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Year of Pureland Program for Spiritual Awakening
“Why awaken?” may be the most important question a spiritual practitioner ever asks themself. Join a group of dedicated practitioners in this year-long program that empowers and supports awakening in the modern age. Year of Pureland: Program for Spiritual Awakening How do you deepen your spiritual practice amidst day-to-day demands? Enrich your journey to the Pureland in a program that will support and empower your practice, wherever you are on the path. Join our global community for a year of online courses, meditation retreats (at home or in person), and mentorship opportunities. The benefits for participants in our past year-long programs (the Year of Awakening, Year of Victory and Year of Joy have been very clear. For those who engaged in a committed way, this program has been a game-changer for their practice and dedication to the path. The growth we’ve seen in participants has been remarkable. Meet the Teachers 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 […]
Intro to Astrodharma
Astrology and Buddhism?! These are two powerful tools to help us better understand ourselves as individuals, our lives, the nature of being human, and the universe around us. The unique combination of Astrology and Dharma gives us unprecedented leverage to draw on personal strengths to transform personal and situational challenges. Intro to AstroDharma is designed to support you on your spiritual path and thereby benefit others. Why this Course? The combination of Dharma and Transpersonal Astrology is a powerful method to help you to understand your soul map––your natal astrology chart–– and your unique Hero’s Journey depicted therein. With the Teachings of the Buddha, also known as “Buddhadharma” or just “dharma” we gain insights from 2500 years of profound consciousness studies. With Transpersonal Astrology we draw on Western Greco-Roman mythology plus Jungian principles and archetypes to help us understand ourselves, others and the cosmos. Course Overview Understand the Map of Your Soul’s Journey & Transform Challenges Intro to AstroDharma is an online self-study program that supports you as you begin the journey of self-discovery and transformation through the uniquely combined lens of Buddhist teachings (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology. Learn the Fundamentals of Astrology This introductory course will help you get to know your own astrological birth chart. Along the way, you learn the spectrum of corresponding characteristics that you can choose to manifest in your life and your personality, as shown through the zodiacal signs, the planets and the houses. If you don’t quite understand what this means, this […]
Office Hours: Online Q&A
Office Hours is a virtual question and answer session with Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat. This communal exchange benefits your practice through support from community and exposure to questions you may not think to ask.
The Pearl without Price: Why Awaken?
The Pearl without Price: Why Awaken? An Online course with Planet Dharma's Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat.
Office Hours: Online Q&A
Office Hours is a virtual question and answer session with Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat. This communal exchange benefits your practice through support from community and exposure to questions you may not think to ask.
Office Hours: Online Q&A
Attention all fearless warriors of transcendence. Wondering how to arm yourselves as you plunge to the depths of consciousness?
Office Hours: Online Q&A – with Guests
Looking to anchor your practice during your busy day-to-day life? Consistent communication with your spiritual community both grounds and strengthens your practice. Join guest hosts and Dharma Teachers Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle.
Calgary Talks: Finding Peace in a F*#@ed up World
ruberto ostberg gallery 2108 18 St NW, Calgary, AB, CanadaWe exist in a chaotic time. Luckily, modern spiritual warriors are hard at work too, co-creating ways to make peace into a viable, attractive, and powerful option. Join Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat in Calgary, Alberta on March 9 and 10, 2019.
Insight Meditation Retreat
Clear Sky Meditation & Study Centre 3567 Cockell Rd, Bull River, British Columbia, CanadaWhy do we lose bliss? How do we regain it? By popular demand, Planet Dharma is offering this ten-day insight retreat at the beautiful and innovative Clear Sky Retreat Center. Insight Meditation Retreat Most think of meditation as a sense of calm and concentration that leads to bliss. But, bliss is impermanent and subject to loss. How do we lose bliss? How to we regain it? Through studying insight we realize that the self that searches for bliss and that this search is itself the root, source and continuance of the struggle. The path of insight leads us to the realization that there’s no inherent, independent, self identity to be found. This is called liberation, awakening, freedom. And it's just a good idea. Why Study Insight? The Benefits of an Insight Retreat March 15-24, 2019 Insight is the practice of watching the arisings and falling away of phenomena in the mind. “Insight” comes from the Pali “Vipassana” which means “to see again and again;” we use the 16 Stages of Insight to become sleuths of patterns of the mind. Most people live in the first three stages of insight; when you experience the fourth, it’s considered that you’ve entered “the path to the path” of awakening. Experiencing stages from four to thirteen can be a bit like a yo-yo: we go up and down repeatedly in our meditation. Then we have a breakthrough experience of sotāpanna at the 14th stage, when we experience that there is no inherent self. […]
Office Hours: Online Q&A
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