May 29, 2005
HEAD WF TEMPLE GOES INTO RAJAS MODE; Students Must Carry The WF Spirit
If you felt a Shift in your Practice yesterday, it may have been because i had to do a delicately intense deconstruction of the Main WF Temple from which my Work of WF emanates.
It is vital for yogis to move. Moving keeps us Whole. Lila, the Dance of Life, is experienced through the trained yogin's eyes in three primary UniVersal constituents of nature (prakriti); Tamas (inertia), Rajas (activity/flux), and Sattva (illumined state of beingness). 
After several years of sattvic prakriti, yesterday i had to shift the gunic quality of my Zendo (meditation chamber) into rajas mode; fortunately, my Teaching Lineage is no prima donna Lineage; our spirituality is trained to encounter all Bardo Realms with elegance and durable, practical strength. Still, i was witnessing a watershed of heart filled emotions as i packed my Deities and Ritual Items into boxes with mindfulness... 
after a couple auspicious other-Realm encounters, the Duty was done. The powerful Meditations within this room left an outline of Chenreezig Buddha on the wall above where my Puja table had been.
the Temple Spirit of WF nows lives on within the Heart of my Sangha; YOU! until Ananda and i reestablish the physical WF Main Temple beneath the Sacred Mountain next week, here are a few Practices you can do to help us safely Transfer our Main Temple:
* WF Online Students Only: Use the mantra; OmManiPadmeHum in your Assigned Meditation Practices
* DL Readers and Friends of WF:
1) cut out the above picture of the Sacred Peak above Kinlani, carry it with you or place it near or on your Puja Table
2) get this CD: Sharon Burch; Touch The Sweet Earth
3) play the track "Brother Warrior" as a seated and giving Meditation to myself as feeble Messenger of WF while gazing (trataka) at the picture of the Sacred Mountain.
4) See that mountain as our Tribe's Buddha Ancestor and send Loving Thoughts to Ananda and i carrying our Temple across the deserts to our new h(om)e.
5) Radiate from your Heart Center (Anahata Chakra) Love and Fearlessness (abhaya) to all our WF Sangha worldwide who realize the necessity of using Personal Fitness as a spiritual vehicle through which we can help Serve all others.
"At this time when the Earth/
is waking to the dawn of another age/
i tell you now/
there is no reason/
to be afraid."
- song lyrics from Brother Warrior, by Sharon Burch
you and your Devoted Practice are now, more than ever;
my humble yet Powerful Temple...
carry onward, upward, and Endlessly Inward my Noble Warriors!
from an ocean of cardboard packing boxes
i press my palms together and
bow
deep
to you, my Precious WF Sangha
that is all,
the mountain yogi