pic: feeble ilg summits with the legendary Sharon Kun during the recent Mt. Kendall Half Marathon. To be a spiritually-oriented warrior athlete does not require us to do stupid things, but it does require us to face our fears and expand beyond our self-imposed limitations…Toe A Start Line and Cross A Finish […]
apic of Dewa’s left hand bec(om)ing a conduit of It All as she tangibly Connects with another precious Butterfly Being. this pic was captured by Sandra Lee last week, during a run/hike in the upper Piedra River Canyon near where once, many moons ago when i lived in Pagosa Springs, i used to watch River Otters […]
Among my many notes from Naropa University from waaaay back when, i find this hand-scribbled, barely discernible lecture from one of my Tibetan Lama Teachers: “If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear.” My Teachers of Meditation would compare the mind […]
Feeble ilg; grateful chi-ld of the Uni-Verse…each Sacred Sweat upon Mother Earth, beneath Father Sky is another unique PrayerDance of humility and awe at It All. pic: Yesterday’s run among New Mexico’s arroyos, sandstone domes, and red spires. Blessed Be Your Contribution to the One-Poem (Uni-Verse).
This M(om)ent… Daddy and Dewa (8) as I continue introducing my daughter to my sacred vortices of my beloved Southwest…man, we had a blast…Blessed be your day, Precious is this life. My neighbor told me a coupla weeks ago after i swerved my bike like drunkard from fatigue after a local cycling Time Trial, “Oh my God! […]
Most Noble Sangha, Having considerable experience both personally and professionally in multi-day hiking and trail work/trailbuilding, i wish to offer without charge this Proven Pathway which has kept many a hiker/trailworker healthy and capable of enduring the associated challenges which must be met, calmed, and conquered by the multi-day hiker/trail worker/builder…. feeble ilg only […]
yah, Omnium, cuz just racing from Durango to Silverton is sooooo not wholistic! why just suffer ONE DAY when you can test your spirit and sweat over THREE days!
My response, “Love is all there Is. Love is the accumulated Divine Karma from our countless past lives which propels our Atman (Soul) into and cultivates the context of our next incarnation. Love is what bubbles to the egoic surface once we’ve scrubbed away Fear, Boredom, Judgment, and Anger. Love is…
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