Be a Stubborn Toddler and Other Tips for Meditation
By Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat on March 23rd, 2019Be a Stubborn Toddler and Other Tips for Meditation 23 MARCH, 2019 Be a Stubborn Toddler and Other Tips for Meditation The Wandering Mind Blues Every meditator gets frustrated by the wandering mind. Don’t worry. Your mind is used to being busy and active and when you...
Human Consciousness is a Palace
By Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat on January 12th, 2019
Diving into the Spaciousness of Phenomena (aka Meditation)
By Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat on December 15th, 2017The Mind is Empty Yet Manifests Phenomena The mind in essence is empty. But that doesn’t stop phenomena from happening. The mind is going to manifest phenomena. Surely. Without ceasing. Always. By learning to dive beneath the waves of the phenomena we can find the...
Bhojjangas: Seven Factors of Awakening
By Catherine Pawasarat and Doug Duncan on November 22nd, 2016
Spiritually Aware At Work: Flourishing in the Workplace
By Duncan Cryle on October 22nd, 2016Most 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...
Entering the Stream of Freedom: Karma Yoga and Dharma Training
By Doug Duncan on December 5th, 2015Do 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...
The Times They Are A-Changin’: Are You With Us? (Part 1)
By Catherine Pawasarat and Doug Duncan on November 21st, 2015Shifts 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...
Learning to Ride the Dragon: The Path of Purification
By Catherine Pawasarat and Doug Duncan on November 7th, 2015Purification is the path Though the spiritual path can be a long and winding road, some good news is that the only work we really have to do is purification – everything else naturally follows from there. In that sense, our spiritual unfoldment is simple and easily...
Busy Life? The Practice of Letting Go Is a Choice
By Catherine Pawasarat and Doug Duncan on October 31st, 2015This is an excerpt from the Kyoto Journal article ‘Moving Into the Stream: An Interview with Dharma Teacher Achariya Doug Duncan” by Brendan Joseph Ries. People have busy lives because they’re afraid of being not busy. We want to go to every movie, see...
