There are several types of yoga as paths to awakening, including Jnana, Bhakti, Hatha, and Karma yogas. In this video, Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat answer the question “What is Karma Yoga?”. They share why it is an excellent...
Shifts and Changes Just 10 years ago this teaching was more focused around meditation and individual therapy, and more yogic, that is, dependent on the student-teacher relationships wherever in the world that might be happening. A mere decade later, we have a...
Purification is the path Though the spiritual path can be a long and winding road, some good news is that the only work we really have to do is purification – everything else naturally follows from there. In that sense, our spiritual unfoldment is simple and easily...
This is an excerpt from the Kyoto Journal article ‘Moving Into the Stream: An Interview with Dharma Teacher Achariya Doug Duncan” by Brendan Joseph Ries. People have busy lives because they’re afraid of being not busy. We want to go to every movie, see...
So what are the hallmarks of mahamudra meditation? And their causes? In centuries past, emperors sealed their commands with signet rings and wax. It represented the final word as it were and thus the kingdom was ruled. Relatively speaking, each person could be...
Dharma Teacher Catherine Pawasarat talks about the notion of ‘goodness’. She discusses the complexity and profundity of goodness, and how much we underestimate its power to affect tremendous change quite quickly. Watch the video: Click for More Videos...
Bringing astrology together with decades of experience in mapping consciousness through Buddhist meditation has been a fruitful way for us to understand our talents, pitfalls and personal preferences. This has allowed us to adapt and learn and make more conscious...
Everyone reading this is aware that we live in a society that is pervasively capitalistic. Merriam Webster defines capitalism as an “economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private...
Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat describe the Vajrayana “Foundation Practices”. These include practices like Chenrezi, Vajrasattva, Prostrations and Mandala Offerings. They also explain the benefits of completing the foundation work....
We’d all like to make high-speed spiritual progress. The Buddha awakened, so surely we can also. Sometimes though it feels like we are swimming (or meditating) in a tub of molasses. I have a spiritual practice, I make efforts to be a good person – what’s holding me...
