SanghaLoungers,
Many thanks for all of your comments. They are wonderful and have given me a great deal to think about over the past several days.
I am a husband and a father of four daughters and have often thought about this question of the steep and direct path to enlightment. I think I am on it, or at least on the path that is appropriate for me, and it feels awfully steep and direct. It occurs to me that I have many more teachers than just Coach Haku. WF is important, but for me it is like a thread that winds through and binds together teachings I receive from my wife, my children, my pastor, my colleagues and others. I need all of these teachings right now and it would not be appropriate for me for now to follow the path of a solo warrior.
The greatest teaching that I have received is from my three eldest children about four or five years ago. It was about two weeks before my wife was due with our fourth child and the other three children were freaking out. Their behavior was awfull and I needed to correct it. I tried all sorts of things and nothing seemed to work. I was at my wits ends. Finally, I thought about Jesus and his sacrifice and opened my heart to my children and simply loved them and accepted them. I felt a power move through me and my heart seemed to grow bigger (not unlike the Grinch in the Grinch who stole Christmas) and, after about twenty minutes, the children grew calmer and everything was better. Sometimes I forget, but I do try to remember this lesson in love and acceptance.
JJ
COACH RESPONDS IN THE SANGHALOUNGE:
Most Noble Online Shishya JJ,
i bow to your ongoing Awakening.
you can find what i call the “Jesus Granthi’s” (see my DL in the Archives on the subject) on the tops of the feet (heart/lung chi line) and by opening the wrists (you will find by Direct Experience the pain soaked nail wounds where we nailed Jesus to the cross; see my DL in the Archives onthe Tall Mind/Wide Mind metaphysics on the cross).
Do you already See how many Tools you have already left behind you, cold and as useless as a dull ax buried in the snows of ignorance?
you need not look for “more” Tools.
you will get heavier instead of Lighter.
you have all you need already; trust me.
as your Level of Attainment rises, then you will find a more upgraded model of the Tools you are currently using, yet not to their fullest advantage.
Breath and Posture, yogi!
go deeper; work on your depth of Practice; not width.
width brings dillution.
depth brings inSight.
ask Teacher Haku to get you on my Opening The Vents online program to facilitate the energetic cusp upon which you balance;
ever onward, ever upward, endlessly inward.
om so ti,
coach ilg
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