Isn’t it extraordinary that our minds cannot stay still for longer than a few moments without grasping after distraction? They are so restless and preoccupied that sometimes I think that living in a city in the modern world, we are already like the tormented beings in the intermediate state after death, where the consciousness is said to be agonizingly restless.
“In the ancient meditation instructions, it is said that at the beginning, thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually, as you perfect meditation, thoughts become like…”
feeble ilg prays this Teaching enters your cells with your Breath and Posture conscious… on the 3-hour drive down to my ailing M(om)’s casa in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, ilg experienced a 3-hour long Mula Bandha, Ujjayi, and Mantra workshop (self created) that catapulted me into a very high state of Vibration in order to be as Clear and Strong for my just-out-of-hernia-surgery 82 year-young M(om)….i arrived in the Land of Enchantment, absolutely, totally Enchanted…ilg has all-Ways dug It (Lila) down here and even under the pensive circumstance, my inner self beamed with Sacred Happiness….Practice paying off, once again…
buckle up, the next two pics might be tough on the queasy:
The Buddha Taught us that if we can just feel the impermanence of carrots, a dish or pot, our eyes, our lives…
then a torrent of Divine Joy can fill our mundane moments with the Realization that each m(om)ent is Sacred Time..
May We Deepen Our Meditation Discipline to Feel the Depth of It All…
even the Anger,
the Frustration,
the Unfairness,
the Joy
of It All…
an Eagle Bone flute song drifts into the passing cloudscape as my own life drifts between the Outer and Inner Worlds…
Blessed be thy (W)holy Sweat…and Stillness…
May my own feeble efforts at living the high, lofty, unparalleled Path of Awakening through Wholistic Fitness™
be of Benefit to your own Practice of it…send me YOUR WF Noble Efforts! Inspire other WF Warriors; no matter the degree of accomplishment;
for what matters is the purity of Intent and Nobility of effort!
If you have faith, sooner or later it may well be put to the test, and wherever the challenge may come from—from within you or from outside—it is simply part of the process of faith and doubt.
As Race Day nears, there is no more physiologic training effect that we can ‘gain’ in the last few
days…many will overdo these taper days out of compulsion, fear, lack of quality off/pre season training…
i designed the following Meditation specifically for the early days of a Taper Week…this Inner Silence Meditation sets an astral foundation of mental spaciousness upon which we will run Pre-Race Visualizations and Meditations later in the week…
Use it…please do not share with non-Members unless you ask me…thank you…this Meditation does carry a Transmission Effect from our Lineage;
INNER SILENCE Meditation
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