Vulnerability isn’t easy, and it grows trust No doubt about it, it’s not easy being vulnerable. And yet that’s one of the best ways for us to grow trust in our relationships. It may seem counterintuitive that our colleagues and friends are more likely to have...
Happiness or Bliss? Which would you choose: happiness, or 16 different kinds of bliss? Classic Buddhist teachings don’t address happiness; they do, however address 16 different categories of bliss. These explorers of consciousness were really paying attention! Every...
In Part 1 of this blog, we provided an overview of some of the major transformations in the manifestation of this teaching over the last two decades, and what we see on the horizon. Um … What If I’m Just Not Into These Changes? A natural human response to change is...
Doug Duncan Sensei shares about his relationship with his teacher, Namgyal Rinpoche, and his own experience of teaching now. This is an excerpt from the Kyoto Journal article ‘Moving Into the Stream: An Interview with Dharma Teacher Achariya Doug Duncan’...
This blog post is written by Eric Smith, a Dharma student in Calgary. He shares his synopsis of Doug Duncan Sensei’s Nov 23, 2015 talk in Calgary, Karma Yoga, the Path for the Western Mind. I would like to begin by saying thank you in appreciation for the...