Grant your blessings so that my mind may be one with the Dharma. Grant your blessings so that Dharma may progress along the path. Grant your blessings so that the path may clarify confusion. Grant your blessings so that confusion may dawn as wisdom. GAMPOPA Noble Sangha,well, i’m just about out the door to crank […]
“If you’re lucky enough to be a runner, well then, you are lucky enough.”– Hopi Sayingphoto from last year’s Start Line at Old Oraivi…our nation’s oldest continually inhabited village (established in 1150). that’s pale face ilg, the only one with pecs, right behind last years and this years first place female winner, Alvina Begay – […]
“If time truly is endless, we are very wrong to think of it as a straight line that stretches from a distant past to the most remote future. That line simply has to be curved. Sooner or later, it must meet itself and form a circle. Only circles go on forever. Perhaps, as we are […]
Mt. Rainer and “Spaceship Clouds” from Peter Murray of Vashon Island, Canada Most Precious Sangha, some pretty big Energy sweeping around the Temple these days…i’ll fill you in after the weekend. i’ll do my best to blog before i leave, however, if i don’t make it (i know my Snowshoe Race Report is past due!) […]
as a yogi, feeble ilg realizes “i’m” to remain as much as possible in the Eternal Now. however, because ilg is such an astonishingly feeble yogi, “i’ve” been very much taken out of the Present M(om)ent because of a Deep Love for winter weather. i nearly pack’d up my Clan to drive over to Telluride […]
i had found my Prayer Wheel; and it was my own flying feet… – an injured coach ilg, in the final 800 meters of the Old Oraibi 8k footrace The START LINE was a scratch of blue cornmeal across the weather-smoothed dirt in the America’s most continuously inhabited village Old Oraibi. Race Director Juwan Nuvayokva, […]
Pre Race Day of the Old Oraibi 8k; Hopi Reservation, Arizona, last saturday. *** “If something can be remedied,Why be unhappy about it?And if there is no remedy for it,There is still no point in being unhappy.”– ShantidevaGuide to the Boddhistva’s Way of Life one of the images that will be sure to flicker past […]
To work with changes now, in life: That is the real way to prepare for death. Life may be full of pain, suffering, and difficulty, but all of these are opportunities handed to us to help us move toward an emotional acceptance of death. It is only when we believe things to be permanent that […]
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