"I cannot pretend I always practice bodhichitta,
but it does give me tremendous inspiration.
Deep inside me,
I realize how beneficial it is.
That is all."
- Dalai Lama
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Bodhi = Awake
chitta = consciousness
the term, Bodhchitta is generally translated as, "Awakened Heart."
most of the Spiritual Fitness Warriors attracted to Wholistic Fitness
come to this Path
with Bodhichitta
at one Level or another.
my SvaDuty is to keep Awakening
my Student's already Awakened Heart.
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This DL is for my LA Sangha.
when i lived in LA,
i too experienced the raging fever of Shiva
in the form of wildfires.
air so acrid,
training on my bike would be impossible for a week or longer.
a small price to pay
relative to the FireFighters fatigue,
the wild animals, their adrenalin level matched only by their Zone 4 Heart Rates;
desperate to escape the flames
wondering where their children,
their mate
might be...
ilg teaches often of Bardo
- how unthinkably fast life can change -
to many of our ears
my BardoSpeak may sound like fiction that we do not need to worry about
- there so much to worry about these days -
however, in the calm of our Practice,
when enough years wear away our arrogant edges,
memories of our countless...
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photos:
1) AP photo of my Cherished Santa Monica Mountains burning. Those mountains kept the Heart and Soul of this mountain yogi alive during my decade in that great city.
2) (unpictured here) performing the Ai Imawa posture; HOLDING UP MOON at La Ventana, New Mexico. I am facing Tsidool; Mt. Tayor, the site of the Mt. Taylor Winter Quadrathlon
