here i am, photo right, attempting to claim my space as the race course narrows to singletrack only 12 seconds after the Start Gun. you have to know you belong at the front in order to race at the front of a race. same thing in life; you have to know you have the potential […]
Metaphysical Teachings From Pagosa Duathlon – Race Report #1 “To excel in a sport is not mastery of self-cultivation.”– steve ilg photo of coach racing at Pagosa Mountain Duathlon last month, shortly before a high-speed crash. coach went on to win by a 20-second margin. photo by Tom Steen The spiritual advantages of being an […]
Imagine that you had gone all your life without ever washing, and then one day you decide to take a shower. You start scrubbing away, but then watch in horror as the dirt begins to ooze out of the pores of your skin and stream down your body. Something must be wrong: You were supposed […]
Don’t we know, only too well, that protection from pain doesn’t work, and that when we try to defend ourselves from suffering, we only suffer more and don’t learn what we can from the experience? As Rilke wrote, the protected heart that is “never exposed to loss, innocent and secure, cannot know tenderness; only the […]
BEST SEAT IN DA HOUSETaking a Squirrel incarnation could mean that we ‘hoarded’ and ‘gathered’ too many possessions in this or another lifetime. The compulsion to ‘attain and hoard from others,’ is one example of a kleshic tendency of which all Conscious Fitness Warriors, intend on Wholeness, must be watchful. i grabbed this shot yesterday […]
“On the withered tree,a flower blooms.”– DT Suzuki As we continue – at our own Level and Willingness – our Journey toward Wholeness, there is nothing that we won’t face. Among the dizzying depths of years of strength training, cardio training, yoga, meditation, mastery of food, and of course the constant in-our-face Lifestyle Principles which […]
The Compassionate Heart of the Awakening Hips by coach steve ilg4*09with bows to ShantiDeva do not republish without permission The energy within opening hips is the supreme nectar that overcomes the laziness of spiritual slumber. It is the inexhaustible treasure which eliminates poverty in the wholeness of fitness. It is the supreme medicine that quells one’s inner […]
Rest in natural great peaceThis exhausted mindBeaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought,Like the relentless fury of the pounding wavesIn the infinite ocean of samsara.Rest in natural great peace. NYOSHUL KHEN RINPOCHE
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