Podcast appearances and mentions of dawn mountain

This episode of the Wisdom Podcast was recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat with special guest, Anne C. Klein. Anne is a professor and former chair of the religion department at Rice University. She is also a lama in the Nyingma tradition and a founding director and resident teacher of Dawn Mountain, a center for contemplative study and practice […] The post Anne C. Klein: Being Human and a Buddha Too (#174) appeared first on The Wisdom Experience.

Today's episode is a little different. I'm sharing some “inspirational” writing I did for my own sangha, Dawn Mountain's, newsletter a couple of weeks ago. This is my appreciation for the dharma's ability to help us not just feel better but also navigate the difficult times in life without giving up. I'll share the story of how bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara got 11 heads and 1,000 arms. Want to reply? You can post on Facebook or Instagram and tag this podcast, @BuddhistWisdomModernLife. To sign up for Dawn Mountain's mailing list and learn more about my teachers, click here: https://www.dawnmountain.org/ To learn more about Buddhism through my free courses, click here: https://geni.us/freecourses  Or get my book for beginners, The Buddhist Path to Joy, here: https://geni.us/buddhistpathtojoy May you and all beings be well. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/buddhist-wisdom/message

New year, new you? Come get support and connect with fellow seekers at these live online events! Impermanence and buddha nature with my lamas (and sometimes me) at Dawn Mountain's virtual temple: https://www.dawnmountain.org/teaching-tuesdays-2/ Bring your spirituality to work -- and de-stress your brain while you're at it: https://junghouston.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/junghouston/event.jsp?event=9873 Join me and other Mind Body Spirit Institute faculty members for short (free) meditations each Tuesday and Thursday: https://junghouston.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/junghouston/event.jsp?event=9816 The first two options are paid, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. May you and all beings be well. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/buddhist-wisdom/message

Explore acronym "WONDER" with Dawn Mountain co-founder Harvey Aronson

Y'all, I'm so happy to share a conversation I had with Emily Anchia, the Digital Manager at my home sangha, Dawn Mountain. Her degree is in personal finance, so we talked money stuff, and she comes at the topic from a more spiritual angle that reminds me of Marie Kondo more than the finance bros on YouTube. If you'd like to learn more about the basics of Buddhism, please see the links below to my free courses for beginners and to my favorite comprehensive intro courses on Buddhism and Buddhist meditation. Emily is the manager of all things digital and broadcast at Dawn Mountain Buddhist Temple. She facilitates spreading the dharma as a profession, but she also has a passion for spreading financial literacy! She loves the art of storytelling in every form and especially all things spooky. You can find her on a Dawn Mountain livestream: dawnmountain.org Free mini-courses on Buddhist basics: https://geni.us/freecourses Great intro to the Buddhist traditions: https://geni.us/BSO101 Similarly great intro to Buddhist meditation: https://geni.us/BSO102 May you and all beings be well. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/buddhist-wisdom/message

If you've ever wondered how to “get serious” about practicing Tibetan Buddhism, you might be relieved to know that you don't have to become a monk or nun, and you don't have to spend the rest of your life in a cave. In this episode, I'll talk with Aaron of the organization Dharma Gates on what's involved when you want to become a serious student of Tibetan Buddhism, including how to connect with a teacher and community. We'll have a live conversation about this on June 30, and you can find registration info in the show notes. Plus if you're new to Buddhism, I have some free mini-courses you might be interested in. There's a link to them, too. I hope this conversation answers some of the questions you might have about getting started in this wonderful tradition. Register for the live call on June 30 (donations welcome): https://www.dharma-gates.org/upcomingevents Check out my free mini-courses & resources: https://geni.us/freecourses Recommended dharma centers and teachers in Tibetan traditions: Dawn Mountain (dawnmountain.org) Tara Mandala (taramandala.org) Natural Dharma Fellowship (naturaldharma.org) Mayum Mountain (mayummountain.org) Lama Rod Owens (lamarod.com) May you and all beings be well. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/buddhist-wisdom/message

This recent guided body scan meditation by Harvey Aronson was done in our summer 2022 Teaching Tuesday series "Wonders of the Present Moment." If you're curious about Dawn Mountain programs you can check out our website www.dawnmountain.org

If you've made a New Year's resolution to start meditating… for years now… then this course is for you! We'll do short practices together as a group, all of them oriented toward helping you experience moments of waking up out of a distracted, rushed state of mind into the present moment. Then you'll experiment with one practice each week as you go through your days and share at our next meeting what's happened. We'll focus on the breath, movements of the body, and even words that can help us get centered again in the midst of daily life. With your new set of tools to bring mindfulness to daily life – whether you ever sit on a cushion or not! – you'll be ready to kick 2022 off right. Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/3F0AkuF When: Mondays at 6-7:30 p.m. CST Where: Zoom How much: $100 ($80 for Dawn Mountain members), no one turned away for lack of funds --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/buddhist-wisdom/message

Conversation starts at: 5:05 In this episode Dr. Price interviews Dr. Claire Villarreal. Claire is an expert in teaching Tibetan Buddhism, meditation, and Tantra. We discuss the relationship between the social self and the self empty of all that is not self, the connection between spiritual practice and psychedelics, what happens when the threads of our ordinary reality are “cracked open,” attachment, issues with translation in religious traditions, peak experience, obstructions and the spiritual path, repetition in spiritual practice, Dzogchen, directly looking into inner energies through Tantra, Buddha nature, Shamanic practice, and spiritual practice. Bio: Raised as a fundamentalist Christian in a small town in North Texas who, by the time she left for Rice University in 1995, knew that the religious tradition of her childhood did not suit her. When she stumbled across a course on East Asian civilizations co-taught by Anne Klein, she signed up with a deep curiosity of Asian religious culture. When Anne assigned Buddhist texts for the class reading, Claire was immediately hooked on the dharma and added a Religious Studies major. When Claire started meditating with Ajahn Ken of Wat Buddhavas and sitting with Anne's sangha, Dawn Mountain, she obsessed over Tibetan history and did a Tibetan Studies semester abroad with the School for International Training. After graduation, Claire taught secondary English for a couple of years, trained in Wing Chun and tai chi chuan at Authentic Kung Fu for seven years, and left in 2003 for a long trip to Asia, and after returning home began formally teaching meditation. In 2007 Claire joined the doctoral program in Rice's Department of Religion and spent the next eight years learning, writing, and teaching about Tibetan Buddhism, contemplative ways of knowing, and how those can enrich modern Western life. After earning her PhD in 2015, she joined the staff of Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism, where she became the Programs Director before leaving in 2019 to offer meditation and spiritual instruction online and in person. You can learn more about Claire's offerings at: https://www.clairevillarreal.com https://rice.academia.edu/ClaireVillarreal Website for The Sacred Speaks: http://www.thesacredspeaks.com WATCH: YouTube for The Sacred Speaks https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOAuksnpfht1udHWUVEO7Rg Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesacredspeaks/ @thesacredspeaks Twitter: https://twitter.com/thesacredspeaks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesacredspeaks/ Brought to you by: https://www.thecenterforhas.com WATCH Get Centered https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdbeVcDXWXezYMkHJg-2duw Theme music provided by: http://www.modernnationsmusic.com

Guest teacher Claire Villarreal leads us in this exciting miniseries! These teachings are the foundations of Buddhist beliefs around the world, and in this episode you'll hear the story behind the Four Noble Truths: of the Buddha's spiritual quest for enlightenment. That quest is one that each of us can still make, and it's easier now that we have a guide to the path! Get the free mini-course that introduces you to each of the Four Noble Truths, with guided meditations, reflection questions, a reading list, and more: http://eepurl.com/dLXvXE Check out Claire's podcasts: Buddhist Wisdom, Modern Life and Letting Grow. Claire will soon be coming to Dawn Mountain for a short online series How to Meditate Like a Buddhist (even if you're not one!). Learn more about it! (https://www.dawnmountain.org/how-to-meditate-like-a-buddhist-with-claire/)

Guest teacher Claire Villarreal leads us in this exciting miniseries! These teachings are the foundations of Buddhist beliefs around the world, and in this episode you'll hear the story behind the Four Noble Truths: of the Buddha's spiritual quest for enlightenment. That quest is one that each of us can still make, and it's easier now that we have a guide to the path! Get the free mini-course that introduces you to each of the Four Noble Truths, with guided meditations, reflection questions, a reading list, and more: http://eepurl.com/dLXvXE Check out Claire's podcasts: Buddhist Wisdom, Modern Life and Letting Grow. Claire will soon be coming to Dawn Mountain for a short online series How to Meditate Like a Buddhist (even if you're not one!). Learn more about it!

In today's episode, I'm delighted to bring you Shannon Marie, author of the new book Crystal Wisdom and a friend of mine from the Dawn Mountain sangha, one of the places Shannon deepened her contemplative practice. We'll talk about her rebirth from a corporate worker – good at her job but with so much more to offer the world – to author and spiritual guide. Here's one of my favorite quotes from our conversation: “You know when you've encountered something that is healthy for your soul.” Crystal Wisdom brings Shannon's lifelong fascination with healing crystals and gemstones together with her contemplative wisdom in Reiki, meditation, and yoga, and it's a great read for anyone curious about including crystals in their meditation practice. Grab your free copy of Crystal Wisdom today (April 15) only here: https://amzn.to/3e1VKME Join the community and get members-only invitations to bimonthly video calls – plus our fun, free biweekly newsletter: http://bit.ly/rbrthnews Check out more content at clairevillarreal.com or share your story of death and rebirth with us: claire@clairevillarreal.com. Learn more about Shannon's work athttps://crystal-wisdom.com/ or say hi to her on Facebook (@shannonmarie.author) or Instagram (@crystalwisdom.shannon).

In this special episode of the Wisdom Podcast—recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat—host Daniel Aitken speaks with Anne C. Klein (Lama Rigzin Drolma), professor of religion at Rice University and a founding director and resident teacher of Dawn Mountain, a center for contemplative study and practice in Houston. Anne brings us into the world […] The post Anne C. Klein: Finding Wholeness in the Dzogchen Path (#104) appeared first on The Wisdom Experience.

Anne C Klein/ Lama Rigzin Drolma shares the story of the Buddha. Taken from Dawn Mountain's First Sunday Teaching series.

Harvey is a psychotherapist and a teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, who received the title of Lama, Vajra Master from his teacher in 2010 and in a teaching context is known as Lama Namgyal Dorje. Dr. Aronson's academic and spiritual path places him in an informed position to speak about the intersection of the both Buddhism and psychology; so much so that his book, Buddhist Practice On Western Ground, does just that. His treatment of culture, in general, and the differences between Tibetan and “Western” culture is an enlightening endeavor for any reader of his work, as it calls the reader to interrogate the patterns of their culture. Any participant of therapy will often hear their therapist urge them to “feel their feelings” with the implication that they have been “cut off” from their ability to be informed and signaled by one means the psyche communicates – through the body and with the feelings. He states that much of what the psychotherapist is working to do is to invite the individual to feel and experience what they were denied the validity of experiencing through their development. Harvey roots his exploration of the differences between Buddhism and Western psychology within a transformation that occurred in his life while teaching as a professor of Buddhist studies. As a young professor, Dr. Aronson learned that he would not get tenure and then began to experience a series of panic attacks, which sent him seeking a therapist. This process brought to the foreground the differences between the two and also sent him down the path of psychotherapeutic practice. Another core aspect of Harvey's work is developmental theory as it relates to the Western practices of child-rearing and the implications that the cultural approach to parenting may appears to contribute and inform both how Westerners begin to understand themselves and also express their feelings and also how therapy treats the potential injuries that occur as a consequence – noting that, no matter the culture in which we develop, there will usually be some kind of wound as a result. Harvey states that many of the wounds that we endure through life are relational in nature and therefore the relational aspect of psychotherapy may meet the wound on the ground of its origin. Bio: Harvey B. Aronson, holds a BA in Chemistry from Brooklyn College, an MSW from Boston University, and a PhD in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin. He has studied extensively with prominent teachers in the Geluk, Dzogchen and Theravada traditions in India, Nepal and the United States. Harvey is the author of Buddhist Practice on Western Ground and Love and Sympathy in Theravada Buddhism, and a recognized scholar of the intersections between traditional Buddhist practice and Western therapeutic modalities. Harvey, and his wife Anne C. Klein, both hold PhDs in Buddhist Studies with a long, shared history of learning from the highest lamas of Tibetan traditions, and they founded Dawn Mountain in 1996. As practitioners, scholars, translators and gifted teachers, they serve Western seekers of all stripes and have fostered a strong community of advanced students that reaches from Houston to Portland, Oregon; Berkeley, California; Bloomington, Indiana; Ithaca, New York; Copenhagen, Denmark and beyond Harvey and Anne have been practicing and studying together in Asia and the west since 1970. They received the title of Lama, Vajra Master from their teacher in 2010 and in teaching context are known respectively as Lama Rigzin Drolma and Lama Namgyal Dorje. www.dawnmountain.org Learn more about this project at: www.thesacredspeaks.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesacredspeaks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thesacredspeaks Theme music provided by: www.modernnationsmusic.com Song of the week: New Age, by Cut Throat Finches www.cutthroatfinches.com

The Rothko Chapel presented Mindful Moments for Parents and Families as a part of our summer series of family-friendly program offerings. Led by Simone Woodage from Dawn Mountain, this session offered busy parents some simple, sharable practices to promote mindfulness and full attention in the present moment. From mindful listening to mindful eating, to the gift of a simple, grateful pause, these tools are useful for adults and children alike, and can help add a beautiful new dimension to connections within a family. About the presenter: UK-born Simone Woodage, RN, is a mother of three boys and a sought-after youth and family educator in the Houston area. On a personal mission to spread self-compassion and kindness in the world, since 2011 she has been the Family Educator at Dawn Mountain, leading mindfulness and compassion classes for children, teens, and parents. Simone holds a certificate in mindfulness fundamentals from Mindful Schools in Boston and completed the curriculum training program for educators. She has also trained as an Inner Kids instructor with Susan Kaiser Greenland, author of The Mindful Child. About the series: Since September 2005, on the first Wednesday of each month from 12-1pm, the Rothko Chapel hosts a meditation or contemplative practice focusing on a different spiritual or faith tradition featuring teachers and religious leaders from throughout the greater Houston community. Twelve Moments: Experiencing Spiritual and Faith Traditions series provides opportunities for visitors to learn more about a specific spiritual or faith tradition, and experience a related meditation or contemplative practice, such as prayer, chanting, and more.

International Women's Day Observation The Monument Quilt display on Chapel grounds, 10am-8pm Twilight Meditation inside Chapel, 6-7pm The theme for International Women’s Day in 2018 was “Press for Progress” – the worldwide campaign calls for changing stereotypes, promoting positive visibility of women and celebrating the achievements of women. Responding to this theme and the #MeToo movement, the Chapel hosted a small display of The Monument Quilt, a quilted collection of stories from survivors of rape and abuse. The Monument Quilt is organized by FORCE, a Baltimore-based activist collective dedicated to upsetting rape culture. In the evening we hosted a Twilight Meditation facilitated by Claire Villareal from Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism, along with Shanti Flagg, FORCE's Studio Director, sharing quilting stories from the many woman all over the U.S. who are survivors of sexual and domestic abuse. Join as we unite in advocacy and support of women around the world. Shanti Flagg was onsite before and after the meditation to answer questions about FORCE and The Monument Quilt project and to guide visitors in contributing a message to be added to the project. About the presenters: FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture is a creative activist collaboration to upset the culture of rape and promote a culture of consent. FORCE designs communications campaigns to generate media attention and get millions of people talking. The organization gained national attention for their viral panty prank, where they pretended to be Victoria’s Secret promoting consent themed slogans on underwear. Today, FORCE is most widely known for The Monument Quilt, a quilted collection of stories from survivors of rape and abuse. Learn more at upsettingrapeculture.com Shanti Flagg is an artist and has been a collective member at FORCE for 3 years. She directs the operations of their studio headquarters in Baltimore. The project Shanti primarily works on is the Monument Quilt. She coordinates volunteers in the studio to create the quilts, and she works with the Monument Quilt Leadership Team to plan the culminating display of the Quilt on the National Mall. The Monument Quilt creates public healing space for survivors of rape and abuse. Claire Villarreal PhD, a native of Fort Worth, TX, has been practicing and studying Buddhism since 1997. She completed her undergraduate studies, including two years of Tibetan language study with Dawn Mountain co-founder Anne C. Klein, with a bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies at Rice University in 1999. Next she traveled to Thailand, where she trained with Theravada Buddhist monastics, and she has spent time in India and Nepal practicing and studying Tibetan Buddhism. Returning to Texas, Claire has taught mindfulness in a variety of settings in Fort Worth and Houston since 2004. She defended her dissertation, on the interface between contemplative practice and philosophical developments in Tibet, at Rice with Anne as advisor in spring of 2015. She administers Dawn Mountain’s programs, teaches meditation, and practices kung fu.

Bonus episode:  In this special teaching offered on the first Sunday of September (and the first time Dawn Mountain was open again after Hurricane Harvey), Lama Harvey teaches about the importance of being kind with ourselves and experiencing the freshness that a devastating natural disaster like this can bring.

Episode 5: In the final episode of this mini-series, Harvey walks us through the actual experience of doing Vajrasattva practice: what we imagine happening, the verses we recite, and the states of mind we aspire to cultivate.  You can download the Dawn Mountain prayer book here:  https://dawnmountain.org/prayers/ (You’ll find the Vajrasattva practice starting on p. […]

Episode 1: In the first episode of our new season, you’ll hear an excerpt from our most popular YouTube video ever!  Anne Klein/Lama Rigzin Drolma teaches on Green Tara–her identity, her qualities, and what it means to connect with her–and shares the lineage of Dawn Mountain’s Tara practices. The text for this practice is not […]

Episode 11: Dawn Mountain students ask Harvey some of the tough questions about equanimity, including how to cultivate it in relationships with harmful or toxic people.  Harvey also discusses reification, its definition and how it undermines equanimity.