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Oct 22 2016

Spiritually Aware At Work: Flourishing in the Workplace

Most of us spend a large percentage of our lives at our workplace. How can my work life really support and contribute to my spiritual growth and vice versa? Guest Dharma writer Duncan Cryle shares his experiences in the Fortune 500 workplace.

Filed Under: Blog, Karma Yoga, Meditation Tagged With: career, compassion, creativeemotionaltension, karmayoga, mindfulness, paramis, Spaciousness, 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

Oct 31 2015

Busy Life? The Practice of Letting Go Is a Choice

You can’t get wisdom from knowing more; you can only get wisdom from learning more and then surrendering to the unknown to integrate it. Letting go into the unknown is what’s hard for people, because it seems like defeat.

Filed Under: Awakening, Blog, Meditation Tagged With: 4foundationsofmindfulness, liberation, mindfulness, motivationresistance, wisdom

Aug 22 2015

Why Meditation Alone Doesn’t Work … And What to Do About It

In our particular spiritual tradition, the keys to success for karma yoga revolve around staying aware in the present moment, and cultivating the bodhisattva vow: dedicating all of our efforts for the benefit of all beings.

Filed Under: Awakening, Blog, Karma Yoga, Meditation Tagged With: bodhisattva, compassion, karmayoga, mindfulness, spiritualcommunity, triplegem, virtualmonastery

May 18 2015

The Benefits of Holistic Clearing

Holistic Clearing was specifically created as an “anti-paralytic practice.” There are many reasons that reasonable, talented and intelligent people get “paralyzed.”

Filed Under: Blog, Meditation Tagged With: habits, happiness, liberation, mindfulness

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

Feb 07 2015

The Dharma of Work, Part 3

Dharma Training, Engagement and Social Business This is a continuation of The Dharma of Work (Part One)  and (Part Two) The values from our social & work training apply to spiritual training Any good spiritual training incorporates the training that has already occurred. The family home trains us for our social milieu; if we attend […]

Filed Under: Blog, Karma Yoga Tagged With: career, dharmatraining, economics, habits, karmayoga, mindfulness

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

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