Adventures on the Path of Modern Day (Female) Guru Yoga 26 Oct 2023 By Cara Conroy-Lau Editor: Erika Rasmussen What does your mind follow? Your stories, your job? Your relationship? What you want to eat next? Transient feelings of crabbiness, anger, or fear? Has your...
Why awaken? In this video, learn what enlightenment, awakening, Christ consciousness, or Buddha nature actually means for us as modern people who want to be more conscious. Discover why we would bother pursuing that state of being. Enlighten-Up is a monthly livestream...
Human Consciousness is a Palace 12 JANUARY, 2019 Human Consciousness is Vast What is the most salient fact of your existence? You are “Conscious”. This is what makes you a human being. You are a human being because you are conscious. There is this huge palace sitting...
Spiritual Awakening Today: Bridging Old and New How might one attain to spiritual awakening in the modern world, in these complex times? In this article we look back at the two main historical models for spiritual training, and propose a contemporary approach for...
We are ‘Doers’ and We Like ‘Stuff’ We are 21st century people. We are ‘doers’. Our background in science and technology and the arts and entertainment has shaped our lives and directs our careers. And we like stuff, lots of stuff. Why fight it...
This blog post is written by Ruth Levin, a Dharma student in Canada. She shares her synopsis of Doug & Catherine Sensei’s “Cha Cha Cha of Awakening” class in Calgary, Alberta on February 18 2016. I recently had the pleasure and privilege of attending a...
Doug Duncan Sensei shares about his relationship with his teacher, Namgyal Rinpoche, and his own experience of teaching now. This is an excerpt from the Kyoto Journal article ‘Moving Into the Stream: An Interview with Dharma Teacher Achariya Doug Duncan’...
This blog post is written by Eric Smith, a Dharma student in Calgary. He shares his synopsis of Doug Duncan Sensei’s Nov 23, 2015 talk in Calgary, Karma Yoga, the Path for the Western Mind. I would like to begin by saying thank you in appreciation for the...
Do you want more freedom? And what do you mean by “freedom?” There’s political freedom, freedom of expression and freedom of opportunity, all of which are action oriented, external manifestations. We can also enjoy freedom from troubled mind states and freedom from...
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...