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Crazy Wisdom: Taking a Walk on the Wild Side
September 9 - September 30
Crazy Wisdom: Taking a Walk on the Wild Side
A Four Week Online Course | Starts September 9, 2019It takes courage and an open mind to explore the frontiers of awakening. What’s more, this greater range of understanding creates something we all desire: greater degrees of freedom. And freedom ain’t for the faint of heart.
Crazy Wisdom: Taking a Walk on the Wild Side
Meditation trains us to pay attention in any and every situation, making a broader range of experience available to seekers of every type.
What’s more, this greater range of understanding creates something we all desire: greater degrees of freedom. And freedom ain’t for the faint of heart.
It takes courage and an open mind to explore the frontiers of awakening.
Course Schedule
Starts September 9, 2019
MON, SEPTEMBER 9
Spiritual Energy Traders
MON, September 16
Only the Shadow Knows
MON, September 23
AstroDharma
AstroDharma allows us to use relative truth of our astrological charts to better understand the karmically shaped or conditioned self. We then use dharma and transpersonal psychology to understand how to transcend the limitations of this self. In this way it’s a powerful tool for bridging relative and absolute truths, and the right and left brain, as experienced in daily life. In this class we share some of the aspects of AstroDharma that we’ve found have the greatest transformative potential. You’ll better understand how these dynamics are at play in your own life, and how to use them for your unfoldment.
MON, September 30
Money, Sex and Power
October 4-6
Flash Retreat
This Flash Retreat provides practitioners with a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the Crazy Wisdom online course, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky, or together with your local sangha, or if those not available to you, in your home. Planet Dharma provides themes, meditations and guidelines to support Flash Retreat participants in the diamond and ruby levels.
Meet the Teachers
Catherine Pawasarat
Doug Duncan
Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct, humourous and compassionate engagement with students, Doug embraces various traditions, contemporary psychology, and science, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state.
Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies.
Course Details
Time and Location
Each of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class.
What Does the Course Cost?
We offer this course on the basis of dāna. You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course, and we trust you’ll match our time, energy, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.
This Course is the third of three Online Courses in 2019.
The Pearl Without Price
Starts January 21
Riding the Dragon
Starts June 3
Crazy Wisdom
Starts Sept 9
Doug & Catherine’s teachings are a rallying cry for all those who want no-holds-barred, honest guidance on the path of awakening. I’m thoroughly inspired by the spiritual potential we all have, and sobered by the challenges we face as a species and global consciousness. The path they lay out makes it clear that the journey is worth taking.
Doug and Catherine are always burning calories to get you back on a path that can lead toward greater self-awareness. When I am with these two very clear individuals, I am humbled by their dedication to others, and understand the every-waking-moment responsibility that comes with their calling.
If you get a chance to study with Doug and Catherine, don’t miss it. Through the power of long dedication, deep meditation, and wise guidance, life can definitely be transformed.
