BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Clear Sky Meditation Centre - ECPv6.13.2.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Clear Sky Meditation Centre X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Clear Sky Meditation Centre REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Edmonton BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20230312T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20231105T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20240310T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20241103T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20260308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20261101T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230218T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230218T113000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083146 CREATED:20230131T041101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230217T232453Z UID:18871-1676714400-1676719800@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Creating a Supportive Womb for Spiritual Growth (Free Webinar) DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/creating-supportive-womb-spiritual-growth/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Creating-a-Womb-Workshop.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230304T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230304T113000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083146 CREATED:20230102T224016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230217T232954Z UID:18419-1677924000-1677929400@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Supportive Habits for Resilience & Growth (Free Webinar) DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/supportive-habits-resilience-growth/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Supportive-Habits-Workshop.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230318T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230506T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083146 CREATED:20230131T032219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240204T234229Z UID:18815-1679133600-1683374400@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Integrating Mindfulness: Tools for Holistic Living (In-Person or Online) DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/integrating-mindfulness-holisitc-living-2023/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Integrating-Mindfulness-Feature-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230409T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230415T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083146 CREATED:20230202T001707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230406T023732Z UID:18671-1681066800-1681578000@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Going\, Going\, Gone: Teachings of Nagarjuna (In-Person or Online) DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/nagarjuna-meditation-retreat/ CATEGORIES:Group Retreats and Courses,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Nagarjuna-Meditation-Retreat-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230429T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230429T163000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083146 CREATED:20210218T203526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230131T231310Z UID:10068-1682775000-1682785800@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Come to your Senses: A Day to Practice Deep Mindfulness DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/come-to-your-senses-a-day-to-practice-deep-mindfulness/ CATEGORIES:Group Retreats and Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Untitled-design-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Alive Mindfully":MAILTO:dean@alivemindfully.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230507T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230604T110000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083146 CREATED:20230129T225812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230508T165929Z UID:18674-1683451800-1685876400@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Western Enlightenment: The Path of Kabbalah (Online) DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/western-enlightenment-the-path-of-kabbalah-online/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023-PD-courses-Square-IG-Post-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230608T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230706T200000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083146 CREATED:20230224T033312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230702T220857Z UID:19203-1686250800-1688673600@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Meditation Circle: Community Classes for Inner Well-Being (Online or In-Person) DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/meditation-circle-community-classes-for-inner-well-being-online-or-in-person-3/ LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada CATEGORIES:Coaching,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230616T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230618T160000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083146 CREATED:20230205T213536Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230615T024553Z UID:18672-1686942000-1687104000@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Dharma in the Stars: AstroDharma Basics (In-Person or Online) DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/astrology-dharma-retreat/ CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Group Retreats and Courses,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Astrology-Dharma-Retreat.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230713T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230803T200000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083146 CREATED:20230702T213153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230708T102019Z UID:19801-1689274800-1691092800@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Meditation Circle: Community Classes for Inner Well-Being (Online or In-Person) DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/meditation-circle-july-2023/ LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada CATEGORIES:Coaching,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230721T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230723T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083146 CREATED:20230328T193439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230622T025534Z UID:18673-1689958800-1690131600@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:As the Spirit Moves (In-Person and Online) DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/as-the-spirit-moves/ CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Group Retreats and Courses,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/As-the-Spirit-Moves-online.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230811T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230820T150000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083146 CREATED:20230205T223441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230729T135159Z UID:18756-1691766000-1692543600@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Breathing 2.0 Meditation Retreat DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/breathing-meditation-retreat/ CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Group Retreats and Courses,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Breathing-Meditation-Retreat.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230907T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230928T200000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083146 CREATED:20230810T174907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230918T165911Z UID:20058-1694113200-1695931200@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Meditation Circle: Community Classes for Inner Well-Being (Online or In-Person) DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/meditation-circle-september-2023/ CATEGORIES:Coaching,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230916T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230917T150000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083147 CREATED:20230702T231813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230731T153543Z UID:19672-1694851200-1694962800@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Integrating Mindfulness: Weekend Retreat (In-Person & Online) DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/weekend-retreat/ CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Group Retreats and Courses,Online Courses,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2023-Programming-Horizontal-Instagram-Post-Square-5.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230924T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230924T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083147 CREATED:20230822T170027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230822T171254Z UID:20107-1695569400-1695574800@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Spiritual Awakening\, Healing & Ecological Restoration: A Buddhist Mystic Perspective DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/spiritual-awakening-healing-ecological-restoration/ CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Spiritual-Awakening-Square.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230928T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261231T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083147 CREATED:20220205T181428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230928T024915Z UID:14666-1695888000-1798736400@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Personal Coaching (Online) Ongoing DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/personal-coaching-online/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Coaching ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-13-at-10.49.12-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20231006T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20231022T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083147 CREATED:20230206T002516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230917T163026Z UID:18754-1696579200-1697994000@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:The Mind’s Cutting Edge: 12 Manjushris Meditation Retreat DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/12-manjushri-retreat/ CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Group Retreats and Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Manjushri-Meditation-Retreat.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20231112T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20231210T110000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083147 CREATED:20230609T213532Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231114T002148Z UID:19686-1699781400-1702206000@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Warriors of the Heart: The Bodhisattva Path (Online) DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/bodhisattva-path-online-course/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2023-PD-courses-Square-IG-Post.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231116T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231207T200000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083147 CREATED:20230918T165250Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231110T195124Z UID:20294-1700161200-1701979200@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Meditation Circle: Community Classes for Inner Well-Being (Online or In-Person) DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/meditation-circle-november-2023/ CATEGORIES:Coaching,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240208 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240301 DTSTAMP:20260430T083147 CREATED:20231205T030926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240201T171912Z UID:20623-1707350400-1709251199@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Meditation Circle: Body\, Speech & Mind - Liberating Stuck Patterns DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/meditation-circle-feb-2024/ CATEGORIES:Coaching,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240307T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240307T113000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083147 CREATED:20240121T232558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240225T223724Z UID:21133-1709805600-1709811000@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Creating Supportive Structures for Resilience & Growth (Free Webinar) DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/supportive-habits-for-resilience-growth-free-webinar/ CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Supportive-Habits-Workshop.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240308T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240317T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083147 CREATED:20231212T032055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240224T201700Z UID:20687-1709924400-1710694800@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:The Five Stages of Emptiness Meditation Retreat (In-Person or Online) DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/five-stages-emptiness-retreat-online/ CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Group Retreats and Courses,Online Courses,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2024-PD-courses-Square-IG-Post-4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240323T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240427T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083147 CREATED:20230905T161824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240322T215551Z UID:20192-1711188000-1714219200@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Integrating Mindfulness: Tools for Holistic Living (In-Person or Online) DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/integrating-mindfulness-2024/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Integrating-Mindfulness-Feature-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240414T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240505T110000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083147 CREATED:20240121T231048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240404T150427Z UID:21095-1713087000-1714906800@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:From Ordinary to Extraordinary: Walking the Eightfold Noble Path (Online) DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/the-eightfold-ennobling-path/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-PD-Courses-Facebook-Covers.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240511T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240512T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083147 CREATED:20240107T141734Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240209T212014Z UID:20951-1715418000-1715533200@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Come to Your Senses: A Spring Renewal Retreat DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/come-to-your-senses-a-spring-renewal-retreat-3/ CATEGORIES:Group Retreats and Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Untitled-design-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240524T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240602T150000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083147 CREATED:20230907T232718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240421T092324Z UID:20221-1716562800-1717340400@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Breathing Meditation Retreat DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/breathing-meditation-retreat-2024/ CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Group Retreats and Courses,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Breathing-Meditation-Retreat-Square.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240613 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240705 DTSTAMP:20260430T083147 CREATED:20240122T181943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240505T031134Z UID:21205-1718236800-1720137599@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Meditation Circle: Living the Body Electric DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/meditation-circle-body-electric-june-2024/ CATEGORIES:Coaching,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240712T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240714T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083147 CREATED:20231211T225851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240516T181106Z UID:20667-1720803600-1720976400@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Razor's Edge: The Dance of Absolute & Relative Truths (In-Person and Online) DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/absolute-relative-truth-online-retreat/ CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Group Retreats and Courses,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2024-PD-courses-Square-IG-Post-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240823 DTSTAMP:20260430T083147 CREATED:20240225T224710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240225T224843Z UID:21602-1722470400-1724371199@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Meditation Circle: Summer of the Spotless Mind DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/meditation-circle-summer-spotless-mind-aug-2024/ CATEGORIES:Coaching,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240907T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240922T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083147 CREATED:20230416T232247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240822T162820Z UID:19511-1725696000-1727024400@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:The Movement of the Mandala DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/the-movement-of-the-mandala/ CATEGORIES:Group Retreats and Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Movement-of-the-Mandala-Square.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240921T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240922T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T083148 CREATED:20240822T172234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240829T021416Z UID:22674-1726911000-1727037000@test.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Clear Sky's 20th Anniversary Celebration! DESCRIPTION:Zen Online Course \n \n \n \n Mondays: 7:30pm-9:00pm MDT October 25-November 15\, 2021 Recordings available Includes optional Master Classes and a Home Flash Retreat  \n \n \n \n A Four Week Online Course| Starts October 25\, 2021Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes?  Join us for the third online course of 2021\, on Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zen – An Online Course \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact\, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness and can often obstruct it.  It sounds so simple. And teachings about it fill thousands of volumes of texts. But the Buddha himself tried to share with his students this very simple\, direct path that goes from ego struggle to its release\, awakening. How did the Buddha describe it? He merely held up a lotus flower\, in silence. While most of the attending students waited patiently for the Buddha to begin teaching\, the arahat Mahākāśyapa smiled. He was the only one who understood that the flower was the teaching. As a result of his direct perception\, he’s considered the first patriarch of Zen. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teachers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course SchedulePLEASE NOTE to deepen and integrate your experience\, we are offering three optional weekly Master Classes during the course and an at-home Flash Retreat at the end. See below for more details. *We also highly recommend you consider participating in the full Zen Meditation Retreat in December 2021 at Clear Sky Center. Class One: October 25th Class Two: November 1st Class Three: November 8th Class Four: November 15th \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Studying Zen\, Experiencing ZenThe Buddha used a simple flower as a teaching of the profound nature of things as they are: so uncomplicated\, so immediate\, and so very difficult to explain. So\, you might ask\, why bother explaining? Why study this? When instead we could just realize it ourselves\, like Mahākāśyapa? We explain because our conventional minds are clouded by ego clinging. This often manifests as conflicting emotions and prejudicial views\, both considered forms of ignorance or confusion about reality. For centuries Zen masters having been holding up flowers and students have been caught in this confusion\, asking questions like\, “What’s that flower got to do with me? Or awakening?” Thus\, the famous saying about awakening: “With words it cannot be described\, without words it cannot be expressed.” You’ve probably noted that holding up a flower doesn’t use words. We can see how Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Rinzai Zen has made these famous with their ko-an mind-bending teachings. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? And spiritual awakening is the ultimate paradox\, described this way:“You can see it\,But it is not there!” We invite you to join us for these four online classes on Zen: Monday nights at 19:30 MT\, Oct 25\, Nov 1\, 8\, 15\, followed by a weekend-long flash retreat on Sat and Sun\, Nov 20 and 21. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Study and Meditation ElectivesMaster ClassesThree SundaysThere are weekly Master Classes (akin to online Q&A Office Hours) during this online course to support your deepening learning and practice\, on the following dates at 3pm MST: Sun. October 31Sun. November 7Sun. November 14You can elect to attend all three or individual dates. Registration & Dana links for Master Classes will be accessible to you when you register for the course.   Flash RetreatNovember 19-21\, 2021Elect to deepen your practice via a Flash Retreat during the last weekend of this course.  The retreat provides practitioners a valuable opportunity to integrate and seal the learnings from the online course\, in a format well suited for our contemporary lives. The retreat will include instructions\, online check ins\, and a Master Class on Sunday\, November 21st. We encourage you to attend this weekend retreat at Clear Sky Centre\, or together with your local sangha\, or if those not available to you\, in your home. Registration and Dana links for the Flash Retreat will be accessible to you when you register for the course. Sangha power – consider organizing or joining regional in-person or online sangha groups to support one another during the online courses and Flash Retreats.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationEach of the four weekly classes in this online course will be video streamed live at 7:30pm MST. The recording will be available for one week after each class. Study and Meditation Opportunities in addition to the classes include Master Classes on three Sundays at 3pm MST\, and a Flash Retreat on November 19-21\, 2021. What Does the Course Cost?We offer this course on the basis of dāna\, as well as an admin fee of $100 (USD). The admin is to cover the costs of running these online courses – for equipment and software to provide you the teachings online. For our teachings itself – You may have come across this is the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. We suggest a range between $120 and $500 for this four week course.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/20th-anniversary/ CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Group Retreats and Courses,Online Courses,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/20th-Anniversary.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR