all photos except where noted courtesy: - Patrick Hogan with Cumbres Adventures®. click to enlarge the chi hit
Ilg has long felt that the Race toward Enlightenment will be enhanced by competitive athletes. Especially outdoor athletes whose sweat and moments of sacred stillness are grounded by the Divine intoxication inherent to training within and for the outdoor sports. Most of my books, writings, and audio products serve as spiritual seeds to this re-ramping up of the Warrior Caste which - here in the West - has manifested as millions and millions of Fitness Warriors who were Blessed to born realizing the intense necessity of using and refining personal fitness as a Sourcing of our Divine Nature.
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
kissing 'my girls' go(o)d-bye, i launch into the 700-mile jaunt from Flagstaff to the remote northwestern gem-ship of Chama, New Mexico. even by southwest standards, this was going to a massive carbon footprint for me and prayers of forgiveness to Father Sky and Earth Mother were repeatedly chanted by myself since i first put this race - the prestigious 37 year-old Chama Ski Classic - on my winter racing calendar in August.
so big was the pilgrimage, i chose to spend night one at my parent's casa in Rio Rancho, NM. this would leave only a couple hours more driving hours to the venue, tucked away within the vaulted beauty of pine-studded wildness within the massive geologic apron of the Weminuche Wilderness. i've been dreaming of this race for months, well braced for the long pilgrimage across pinon mesas and deep ravines guarded by sandstone bracelets glimmering beneath a veneer of lace like snow. i pulled into M(om) and Dad's house humming from my 4-hour car-driving meditation. the two weeks before this race, thanks in large part to the MAP Amino Acids and SUNRIDER Whole Food Herbs, i had hovered above Joy's virus infection, business demands, teaching, and winter racing schedules to pull off this big trip. Having not raced in Chama since i was a chi-ld on the Durango Ski Team, you can imagine the Joy Anticipation building in my cells each mile i got closer to the village...
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The self-ish push to attain athletic podiums is known as egoic drive or ahamvirya. Such energy is spiritually useful and can greatly accelerate the spiritually-inclined athlete to overcome his or her genetic, karmic, and samskaric weaknesses, negative tendencies, and habits. The more diverse the outer podiums gained, of course, the more spiritually potent becomes ahamvirya. The spiritual utilitarianism of ahamvirya will not be realized by most conventionally-trained athletes however, until they pass out of their current human consciousness at their Death Moment and are confronted by the hyper-intensities of the Bardo Realm. If left unmatured by a Dharma Teacher during this life, sadly, the athlete's accumulated aham-virya will be largely impotent; unable to bridge the astral gap which lengthens as we lose the filaments of human consciousness during our Dying Act.
If such competitive zeal is not turned inward, and then, eventually outward for the benefit of all others, the genuine inner podium is left unheld by our heartspace. Worse, accumulated trophies and medals gathered without Dharma leaves black karma untied and can actually intensify one's deepest karmic knots.
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
leaving Rio Rancho after my current version of Early Morning Ritual,
i ate at McDonalds.
i'll just let that sentence floor you for another second or two...
DO NOT MISS THE ENTIRE REPORT ONLY FOR DL SUBSCRIBERS...
did ilg REALLY eat at McDonalds?
read about the various WF and Yogi Techniques coach used to
become the KING OF THE MOUNTAIN; the Overall Combined Event Champion!
and what is Al Unser doing eating Race Day breakfast with ilg?
if you enjoy spiritual athletics and cheering for ol' guys that
can still beat the young'uns...you will not BELIEVE this Race Report!
come on...
For Race Results and Photos:
click on www.chamaski.com
ilg would like to offer Special thanks for the superb lodging at:
DreamWeaver Lodge
Clay Moseley, a National Time Trial Champion, proved my only lure to catch in the 10k Classic during January 17th's Chile Ski Classic...hecuva lure! Here, Clay demonstrates excellent 'nordic tuck' form. In a nordic tuck, the priority is different than in Alpine ski racing. Aerodynamics are second priority; the First Priority of a Nordic Tuck is Skeletal Bracing; see how Clay's elbows are perched above his knees? This rests the arm and torso muscles, hopefully, recovering them a bit before the next massive onslaught of suffering inherent to this amazing sport. photo courtesy: - Patrick Hogan with Cumbres Adventures®
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Ilg has long felt that the Race toward Enlightenment will be enhanced by competitive athletes. Especially outdoor athletes whose sweat and moments of sacred stillness are grounded by the Divine intoxication inherent to training within and for the outdoor sports. Most of my books, writings, and audio products serve as spiritual seeds to this re-ramping up of the Warrior Caste which - here in the West - has manifested as millions and millions of Fitness Warriors who were Blessed to born realizing the intense necessity of using and refining personal fitness as a Sourcing of our Divine Nature.
***
Friday, January 15th, 2010
kissing 'my girls' go(o)d-bye, i launch into the 700-mile jaunt from Flagstaff to the remote northwestern gem-ship of Chama, New Mexico. even by southwest standards, this was going to a massive carbon footprint for me and prayers of forgiveness to Father Sky and Earth Mother were repeatedly chanted by myself since i first put this race - the prestigious 37 year-old Chama Ski Classic - on my winter racing calendar in August.
so big was the pilgrimage, i chose to spend night one at my parent's casa in Rio Rancho, NM. this would leave only a couple hours more driving hours to the venue, tucked away within the vaulted beauty of pine-studded wildness within the massive geologic apron of the Weminuche Wilderness. i've been dreaming of this race for months, well braced for the long pilgrimage across pinon mesas and deep ravines guarded by sandstone bracelets glimmering beneath a veneer of lace like snow. i pulled into M(om) and Dad's house humming from my 4-hour car-driving meditation. the two weeks before this race, thanks in large part to the MAP Amino Acids and SUNRIDER Whole Food Herbs, i had hovered above Joy's virus infection, business demands, teaching, and winter racing schedules to pull off this big trip. Having not raced in Chama since i was a chi-ld on the Durango Ski Team, you can imagine the Joy Anticipation building in my cells each mile i got closer to the village...
***
Saturday, January 16th, 2010
leaving Rio Rancho after my current version of Early Morning Ritual,
i ate at McDonalds.
i'll just let that sentence floor you for another second or two...
DO NOT MISS THE ENTIRE REPORT ONLY FOR DL SUBSCRIBERS...
did ilg REALLY eat at McDonalds?
read about the various WF and Yogi Techniques coach used to
become the KING OF THE MOUNTAIN; the Overall Combined Event Champion!
and what is Al Unser doing eating Race Day breakfast with ilg?
if you enjoy spiritual athletics and cheering for ol' guys that
can still beat the young'uns...you will not BELIEVE this Race Report!
come on...
For Race Results and Photos:
click on www.chamaski.com
ilg would like to offer Special thanks for the superb lodging at:
DreamWeaver Lodge
