Moving from Self to Service When we aren’t meditating or working, what are we doing? Too often we are focused on ego preferences – the food we like, the people we like, the movies we like or dislike. But moving one’s focus from self, to service, is fundamental...
How can your Livelihood and your Spiritual Practice Feed each other? Imagine your livelihood being a dynamic engine of growth, and your inner spiritual work infusing depth and vision to your career. How powerful and beautiful that would be! Awakening through career...
Most of us spend a large percentage of our lives at our workplace. For people aspiring to grow, to wake up and to be of service, we quickly come to some burning questions. How can my work life really support and contribute to my spiritual growth? And how does the...
Do you want to strengthen and deepen your spiritual practice both on and off the meditation cushion? Awaken more speedily? Integrate awakening more with your day-to-day activities via Karma Yoga? This is a pilot program for people with pioneering spirits. Our dynamic...
Jesus said: “seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all else will be added unto you” (Matthew 6:33) The vedas say: “Those who have Unity in their awareness, those who have Unity lively in their awareness, Natural Law works for them.” The Buddha implied: Ignorance is...
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 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...
Doug Duncan Sensei’s AGM address during Clear Sky’s 10th Anniversary Celebrations, August 2015: It’s a fast world and it’s a rapidly changing world and for many that’s scary. But we have to remember that the universe is compassionate by its very nature....
