Winter Meditation Retreat: The Kasinas (Online)

With Doug Duncan Sensei (Qapel) and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei

December 4 - 19, 2020

Pay from the Heart
  • CAD $200.00 to CAD $700.00 – Course fees are pay from the heart based on your ability with a minimum registration cost of approximately $15/day ($200 for 2 weeks), and a maximum cost of $50/day ($700 for 2 weeks)

Kasiṇa meditation is a concentration meditation (samatha, jhāna) intended to settle the mind and create a foundation for liberation.

Settling the Mind, Cultivating Concentration (Jhāna)

The ten kasina are part of the forty kammatthana: objects of meditation. They are described in detail by Buddhaghosa in the meditation section of the Visuddhimagga.

Kasina meditation is a concentration meditation (variously known in different traditions as samatha, dhyana, or jhana meditations), intended to settle the mind of the practitioner and create a foundation for further practices of meditation. In the early stages of kasina meditation, a physical object is used as the object of meditation, being focused upon by the practitioner until an eidetic (after-image) image of the object forms in the practitioners mind. In more advanced levels of kasina meditation, only a mental image of the kasina is used as an object of meditation.

Experience Acariya Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei’s meditation experience in this strengthening, mind settling and concentration building retreat.

Held online, and at our home retreat centre, Clear Sky, a 21st-century model for innovative awakening, situated in the beautiful B.C. Rocky Mountains.

About the Leaders

Doug Duncan Sensei (Qapel)

Known for his compassionate insight, remarkable sense of humor, and life-changing advice, Doug Sensei leads retreats and courses designed to guide individuals to attain their fullest potential as human beings. As well as drawing from decades of experience, Doug Sensei can seamlessly weave in wisdom from the realms of traditional and contemporary gurus of psychological […]

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Catherine Pawasarat Sensei

Catherine Pawasarat has developed awakening for the alleviation of suffering for all beings by training daily with awakening master Doug Duncan Sensei since 1997. She helped found Clear Sky after helping establish and develop Kyoto-based Dharma Japan. In particular, Catherine focuses on dharma training, a methodology for speedy unfoldment for those strong of heart and […]

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