Unless you witnessed my Beloved through her pregnancy 5 years ago, one might easily pass off my Teachings as something “too athletic” or someother non-sense…just look at how Joy used her unswerving WF Devotion and not overcame medically ascribed “infertility” to conceive during my “Brahmacharaya” (celibacy practice), yet also transformed into Ganesha (the Elephant Goddess of Nurturing and Protection) in order to provide such an immense inner oceanic love station for Dewachen’s w(om)b time…
5 years in the flash of thunder…wow…
Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death forever. We know, in Milarepa’s words: “This thing called ‘corpse’ we dread so much is living with us here and now.”
ilg doesn’t know if this will help you or any other Parent out there, yet, i’m gonna offer you the same words i offered Joy tonight as she was in tears about Dewa’s tantrums…i wanna go on record however, even with over 3 decades of deep, wholistic coaching of hundreds of families…when it c(om)es to raising Chi-ldren? it’s like fishing in a dry gulch; it’s best to give up all your grand plans and expectations, and just Practice being present and grateful for the ride…
“The next breath, or the next life…we never know which may come first,” as my Tibetan Spiritual Teachers drilled into me…ilg shall never forget this m(om)ent when i first looked at my daughter’s blood-splattered snowsuit on the ONLY TIME i did not supervise her winter sledding and she ended up in the ER…below, Daddy Warrior KB relates a similarly Divine M(om)ent of our Spiritual Testing of Attachment/Aversion and how his reliance upon WF helped him…
Precious Giving Teacher Of All Things,
I have noticed that after yoga class sometimes you merge into what sounds like a cascade of chants or mantras or prayers or something…can you tell me more?
For all the decades of your Giving, Loving, and Devotion to dweebs like me trying to move Higher…
your endless student RM
COACH RESPONDS:
If only ilg had a dime for everytime i get this, “Oh ilg! Man, i only hear GREAT THINGS about your yoga classes, BUT…well, i am SOOOO in flexible, i’m gonna have to wait until i get more flexible before i show up at your class!”…
inwardly whenever i hear that? my mind defaults to two thoughts;
feeble ilg prays this Teaching enters your cells with your Breath and Posture conscious… on the 3-hour drive down to my ailing M(om)’s casa in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, ilg experienced a 3-hour long Mula Bandha, Ujjayi, and Mantra workshop (self created) that catapulted me into a very high state of Vibration in order to be as Clear and Strong for my just-out-of-hernia-surgery 82 year-young M(om)….i arrived in the Land of Enchantment, absolutely, totally Enchanted…ilg has all-Ways dug It (Lila) down here and even under the pensive circumstance, my inner self beamed with Sacred Happiness….Practice paying off, once again…
buckle up, the next two pics might be tough on the queasy: