The exhaustion and sacrifice – personally and financially – inherent to Consciously Parenting a chi-ld is astoundingly lopsided on the fatigue and i’m-going-to-start-throwing-furniture-through-the-window exasperation yet even more astoundingly, confound-ably, and Divinely balanced by mere m(om)ents when even the sun and stars fade into a whirling stillness of inner brightening as your chi-ld becomes that Great Mirror of All Teachers, All Gurus, All Lama’s, All Rinpoche’s, all Traditions, all-trees, mists, mountains, flowers, fish, stones, and streams. Within their stream-entry of egoic-free laughters, the cosmos chuckle and such beauty as God is known in thy very cells causing my heart to re-ignite my own stumbling toward Enlightenment…
High Heart Rate with a view…
looking NE over Ophir Pass…the 4wd road pictured. the snow still tinges the southwest edge of the unnamed lake, about 1,200′ below my Pranayama perch. as i was immersed in my pranayama, an Osprey buzzed me at warp speed, nearly sending me off my perch! this is a very Go(o)d place to ilg…
average daily caloric intake last month: 980kcals
average daily caloric expenditure last month: 3,580 kcals
is it just ilg or is the Outer World really misunderstanding the difference between accurate, intuitive nutritional wisdom and egoic craving?
My precious shishya EYT shown here awash in San Juan wildflowers during our run/hike ascent of Engineer Peak last week. EYT (Elizabeth) is from England, and is taking Pilgrimage to Turtle Island from Germany. Within m(om)ents, EYT has charmed the Kundala off all us local WF/HP warriors with her inner radiance, fetching accent, and absolute fierceness of chi! Below, i asked EYT 7 Questions about her Pilgrimage here to the h(om)eland of WF in honor of the 7 Realms…enjoy and LEARN from the sage wisdom of this AMAZING student of our Beloved Path!
Gaden Shartse monks working on a Chenrezig Mandala at Open Shutter Gallery, downtown Durango today…Tomorrow evening, the Mandala will then be offered into the sacred waters of the Animas River…the Teaching is of Impermanence…
the most spiritually crippling dis-ease is lack of faith in our own inner ability to heal and transcend our challenges. – coach ilg, 1988
today’s yogis speak and teach of Mula Bandha,
they speak and teach of “universal alignment”…
they speak and teach so often of lofty, esoteric, ancient principles and techniques of the Ancient Enlightened Ones..yet,
year after year…it seems to feeble ilg…that few yogis do what it takes to simulate a…
The pork in your Egg McMuffin or McRib comes from pigs, of course. What you may not know is that those pigs are birthed by female “breeding” pigs who lead miserable lives, to put it mildly. They live in impossibly small enclosures called “gestation crates,” in which the pigs can barely move. These dirty, restrictive enclosures frequently cause pigs to become covered in sores, open wounds, and infections.