Anxiety, worry and fear are a part of everyday life, particularly in our fast-paced society and the realities of modern globalization. And they don’t help things! So what do we do to loosen the grip that they have on us and those around us? First we benefit from...
Buddhism offers an incredibly large number of tools and ways to approach mindfulness and wisdom. At the recent Visuddhimagga retreat with Doug and Catherine Sensei this January, we practiced mindfulness of breathing (Anapanasati sutta), and explored a few of these...
In Part 1 of this blog, we provided an overview of some of the major transformations in the manifestation of this teaching over the last two decades, and what we see on the horizon. Um … What If I’m Just Not Into These Changes? A natural human response to change is...
Doug Duncan Sensei shares about his relationship with his teacher, Namgyal Rinpoche, and his own experience of teaching now. This is an excerpt from the Kyoto Journal article ‘Moving Into the Stream: An Interview with Dharma Teacher Achariya Doug Duncan’...
This blog post is written by Eric Smith, a Dharma student in Calgary. He shares his synopsis of Doug Duncan Sensei’s Nov 23, 2015 talk in Calgary, Karma Yoga, the Path for the Western Mind. I would like to begin by saying thank you in appreciation for the...
Do you want more freedom? And what do you mean by “freedom?” There’s political freedom, freedom of expression and freedom of opportunity, all of which are action oriented, external manifestations. We can also enjoy freedom from troubled mind states and freedom from...
Shifts and Changes Just 10 years ago this teaching was more focused around meditation and individual therapy, and more yogic, that is, dependent on the student-teacher relationships wherever in the world that might be happening. A mere decade later, we have a...
Purification is the path Though the spiritual path can be a long and winding road, some good news is that the only work we really have to do is purification – everything else naturally follows from there. In that sense, our spiritual unfoldment is simple and easily...
This is an excerpt from the Kyoto Journal article ‘Moving Into the Stream: An Interview with Dharma Teacher Achariya Doug Duncan” by Brendan Joseph Ries. People have busy lives because they’re afraid of being not busy. We want to go to every movie, see...
So what are the hallmarks of mahamudra meditation? And their causes? In centuries past, emperors sealed their commands with signet rings and wax. It represented the final word as it were and thus the kingdom was ruled. Relatively speaking, each person could be...
