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Transforming Demons Into Allies: 6 Benefits of the Hero’s Journey
Though difficulties in our life don’t go away, freedom gives us the ability to laugh through them, and still enjoy the journey. No matter what, freedom is always available to us: it resides in our own minds and hearts.
Personal Ecosystems: Our Mindstates and the Environment
How fortunate we are to live in a time when so many of us are asking, what can I do to support the health of the environment that sustains us? It’s compelling to consider that our minds are the first layer of our environment: our mindstate is the backdrop in which we live, the breath we take and the dreams we see at night. It’s also the setting we share with anyone we connect with.
Video: Meditation, Challenges for Awakening & Why have a Teacher?
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. Finally they offer...
Karma Yoga: A Vehicle for Dharma Training
As I am getting ready to leave Clear Sky Retreat Center after being part of the Karma Yoga team, Cata and Sensei discuss with me some of the biggest challenges to maintaining an ongoing practice of Karma Yoga, or meditation in action through service. Their teaching...
The Benefits of Holistic Clearing
Holistic Clearing was specifically created as an “anti-paralytic practice.” There are many reasons that reasonable, talented and intelligent people get “paralyzed.”
Video: Beyond Buddhism
Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat look at Buddhism and how it applies to our lives, though it may seem formal and foreign. They explain that the principles and methodologies are sound, useful and universal and that we are perhaps moving 'Beyond...
Womb Clearing: The Most Important Work You’ll Ever Do
From the point of view of classic Buddhist philosophy, there are two types of liberation: ceto-vimutti, liberation of the heart, and paññā-vimutti, liberation of the mind (insight or wisdom).
Video: Free Yourself from Emotional Conflict
How does one free oneself from emotional conflict? What is awakening? And is it possible to experience awakening in one lifetime? Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat each give their personal responses to these questions. Watch the video: Click for More Videos...
The Dharma of Work, Part 4
One of the many reasons we support Dharma Training is because, when done well, it also leads to business and personal success. You might be wondering, ‘how so’? Firstly, Dharma Training helps us to meet mental models and personal lacks in the form of our tribal and educational conditioning.