A private student experiencing genuine hip opening under the lovingly fierce feet of coach ilg in the WF Temple Zendo. photo by Ananda STUDENT:Dear Coach,In the process of pairing down various aspects of my life, I’m jettisoning my endurance-centric focus and am going back to the basics: breath, posture and more specifically, my hips. COACH:the […]
Planning for the future is like going fishing in a dry gulch;Nothing ever works out as you wanted, so give up all your schemes and ambitions.If you have got to think about something—Make it the uncertainty of the hour of your death.– GYALSÉ RINPOCHE photo; free stock
click on the photos for another round of DL Chi Hits… The Sacred Peak wearing her summer colors. photo by ilg, yesterday. Dear Steve;I have been a low-level practitioner of your teaching; I have yourbooks and DVDs, and I am trying, but that’s all I can say. I have onepassion in my life, and I […]
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this ain’t the World Championships any longer… (the Olympics are the same as the World Championships…just every Four Years they are ‘called’ the Olympics). it’s a friggin’ freak show of insipid, interlaced control by China’s ‘government’… i saw footage of the Women’s Marathon…so sterile…the ‘observers’ (formerly known as ‘fans’) were kept at Prisoner Type distance […]
i had found my Prayer Wheel; and it was my own flying feet… – an injured coach ilg, in the final 800 meters of the Old Oraibi 8k footrace The START LINE was a scratch of blue cornmeal across the weather-smoothed dirt in the America’s most continuously inhabited village Old Oraibi. Race Director Juwan Nuvayokva, […]
Pre Race Day of the Old Oraibi 8k; Hopi Reservation, Arizona, last saturday. *** “If something can be remedied,Why be unhappy about it?And if there is no remedy for it,There is still no point in being unhappy.”– ShantidevaGuide to the Boddhistva’s Way of Life one of the images that will be sure to flicker past […]
To work with changes now, in life: That is the real way to prepare for death. Life may be full of pain, suffering, and difficulty, but all of these are opportunities handed to us to help us move toward an emotional acceptance of death. It is only when we believe things to be permanent that […]
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