Dear Steve:
This what I think was a workout during one of my Durango intensives
Major Chi hits on that trip.
Merry Christmas and Happy New year to all your family. Hopefully our path will cross soon.
Ai Imawa
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“A ‘resolution’ is an impart upon the Tao which, in spiritual training, is a no-no…
however, if you choose me to play your game? i shall answer thusly:
my New Years’ Resolution is to re-incarnate into a MUCH HIGHER Teacher so that it doesn’t take soooooo long for the Outer World to
catch up with the Truth of Wholeness which sings, dances, animates, and orchestrates my Being, my Lifestory: Wholistic Fitness®!!!”
You, my Students…have again Taught me my Highest Lessons this year…
and continue to inspire my own Practice Ever Higher, Ever M0re Whole…
i missed the first one cuz i got to Dewa-sit while Joy taught…i’m truly visualizing making this one!
how about you?!
…so, i took it to them on for the first of three excruciatingly painful 2k Laps on a very soft course upon which i knew would deteriorate quickly so i hammered it FAST and HARD right out of the gate and was thankful that my shooting held up as i shot at the bottom of the exhale (Kumbhaka Paruna in yoga) during the first shooting stage…
Sit quietly. From the depths of your heart, invoke in the sky in front of you the embodiment of the truth in the person of your master, a saint, or an enlightened being. Try to visualize the master or buddha as alive and as radiant and translucent as a rainbow. If you have difficulty […]
All those negative thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions that are the cause of our negative karma are engendered by self-grasping and self-cherishing.
Sometimes people think that when they meditate there should be no thoughts and emotions at all; and when thoughts and emotions do arise, they become annoyed and exasperated with themselves and think they have failed. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is….
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