Public Classes

How might we reach our personal and collective potentials in a world we truly want to live in? Join Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat in Calgary, July 15-16 for a weekend on Conscious Community, connection and collaboration.

Conscious Livelihood: Inspired Living from the Inside Out July 19th at the Centre for Social Innovation - Spadina Doug Sensei teaching at CSI in November 2015 Contemporary society and the consumer marketplace offer mostly an empty substitute for a life well lived. Conscious (or Complete) Livelihood means learning to live in accordance with deeper truths. When we uncover these truths for ourselves through meditation, mindfulness and applied awareness in our day-to-day lives we find that real satisfaction was always within our grasp. Conscious Livelihood directs our aspiration to a radiant, blissful state of being. By seeking the best state of being, and the best supporting conditions to do so, we uncover for ourselves a new, more holistic and inherently satisfying vision that invigorates our life with purpose and meaning. From this state we naturally explore and develop sustainable lives that serve the planet and create the world we truly want to live in. Weaving the Truth: Relative and Ultimate Realities July 20th, 2017 at the Village Healing Centre Doug Sensei with students at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto Meditation masters have compared the events of our body/mind to a rainbow, a mirage, a dream, a dewdrop in the sun and the like. These events – thoughts, feelings and sensations – seem so real because they are habitual and repetitive. Moreover, we cling to the ones we like and run from the ones we don’t. We have been habituated to see these events as real, when really they represent relative […]

What can we do to increase growth and connection in our relationships? Join Doug & Catherine for a series of three Saturday evening classes in Fernie, BC.

How do we enrich our personal and professional relationships? Join Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat for a weekend workshop in Calgary on the art of relationships and spiritual awakening.

Join us for an evening talk at Banyen Books on how you can transform your shadow aspects into strengths. This will be a fascinating introduction to how Buddhist philosophy or Dharma can be combined with Western astrology.

To celebrate the launch of their new book 'Wasteland to Pureland: Reflections on the Path to Awakening', master teachers Acariya Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat present teachings that have emerged out of decades of practice and study in Buddhist philosophy, Western psychology and other wisdom traditions. In Wasteland to Pureland, Doug and Catherine provide a contemporary guide to integrating spiritual practice with everyday life. Learn how the daily grist of work, relationships and challenges can become our richest resource and how to get beyond small views of the self, by first understanding the forces of ego and trauma that hold each of us back. They show us expansive, ever-transforming selfhood is possible, with the capacity to awaken through work, creativity, sex, relationship and action. Honest, edgy and accessible, this is for anyone ready to shed light on limiting beliefs and wake up to the vibrant forces of light, love, compassion and wisdom in the world. The launch and talk will be held at Watkins Books in London. 6:30pm, Thursday August 23, 2018