Killing Me Softly
By Andrea Netscher on June 25th, 2016Reflections on Mahayana Teachings This is an offering by Andrea Netscher based on Doug Duncan & Catherine Pawasarat’s Mahayana teachings in May 2016. Once upon a time there was a month of Mahayana teachings on Planet Dharma. The cool thing about it was that...
Do I Have To? Heeding your Calling
By Catherine Pawasarat and Doug Duncan on June 18th, 2016Someone once said “I write because I have to, I have no choice, I can’t not write”. We should all have an area or two where we can say “I do this because I have to, because my life force pushes me in that direction and I just can’t say no to...
Karma Yoga, Path for the Western Mind – The Easiest Transition to Make
By Catherine Pawasarat and Doug Duncan on December 19th, 2015This 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...
Busy Life? The Practice of Letting Go Is a Choice
By Catherine Pawasarat and Doug Duncan on October 31st, 2015This is an excerpt from the Kyoto Journal article ‘Moving Into the Stream: An Interview with Dharma Teacher Achariya Doug Duncan” by Brendan Joseph Ries. People have busy lives because they’re afraid of being not busy. We want to go to every movie, see...
The Challenges: For Lightning-Fast Spiritual Progress
By Catherine Pawasarat and Doug Duncan on September 5th, 2015We’d all like to make high-speed spiritual progress. The Buddha awakened, so surely we can also. Sometimes though it feels like we are swimming (or meditating) in a tub of molasses. I have a spiritual practice, I make efforts to be a good person – what’s holding me...
The Benefits of Holistic Clearing
By Catherine Pawasarat and Doug Duncan on May 18th, 2015Feeling stuck in a rut? Get out fast with this four-step practice. We all feel stuck sometimes. Even when we feel we’re aligned with the natural flow of the universe, natural flows include backeddies and still water. These processes serve useful functions, in a water...
Womb Clearing: The Most Important Work You’ll Ever Do
By Catherine Pawasarat and Doug Duncan on April 4th, 2015All spiritual paths share the same goal: that of liberation or freedom from suffering, some traditions call it “transcendence” or divine love. Whatever you want to call it, our objective is the same: a greater sense and understanding of how we got here, our place in...
The Left/Right Brain and Capital “M” Mind (Part 3 of 3)
By Pod Bean on February 28th, 2009Roots of the path. The root of the path is sila, samadhi and panna. 1. The Golden Rule works. 2. Concentration — requires and effort that goes beyond your preference mind (you get bored). Important for right-hemisphere brain if mind is wandering around in the...
The Left/Right Brain and Capital “M” Mind (Part 2 of 3)
By Pod Bean on February 20th, 2009The noting of unity. All the objects of your mind are impermanent. Liberation from suffering/Nirvana/Christ consciousness is a right-hemisphere experience but the left hemisphere is the hemisphere that knows about it. — This talk was given in Kyoto, Japan, in...
