This is Schultz Creek Trail, right across the street from the WF Temple H(om)e. “Schultzy” is one of Arizona’s…nay, the entire southwest’s most popular mountain biking trails. Why, on any given summer day? Dozens and dozens of mountain bikers careen up and down this trail. Yesterday? i saw but one other skier on Schultzy, and she turned promptly around once i passed her…i was left alone in the white wildness…Schultzy seductively flirting with me beneath my skis…a faint, serpentine wrinkle winking at me here and there beneath a heaving mass of snow. cyclists would do well, i reckon, to trade their cycles for a pair of skis during such a season to pay winter homage to their cherished slice of singletrack heaven.
Indeed! so, where be all the fancy mountain biking and motorcycling “Speed Demons” now, eh?
Where art Thou with Thy’s ignoble Dual Suspension and iPod-driven adrenalin, now?!
more than likely, at home. warm. entertaining themselves with video games? so predictable…like sheep.
How predictable, how ‘conditional’ is the love and the fitness of the sport-specific!
come with me as i escort you into the always embracing world of Wholistic Fitness whereuopn we cherish and sweat within and listen to sacred silences of our Beloved Outdoor Temple in ALL of Her Graceful Seasons!
This is WF Online Student Daniel Sauve of Canada during his Private Intensive with me last summer. He’s cranking up Schultzy at about mile 1.5. This Schultzy in all her glowing Yang; heat, sun, dry…
and here is the same section yesterday as, believe it or not, even three days since the winter storm, i still had to be the one to break trail into the deep powder right at this point; on track skis!…why, where i come from in Colorado? to lay down First Tracks on such a ‘popular’ trail in winter is the highest-sought after prize of all!…
the Yin of Schultzy…cold, shadowy, wet…
Student Sauve meets me at the famous ‘hook up’ place at mile 3.5 on Schultzy; the “Lincoln Logs” in summer…
…Lincoln Logs? What Lincoln Logs?
WF Student Alex enjoying the Yang Chi of Schultzy…
…yesterday, at the same place…
it’s always been a funny thing to my mind. the most elemental step in the training of a yogi – or any spiritual aspirant – is the overcoming of Dualtity…to pay not preference for being warm or cold, rich or poor, sad or happy. it has long been my observation that the UnAwakened stay Attached to environments that are warm, comfortable, full of sensual pleasures.
what a pensive thought travels within my cells; how will these poor Attached Souls fair in the very, very, very first moment of the Bardo which is described as ‘intense cold’ and ‘atomic level pain’?
in WF, it is our Tradition to embrace all sports, all disciplines in all weather without judgment yet with even-minded acceptance to prepare our spiritual fortitude for that incredible Realm of Realms into which we all must travel; the Bardo.
from the Yin and Yang of Schultzy, this feeble mountain yogi bids you much purification through your multi-discipline Practice…
Om Mani Padme Hung,
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