Season 3 Trailer: A Birthday Podcast

By on July 14th, 2019

Welcome to Season Three. This week is Doug Duncan‘s 70th birthday. We thought this was the perfect time to launch Season 3 of the podcast with its new title, Dharma If You Dare. The first episode of the new season will drop any day now, so stay tuned. Make sure to...

Season 3 Trailer: Why Awaken?

By on May 21st, 2019

Why Awaken? Today’s episode explores the idea of personal vision and how it relates to spiritual unfoldment. It’s part of our celebration for the upcoming release of more podcast episodes from Planet Dharma. Season 3 will begin in mid-July to celebrate...
Spiritual Awakening & the Modern Age

Spiritual Awakening & the Modern Age

By and on February 5th, 2017

Spiritual Awakening Today: Bridging Old and New How might one attain to spiritual awakening in the modern world, in these complex times? In this article we look back at the two main historical models for spiritual training, and propose a contemporary approach for...
Trust and Awakening

Trust and Awakening

By and on August 16th, 2013

We once asked Namgyal Rinpoche if trust was awakening. His response was: ‘Complete trust is complete awakening’. So the question may be, what (or whom) are you trusting? We need to remember of course that the ego only trusts itself, which is a very poor choice, as the...