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Karma Yoga, Path for the Western Mind – The Easiest Transition to Make
How do we bring the path of awakening to our everyday lives? Well the truth is, we need training. We need training on how to bring spacious, blissful, non-clinging awareness into our hectic and busy lives.
Video: What is Karma Yoga?
In this video, Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat share why Karma Yoga is an excellent spiritual path for action-oriented modern people, that takes us beyond our selves.
Entering the Stream of Freedom: Karma Yoga and Dharma Training
Do you want more freedom? And what do you mean by “freedom?” Some think we can uncover our blind spots through “sitting practice,” also called meditation. While it is true one can discover much this way, what we cannot see is how our patterns play out in our daily lives.
The Times They Are A-Changin’: Are You With Us? (Part 1)
Just 10 years ago this teaching was more focused around meditation and individual therapy, and more yogic, that is, dependent on the student-teacher relationships wherever in the world that might be happening. We’ve seen our focus shift to embracing sangha-centered karma yoga and dharma training as key elements of our path.
Learning to Ride the Dragon: The Path of Purification
Though the spiritual path can be a long and winding road, some good news is that the only work we really have to do is purification – everything else naturally follows from there. In that sense, our spiritual unfoldment is simple and easily within reach. Here’s how.
Busy Life? The Practice of Letting Go Is a Choice
You can’t get wisdom from knowing more; you can only get wisdom from learning more and then surrendering to the unknown to integrate it. Letting go into the unknown is what’s hard for people, because it seems like defeat.
Mahamudra: The Interplay of Body and Mind
Mahamudra masters have compared the events of our body/mind to a rainbow, a mirage, a dream, a dewdrop in the sun and the like. These events – thoughts, feelings and sensations – seem so real because they are habitual and repetitive. Mahamudra lets us see them for what they are: “the play of the mind.”
Interview: On Integrating Eastern & Western Awakening Traditions, The Hero’s Journey, and Dharma-Astrology
In this Banyen interview, Doug Sensei and Catherine speak about their innovative teaching work, the blending of Eastern and Western traditions, and the integration of the shadow aspects of our psyches for transformation.
Video: The Power of Goodness
Dharma Teacher Catherine Pawasarat talks about the notion of ‘goodness’. She discusses the complexity and profundity of goodness, and how much we underestimate its power to affect tremendous change quite quickly.