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Integrating the shadow is a powerful practice that involves acknowledging and embracing the parts of yourself that are hidden or repressed. By doing so, you create a more balanced and whole self, which leads to deeper understanding and healing. Some of our key articles provide practical steps and tools for working with your shadow and exploring the benefits of this transformative process.
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Keys to Transformation: Integrating the Shadow
Integrating our shadow may be the fastest way to unfold spiritually, and reduce our suffering. By its very nature, shadow work is not fun or pretty. It takes courage and fortitude. Once we decide to change, the shadow’s darkness moves towards greater and greater light. That is both beautiful and exciting.
Video: Studying the Dharma – What it Takes
Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat are asked in this video what expectations they have of committed students, what expectations a student should have of a Dharma teacher, and what they recommend if someone is interested in studying with them.
Six Wisdoms for Going Beyond Yourself
To really be our best possible selves, there are six assets we can develop. These wisdoms (also called Pāramīs) are tools to help us overcome feelings of isolation, while developing engagement, creativity and joy.
Awakening through Action (Part 2): Working Together, Standing Alone
Comprising our sense of self is the drive for connection and the drive for autonomy. Karma Yoga is the path of applied awareness engaged in activity that when performed mindfully reveals and liberates our sense of isolation and separateness while enriching our individuality and creativity.
Awakening through Action (Part 1): You are a Super Hero
One of the archetypes of our times is the superhero – they’re doers, they are trying to make the world a better place and they have powers. The action hero of today with supernormal powers can be a metaphor for an age-old spiritual path called Karma Yoga (the superhero) with siddhis (powers of the mind).
Video: Awakening – On Seeking, Striving & Ego Clinging
Is ‘striving’ to awaken just another form of ego clinging? Why work to awaken if the human collective is already waking up? Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat share their insights on these important questions.
Enlightened Consciousness: An Immeasurable Gift
There are three substances we could argue to be the most indispensable and immeasurable commodities on the planet, and they also happen to be free: love, sunlight and air. We’d add a fourth, less obvious one: enlightened consciousness, which could be considered a highly developed form of love.
Video: What Types of Meditation Do You Teach?
Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat share about the types of meditation they teach. They also share their thoughts on the challenges that Westerners face in seeking awakening – particularly lack of depth and shallowness of practice.
The Cha Cha Cha of Awakening – Consciously Dancing the Spiritual Life
Life is movement and life is desire. The process of spiritual awakening is inherently dance-like. A still, clear center must be maintained internally for the dancer’s limbs to be free, and the same is true for freedom in our own lives.