Unchain Yourself: The Benefits of Spiritual Awakening

By on October 11th, 2019

The perks of becoming more conscious. In this talk Doug and Catherine explore the process of spiritual awakening and its many benefits. They discuss how it leads to greater freedom and control in our lives, makes us less subject to old habits and conditioning, and...

Integrate Your Iceberg: Bringing the Shadow into Consciousness

By on September 27th, 2019

In this talk, Doug and Catherine discuss the importance of bringing all aspects of ourselves into consciousness. Through integrating the shadow we can access greater and greater degrees of freedom and free up huge amounts of energy. Today’s episode featured a...

Become a Work of Art: Understanding the 6 Paramis

By on September 13th, 2019

An introduction to the Paramis In this public talk Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat introduce the paramis, 6 aspects of consciousness that have been taught in the buddhadharma for more than two thousand years and allow practitioners to become their own inner and...

Activate Your Creativity: Surrender to Spaciousness

By on August 21st, 2019

Quantum Creativity and Adaptive Creativity In this talk from the online course Riding the Dragon, Doug and Catherine explore the concepts of Quantum Creativity and Adaptive Creativity. They discuss how imagination springs forth from spaciousness and how it is the...

Connect to Your World: The Power of Lived Experience

By on August 2nd, 2019

Information vs Lived Experience. In this talk Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat look at the pitfalls of our society’s tendency to value information over lived experience. They discuss ways to integrate knowledge and wisdom so we can live connected lives. Today’s...

Aligning Your Personal Vision with Absolute Truth

By on July 19th, 2019

Drawing on material from the first reflection in their book, Wasteland to Pureland, Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat explore the topic of personal vision and connect it to the concepts of absolute and relative truth. Today’s recording is a continuation of the...

Season 3 Trailer: A Birthday Podcast

By on July 14th, 2019

Welcome to Season Three. This week is Doug Duncan‘s 70th birthday. We thought this was the perfect time to launch Season 3 of the podcast with its new title, Dharma If You Dare. The first episode of the new season will drop any day now, so stay tuned. Make sure to...
Video: The Universe is Love

Video: The Universe is Love

By on October 23rd, 2017

If the universe is love, what is all the conflict that we see around us? In this video, Doug Duncan Sensei shares how fundamentally, the struggles of the world come from people feeling that they are unloved. He explains that we can only feel unloved if we feel...
Video: What is Planet Dharma?

Video: What is Planet Dharma?

By and on January 23rd, 2015

Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat describe why they started “Planet Dharma”. Doug and Catherine teach worldwide and at Clear Sky Meditation Center in BC, Canada. They are dynamic and hands-on teachers who guide a diverse range of students...