The Hero’s Journey Luke Skywalker, Dorothy of Kansas and Oz, Django Unchained, Harry Potter: their stories capture our attention and hearts. The downtrodden prevail, and are thus transformed into heroes. They have made the Hero’s Journey. This journey beckons to...
Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat look at Buddhism and how it applies to our lives, though it may seem formal and foreign. They explain that the principles and methodologies are sound, useful and universal and that we are perhaps moving ‘Beyond...
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...
An Interview with Dharma Teacher Achariya Doug Duncan on Exploring, Transcending, Surrendering & Awakening. Article by Brendan Joseph Ries, as Published in the Kyoto Journal Online Magazine, February 2014. Download the Kyoto Journal article Click to download...
Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat were interviewed by the wonderful Farah on Drishti Point Radio in October 2013. They talked about pushing the boundaries for our spiritual liberation and other core messages highlighted in Doug’s new book...
Quantum physics as well as tradition Buddhist philosophy teach us that nothing in the universe remains the same for even a second. Thus we know that everything we hold and cherish will also pass on and out of our lives, if only at death. This may feel frightening...
We once asked Namgyal Rinpoche if trust was awakening. His response was: ‘Complete trust is complete awakening’. So the question may be, what (or whom) are you trusting? We need to remember of course that the ego only trusts itself, which is a very poor choice, as the...
