Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat describe why they started “Planet Dharma”. Doug and Catherine teach worldwide and at Clear Sky Meditation Center in BC, Canada. They are dynamic and hands-on teachers who guide a diverse range of students...
Discover and develop your emotional intelligence with Doug and Catherine Senseis. This online course will be held every Saturday from 4-5:30pm Canadian Mountain Time (May 9, 16, 23 and 30th, 2015). Full details coming soon.
The Paramis are Buddhist principles and meditations designed to provide the foundation and strength for transcendence. Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat will be teaching this course online, on Saturday afternoons (4-5:30pm MT, September 5th, 12th, 19th, 26). Full...
In this video, Doug Duncan Sensei discusses the relationship between the awakened consciousness and the sustainability of our human species. He draws attention to the dual nature of sustainability: both of the question of sustainability of our external environment and...
Or Getting Paid to Undertake Spiritual Training This is a continuation of The Dharma of Work (Part One). We propose that it’s possible to craft a virtual monastery amidst daily life, the workplace and career. In this context, spiritual training is conducive to our...
Or getting paid to undertake spiritual training Spiritual training Historically, spiritual training took place almost exclusively within the monastery or convent. Nowadays few of us spiritual practitioners enter that kind of orthodox context. What then? We suggest...
This class was recorded at Exhale Yoga Studio in Cranbrook, BC, close to Clear Sky Center. Doug Duncan speaks about trust, doubt, and awakening. He describes the importance of bringing the same level of skepticism to the act of doubting as to the doubts themselves....
Awakening, the great healing. The ongoing, mapped process of awakening is the ultimate spiritual healing. With awakening, the self is transcended, and thus the troubles of the self, of “me,” “my troubles,” are healed. Though any organism is inherently subject to decay...
“As human beings, we are immersed and enmeshed in our experience.” In this video, Doug Duncan speaks about the value of having a relationship with someone who can give us perspective on our lives. A teacher can help by pointing out the ways that we defend...
Our work sharing the teachings of universal unfoldment often takes us to foreign countries, some of which may be described by the industrialised world as ‘developing’. We used to call them ‘primitive’ but as our cultures evolved we’ve had the sense to realize that was...
