Feeding Positivity in a World of Negativity With all the negativity in our ‘crisis news network’ style culture, it can be hard to stay positive. If we’re eating a lot of negativity in the news, on social media, in entertainment, then that’s...
Becoming a work of art through the Paramis Want to live your most beautiful life? Dharma Teachers Doug & Catherine Sensei often talk about ‘becoming a work of art’. We asked them to explain what that means. They share their insights on the process, and...
One of the things that drew me to Buddhism is also one of its most frustrating aspects. We are asked to look into each experience itself and see what it has to teach us. We aren’t supposed to just blindly follow the Buddha or living spiritual teachers. We are...
Part one from the three part series Conscious Relationship – Tools for Growing Together and Separately. Being Okay with Being Alone in Your Relationship We are born alone and we will die alone. This feeling of loneliness drives us to relationships. There is no...
Embracing Community Grows You Embracing community is vitally important for spiritual growth. If you want to really live well, it is important to participate in a community. If you don’t belong to a group, you can hide out and pretend to have things integrated...
Why are you here on planet Earth, here in this body? Is there a desire for awakening? Are you seeking a place where the consciousness is clear, radiant and quiet? Are you desiring a mind that is blissful and spacious at all times? We call that the desire to awaken,...
The Mind is Empty Yet Manifests Phenomena The mind in essence is empty. But that doesn’t stop phenomena from happening. The mind is going to manifest phenomena. Surely. Without ceasing. Always. By learning to dive beneath the waves of the phenomena we can find the...
The Daemon vs. the Demon Are you listening to your inner demon, or your inner daemon? Your “calling,” or your “daemon,” is the part of your being that you cannot deny. It is a guiding light that demands to be followed. By contrast, the “demon” is that...
Embodying the Sacred Feminine: Leaving Room To Be Awakening is the process of contacting the feminine principle, the sacred feminine, the spaciousness. Most people think ‘I’ve got to work on unfoldment’, ‘I’ve got to meditate more’. Or ‘I’ve got to...
Luminosity and bliss is the natural state of the mind – before it reaches turbulence. In order to keep the mind from being in a state of turbulence, one has to let go of two veils which generate all our machinations. The two veils that generate turbulence are:...
