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Embracing Community for Spiritual Growth – Why It’s Important
If you want to really live well, and grow spiritually, embracing community is key. Find out why its so important in this blog post, based on an excerpt from Dharma If You Dare.
The Desire for Awakening: Why am I here on this Planet, in this Body?
Why are you here on planet Earth, here in this body? Is there a desire for awakening? Are you seeking a place where the consciousness is clear, radiant and quiet? Are you desiring a mind that is blissful and spacious at all times? We call that the desire to awaken,...
Diving into the Spaciousness of Phenomena (aka Meditation)
The Mind is Empty Yet Manifests Phenomena The mind in essence is empty. But that doesn’t stop phenomena from happening. The mind is going to manifest phenomena. Surely. Without ceasing. Always. By learning to dive beneath the waves of the phenomena we can find the...
Are You Listening to Your Inner Demon, or Daemon?
Your “calling” or your “daemon” is the part of your being that you cannot deny – it is a guiding light that demands to be followed. It is your bodhicitta, the awakening mind. The question is, how does one find one’s daemon?
Embodying the Sacred Feminine: Leaving Room To Be
Embodying the Sacred Feminine: Leaving Room To Be Awakening is the process of contacting the feminine principle, the sacred feminine, the spaciousness. Most people think ‘I’ve got to work on unfoldment', 'I’ve got to meditate more’. Or 'I’ve got to do yoga for...
Luminosity & Bliss Has Two Veils
Luminosity and bliss is the natural state of the mind – before it reaches turbulence. In order to keep the mind from being in a state of turbulence, one has to let go of two veils which generate all our machinations.
Meditation: Why Don’t You Practice?
When it comes to meditation, here is a practical and fundamental question: Why don’t you practice? While we prefer the immediate endorphin rush from ‘pleasure’, it is disciplined meditation practice & our work that grows us. Here is how to put pleasure where it belongs, and flourish sustainably.
The Self Illusion
So why does suffering continue? This is a hard one. Are you ready?
Video: Transformative Change & Meditation
At some point every serious spiritual seeker asks the profound question: how does true transformative change come about? In this video, Doug Duncan Sensei shares how we need to begin with structural change at the core of our being.