Dharma Podcasts Library
BONUS Supporting Loved Ones Through the Death Process
We hope you enjoy this soundbite from Doug ‘Qapel’ Duncan on how to support loved ones through the dying process. For an extended look at death, dying, and rebirth, check out Episode 7 from this season, about 5 recordings back in the podcast feed. You can also watch...
Women in Buddhism: Elevating Our Voices
In today’s talk, Catherine Pawasarat Sensei explores the topic of Women in Buddhism. She talks about her early years as a feminist, becoming an attendant for her male teacher, shifting views in the buddhist world around female rebirth & elevating female tantric...
Flipping the Switch: Realizing Our Buddhanature
In today’s talk, Catherine Pawasarat Sensei and Doug ‘Qapel’ Duncan explore the topic of Buddha nature. They look at the various terms that are used to describe it and highlight the challenge of talking about Buddha-nature in a way that doesn’t fall into a conceptual...
BONUS Chakras and the Shadow Before Psychology
We hope you enjoy this soundbite from Doug ‘Qapel’ Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei on how Buddhism worked with the shadow before modern psychology existed to name this aspect of our psyche. And a note of clarification: In the talk, you’ll hear Qapel and Sensei...
Consciousness Continues: Navigating Death, Rebirth & the Bardos
Today’s recording is a talk that Doug ‘Qapel’ Duncan gave recently on the topic of death, dying and the bardos. In the talk, he explores how we really experience a death in every moment, and describes in detail the steps in the death process and how consciousness...
BONUS Integrating the Lower 3 Chakras
We hope you enjoy this soundbite from Doug ‘Qapel’ Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei on how to access higher states of consciousness through clearing the lower 3 chakras. Today’s bonus recording covers ideas that Qapel and Sensei explore in detail in their...
INTERVIEW Ecology + Spirituality: Connecting with the Universe
In this interview, Catherine Pawasarat Sensei talks about the impact our views of connection with - or disconnection from - our natural environment have on the quality of our lives moment to moment. She highlights the centrality of natural laws in the very essence of...
BONUS Happiness is a Byproduct
We hope you enjoy this soundbite from Doug ‘Qapel’ Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei on the folly of assigning happiness to objects and how happiness is actually a result of being in a good state. This bonus episode marks the 100th upload to the podcast feed! How...
Saturn, Chiron, & Nodes in Your Chart: Unlocking Your Highest Potential
In this episode, Catherine Pawasarat Sensei and Doug ‘Qapel’ Duncan explore parts of our natal charts that are particularly connected to spiritual and personal transformation, including Chiron, Saturn, and North and South Nodes. They explain how these lenses can help...