Pain isweakness leaving our bodies, sure. Pain is also intensity strengthening our weaknesses. Pain is karma spin balancing our granthis. Seek pain for spiritual sauca, however,do not Attach to it. the ignorant areoften more comfortable in conscious sufferingthan in doing the work of spiritual evolution. Remember continuously that our nature is fluid,not solid.We are more […]
USA’s Jonathan Page (Planet Bike) on the run-up.Photo ©: Roberto Bettini/www.bettiniphoto.net Superprestige #4 – Hamme Zogge, C1, Belgium, November 23, 2008Elite Men *** text and photos by ilg except where noted.re-use by permission only please. click on pics to enlarge. *** “ilg, i can’t believe you don’t cyclecross race! it’s like ideally suited to you!” […]
Dear Coach, I am so glad to hear from you. I have been thinking and wondering this week; “Am I doing this right?” “I must not know some of the etiquette and requirements for this journey.” And indeed, your note confirms that I am missing some things! Thank you! I so want to do this […]
i recall a Dharma story about either Shankaracharya(wow, that was a m(om)ment…i can’t believe i spelled that right from the top of my feeble head! thank you, Brahman!) i’m gonna hatchet the hec outta this DharmaStory, so if any of you know the REAL version,let me know in the SanghaLounge under the DL Cave, thanks. […]
yesterday evening,roller skiing beneath an alpenglow splashed across thethe Sacred Peak…a sudden and timeless peace comes to my Soul when Oneness seems to mix sky withmy sweat…a release of hormones floods my aging,blessed body and mind; i grow young again and again and endlessly again. more seductive than any x-rated anythingis this sweat and sky […]
WF Master Student Alan “L’gate” Ludgate and iright after our Imogene Pass Race this September. Downtown Telluride, Colorado. Photo by Sara Wagner (who finished 3rd OA in Womens!) earlier this month i got this from MS L’Gate: “Namaste! So my 4 year old and I are taking a father / son shower yesterday, having a […]
“I don’t think we are all going to sit around and sing ‘Kumbayah’.”– Armstrong is aware of the strained relationships with the Tour de France.Photo ©: Mike Gladu (Click for larger image) *** Some people think i can’t be “won over.”Not true.You know that Boy Band dude, Lance, on “Dancing With The Stars”…yup, he’s winning […]
WF Chi Hit from the past…steve ilg on the never-repeated “Balloon Saloon Traverse,”Pagosa Springs, Colorado. circa 1990. i called it the Balloon Saloon because the route was this excruciatingly long traverse along a historic wall of an old saloon in downtown Pagosa Springs, and you had to be as light as a balloon to make […]
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