WIND
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Gold in the Mud
I want to tell you about the one idea behind all our meditation. Why am I sure this matters to every one of you? Because there is one thing that is the best investment you can make in your future. I don’t know a single person who isn’t worried about the future, who is fully…
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Permission to Pass It On
I have completed the Tsa Lung Teacher Certification Program with Tulku Lobsang Rinpoche. What this means for the retreats, the ski tours, and the time between them.
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Wind & Mind
Wind decides a lot in the mountains. It moves snow from one slope to another, loads some faces and strips others, builds the cornice that makes a ridge worth avoiding. By the time you arrive, most of the decisions about where you can ski have already been made for you. You read what the wind…
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Step, Breath
A step and an in-breath, a step and an out-breath, fifteen or twenty steps, then a pause with my forehead on the ice axe. Up there every word costs a breath.
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On the Stone
Changping ridge, below the Four Sisters, 2004 I sat on a large flat stone and looked at the peaks of the Four Sisters, trying to understand their characters, like the characters of the four girls who, the legend says, turned into this mountain. The eldest looks older: gentler slopes, a less sharp summit. The youngest…