What is Karma Yoga? | Planet Dharma

1. What is Karma Yoga? Our mandate is supporting as many beings as possible to experience spiritual awakening in this lifetime. We do this through four approaches – spiritual awakening via action, meditation, learning and integrating the shadow. Karma Yoga is the practice of awakening through action. Do you want to be a karma yogi? Find out what it is like and how you can practice Karma Yoga with us. Spiritual Awakening through Action: Karma Yoga Many of us feel challenged to meditate every day, and even more so to meditate for the hours needed to make true spiritual progress. What our modern lives really call for is a spiritual practice that goes beyond the meditation cushion to bring awareness and meditation to every action and interaction we have, 24/7/365. We propose Karma Yoga, a.k.a. Awakening in Action, as a spiritual path for the 21st century and beyond. Clear Sky Mind, Cloud Mind “Karma” literally means “action” or “decision.” Since every action or choice (whether by individuals or communities) has a result, it also refers to the law of cause and effect. Our moment-to-moment decisions are often based on conflicting emotions and self-limiting views, resulting from the familial and societal conditioning that each of us naturally has. However, there is always another state of mind available to us: we call this the “clear sky mind,” as it’s spacious, calm, luminescent and blissful. This is in contrast to the “cloud mind” of our conditioning, which obscures the clear sky mind. If we make decisions from our cloud

2. mind, the result tends to be more clouds. Sometimes the clouds interact harmoniously, and sometimes they don’t. The clear sky mind is harmonious by nature, so everything that arises from it is harmonious too. Read More Source URL: https://www.planetdharma.com/what-is-karma-yoga/