My breath saw snow cap mountains and loved the clear crisp air. I could hear Coach who is nearby saying “hold and hover here for a moment, your body will thank you”…
if you can’t feel the Spiritual Tenacity and Fierce Love of Padmasambhava?
chances are? you ain’t gonna last long in this Steep and Direct Path of Self Transformation through
Wholistic Fitness®…you best just default to say, uh…CrossFit™, or Pilates™, or Kettleball Whatever…cuz
you ain’t gonna last a month in Wholistic Fitness®…i promise…after 35 years of living and teaching this Path which Came Through Me Via The Amitabha Buddha Lineage…it’s best if you just stay away…Warriors Toward Wholeness only thrive Here Now…
Noble Sangha;
My second book was “The Outdoor Athlete’s Training Journal” which came in book and a (then) cutting edge CD-ROM the latter of which came within one Apple’s CEO decision to be bundled with all new Apple computers. Alas, karmically, that was not to be…however, it is still very important for WF Warriors to maintain a daily Journal, where we can easily see in Black and White each month, where are weaker WF Disciplines lie and then, take Appropriate Action to balance them. For most WF Students, it’s the most important Discipline of all; Meditation, which sadly tends to be the weakest link in our pursuit of Wholeness through Personal Fitness….
Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything…
ilg admits; it’s been the steepest headwall i’ve ever attempted to climb
yet, thanks to my Practice begotten from my Teachers…your Teachers..our Teachers…of this
amazing Precious Path of WF?
my Essential Nature of Mind is only intensifying through the difficulty…not diminishing…
how doth the saying go?
“The interruptions ARE the Practice!”
Being threatened to vaccinate your child? Besides being a cOMplete lack of Divine Faith, succumbing your chi-ld to the pressures of vaccination rips through the physiologic vulnerability of your chi-ld’s cells (which parents are supposed to protect) causing a rampage of endocrine, immune, and God knows what other wholesale manslaughter upon the psycho/spiritual Level.
Even in the hippie-influenced, progressive, and open-minded bubbles like Flagstaff and Durango where our still-unvaccinated and surreally-healthly Dewa has spent her 4 years thus far, Ananda and i can only imagine what it must be like for some of you Conscious Parents when you want to take a stand and stop the insane influx of multiple toxic chemicals and their karmic/samskaric reverberations shot into your Precious, Pure and Wholistically Healthy infant and toddler and pre-schooler…
So, take a look at this…
The purpose of reflection on death is to make a real change in the depths of our hearts. Often this will require a period of retreat and deep contemplation, because only that can truly open our eyes to what we are doing with our lives…
Last Saturday; in the start gate of a 10k freestyle…my head is down, mula bandha engaged, the start gate is just below my knee chakras, my mind with my breath, my Blessed Mala’s dangle like a door ringer for Hanuman to bring His Strength and Endurance and Loving Insight into my heart….sorry, however, there is no Higher Yoga Mat than the start gate of a nordic ski race…sing kirtans and do asana to trance beats all you want, however, to find your Highest Self? leave it to nordic ski racing to really lay your spiritual bones to the fire of tapas!
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