S(om)etimes, especially given the WF quiver of Word Choice arrows designed to bring Awareness and Purification to our Speech, our Wholes(om)es lies in what c(om)es out of our mouth and keyboards! See below for a refresher course on my “TAF” Technique; a long-time part of this Proven Path of Transformation.
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.
So, up those seemingly endless, sky-high, snow-surrounded mountain passes, i cultivated the Witness Within. i practiced watching my effort -detached – without form watching the formfull. Basically? ilg just ‘watched ilg pedal up the mountain.’ This ‘witnessing’ technique is an ancient spiritual warrior tool for transforming suffering into mere effort. Suffering has emotional baggage, however pure Effort is Suffering without the emotional baggage.
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is it correct to assume that having negative thoughts are actually a blessing? A blessing only if you are aware that those thoughts are not beneficial to your well-being? Therefore, you can reverse the thought before it becomes action.
– Warrior Leaf
so, when the chronic crush of negativity, aggression, and turbulent emotions arise in what my ego self calls, “the mediocrity of Fatherhood,” ilg HAS TO use Mindfulness as my go-to Protector for not creating more black karma
WF has been sooooo far ahead of the rest of the sleeping masses for so long now…it’s not even funny. especially when we see this cascade of chi-less stuff purged by the neophytes looking for the next column square inch… just compare to the WF Techniques published over 3 decades ago and even the least sensitive can sense it: “Shoulda Listened To Coach A Long Time Ago!”
as i lay prostrate upon Mother Earth in an attempt to photograph the stupa-like, bare-heiny’d figure of Dewa beneath the generous-in-death dying of an apple tree, even feeble ilg began to realize that this Fatherhood Journey of mine connects me ike an eon-old phurba to all my kind Teachers, Deities, and Guides of my past as well as to the Ancient yogis, saints, and compassionate actions-no-matter-what of practitioners. though my ego would have preferred the path of hermit than to the endless ricocheting of schedules and time/energy demands inherent to being the householder yogi ilg now finds himself in…all i can say is that i sense beyond the shadow of a Buddha, that these daze/days are in fact, sacred topography upon the map of my ever-evolving Soul..and that all my outer Pilgrimages give birth again and again to an inner pilgrimage far more sacred, far more subtle, far more exquisite than my feeble incarnation can even imagine to place before thee in word or form or action of any kind…
The Full Strawberry Moon as She rises ever so gracefully like Brahman’s chariot racing upon lotus wheels and crystal pools of stars…
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