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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, 2019

It 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.

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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

What do our relationships with our mothers, capitalism, and the Triple Gem have in common? Without mindfulness and a robust sense of love, all may fall into an exploitative dynamic, one that’s not in our own best interest. How can we live abundantly and generously as spiritual beings in a capitalist system? We look at the sophistication of giving and receiving skills, the future of sacred economics, and how these impact our spiritual awakening.
MON, September 16

Only the Shadow Knows

Developments in 20th-century psychology introduced us to the concept of our personal and collective shadows. Integrating the shadow is central to our teaching, and can feel arduous and distressing at times, but brings with it infinite rewards. Liberating the shadow frees up immense amounts of energy previously spent repressing or otherwise avoiding it, and helps us become much more pleasant, effective and beneficial (loving) beings. So what does it take? What kinds of things can I do on my own and what do I need help with? How and from who?
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 psychological 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

The nature of the ego is to seek security, an unassailable identity, and control. All of these are ego defenses rooted in the lower three chakras. The thing is, this quest makes for a fragile and limited life. If we feel driven to always be in control, for example, opportunities for joyful spontaneity are drastically reduced. The spiritual life supports us to cultivate flexibility and freedom, and to make choices based in loving kindness compassion and wisdom. Through this process our three lower chakras become more strengthened and healthier, plus we develop the strength and courage to choose to live from the upper four chakras. Then we get to enjoy the wonders, joys and other benefits of living well from the heart and intuition as spiritual beings. And we still get to enjoy the upsides of healthy 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 you 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.
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Meet the Teachers

Catherine Pawasarat
Catherine Pawasarat
Doug Duncan
Doug Duncan
Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre, BC, Canada.

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.

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This Course is the third of three Online Courses in 2019.

The Pearl Without Price

Starts January 21

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Riding the Dragon

Starts June 3

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Crazy Wisdom

Starts Sept 9

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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.

Cara Conroy-Low

Acupuncturist, Canada

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.

Peter Ujlaki

Fine Art Dealer, Japan

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.

Paul Jaffe

Retired Professor & Meditation Teacher, New York

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September 9
End:
September 30
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