Dharma Teachings 2024
Welcome to the 2024 teaching schedule of Dharma Teachers Qapel and Sensei. We invite and encourage you to plan your year of Dharma practice in advance.
Overview Schedule 2024
2024 is the Year of Wonder! And the Teachers are thrilled to support your path of wonder.
We invite and encourage you to plan your year of Dharma practice in advance, in affirmation of your spiritual aspiration. As your aspiration guides you, choose from a variety of meditation retreats and online courses. Mark your calendars now.
January 14- February 4
Multiple Realities: The Bardos & Beyond
(4 Week Online Course)
Loosen the blinders, walk through veils. We launch the year with a study of the ‘bardos’ or ‘realms’ of experience. Are you practicing for death?
Course Details: Bardos Online 2024
March 8-17
The Five Stages of Emptiness
(One Week Retreat)
What does emptiness mean to you? Would you like to understand the nature of things… more deeply? Every hello is a goodbye. Learn how your relationship with emptiness—and its stages—can further support you, and all beings. This is a precious opportunity to attend a meditation retreat on this topic, with highly experienced Teachers. In-Person with online option.
Course Details: Stages of Emptiness Retreat 2024
AstroDharma Community Call
(Online Class)
Are you a student of AstroDharma? Have you enrolled in AstroDharma studies with Catherine Pawasarat Sensei? This commuinty call is a chance to connect with a wisdom teacher who has developed Dharmic astrology as a tool for transformation and for benefitting beings. Submit your AstroDharma questions and benefit from hearing the questions of others in the community.
Course Details: AstroDharma Community Call
April 14- May 5
From Ordinary to Extraordinary: Walking the Eightfold Noble Path
(Four Week Online Course)
It’s time to get practical. The Eightfold Noble path is about methodology—how to walk the talk of freedom and spaciousness in our lives. The world needs you to shape up, like, yesterday. And it’s easier with others! Through this study, the practice of this Path, and by really seeing the stuckness of our patterns, we will begin to loosen our tight sense of who we are. The results? Greater freedom, compassion, and clarity. From ordinary to extraordinary. It’s a win-win.
Course Details: Eightfold Ennobling Path
May 24 – June 2
Breathing Meditation
(Retreat)
This breath will change your life. Join Catherine Pawasarat Sensei in an eight-day breathing meditation retreat. This practice is suitable whether you are a newbie or seasoned meditator, or have always wanted to do a vipassana or longer retreat. Gift yourself the in-person guidance of an accomplished meditation teacher and a balanced meditative approach of the four classical meditation postures. In-person with an online option.
Course Details: Breathing Retreat 2024
July 12-14
Razor’s Edge: The Dance of Absolute and Relative Truths
(Weekend Course Online/In Person)
One weekend. One Teacher. Two truths… in one. Step onto the Razor’s Edge: the paradoxical and joyous dance of Absolute and Relative. It’s the only truth there is.
Course Details: Razor’s Edge Weekend
September 6-22
Movement of the Mandala Retreat
(By Application – Full)
Course Details: Movement of the Mandala
October 18-20
Hamster Wheel or Heaven? The Wheel of Dependent Origination
(Weekend Course Online/In Person)
What makes you “you”? How does everything “you” perceive arise? Why does this matter? Together we’ll study a powerful map of consciousness: the wheel of dependent origination. This is a foundational philosophical doctrine shared by all schools of Buddhism, recommended for students of all levels. It directly correlates to suffering, and how to become free, wise, and compassionate.
Course Details: Hamster Wheel or Heaven? Dependent Origination
November 10-December 1
The Power of Sangha & Group Guru
(4 Week Online Course)
Sangha are the people working alongside you to wake up. Group Guru is the network of the Awakened Mind showing up in teams and conscious community. We can—and must—use each other to pull ourselves out of the mires of suffering. In this modern approach to sangha and group guru, we will look at the interplay between the collective, the individual and liberation.
Course Details: The Power of Sangha & Group Guru
December 24-January 1 2025
Sangha Christmas
(Retreat)
An in-person sangha-only retreat in the peaceful, snowy Christmas-time mountains at Clear Sky Meditation Centre.
Details: Sangha who regularly attend teachings will be contacted with details.
Overview Schedule 2025
Visit the schedule for 2025: the Year of Celebration! 2025 Dharma Schedule
Supporting Each Other
Although there is no formal year program, we encourage you to reflect and set an intention for the year of what you will attend. We also invite you to connect with people in your local Sanghas to share your aspirations and ways you can work together to explore and support each other with your Dharma studies.
Meet the Teachers
Catherine Pawasarat
Doug Duncan
Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre, BC, Canada.
Qapel (Achariya Doug Duncan) received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct, humourous and compassionate engagement with students, Doug embraces various traditions, contemporary psychology, and science, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state.
Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life, Catherine Sensei also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies.
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