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Have you Gotten Naked with your Team?
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. When’s the last time you told your colleagues (or friends, or family) how you are truly feeling?
Awakening, Enlightenment & Wisdom
What is awakening? From the point of view of the East, awakening is any realization or insight or knowledge that one didn’t have before. The “how” of awakening is the willingness to find out what it is. If you don’t have the aspiration or the motivation you can’t find it. You have to want it and you have to trust that it’s there.
Forget Happiness – Gimme 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. For most of us, they come and go like different kinds of weather. With training, we can manifest them at will – training has benefits!
Video: Dharma Co-Teaching – Having a Male & Female Teacher
Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan & Catherine Pawasarat speak about their co-teaching model. They describe how having both a male and female teacher can help address different facets of growth and unfoldment.
How to Send Fear, Anxiety and Worry Packing
Anxiety, worry and fear are a part of everyday life, particularly in our fast-paced society and the realities of modern globalization. And they don’t help things! So what do we do to loosen the grip that they have on us and those around us? Discover the Five Steps to Beat Feeling Beat by Fear, Anxiety and Worry.
Meditation in Action: Check your State
The question is always with us, what happens when we get back to our busy, complex and challenging daily lives? Doug and Catherine Sensei share the importance of ongoing practice in the form of ‘awakening in action’ or karma yoga.
The Times They Are A-Changin’: Are You With Us? (Part 2)
In this vision setting blog post, Doug & Catherine Sensei, invite their students and spiritual community to join them on a path of Awakening in Action. They explain why and how our approaches to practicing Dharma must adapt to the times to continue to be effective for liberation. They articulate a path that encompasses sangha, karma yoga, dharma training and dana as vital components for speedy unfoldment, in the context of our busy modern lives.
Video: On Getting a Teacher and How We Work with Students
The teacher-student relationship is a vital aspect for spiritual unfoldment in Eastern and Western spiritual traditions. In this video, Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat talk candidly about the process of getting a teacher. They also describe how as modern spiritual teachers they work with their students.
Trust and the Teacher-Student Relationship
What does it mean to be a student? What does it mean to be a teacher? Doug Duncan Sensei shares his personal experience with his teacher Namgyal Rinpoche, and the dynamics of the teacher-student relationship today.