after two weeks of snowshoe training here at Ski Hesperus, my tracks – both old and new – appear to ilg as Tibetan Prayer Banners; for each one was made with the Sacred Mantra as background to my heaving cardio efforts…
ilg’s parenting technique is pretty Taoist, really…
all-Ways let your chi-ld;
* Lead
* Set the agenda
* Feel
my Sva-Dharma* as ‘Dad’?
* Follow with compassion, listening, spaciousness before replying, and respond within empathy
* Monitor the Dewa-set agenda for safety, spiritual lessons, and to maximize the fun and focus
* Feel
some other pics from our Clan Day In The Fresh, Beautiful, Empowering Snow…
a shot from when feeble ilg “had it all” from an Outer World perspective; 6 figures in the bank account, a harem of fitness honeys, celebrity fitness clients, my own yoga studio, and thankfully, still the Divine Light showed me the Way Higher and out from this trap…photo by (unnamed) after a full night of partying at the Bellagio, Las Vegas, circa 2004. Below, i answer a shout for help from a young gun in LA who found himself in my same spiritual trip and trap…you might be surprised at my answer….
and so…until the freshly fallen autumn colors surrender beneath a blanket of welcomed snows,
may you dance with delight like the untethered chi-ld that you are
among the vivid, changing colors of illusion which make up this DreamSpeak we call, “life”…
cuz, when we Awaken out of this Dream?
it’s gonna be soooo
utterly
Go(o)d..
that we will finally,
forever,
KNOW!!!!
Noble Sangha,
just like the opening WF quiz in my latest book; TOTAL BODY TRANSFORMATION, i create these things not from Mastery of being a 35-year student of this Path, rather, because feeble ilg remains perhaps the most feeblest STUDENT of his own Path…enjoy…and most importantly; may your Practice Benefit! tell me how you did!
i’m accepting Openings for new students for WF Online Training at nirvanic levels if you reply to this Teaching within 24 hours…steve@wholisticfitness.com
head bowed,
ilg
within seconds of my posting of my Pumpkin Teaching, my most Precious Master Student of WF; PY fired me this pic with all the velocity inherent to a Vajarapani dharmic arrow…
there are two Paths which lead up the steepest of all terrain toward the Highest of all possible summits (and ilg can speak here from direct experience): one is the renunciate/easier Path…
the other?
is the Householder Path…
take today, for instance…
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