"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 and persistently keep at it."
- Ajahn Chah
"The mind is Buddha!" - Hui-Neng
Hey, it's just the Way (Tao) we roll here beneath the Sacred Peak...Mountain Biking as a Spiritual Path; what's not to love? The Way to Heaven is unpaved, inDeed, i am pretty sure it's gonna be a Secret Mountain Biking Trail that will Test our fitness, Scare the BeJesus outta us, Lift Us, and Make Us (en)Light(ened)!
i took these shots the day before yesterday up on one of the "Secret Trails" beneath the Sacred Peak. Gary, my Teammate on Red Rock Racing, floated this gnarly, high-consequence section like he was a Kachina Spirit. maybe he is. me? i ain't no Kachina Spirit. i walked this section. glady. note the Aspen trees at least 40' higher then him; this is a BIG drop in without an escape route. note also the broken tree like a dagger on Gary's left, just waiting to skewer a less skilled rider than he. this is Yoga. this is Meditation; absorbed in the object of your concentration. you know, i've sat with the 'best' Meditation Teachers in the nation. i don't trust anybody's Meditation skills until there are high risk consequences to you losing your focus. to me, a Mountain Bike saddle is a most precious and greatly underestimated Zafu Cushion. enjoy the following Teaching and pics...i had a ton of focused fun and a little spilt blood bringin' em to your Practice....
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Living in Flag without a mountain bike is like, well i dunno, a little like a Valley Girl without a cell phone or something. it just would not make sense.
i've long used mountain biking as a spiritual metaphor for inherent to mastering mountain bike fitness brings along with it the required tools for success in the Spiritual Journey; there MUST be ceaseless attention flow yet a commitment to dropping into the emptiness of ...
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