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Jun 03 2016

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

The four deep fears of the ego mean we fixate on objects to shore up solidity in our lives. But if objects don’t really make us happy then what does? The Buddha is offering us a present. To get the present we must come outside of the burning house of the ego and open the box. What we find inside is freedom.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: arisings, ego, Spaciousness

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

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

Sep 05 2015

The Challenges: For Lightning-Fast Spiritual Progress

So what would happen if we turned the “me” thing upside down? That is if we acted out “not-me” in order to free ourselves from our habitual identity. We call this action “the Challenges!” It’s a way to determine our own karma.

Filed Under: Awakening, Blog Tagged With: 5hindrances5faculties, challenges, desiremind, ego, liberation, vulnerability, wheelofsamsara

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

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

Mar 15 2014

Kyoto Journal Interview: Moving Into the Stream

An Interview with Dharma Teacher Achariya Doug Duncan on Exploring, Transcending, Surrendering & Awakening. Article by Brendan Joseph Ries, as Published in the Kyoto Journal Online Magazine, February 2014. Click to download Moving into the stream. Thanks to the wonderful Kyoto Journal for permission to use the article.

Filed Under: Awakening, Blog, Meditation Tagged With: consciousness, ego, motivationresistance, namgyalrinpoche, spiritualawakening, spiritualcommunity, Trust, wisdom

Oct 18 2013

Awakening: Beyond the Illusion of Self

Quantum physics as well as tradition Buddhist philosophy teach us that nothing in the universe remains the same for even a second. Thus we know that everything we hold and cherish will also pass on and out of our lives, if only at death. This may feel frightening initially, but acceptance allows us to enter […]

Filed Under: Awakening, Blog, Dharma 101 Tagged With: bodyspeechmind, death, dukkhaaniccaanatta, ego, freedom, mindfulness, science, spiritualawakening

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

Oct 10 2013

Waking Within the Dream

When you wake up in the morning you leave behind one world — the dreaming world — and find yourself in another world — waking life. These two worlds or states share similarities. In Tibetan Buddhism they’re two of six states termed ‘bardos’, or ‘in-between states’. Sensing, emotion and thoughts exist in both. When we […]

Filed Under: Awakening, Blog, Dharma 101 Tagged With: consciousness, ego, spiritualawakening

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