Namaste Noble Sangha!This is a really nice article about my recent National Qualifier race from the fine,hard working folks at SnowShoeMag.com! Check it out: Western Regional National Qualifier **** speaking of Snowshoe Racing…my most recent column at the USSSA site is up: USSSA; Ilg’s Training Feature *** And of course, to balance your inspiration to […]
Dearest Teacher, I’ve just started teaching yoga, attempting to bring some of your ‘mountain yogi spirit’ into my classes. It’s hard. I feel like a fool and I don’t know if I should continue. If i get too “out there” and say the “G” (God) word too much, I get reprimanded by both students and […]
If you are sitting, and your mind is not wholly in tune with your body—if you are, for instance, anxious or preoccupied with something—your body will experience physical discomfort, and difficulties will arise more easily. Whereas if your mind is in a calm, inspired state, it will influence your whole posture, and you can sit […]
Actual shot of my current Practice Journal which, one day, will result in a series of books to help other WF Sadhaka’s along their own Way. To celebrate my New Year – which usually involved either intense partying or intense outdoor efforts under the moon – my new role as a rookie Father Warrior saw […]
my two First Women…asleep in the sattvic waves of the vortex known as the “Yavapai-Apache Garden of Eden”…my choice for the ‘baptism’ of my daugther, Dewachen. From Pada One (DL 12/22): One half mile into my run, the sliver of trail veered west, tucking itself under the north wall of a soaring monolith of red […]
O love, O pure deep love, be here, be nowBe all; worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance,Frail living leaves burn with you brighter than cold stars:Make me your servant, your breath, your core. – RUMI photo by WF Warrior Super Agent, Ron Jones of his daughter Ronnie. RonJones.org
so there i was the other week, fully immersed in my mantra while doing one of my Morning Rituals; Zen Sweeping along the Buddha Garden Path. Suddenly, this lady comes walking hard upon Mother Earth, turning toward me right around the corner in my own backyard. Startled like a deer from my inner reverie, i […]
“That goodness is what survives death, a fundamental goodness that is in each and every one of us. The whole of our life is a teaching of how to uncover that strong goodness, and a training toward realizing it.” – Sogyal Rinpoche, My earliest formative spiritual training was the Tibetan Mountain Lineage. That Path has […]
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