May All Beings Everywhere… Wake up every morning with the feeling… … that something wonder-full is about to happen… …May we use our Wholistic Fitness® skills to attack our weaknesses… …destroy Avidya… …and pursue Wholeness. crank your most Elegant Practice today in as many m(om)ents as possible…viva la WF! Photos: – 1; ilg piles drives […]
One of the greatest masters of Tonglen in Tibet was Geshe Chekhawa, who lived in the eleventh century. He was extremely learned and accomplished in many forms of meditation. One day when he happened to be in his teacher’s room, he came across a book lying open at the following lines: Give all profit and […]
it’s 5:18 am, this morning. four Wapiti prowl among pre-dawn light among the grasses of “Buddha Hill” behind the WF Temple H(om)e. My statue of Gautama Himself, momentarily trapped between the legs of a spring-born Elk child. i stall my steps out the door for my Early Morning Ritual walking meditation; content to leave my […]
oh, the excuses from Students not incorporating the fourth Noble Fitness Discipline of Wholistic Fitness® into their lives – Meditation. ilg has heard about the kids. the ‘bad knees.’ ilg has heard about the work schedule…the dogs, the lack of space, the lack of time… here is what is lacking;your willingness. your strength to sit […]
Coach!! Can you cook me a WF Blessed Mala for 100k+ prostrations?above; long-time WF Devotee Claudia *** Hello Noble Coach!!! Much has happened since we spoke last – I would like to come see you this fall to visit ananda and baby and check out flagstaff but before then I will be entering a tibetan […]
“Most men spend their entire lives fishingnever realizing that it’s not fishthat they are after.”– Henry David Thoreau When i first read that quote when i was a boy,it hit me like a brick. More on this insight coming up in DL,however,i just want this m(om)ent and this great picturetaken by Ananda of myself fishing […]
click on photos to enlarge We are what we eat. The current spike in childhood obesity, autism, etc, etc, along with the panoply of adolescent and adult dis-ease can often begin unwittingly by ‘too-busy’ mothers (enabled by their comfort-enabling partner?) who choose comfort over caring when it comes to day care and breast feeding. Our […]
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