The Tibetan mystic, Tertön Sogyal, said that he was not really impressed by someone who could turn the floor into the ceiling or fire into water. A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion. – photo by LaCour
Noble Coach, Good perspectives. I’ll ponder it some more this week.Two related points from your teaching this week resonate the most: 1. “Nothing is more important than Realization of the Self. nothing.”2. “Very, very, very few things can ruin the required Steps Toward Enlightenment such as Mula Bandha Awareness.” Thanks!WF Online Student Mike *** In […]
“There are two kinds of suffering; the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that leads to the end of suffering. If you are not willing to face the second kind of suffering, you will surely continue to experience the first.”– Ajahn Chah. WF Warrior Brother Secrest collapses after setting TWO WORLD CYCLING […]
“So don’t be in a hurry and try to push or rush your Practice. Do your meditation gently and gradually step by step. In regard to peacefulness, if you become peaceful, then accept it; if you don’t become peaceful, then accept that also. That’s the nature of the mind. We must find our own Practice […]
“Do not worry about God. Like the meditative state, either a formful or formless version of God will soon visit your Lodge so long as you focus on getting to First Base; the ability to concentrate your mind and maintain a concentrated state.”– coach ilg, Direct Lines/7/1/07 Dear Coach,my pastor spoke on how the “worst […]
“(E)arnestly practice every good work.”– Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King, 1981 above photo; apres yoga…mountain yogi style! exhausted and intensely, sacredly happy. more seeds of impurity burned in the furnace of self-driven sweat of a 5 hour, 54-mile, 6,800′ mountain bike effort. this photo shows precisely why i am never impressed by fancy postures done by ‘studio yogis’…let them […]
After meditation, it’s important not to give in to our tendency to solidify the way we perceive things. When you do re-enter everyday life, let the wisdom, insight, compassion, humor, fluidity, spaciousness, and detachment that meditation brought you pervade your day-to-day experience. Meditation awakens in you the realization of how the nature of everything is […]