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Apr 19 2016

Awakening through Action (Part 1): You are a Super Hero

One of the archetypes of our times is the superhero – they’re doers, they are trying to make the world a better place and they have powers. The action hero of today with supernormal powers can be a metaphor for an age-old spiritual path called Karma Yoga (the superhero) with siddhis (powers of the mind).

Filed Under: Awakening, Blog, Karma Yoga Tagged With: archetypes, conditioning, independencedependence, karmayoga, spiritualawakening

Jan 25 2016

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.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 5hindrances5faculties, arisings, conditioning, karmayoga, mindfulness

Sep 27 2015

Use AstroDharma to Increase Joy and Integrate the Shadow

Use AstroDharma to Increase Joy and Integrate the Shadow

We use astrology to better understand our self, our conditioning, our strengths and weaknesses, and potential. We leverage all of that through a dharmic lens, to get over our egocentricity and to be of better service to others and the planet. This inevitably alleviates suffering, our own as well as others, one of the fundamental “goals” of Buddhadharma.

Filed Under: Astro-Dharma, Awakening, Blog Tagged With: archetypes, astrodharma, conditioning, shadow, spiritualawakening, triplegem

Sep 20 2015

Spiritual Energy Traders: On Giving and Receiving

If we consider spiritual welfare as one of the most precious “commodities” on the planet, next only to environmental health, one might imagine that true spiritual teachers would be rewarded highly. In both the East and the West, there tends to be an unspoken expectation that our religious leaders should demonstrate their virtue through remaining relatively poor.

Filed Under: Awakening, Blog, Karma Yoga Tagged With: childdefenses, conditioning, dana, ego, parents

Jun 05 2015

Karma Yoga: A Vehicle for Dharma Training

by Lisa Feder As I am getting ready to leave Clear Sky Retreat Center after being part of the Karma Yoga team, Cata and Sensei discuss with me some of the biggest challenges to maintaining an ongoing practice of Karma Yoga, or meditation in action through service. Their teaching addresses: Why Do Karma Yoga; Why […]

Filed Under: Blog, Karma Yoga Tagged With: conditioning, dharmatraining, ego, habits, karmayoga, spiritualawakening, spiritualcommunity, virtualmonastery

Apr 04 2015

The Most Important Work You’ll Ever Do

From the point of view of classic Buddhist philosophy, there are two types of liberation: ceto-vimutti, liberation of the heart, and paññā-vimutti, liberation of the mind (insight or wisdom).

Filed Under: Blog, Meditation Tagged With: conditioning, consciousness, freedom, liberation, mindfulness, skandas, wisdom, wombstages

Mar 07 2015

The Dharma of Work, Part 4

One of the many reasons we support Dharma Training is because, when done well, it also leads to business and personal success. You might be wondering, ‘how so’? Firstly, Dharma Training helps us to meet mental models and personal lacks in the form of our tribal and educational conditioning.

Filed Under: Blog, Karma Yoga Tagged With: career, conditioning, Discipline, karmayoga, spiritualcommunity

Oct 14 2013

Awakening and What’s in the Mirror

I dream, I hope, I work, I love, I play, I dream, I eat. These verbs are all about me. Working, hoping, dreaming, loving, eating all continue, even when there is no ‘me’. Who is this ‘me’? Or is it a what? Is ‘me’ a person, a thing, an idea, a feeling? It’s all of […]

Filed Under: Awakening, Blog, Dharma 101 Tagged With: conditioning, dreams, dukkhaaniccaanatta, ego, samsaranirvana, senses, skandas, spiritualawakening

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