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Apr 28 2017

Conscious Love: Learning to Be Different

The purpose of relationships is to increase your “differentiation”, and thus your full human potential. To have a better relationship, and to really love consciously, you need to learn to be different.

Filed Under: Blog

Jun 11 2016

Video: If you want the present, you have to open the box

The present – the here-and-now – is a wonderful toy. But we have to get out of the burning house to untie the ribbon, tear off the pretty paper, and open the box! Doug shares how we can do this, and enjoy doing it, during our busy modern lives. Nothing less than spiritual awakening is the inevitable result. This video was filmed live at Watkins Books, London’s oldest estoeric bookshop.

Filed Under: Blog, Videos

May 27 2016

Five Steps to a Successful & Integrated Life

Would you like to live a successful and integrated life?

Doug & Catherine Sensei explain how true personal success originates in spiritual success. While worldly success seems desirable, without spiritual wealth it doesn’t produce sustainable happiness. In the spiritual life we train at recognizing spaciousness, the Clear Sky, and act with skills developed in training from there to serve our communities.

Filed Under: Blog, Karma Yoga Tagged With: 4 Noble Truths, Discipline, Karma Yoga, Spaciousness, Trust

May 14 2016

Video: Studying the Dharma – What it Takes

Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat are asked in this video what expectations they have of committed students, what expectations a student should have of a Dharma teacher, and what they recommend if someone is interested in studying with them.

Filed Under: Blog, Videos

Apr 10 2016

Video: Awakening – On Seeking, Striving & Ego Clinging

Is ‘striving’ to awaken just another form of ego clinging? Why work to awaken if the human collective is already waking up? Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat share their insights on these important questions.

Filed Under: Blog, Videos

Apr 01 2016

Video: What Types of Meditation Do You Teach?

Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat share about the types of meditation they teach. They also share their thoughts on the challenges that Westerners face in seeking awakening – particularly lack of depth and shallowness of practice.

Filed Under: Videos

Mar 12 2016

Video: The Benefits of Having a Spiritual Teacher or Guru

Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan & Catherine Pawasarat speak about the benefits of having a spiritual teacher or a ‘guru’. They describe the fear that we might lose our identity, but how the teacher actually helps a student expand their identity beyond societal conditioning to transcendence.

Filed Under: Blog, Videos

Feb 13 2016

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.

Filed Under: Blog, Videos

Jan 13 2016

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.

Filed Under: Blog, Videos

Dec 12 2015

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.

Filed Under: Blog, Videos

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