Newcomers and experienced meditators welcome. Tuesday Night – Stillness and the Path of Awakening – Meditation with Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei. 7:30pm – 9:00pm Wednesday Night –  Q and A - How to apply one's spiritual practice in the chaos of daily life. A question and answer session with Achariya Doug Duncan.  7:30pm - 9:00pm Additional Calgary Teachings: Vajrasattva Wongkur on Thursday night followed by a teaching series "Healing Stress and Anxiety with Self-Love' Organisation Fees:  Tuesday & Wednesday: $20 / night. Dana Achariya Doug Duncan lives solely by the donation bowl. Participants are encouraged to practice Dana (generosity) to support the teaching.  

Thursday Night – Vajra Sattva Wong Kur. 7:30pm - 8:30pm (please arrive at 7pm). This wongkur is a special initiation bestowed on students to accelerate their spiritual progress. The Vajrasattva practice is said to be particularly powerful for purifying the impure energy of the mind and the negative actions of body and speech that arise from it. In all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the Vajrasattva practice is one of the preliminary practices. Sometimes our Dharma practice doesn’t seem to bring good results. This is because our negative karma is creating obstacles. Doing this Vajrasattva practice can purify these negative mental imprints, thus removing the obstacles and suffering that result from our negative habits. What is a Wong Kur? More info here: https://www.clearskycenter.org/images/stories/misc-pdfs/wongkur.pdf Dana Achariya Doug Duncan lives solely by the donation bowl. Participants are encouraged to practice Dana (generosity) to support the teaching.  It is also customary to bring an offering of Dana to present to the Lama during the wongkur.

Self-love is essential to feel compassion for other beings, and for generally thriving in life. Experience and strengthen compassion and self-love under the experienced guidance of Doug Duncan Sensei. We’ll use these classes to grow and draw on compassion for self and other, learning how to transform stress, anxiety and defensiveness into more compassion and love. If you are seeking greater unity, healing, compassion and understanding, these classes will provide you with tools to get there. Friday Night – What is Self Love and Compassion? Saturday Class - Identifying and Understanding the origin of Unconscious Self-Sabotaging Patterns Sunday Class - Practical Tools for Healing Stress and Anxiety with Self Love. Times for the classes will be confirmed and posted soon. Fees: $75 for all three talks. $30 for each talk. Fees cover organization. Achariya Doug Duncan lives solely by the donation bowl. Participants are encouraged to practice Dana (generosity) to support the teaching. Location: Chinese Cultural Center, 3rd floor boardroom. 197 1st St SW.

Cultivating Awareness: Join Doug and Catherine for an evening Dharma Class at Banyen Books and Sound in Vancouver.

Doug and Catherine will be teaching on mindfulness on Friday and Saturday evenings, October 24-25th in beautiful Victoria, BC. Classes will be from 7:30-9pm and held at the Heart of the Village Yoga. Please see the event website for full information.

Join Dharma teacher Catherine Pawasarat in Calgary AB, for a weekend exploration of “Planetary Awakening”. Catherine will give Discourses on Deep Sustainability, covering such questions as:
-What needs to shift for humans to live in balance and harmony with the planet?
-How can we support this process in our day to day lives?
-How does the concept of sustainability translate to our mind states?

Join dynamic Dharma teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat for an engaging and empowering talk on Dharmic Astrology. Fresh off the success of their innovative online course, A Year of Dharmic Astrology, Doug and Catherine will share their insights and learnings gleaned from decades of study in how the system of astrology can be used to maximize personal growth and unfoldment. Astro Dharma takes the position that a better understanding of the patterning that has influenced us through our natal chart is a powerful key to unlocking greater degrees of freedom. Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat offer a truly empowering lens with which to explore these aspects of ourselves. For more about Doug and Catherine, click for this recent interview with Banyen Books: "On Integrating Eastern and Western Awakening Traditions, The Hero's Journey and Dharma-Astrology". You can also read more about astrology and Dharma in their blog post "Use AstroDharma to Increase Joy and Integrate the Shadow." For more Information about this presentation at Banyen Books: https://www.banyen.com/events/astro-dharma

From Thursday November 12th to Sunday November 15th Doug Duncan Sensei will be teaching in Sao Paulo. Details of classes and locations below – visit our Facebook page or contact [email protected] for more information. To register simply use this link: Registration Form Thursday November 12 7.30pm Impact HUB, Villa Madelena, Sao Paulo Dharma and Social Change, how to work with intolerance in self and others Come join Doug Sensei speak about getting in touch with your own struggle with intolerance, anger, rigidity and criticism. And transform these strong emotions or poisons to really be of service to other people. Learn how to transform rage to empathy, strength, loving kindness and compassion. Learn to make a true difference. For more information visit: Impact HUB Facebook Page Friday November 13 7.30pm at Rua Fradique Coutinho, Sao Paulo The Path of Dharma: learning to ride the dragon to freedom. Doug Sensei will talk about the experience of walking the path of dharma to liberation and freedom. Learn how to understand yourself better, how to deal with your frustrations & doubts, the ups and downs that appear as you walk this incredible path to a life of non-clinging awareness. For more information visit: Rua Fradique Coutinho Facebook Page To register: Registration Form Saturday November 14 10am - 4pm at Casa Maitri, Sao Paulo The Hero's Journey For most of us, the ego is locked in a life-and-death struggle with the shadow. We’re continually pulled back and forth between the excitement of exploration on one […]

Hands up if you want to awaken in this lifetime and fully realize your potential as a human being, transcend suffering and attachment and help make the world a more compassionate place? Keep your hands up if you are able to do a 3-month retreat once a year where you can live in silence and engage in formal meditation for 20 hours a day. For those who still have their hands up: happy meditating! For the rest of us, there is another path to unfoldment and awakening: The Path of Karma Yoga. This path requires much less time on the cushion and gives us the ability to leverage the busy-ness of our modern lives into a tool for transformation. Doug Duncan, meditation master and dharma teacher, awakened through the path of meditation, but also received extensive training in the path of service (aka Karma Yoga). He and his partner, Catherine Pawasarat, currently teach extensively through this path. They have developed one of the world’s pre-eminent KY training facilities at their retreat centre, Clear Sky, in the BC Rocky Mountains. What is Karma Yoga? Doug calls Karma Yoga, “The Path for the Western Mind”. The typical westerner is so fully in and of the world that while silent retreat work is therapeutic and important, the chances of spending enough time silently watching the mind is unlikely to lead to a major breakthrough on its own. Rather than try to rely fully on the 10% of our time we are “away” from […]