Is ‘striving’ to awaken just another form of ego clinging? Why work to awaken if the human collective is already waking up? Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat share their insights on these important questions. Watch the video: Click...
Indispensable & Immeasurable Gifts There are three substances we could argue to be the most indispensable and immeasurable commodities on the planet, and they also happen to be free: love, sunlight and air. We’d add a fourth, less obvious one: enlightened...
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...
Psst… Want to hear about a powerful tool you can use on your quest for freedom? It’s called “AstroDharma,” and we’re going to share with you a bit about why we teach it. We believe that the combination of Astrology & Dharma...
Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan & Catherine Pawasarat speak about the benefits of having a spiritual teacher or a ‘guru’. They describe the fear that we might lose our identity, but how the teacher’s actual goal is to help the student expand their...
Doug Duncan Sensei shares about awakening, enlightenment and wisdom. 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. What is awakening? Is...
Happiness or Bliss? Which would you choose: happiness, or 16 different kinds of bliss? Classic Buddhist teachings don’t address happiness; they do, however address 16 different categories of bliss. These explorers of consciousness were really paying attention! Every...
Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan & Catherine Pawasarat speak about their co-teaching model. They describe how having both a male and female teacher can help address different facets of growth and unfoldment. Watch the video: Click for More Videos featuring Doug Duncan...
Anxiety, worry and fear are a part of everyday life, particularly in our fast-paced society and the realities of modern globalization. And they don’t help things! So what do we do to loosen the grip that they have on us and those around us? First we benefit from...
In Part 1 of this blog, we provided an overview of some of the major transformations in the manifestation of this teaching over the last two decades, and what we see on the horizon. Um … What If I’m Just Not Into These Changes? A natural human response to change is...