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Spiritual Perspectives for Living Amidst Covid | Planet Dharma

Life is tenacious; it clings for all itu2019s worth. Think of the tiny plant that grows between the cracks in the concrete, or the mouse that fights the cat with determination to get away.<br><br>https://www.planetdharma.com/amazing-life-covid-19/

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Spiritual Perspectives for Living Amidst Covid | Planet Dharma

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  1. What an Amazing Life : COVID-19 www.planetdharma.com

  2. What an Amazing Life : COVID-19 Nature’s Intelligence – A Simple Truth Life is tenacious; it clings for all it’s worth. Think of the tiny plant that grows between the cracks in the concrete, or the mouse that fights the cat with determination to get away. Nature is also profligate; it will produce life from whatever itcan. Every object, animate and inanimate, tries to hold together its form, whether it’s a rock’s molecules or an animal’s life force. But along with life comes death. Everything is impermanent. Nothing lasts. Nature determines the viability of itself through this process: birth, death, birth, death, and so on, eternally.

  3. What an Amazing Life : COVID-19 A Compassionate Universe The good news is that, at a certain point in the dying process, the organism realizes that its struggle is futile. Then the system stops fighting, and there’s a peaceful calm that can settle upon the one who’s dying. We see this in the mouse caught by the cat. After vainly trying to escape, it seems to accept its fate and becomes almost peaceful. The endorphins have kicked in, for both mouse and human. Humans want to live, animals want to live and viruses want to live. All species strive to survive. Nature keeps in balance by continuing to have forces that create life—like sperm and eggs—as well as forces that end life, such as cancers, viruses and simply old age. “Trying to hang on to things causes all the pain.”

  4. Meet the Teachers Catherine Pawasarat Doug Duncan Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat 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.

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