What should we “do” with the mind in meditation? Nothing at all.Just leave it, simply, as it is.One Master described meditation as “mind, suspended in space, nowhere.” – Sogyal Rinpoche *** For Ananda’s birthday yesterday, we both received a Healing from theGaden Shartse Tibetan Monks. For me, it was welcome and needed step step back […]
Life is not about how fast you can run, or how high you can climb. Although, cultivating such skills are required to know the Buddha of Intensity. Life is really about how well you can bounce. The highly skilled yogin possess strength, endurance, suppleness, and the mental control in order to maintain the rhythm of […]
photograph of coach and Ananda last week by Melissa Grimes; Melissa’s Photography Blog Noble Sangha, regardless of my 30+ years spent in Meditation and Inner Work, it remains a most difficult Sacred Duty being the Helmsbeing of WF. all such Inner Work done on myself has really only Highlighted the obvious fact that i have […]
WF Online Shishya Tina B – my long time friend, yogini, and a kickass Krav Maga Teacher – from Los Angeles stretches into the Pacific Sunset… “To my beloved Coach ilg, WOW!! The DL has been sooo great! July’s 1st was a hot Teaching for me being that I have a hard time with taking […]
Noble Coach:About ten years ago the left side of my face froze — Bell’s palsy. This was during my third year of law school, after my wife got pregnant. I can still feel a little tenderness in one of my nerves if I press the right spot under my left cheekbone. Anyway, I’ve been noticing […]
“In WF, every day is Earth Day.”– coach ilg I heard him the day before yesterday while working in the Temple Office.then again yesterday up at about 8,500′ in Dry Lake Hills on Sunset Trail on Gunther, my mountain bike, i heard him again. haven’t seen him yet. just heard him. and in my hearing […]
click here: WF Lifestyle Principle; Lateral Dominancy Thank you Oh Noble Shishya Hakado Ru! May it help. When we allow ourselves the unquestioned addiction to lateral dominancy,we create a neural, chemical, and spiritual dysfunction of massive proportion. Question everything; especially in which hand your computer mouse is always inand your spine while reading this. Dysfunction […]
yesterday, something prompted me to walk away from the computer and take a few conscious breaths out on “Red Fox deck”…our back deck here at Two Tree Manor. turning toward a delightful sound coming from the next door neighbor’s yard, my eyes fell upon a flock of birds feasting upon the dried berries of my […]
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