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Planet Dharma offers blogs, videos, online Dharma courses and other resources dedicated to spiritual growth and enlightenment in this very life. We offer valuable insights on topics like meditation, shadow integration, study of Buddhism, Western Mysteries and Integral Spirituality. We help you explore authentic personal growth and spiritual awakening, and how to apply that in action in your daily life.
Through our writings, we aim to make spiritual wisdom accessible and actionable, guiding you on your journey toward awakening and personal transformation. By integrating these teachings into your life, you can experience lasting change, build a deeper connection with others, and open up in new ways to the wonder and mystery of our world.
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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Bhojjangas: Seven Factors of Awakening
The spiritual adventure of spaciousness and attentiveness engages us with the vast mystery of life. Using reliable, balanced paths help integrate this. The bhojjangas, or seven factors of awakening are a great tool.
Spiritually Aware At Work: Flourishing in the Workplace
Most of us spend a large percentage of our lives at our workplace. How can my work life really support and contribute to my spiritual growth and vice versa? Guest Dharma writer Duncan Cryle shares his experiences in the Fortune 500 workplace.
What are the Western Mysteries?
Western culture has its own traditions of spirituality and transcendence. These can be called the Western, or Divine Mysteries. What are these mysteries and why did they go underground? How can you practice and explore their message of united consciousness?
Taking the Plunge: Courage to Change
When we know that something isn’t working, and we’ve tried everything you can think of and it still isn’t working, are we ready to risk the unknown and truly make a change?
Killing Me Softly
For many years I thought meditation was about “feeling good”. And by integrating the focus on spacious emptiness, meditation came to life. It is now more like a journey. And yes, it still feels good, but it is not about the “good feeling”. It is about the journey. The constant changes are happening. There is no ground to stand on.
Do I Have To? Heeding your Calling
What we say ‘I have to’ to is our path to awakeness. It is the ‘voice’ of the daemon, our inner guide, pressing us to grow and unfold into what we can and should become. Everybody has this voice in their being, the question is whether one is listening or not.
Video: If you want the present, you have to open the box
The present – the here-and-now – is a wonderful toy. But we have to get out of the burning house to untie the ribbon, tear off the pretty paper, and open the box! Doug shares how we can do this, and enjoy doing it, during our busy modern lives. Nothing less than spiritual awakening is the inevitable result. This video was filmed live at Watkins Books, London’s oldest estoeric bookshop.
The Four Deep Ego Fears and Transcendence
The four deep fears of the ego mean we fixate on objects to shore up solidity in our lives. But if objects don’t really make us happy then what does? The Buddha is offering us a present. To get the present we must come outside of the burning house of the ego and open the box. What we find inside is freedom.
Five Steps to a Successful & Integrated Life
Would you like to live a successful and integrated life?
Doug & Catherine Sensei explain how true personal success originates in spiritual success. While worldly success seems desirable, without spiritual wealth it doesn’t produce sustainable happiness. In the spiritual life we train at recognizing spaciousness, the Clear Sky, and act with skills developed in training from there to serve our communities.