Friend, I found this brilliant, incisive, simple: “I had many work plans for today.Then the day dawned.”{coach ilg in DL last week} From time to time I am reminded of something called the Eee Gad workout. I have an Outdoor Athlete’s Training Journal showing I did it a couple of times in October 95. Notes […]
“Anyway, was able to sneak in a 5-min. Zazen session in the men’s room at work.”– excerpt from WF Online Student Hakado Ru’s Wednesday Practice Update. This type of “just get it in” effort is why i gave Hakado Ru a coveted WF Master Student Inka! photo by coach:A Ouray, Colorado version of the “men’s […]
INNER STRENGTH To order this photo go to http://photo.azdailysun.comSTEVE ILG PERFORMS A yoga pose on the deck of his Cheshire home. Ilg is a world renown fitness expert and author specializing in Yoga. Photo: Jake Bacon/Arizona Daily Sun By KEITH JIRONSun Sports StaffWednesday, April 4, 2007 7:56 AM MST Flagstaff-based best-selling health and fitness author […]
Why Don’t Monks Squat? This one does. In fact, all WF Fitness Monks are required to take Study beneath the Squat Bar Zendo! i maintain that there is no Zafu Cushion quite as effective as a heavily loaded barbell across ones shoulders. Why Don’t Monks Squat? That is a fine question, one that i asked […]
Dead, our white bones lie silentwhen pine trees lean toward spring. Remembering, I sigh. Looking ahead,I sigh once more.This life is a mist. What fame?What Glory? – Li Po i took this photo of ‘Red Fox Deck’ here at the WF Temple H(om)e last week. With a New Baby Being on my horizon, i may […]
Yao-shan was sitting quietly in cross-legged meditation when a monk asked him,“In this immovable position, what are you thinking?” “Thinking of that which is beyond thinking,” said Yao. “How do you go on thinking that which is beyond thinking?” pressed the monk. “By not thinking.” – Zen storycontributed by HP Yogini Leslie, a student of […]
most beautiful and noble WF Student Daniel Sauve of Canada flies the WF Jersey while on location in Morocco. this is one amazing WF Father Warrior, lemme tell ya.below, his heart touching letter to me…THIS is why i have devoted my Life to this Path…letters like this from a guy like this…wow. this DL is […]
Noble Online Students, both Ananda and myself are realizing that several of you have sent emails that we have not received. a trick of Mara to destroy (y)our Abhyasa. please resubmit any emails that we have not addressed, because we are pretty much caught up on our end. also,contact your IPS and make sure our […]
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