Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Q&A; Don't Confuse Information With Understanding, The Regenerative Nutritionist, Overcoming Asthma in Three Months...



click the photo to get a great Chi Hit of WF Warrior Andrew Ferguson of Durango, CO cranking to a 3rd Place Overall in the Blue Mountain Winter Triathlon near Monticello, Utah...one of the events that always seems to be in conflict with my own winter race schedule. Andrew is following my 3-Phase Approach to Using SUNRIDER HERBS plus MAP Amino Acids. He is three months into my program and is in the midst of what we Sunrider's know as a 'healing crisis' as decades of impacted fat are slowly, safely released. Andrew is going to race a 90-kilometer nordic ultra marathon this coming weekend in Steamboat Springs, CO! "Should be epic," he told me. yup. should be. you may recall Andrew from my Race Report; The Tour De Ski Chronicles earlier this year in DL.


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Don't confuse information with understanding.

There are a whole lot of "nutritionists' with all sorts of initials behind their names and fancy front doors here in Kali Yuga. They are often armed with all sorts of information. However, in my experience, many of these 'nutritionists' confuse their informational overload with genuine understanding of nutrition. it is only Direct Experience within all arenas of our amazingly versatile physiology that can provide understanding of nutrition.

an example of this is how i have gone out with 'nutritionists' for what i consider to be fairly easy mountain bike ride...

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some Questions and Answers and other Spiritual Cairns Along The Steep and Direct Path;






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OVERCOMING ASTHMA

Coach,

Namaste! And a heart-y congrats on your State Nordic championship - amazing! While I have not seen you address it explicitly in DL, I assume (dangerous word choice I know) that your stellar results this season indicate that you successfully resolved your exercise-induced asthma (or whatever the official diagnosis was) from last season. I ask this for a reason. My dear friend M has battled Hodgkin's Disease for the past three years. The growths have centered on her lungs, so her chemo / radiation treatments have focused there as well. The Hodgkins is being held at bay for the moment, but the treatment has left her with much scarring on her lungs, and she recently had to be hospitalized for an air leak in one of her lungs. She is getting terrific Western care at Sloan-Kettering in New York, but they don't have much to say on the regeneration front. I was wondering if you have any counsel to offer her based on your experience.

Thank you.

Love,
Student L'G


LEARN WHAT HERBS AND SUPPLEMENTS I USED TO OVERCOME MY: "Cold Triggered Exercise-Induced Asthma" of last winter to win a State Championship...in TODAY'S DL!


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NEW SINS FOR A NEW AGE

Dear Coach,
i read today that the Vatican released new and official "sins" for the modern age. i know you grew up Catholic and was wondering what you TAF'd about these new "sins"?

- your humble student g


Beloved G,

the only sin is laziness.

Buddha - who arrived early in Kali Yuga (current spiritual dark age) to impart needed


READ MY ENTIRE ANSWER AND LEARN ABOUT AVIDYA on today's DL...

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Without Training For Death? It's An "absurd gamble."

When we die we leave everything behind, especially this body we have cherished so much and relied upon so blindly and tried so hard to keep alive. But our minds are no more dependable than our bodies. Just look at your mind for a few minutes.

You will see that it is like a flea, constantly hopping to and fro. You will see that thoughts arise without any reason, without any connection. Swept along by the chaos of every moment, we are the victims of the fickleness of our minds. If this is the only state of consciousness we are familiar with, then to rely on our minds at the moment of death is an absurd gamble.

- Sogyal Rinpoche





COMING UP NEXT IN DL:
my immensely rewarding Winter Competitive Season Ends with my Agassiz Uphill effort of yesterday!

Thursday, March 6, 2008

"All We Practice For Is Death," Shishya KC gets a hit

now appearing on today's DIRECT LINES

InSight # 16

InSight #16

We're obviously not trying too hard because we still are attached to our richness mindset - we still say to ourself,
"Well, I can't Practice too long today because I need to work."

The World Class Yogi's who have transcended Death have been precisely where we stand.
The only thing - the ONLY difference - between They and us?

They chose to...



- Read this InSight from my upcoming book project on today's DIRECT LINES!

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Tele Heaven; it ain't skiing till the heel is freein'...

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WARNING: for you poor souls trapped in an office, this DL could cause Soul Arhythmia...GET OUT AND LIVE BABY!!!!!!









WF Student John Devlin gettin' devilish with some fantastic telemarks in a secret stash somewhere in the North Cascade backcountry (he ain't tellin' exactly where cuz he's smart...however, he has promised this newly crowned State Champion a private tour! Ha!). this and following photos by;Merle Kirkley









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Dear Coach Ilg,

Just wanted to send pictures of a humble student enjoying the fruits of his WF practice. Thank you for everything I have learned from you! Congratulations on your recent podiums.

To the coach that still does...

May winters blessings continue to fall upon you and yours.

You're an inspiration always!

WF Student Steve Jones and I talk about you often up here in the North Cascades of Washington. Your message has penetrated a remote mountain valley. Humble warriors dance upon her snow covered hills thinking "breath and posture'...."breath and posture".

Love,

Student Devlin

Monday, March 3, 2008

COACH WINS NORDIC STATE CHAMPIONSHIP!





"Racing is not about winning. It's about ourselves. No athlete ever held a trophy that did not already exist inside."
- steve ilg, THE WINTER ATHLETE, 1999






"I used to visit Flagstaff when i was living and teaching HP Yoga in Los Angeles. During that decade of Big City Service, i would attempt to ski around the 8,000'+ cross country trails at the Flagstaff Nordic Center and would be totally winded on the smallest of hills. One day after nearly throwing up during one of these visits, i saw a flyer on the ski lodge advertising the NORDIC STATE CHAMPIONSHIP to be held that weekend. My heart sank as low as was my nordic fitness back then. My Service in the Big Seaside City had erased all my treasured high altitude fitness. Back then, among my wheezing, coughing, and gasping in the aspens i prayed to Vishnu that one day i would once again be among the fleetest strength endurance athletes in the southwest. His reply came at the speed of Enlightenment within the resonance of my spirit,
"You will return here one day to live beneath this Sacred Peak and within 3 years you will win the State Nordic Championships; however, you must train harder then the Buddha along the way..."


Yesterday,
exactly 3 seasons of my return to the Southwest from Los Angeles,
the prophesy of Vishnu - the God of Perseverance - became fact;
your humble coach - new rookie daddie and all - is the fastest
skier in Arizona.


After i get the Race Results, i'll tell you more. Right now, just know that
it is a very special winter for me...beneath the Sacred Peak...it's gonna be sad
to see her go.

this one's for all the New Daddies out there and their Partners; may all Loving Couples realize the Sacred Necessity of Warrior Effort each day in myriad ways...

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i have one more Winter Endurance Event left on my full schedule; an event that i helped create thanks to my new snowshoe sponsor Kahtoola;
it's called; the AGASSIZ UPHILL and it happens next Sunday! why don't you come on out for some Pranic Empowerment beneath a starting to sizzle Arizona Sun on Snow?

click here to download a flyer of the event:


Agassiz Uphill


May your Devoted Sweat and Stillness radiate the trophy that you carry inside,

coach ilg
the mountain yogi



Coach also qualified for USSSA Nationals this winter; The Dharma of and training for Coach's victory will be made available only to DL Subscribers; for only about $10/Month please do your Higher Self a favor and subscribe today! there is a whole worldwide Tribe waiting for your arrival with us since 1982!

Saturday, March 1, 2008

TEMPLE GONG: Happy Birthday, Dad!



"No matter where you live,
live cheerfully."
- Swami Rama




HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!

your Heart,

your Love of the outdoors that inspired you to move our family to the American SouthWest so many moons ago...

your Love of your children...

your Love of your wife - my m(om) - for over 50 years...

your endless warrior effort to
keep a'goin,
keep a'goin,
keep a'goin,

influences my humble attempt
to make an honest, Loving Way of Service in this world
each day in many, many ways...

you've Taught me well
because my Heart is Happy
and i live cheerfully; no matter where i am --
for you have Taught me that - whether i am rich or poor -
the true Wealth lies within the joyful, sacred Heart Within.

i love you...


your first son,
steve



photo by myself of my father, Henry Ilg, two autumns ago at Locket Meadow, near the WF Temple H(om)e in the Kachina Peaks Wilderness