Wholistic Fitness

Falling snow does this to me…
it opens my HeartSpace of Avalokiteshvara…

May this inspire your Practice ever Higher and Deeper today…

* i have, through this incarnation been introduced to an eon-old and ever growing personal pantheon of Formfull and Formless Teachers…and that’s a Great Blessing if you are as feeble of a yogi as i!

you know, that’s probably the “best” part of a lifelong Meditation Practice; you get to know your True Family and hang out with the Highest, Most Loving Teachers and Beings in your own (inner) UniVerse. you get to a point in your sadhana where you don’t need any more ‘spiritual books’ or ‘new age’ magazines or trinkets. you don’t need any more yoga classes or dvd’s…all you need is your Puja Space; a quiet, clean little personal ‘Practice Cave’ in which you Begin Again, and Again, and Endlessly Again that seemingly most difficult workout of all Human Beings; sitting still by ourself in Meditation.

my only Prayer through which i continue to forward the Path of Wholistic Fitness is that each Human Being awakens to their intoxicatingly fun and astonishing Inner Divine UniVerse through Meditation inspired from Multi-Disciplined Sweat and Stillness. Vairagya – or Dispassion – is perhaps the most powerful Accelerator of Self-Realization. if i were a more skilled Teacher, i could Transmit precisely why someone like myself; “America’s Original Multi-Extreme Athlete” could be so infatuated with the real “extreme sport” of lifelong Meditation.

Oh well, unless by some Deity-Applied Miracle i actually do attain Enlightenment in this lifetime, i promise i’ll do better job of being a Teacher next lifetime. do not worry; you won’t not recognize me; i’ll be even more stronger, more fitter, and more skilled in more sports and Outer Worldly things and be sooooo Radiant that All Beings In All Realms will be Awakened to what i have to share. Until then, obviously, given my amount of incalculable feebleness, i’ve got A LOT more Inner Work to do!

the One Thing i will NOT provide for you next lifetime is a more beautiful, powerful child to keep you all sincerely focused on the Upward, Inward Way…that cannot be done. Thus, my Highest Teaching to you all is the beauty and wisdom of my Daughter; Dewachen (see image of Her below with Ananda)

This morning felt very nordic…i awoke to the most luscious snow cast over our WF Temple H(om)e. and, thanks to the disconcerting amount of satellites polluting Father Sky’s Realm, i saw a most welcome electronic image; a big ol’ snowstorm laying over Kinlani…

…shall i wear Green or White today? thought perhaps Mother Earth…

…Red Fox Deck this morning…

…”Shahky”, our Backyard Buddha poses with Dewa and Ananda on Mother’s Day…

…and “Shahky” (short for “Shakyamuni”) this morning…if it is one Teaching that the Buddha embraced as pivotal for aspirants toward Enlightenment is Vairagya for without steadfast Non-Attachment, our ego will attempt to bring a sense of permanence to all that which is not, by nature, permanent. i am speaking here, of course, of ‘things’ like our homes, our children, our Loved Ones, our bodies.

the WF Student is trained EARLY on in his or her formative years within my WF System to start real-izing vairagya by becoming ‘dispassionate’ about things like the weather – as per my Stream Entry Meditation CD for instance. then, we become dispassionate or non-attached to the next level; such as not becoming attached to brushing our teeth without consciousness, so the beginning WF Student learns to brush his or her teeth while in yogi squat and using their non-dominant hand which begins our days with Practice instead of Habitual Pattern (addiction). WF is not about addiction, she is about freedom. and we must, Noble Yogis, start incrementally…for without Practice, vairagya is like – as the Scriptures say; a blunt knife…unable to cut through our veils of avidya.

remember, i’ve stopped nursing you along after 25 years of providing English translations of pivotal yogic terms. i am doing this to test your sincerity after all these years…you’ll have to do exactly what i STILL have to do each day; dig out the research for certain yogic terms until you know them by HeartSpace and Practice.

these are the TAF’s that come to me on this morning of mornings beneath the Sacred Peak…

May our Inner Workout as a Sangha today be to constantly be Aware of our many pockets of Attachment and kama and use our spiritual arrows of Vairagya from our majestic quiver that has been imparted to our strong backs from the WF Path, and shoot down arising dependence and pleasure upon all that which is impossible to hold onto.

as (one of) my Formless Teachers taught me, “With Vairagya, there is no difficulty.”

Om So Ti from the Sacred and Snowy Peak,

your mountain yogi