Wholistic Fitness

Funny thing about Refuge Routes; after enough noble efforts on them, we begin to develop a weird sense of ownership. It’s like, we kinda think we are Lord Master of this route and all her delights and tortures because we’ve tested our body, mind, and spirit over this same canvas of terra firma countless times through countless seasons of rain, snow, heat, and hail. We know how she feels as the early morning wall of light glints like a string of pearls through the pine boughs or marsh grasses. We’ve felt the fear of upcoming darkness on this route when Grandfather Sun slipped too quickly behind the buttes and cloaked our sweaty body with a shock of cold getting colder.

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“the ground of the ordinary mind”…functions like a storehouse, in which the imprints of past actions caused by our negative emotions are all stored like seeds. When the right conditions arise, they germinate and manifest as circumstances and situations in our lives…

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“Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of…”

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“ Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built.” ~ Rumi

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pic by ilg near my old h(om)e reservation of Pojoaque, New Mexico

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Campfires are Upa Guru’s of Tapas….ilg has Taught – err, attempted to Teach – you all about Tapas through my words, sweat, and actions for the past 3+ decades. Tapas = Spiritual Sweat which results in Karmic Purification. See the log above? See the smoke? THAT is Tapas. in that wafting, seductive, mesmerizing dance of smoke lies perhaps that most vital Teaching of all warrior athletes, certainly of all yogis. Do you know what that Teaching is?

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Despite the fact that the entire place is run like some sort of aging Texan mafia, and that nearly every staff member is a walking heart attack just waiting to happen, they are also all deeply adoring of kids, family, and really, really good southern-style food. And, of course, all things Texan.

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In a sense everything is dreamlike and illusory, but even so, humorously you go on doing things. For example, if you are walking, without unnecessary solemnity or self-consciousness, lightheartedly walk toward the open space of truth. When you sit, be the stronghold of truth. As you eat, feed your negativities and illusions into the belly of emptiness, dissolving them into all-pervading space. And when you go to the toilet, consider all your obscurations and blockages are being cleansed and washed away.

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