Okay, after winning the nordic ski race earlier today (see PART I in this past week’s DL), i still have not had enough…you wanna go take some turns on the World Class Extreme Terrain of Telluride Ski Resort with the new Champion? right on! let’s go! okay, let’s share some turns on the ET (Extreme […]
i point toward one of the only two directions that i have cared about in my life;Upward. the other? inward. endlessly, inward. photo; several hundred feet above my Zen Center in Jemez, New Mexico. i would often invite my other Zen peers to come and run or hike or climb with me outdoors. few ever […]
Buddha sat in serene and humble dignity on the ground, with the sky above him and around him, as if to show us that in meditation you sit with open, skylike attitude of mind, yet remain present, earthed, and grounded. The sky is our absolute nature, which has no barriers and is boundless, and the […]
“The Lotus Folded Feet of a Teacher in the Amitabha Lineage must belong to a humble, confident yogi capable of a wide variety of physical and intellectual fitness. This yogin must prepare him or herself in order to be able to not only Teach yet Transmit that which is spiritually helpful to the masses relative […]
Great Buddha,lap filling with theseflowers of snow. – Kikaku recent photo of the WF Temple H(om)e’s Garden Buddha; “Shaky”
Namaste! just finished teaching a wonderful HP Yoga class here in Flag to bring to classically WF finishthe end of Day One of a WF Private Intensive with my cherished, long time Online Student, Michael Cerame fromNYC. we had a GREEEEAAAAAT time, which i will tell you more about later. right now, i just kinda […]
“Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts.”– Soygal Rinpoche “We must learn to be still in the midst of activity…and to be vibrationtly alive in repose.”– Indira Gandhi ***Photo 1) connie ilg, my sister, strikes a pretty pose during a Pacific sunset. […]
More than twenty-five hundred years ago, a man who had been searching for the truth for many, many lifetimes came to a quiet place in northern India and sat down under a tree. He continued to sit under the tree, with immense resolve, and vowed not to get up until he had found the truth. […]
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