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May 07 2016

Six Wisdoms for Going Beyond Yourself

To really be our best possible selves, there are six assets we can develop. These wisdoms (also called Pāramīs) are tools to help us overcome feelings of isolation, while developing engagement, creativity and joy.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: dana, ego, wisdom

Jan 16 2016

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.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: brahmaviharas, dana, dharmatraining, karmayoga, shadow, spiritualcommunity, 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

Aug 31 2014

Spiritual Healing

The ongoing, mapped process of awakening is the ultimate spiritual healing. With awakening, the self is transcended, and thus the troubles of the self, of “me,” “my troubles,” are healed. Though any organism is inherently subject to decay and death, the process of awakening also includes actual physical healing. The agent of the healing is […]

Filed Under: Awakening, Blog, Dharma 101, The Path Tagged With: compassion, dana, ego, habits, Spaciousness, spiritualawakening, triplegem, union

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