What is Awakening?
By Catherine Pawasarat and Doug Duncan on October 22nd, 2013This is the billion-dollar question, one that defies words. What we can say is this: central to the experience of awakening is a way of experiencing life that completely transcends the usual. Most people believe that Christ realization, Buddhist awakening, and the...
Basic Trust in the Universe
By Pod Bean on October 19th, 2013Spiritual awakening requires becoming aware of the ego structure The first step in spiritual awakening is becoming aware of our ego structure — actually perceiving the particular beliefs and images that we have identified with and taken to be true — then...
Awakening: Beyond the Illusion of Self
By Catherine Pawasarat and Doug Duncan on October 18th, 2013Quantum physics as well as tradition Buddhist philosophy teach us that nothing in the universe remains the same for even a second. Thus we know that everything we hold and cherish will also pass on and out of our lives, if only at death. This may feel frightening...
Awakening and What’s in the Mirror
By Catherine Pawasarat and Doug Duncan on October 14th, 2013
Waking Within the Dream
By Catherine Pawasarat and Doug Duncan on October 10th, 2013The Next Step of Unfoldment
By Pod Bean on October 5th, 2013In order for you to move to your next understanding — the next stage of unfoldment — how you position yourself in relationship to your world has to change. — Spiritual unfoldment talk transcript: “The important message that I want to convey...
The Next Step of Unfoldment
By Pod Bean on October 5th, 2013In order for you to move to your next understanding — the next stage of unfoldment — how you position yourself in relationship to your world has to change. — Spiritual unfoldment talk transcript: “The important message that I want to convey...
Why Practice the Paramis? (Part 2 of 2)
By Pod Bean on October 5th, 2013Paralyzed and Free! A quadriplegic man in the hospital for 25 years sees the spaciousness through which all manifestations can arise, including the mind. Was no longer obsessed with the arisings. — Part two of the “Why Practice the Paramis?” podcast...
Why Practice the Paramis? (Part 1 of 2)
By Pod Bean on August 23rd, 2013The paramis are qualities of character or “perfections” of heart and mind that can be developed to support the path of awakening–practices that develop wholesome activity, growth, and enlightenment. “It is so clear that the Teaching is the only...
