i first met Emma, daughter of John and Jewels Doskicz when she was 5 years old. John, as some of you may know, owns the incredible Vertical Relief climbing gym and Northern Arizona Yoga Center in Flagstaff, AZ where i used to teach. i would like all of you to make it a part of your Svadhyaya (spiritual study) to read the letter Emma wrote me below and then do i want did: contribute. Doing so, is certainly karmic fodder for the WF 3rd Lifestyle Principle; Appropriate Action.
as i lay prostrate upon Mother Earth in an attempt to photograph the stupa-like, bare-heiny’d figure of Dewa beneath the generous-in-death dying of an apple tree, even feeble ilg began to realize that this Fatherhood Journey of mine connects me ike an eon-old phurba to all my kind Teachers, Deities, and Guides of my past as well as to the Ancient yogis, saints, and compassionate actions-no-matter-what of practitioners. though my ego would have preferred the path of hermit than to the endless ricocheting of schedules and time/energy demands inherent to being the householder yogi ilg now finds himself in…all i can say is that i sense beyond the shadow of a Buddha, that these daze/days are in fact, sacred topography upon the map of my ever-evolving Soul..and that all my outer Pilgrimages give birth again and again to an inner pilgrimage far more sacred, far more subtle, far more exquisite than my feeble incarnation can even imagine to place before thee in word or form or action of any kind…
can you just puh-LEEEZE try to even tell me how much you love, adore, worship our Treasured Warrioress Ph.D PY?!? just fresh (read; DESTROYED) from finishing her second of Three WF Sacred Pilgrimages in one year (Mt. Taylor, Imogene), PY was THIS STOKED about getting back to Kinlani and taking to arm (errr….legs) her new and WELL EARNED pony….she writes:
The exhaustion and sacrifice – personally and financially – inherent to Consciously Parenting a chi-ld is astoundingly lopsided on the fatigue and i’m-going-to-start-throwing-furniture-through-the-window exasperation yet even more astoundingly, confound-ably, and Divinely balanced by mere m(om)ents when even the sun and stars fade into a whirling stillness of inner brightening as your chi-ld becomes that Great Mirror of All Teachers, All Gurus, All Lama’s, All Rinpoche’s, all Traditions, all-trees, mists, mountains, flowers, fish, stones, and streams. Within their stream-entry of egoic-free laughters, the cosmos chuckle and such beauty as God is known in thy very cells causing my heart to re-ignite my own stumbling toward Enlightenment…
Gaden Shartse monks working on a Chenrezig Mandala at Open Shutter Gallery, downtown Durango today…Tomorrow evening, the Mandala will then be offered into the sacred waters of the Animas River…the Teaching is of Impermanence…
today’s yogis speak and teach of Mula Bandha,
they speak and teach of “universal alignment”…
they speak and teach so often of lofty, esoteric, ancient principles and techniques of the Ancient Enlightened Ones..yet,
year after year…it seems to feeble ilg…that few yogis do what it takes to simulate a…
The pork in your Egg McMuffin or McRib comes from pigs, of course. What you may not know is that those pigs are birthed by female “breeding” pigs who lead miserable lives, to put it mildly. They live in impossibly small enclosures called “gestation crates,” in which the pigs can barely move. These dirty, restrictive enclosures frequently cause pigs to become covered in sores, open wounds, and infections.
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