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Contemplating 400 Years of Inequality
Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is hosting a conversation that focuses on the past 400 years of American structural inequality towards Blacks, Indigenous, women and other minority groups. This seminar invites us to see our own implicit biases and cultivate new ways of being more compassionate and loving beings through the scope of Dharma, race and liberation.
Crouching Ego, Hidden Buddhas
Learn how to transform overwhelm into endless wisdom and greater capacities to love, act, connect and be.
Eye of the Storm: Navigating the Modern World (Online)
For all meditators and spiritual practitioners, this course explores how we can more fully support the mind of awakening to manifest in our lives - for our own benefit, and for positive transformation in the world. Learn how to create space and strength to navigate the storms of the modern world.Eye of the Storm Do you struggle to keep momentum with your spiritual practice? It is easy to feel one’s energy get drained away and get lost in the struggles and distractions around us. More than ever we need a strong supportive environment to help us navigate the storms of the modern world, and to shine forth with clarity and compassionate minds to help the planet. As human beings, our consciousness is built to awaken. Our awakening is supported by the universe - we just need to learn to recognize and tap into this deep support structure. Based on 15 years of hosting deep retreat work, our home meditation center Clear Sky uses five tried and tested principles of creating a supportive container. These principles nurture and uncover this universal support for awakening. The same principles can be used throughout our lives - at home, at work, and on the road - to create space for our awakening to flourish. For all meditators and spiritual practitioners, this course gives fundamental and creative ways to more fully support the mind of awakening to manifest in our lives - for our own benefit, and for positive transformation in the world. Note: for […]
Office Hours Online Q&A
Clear Sky Meditation & Study Centre 3567 Cockell Rd, Bull River, British Columbia, CanadaOffice 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
Clear Sky Meditation & Study Centre 3567 Cockell Rd, Bull River, British Columbia, CanadaHave a question on your mind? Our office is open!
Winter Meditation Retreat: The Kasinas
Clear Sky Meditation & Study Centre 3567 Cockell Rd, Bull River, British Columbia, CanadaRegistration ends November 20, 2020 Kasiṇa meditation is a concentration meditation (samatha, jhāna) intended to settle the mind and create a foundation for liberation. Important Announcement and Change This is a two week retreat and the Teachers have added a one week option. The Teachers recognize that circumstances may make it difficult for some people to attend both weeks. Attending the full two weeks is ideal. If you choose to take the one week option it is the first week, December 4 - 12, 2020. The teachers will be offering a Chenrezi Wongkur at the beginning of the first week. This empowerment will be streamed live, enabling both online and onsite participation. (Exact time and date to be announced.)Winter Meditation Retreat: The Kasinas Settling the Mind, Cultivating Concentration (Jhāna) The ten kasina are part of the forty kammatthana: objects of meditation. They are described in detail by Buddhaghosa in the meditation section of the Visuddhimagga. Kasina meditation is a concentration meditation (variously known in different traditions as samatha, dhyana, or jhana meditations), intended to settle the mind of the practitioner and create a foundation for further practices of meditation. In the early stages of kasina meditation, a physical object is used as the object of meditation, being focused upon by the practitioner until an eidetic (after-image) image of the object forms in the practitioners mind. In more advanced levels of kasina meditation, only a mental image of the kasina is used as an object of meditation. Experience Acariya Doug Duncan […]
Office Hours Online Q&A
Clear Sky Meditation & Study Centre 3567 Cockell Rd, Bull River, British Columbia, CanadaLooking to anchor your practice during your busy day-to-day life? Consistent communication with community and the teachers both grounds and strengthens your practice.
New Year Office Hours 2021
Welcome in the New Year and 2021 with Dharma Teachers and community. Since we can't be together this year, we'll re-create our annual new year bonfire ritual online. Bring your new year resolution - reflecting on "What do I want to accomplish in 2021?"Why this New Year Celebration Office Hours?Welcome in the New Year 2021 with your Dharma Teachers and community. Since we can't be together this year, we'll re-create our annual new year bonfire ritual online. Bring your new year resolution - reflecting on "What do I want to accomplish in 2021?"The Benefits of Regular ContactWhen you're swept up in the busyness of career, family and daily pressures, Office Hours is an anchor to universal teachings and supportive community. Every second Sunday, you have an opportunity to join our global network for an online Q&A session with Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat.Coming together in question and reflection is a precious opportunity for deepened compassion and wisdom. You may discover that others share the same question as you, or better yet, learn the answers to questions you even never thought to ask. This 'triple gem' of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha is a tangible refuge to strengthen your awakening journey.Not sure what to expect? You are welcome to attend as an observer and are not required to ask a question. Although participants are encouraged to bring questions, it is not mandatory.Video recordings are available for those who cannot attend live.Office Hours is open to all experience levels. Meet the […]
A Study of Consciousness: The Abhidhamma (Online Course)
Study the Abhidhamma, to better understand the detailed nature of mental and physical processes.
Buddhist Contemplative Care for End of Life Speakers Series
Watch the RecordingLife, Death and Rebirth BardosHear Doug Qapel Duncan and Catherine Pawsarat Sensei speak on the life, death and rebirth bardos, from the point of view of Vajrayana Buddhism. This talk was hosted by Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto, on February 6th 2021. Link to the livestream available here: Vajrayana Buddhism and the Life, Death and Rebirth Bardos.Original Event details: Join Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat for a conversation on Buddhist views of death and dying. Focusing on perspectives unique to their lineage they will share about death related caregiving and to illuminate specific practices (e.g., rituals, key texts, etc.). Additionally, they will reflect on how the relatively recent adaptation of Buddhism to Canada and the West has created frictions and creative adaptations to this ancient tradition. This speakers series, cosponsored by Emmanuel College’s Centre for Religion and Its Contexts, the Toronto Centre for Applied Buddhism and the Buddhist Education Foundation of Canada, is a pioneering effort to provide a platform for Canadian teachers from the three main traditions of Buddhism to address contemplative end-of-life care. Over the past fifty years, Canadians from many walks of life have become interested in Buddhism, including growing numbers of committed practitioners and students, as well as those whose curiosity has been piqued about how Buddhist wisdom can be applied to life challenges. This rich spiritual and philosophical system provides unique insight into the perennial questions: What is a “good death?” How can I support myself and my loved ones during this […]