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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.
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: The Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta (Online)
What are the four foundations of mindfulness that provide a platform for insight, and 'clear seeing'? Discover indispensable tools for crafting a powerful meditation practice.Four Foundations of Mindfulness: The Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta While we believe any undertaking can be a vehicle for awakening, there's no substitute for the power of one's own profound experience of truth, gained through meditation. This is why meditation is one of the four foundational practices of our teaching. In this four-week online course, we take a deep dive to explore the Theravadin tradition of vipassana or insight meditation. We’ll focus on the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, or discourse on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, which has been described as the most profound discourse the Buddha ever gave on mental development. This simple yet powerful framework will help you extend your meditation experience to everything from subatomic particles to the vastness of space, and all that’s between.Recommended Reading To prepare, please read the full Satipatthana Sutta before class. You can find a link here: Satipatthana Sutta We also recommend Namgyal Rinpoche’s short and pithy Breath of Awakening, a commentary on the Anapanasati Sutta, which is nice background for the Satipatthana Sutta. The book is available at the Clear Sky Center shop, or through our friends at Bodhi Publishing (recommend ordering well in advance, as delivery times vary).The course went beyond my expectations, I feel I learned a lot of new things or new ways of seeing things. The teachers have an incredible way of presenting the themes in a way that makes it easy […]
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, 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!
Beyond the Cushion: Awakening our Highest Potential (Online)
One might equate the spiritual life with a cloistered contemplative life. But few of us live that way today. So what spiritual methodologies actually work for busy, modern people living in a complex world? We share four pillars and five principles with you in this online course, to take your practice beyond the meditation cushion.
Office Hours: Doug Sensei’s Birthday Party
Celebrate Doug Duncan Sensei's birthday with this special Office Hours birthday party and Dharma If You Dare re-launch.
2 Steps to Freedom: Change How You Act in the World by Changing How You See It
People sometimes find themselves lost, confused, uncertain, or doubtful about their path. Indeed, the nature of samsara is that we get caught in chasing the same things, over and over. Yet right now, you may be one of many people who see the disruption of 2020 as an opportunity to press reset on important aspects of your life. The problem is, without the right focus, without putting the right view first, we’ll almost certainly end up in the same place. What does this mean? And how can we break free? Even in good states, we work mostly on autopilot. We’re making decisions that come from our mind, emotions, memory, or from a sense of “worldly” practicality. Or perhaps we close our eyes and hope that things will work out. Mostly, we act from the idea that our worldly lives are fundamentally “real,” something we need to control or to fix. By putting this view first, however, we’re basing our decisions and actions on the influences of our society, family, and changing states or emotions. So what’s the alternative? A Weekend Experience In these two talks, Dharma teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat will propose that to get wonderful results from life we must start with questioning and adjusting this view. Without the right view, our conduct cannot possibly flow in a wholesome, generative way. What is the view? The teachings show us that the ego is not real, that nothing is permanent. Hence, our first goal is to learn to dwell in […]
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.
Mastering the Sixteen Stages of Insight (Meditation Retreat)
Clear Sky Meditation & Study Centre 3567 Cockell Rd, Bull River, British Columbia, CanadaThis powerful meditation retreat is to understand and liberate the unconscious mind. By practicing the foundations of mindfulness, we can begin to master the sixteen stages of insight.