WF SanghaLounge Hint

Noble Ones,
not that i am an expert 'Lounger, however,
to enjoy the Latest Input from your fellow WF Brothers and Sisters,
when you do enter the WF SanghaLounge, a quick way to enjoy the ride is to find this link located in the upper right hand area of the Lounge;

View posts since last visit

just click on that, and you can read the Newest First option beside each of the "caves". head bowed and i am LOVIN' chillin' with you all!

ec

50 WF Warriors Helping Share The Path of WF in the SanghaLounge Each Day

Talk about a Grand Kiva!
There is soooo much great Dharma flowing in the WF SanghaLounge already...
below is an edited exchange between two our Noble Warriors; Brad and Michael in regard to yesterday's DL:

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Noble Coach Ilg,
Never before has a DL struck me quite as hard as today's concerning the nasty habit of intellect. Having struggled with this "habit" my whole life, I shudder to think how many "points" I've missed as a result.

Often I have sacrificed feeling to prove myself "right" in a situation. Gotta be right. So very important. Like many habits or addictions, this one is tough to kick. Ah, to be a child again. Ignorant of "facts" but so rich with feeling and utterly absorbed in experience. To begin again, endlessly again...

I'm pouring like hell but my cup is still full.

Namaste,

humble student bg


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How beautiful is that?
To me, nothing is more attractive about a human being - male or female or whatever - when they are Working Inwardly on themselves.
A touching response to California Student BG's input followed quickly from Student MT of Maine. coast to coast, the WF SanghaLounge is spreading the Love, baby!

 
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"Namaste, Noble Student Brad,

As you wait to hear from Coach Ilg, I will offer my view on the topic, having walked the same Trail. Indeed, I often find myself back on it.

You might think of attachments that you have to certain outcomes. You see a certain outcome in your mind, so you "have to be right" and see this outcome to fruition. Zen Masters teach us to be wary of such attachments to outcomes. When you give up such attachments to the duality of one outcome being "right" and the other "wrong" life begins to flow again. I am a kayaker and I often ponder this lesson while paddling...I put it into the phrase, "Don't fight the river." You might try going through a day mindfully preparing yourself to face all situations knowing that whatever happens is "right", even if you can't see why at the time. You may find, as I have, that it is tremendously liberating to not have to be "right" all the time.

Please also recognize that your ability to see future outcomes so readily is a Gift that not all possess. Rather than using this gift to be "right" consider applying it to visioning your future path on the WF Trail.

Coach will be able to put it into a better light, I'm sure, but be comforted by the fact that you're not alone on this one.
I bow to your Pursuit.

- Student Michael"

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each day dozens and dozens of other such touching and helpful insights on the Steep and Direct Path of WF are being shared in the SanghaLounge...talk about a fantastic way to keep your Practice strong and sincere!?!? Get into the Lounge and ENJOY!
i have designed it to be YOUR Kiva!!!!!!!!!

come, take the Talking Stick...feel how much Tribal Love is available to you!

see you in the Lounge!

om so ti,
coach ilg

Student Artwork Graces WF H(om)epage Today!

go here and hit your Refresh button:

Wholistic Fitness Homepage

i bow as deep as my Padmasana allows to Noble WF Student Brad Gantt
for your Devotion to WF and Engaged Volunteer Effort and Art!

knee deep in the Abundance of the best Warriors on the planet,

el coache

The Nasty Habit of the Intellect

WF Temple Cat Jasper often keeps a Four Legged Eye of Wisdom on Teacher Ananda's work with her Online Students to make sure our WF Online Teaching is not too Intellectual! photo by coach.



TODAY ON DL Subscription Format...

as a young spiritual athlete, i remained bewildered in my contemplations at why the Masters and even my own Tibetan Teachers kept pounding into me the fact that Intellect is a 'klesha' (affliction). the Intellect, i was taught, must be watchdogg'ed and kept in its place, "...just like one of your competitors that you have passed, you still must try very hard to stay in front of him," advised one of the Lama's working with me who knew i was a distance runner at that time.

of all the human qualities that can dwindle and sabotage spiritual wisdom, it is - ironically enough - our cherished Intellect or what we recognize in yoga as the energy structure of "buddhi" (along with buddhi's cohort in spiritual ignorance "ahamkara" or the...

Read Coach's entire Teaching today at DL Subscription Format!
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Kali Yuga Destroys Another WF BirthPlace of Dharma

as a child, my nordic ski coaches would haul us Durango skier punks over to Wolf Creek Ski Area in the early season just so we could get a jump on our ski training. no small feat for a small mountain town ski team at the kid level; Wolf Creek was a good 150 mile round trip.

our coaches, Olympians, were not afraid to do what it takes to get quality training for us.

later in life, i moved to and lived in Pagosa Springs, a tiny hamlet at the foot of the tremendous Wolf Creek Pass and Weminuche Wilderness. there, i developed some of my strongest mountain yogi capacities and wrote a book of poetry called "Pagosa Speaks." (available on our Tribal Catalog)

this morning, while planning to hop over to my old DharmaGrounds to enjoy their 100" of snow already, i tapped into their website:

www.wolfcreekski.com

and read:

"Regrettably, after 30 years of continuous public use, Wolf Creek Ski Area has been ordered to cease and desist from grooming the Cross Country Nordic Track System by demand of the Leavell-McCombs Joint Venture (The Developers of The Proposed Village at Wolf Creek)"

Oh, trust me; the battledance between go(o)d and evil is still alive and profoundly touching in my Beloved Southwest mountains...the mountains of the WF Gods.

May All Ski Area Developers Develop Some Degree Of Higher Consciousness
and i bow to the young kids of Durango and Pagosa Springs, who no longer
have a place to infuse their young spirits with the CHI of what moved me to
Practice that which is go(o)d for All Beings, including and starting with myself.

om so ti,
coach ilg

* photo by Ananda; i still hunger for the sweetest sound to my ears in the Outer World; nordic skis scraping, sliding, gliding, and dancing across a white canvas of snow.

Student Feather Finds The Podium; A Month Before Nationals

Hey, Cycle Crossers?!

check out today's DL and learn how WF Student Featherman keeps getting stronger, faster, and younger through WF Online Coaching while his competitors?

well, they are just being conventionally trained; you know; Bike Stuff. blah, blah, BORING!

Read about this WF Warrior and LEARN!

Another HIDDEN WF TEMPLE TEACHING!

Clues In The Forest;

1) The Online Desha Whereupon the DL and WF Warriors Gather...

2) Seek the Cave where Sitting Still is the Top Priority...

3) Veteran Master Online Student Ludgate will meet you there and take you to my most recent Teaching for you...


om so ti,

coach ilg