Metaphysical Teachings From Pagosa Duathlon - Race Report #1
"To excel in a sport is not mastery of self-cultivation."
- steve ilg
photo of coach racing at Pagosa Mountain Duathlon last month, shortly before a high-speed crash. coach went on to win by a 20-second margin. photo by Tom Steen
The spiritual advantages of being an absolutely mediocre athlete - or yogi - vastly outweigh the same for the naturally gifted. The reason is simple, yet you may need to concentrate on this key. Here it is: We - the middling fitness warriors - quickly reach our spiritually potent "edge" far faster, far more poignantly than do the genetically and karmically resplendent.
Having stated that, ilg understands all too well that when it is you in the driver's seat of an entire life of middling talent and capacity, such spiritual advantages often appear as "frustration" to our ego. Which is why, most average athletes and yogis quit the long and arduous Path of Self Cultivation through Sweat. Sad. If ilg had a more potent voice and platform from which to influence the masses, ilg would speak boldly and confidently and in support of middling warriors like myself.
So, what i will attempt to do in the course of the next DL's is to draw out the spiritual teachings of an unexceptional (me) fitness warrior whose sole focus is on wholeness, not specialization of fitness, and how that can - sometimes - result in an exceptional spiritual and competitive experience filled with absolute and endless divinity. So, if this type of stuff is what lubes your chain, and you don't mind reading and seeing some true Bhagavad-Gita like blood-and-guts warrior spiritual teachings, ilg humbly invites you to take this Pagosa Race Report Series and enjoy it for what it is.
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Reaching Our Spiritual Edge - We Must Make It More Available, Not Less
I'm going to repeat the key affirmation from my opening:
We - the average fitness warriors - quickly reach the spiritually potent "edge" far faster, far more poignantly than do the genetically and karmically resplendent.
Growth in a spiritual context cannot come from comfort. A cell must divide. In that intensity of division at the molecular, vibratory level - lies the rajasic quality of our UniVersal nature which is the same yearning toward Enlightenment. Comfort equals stagnation. Genuine growth - and thus, all Healing - must take its origins not from stagnation and comfort, but rather from turbulent intensity. That is, after all, what greets each of us at our Last Gasp, when we eventually exhale and can no longer draw an inhale...
READ THE ENTIRE TEACHINGS OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS ONLY FOR DL SUBSCRIBERS...so, if you vibe with the concept of Competition As A Wholistically Relevant Inner Space? come race with us over the next few days!
up next in this Series:
An InterDisciplinary Journey Of Easily Attainable Edges; Welcome to Wholistic Fitness! for DL Subscribers only
