Open House & Holiday Store
December 13, 2009
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Looking for some fellowship and something different to do during the holiday season? Dawn Mountain is giving an open house. We will have delectable healthy treats cooked by our sangha members and a lot of joyful conversation. We hope to see some old friends and make new!
While mingling with new friends, come browse our store. We will be featuring the beautiful work of renowned thangka artist Ang Tsherin Sherpa. As last year, we will have a good selection of his prints. Tsherin will be showing his work at the Rubin Museum of Arts in New York next year and has been awarded a residency program at Vermont Studio Center. We are honored to feature his work as it gains recognition and are delighted to announce that we have scheduled a gallery showing of his work in Houston for late April. Stay tuned for more information!
Our store will be stocked throughout the holidays and open on the first and third Tuesday nights after classes and after Sunday meditation . You may also find items in our new webstore! |
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How The West Was ONE
November 6, 2009 8:30 am to 4:00 pm
Welcome:
James Lomax, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine
Richard Materson, M.D., President/CEO - ISH
Key Speakers: Richard Seager, Ph.D.,Rabbi Samuel Karff,
Jon Allen Ph.D., Harvey Aronson, Ph.D.
and Robert Hesse, Ph.D.
How did psychotherapy and spirituality become intermingled fields? The convergence of the two can be traced to the World's Parliament of Religions which convened in Chicago in September, 1893. The Parliament attracted a potpourri of speakers from all of the world's religions-the largest selection ever assembled at one time. Over a three week period, 194 papers and sermons were presented. The World's Parliament had a broad impact on spirituality and psychotherapy and was important, historically, in several ways. First, It gave birth to the academic field for the study of comparative religion. Second, the interfaith movement can trace its roots to the Parliament and it had a huge impact on the modern Christian ecumenical movement: seventy-eight percent of the speakers were Christians. Finally, it is important to look back and see how much has happened in the field of psychotherapy and faith since the East/West convergence in the late 1800s.
The Faculty of Five will examine psychotherapy and faith from different perspectives: historically, clinically and then from Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism.
For Details and Registration: Institute for Spirituality & Health
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Receptivity & The Path
The lotus flower remains unattached to the muddy water it arises from as it
it opens to kiss the sunlight. Fall Retreat
November 11-13
Lead by
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New understanding and fresh experience is central to our progress on the path and for these to flourish, we need to be receptive to them. We also need to know how to invite them. Therefore, cultivating receptivity, inviting needed qualities into our being and accessing freshness are vital.
In this retreat we explore what these qualities feel like, how to access them, and what obstructs them. In our practice sessions, we see how they apply to different aspects of the path. In the process, we learn or strengthen traditional practices of mind-training, such as we have been discussing this fall from Jigme Lingpa's Treasury of Precious Qualities, as well as practices of purification and inviting divinity to emerge.
Weekend retreat will inlcude teaching, group discussion/reflection and meditation sessions.
Where: Dawn Mountain Tibetan Temple, 1925 B Richmond Ave, Houston,TX 77098
When: Friday evening 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Saturday 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Sunday 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Who: All are welcome, however, if you are brand new to Dawn Mountain, please check in with us for an orientation.
Fee: $125 Non-members, $100 or $90 for Dawn Mountain member levels. This is a facility use fee that goes entirely to Dawn Mountain. However, we do not want to exclude anyone because of funds, so please let us know if the fee presents an obstacle for your participation. Dana, the Sanskrit word for gift, to Harvey and Anne for teaching the retreat is optional. |
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Fall Series Continues through December 1 |
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Jigme Lingpa: Inspiring Our Reading, Our Practice
Jigme Lingpa writes passionately about every aspect of the path. Treasury of Precious Qualities which we are currently teaching and studying is one of his most revered works. A fundamental premise underlying everything is that our nature is an enlightened nature, we just don't see it.
In one poem of spiritual advice, Jigme Lingpa writes:
"... .from the very beginning, your mindnature
is not contaminated by philosophizing and
is not affected by any ordinary mind:
It is seen instantaneously through the Lama's kindness."
For this series, one may attend any individual class.
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 Unbounded Wholeness by Anne C. Klein, Ph.D.
with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
A Review by J.M. White
for Parabola Magazine
"Nothing, not even one thing
Does not arise from me.
Nothing, not even one thing
Dwells not within me.
Everything, just everything
Emanates from me
Thus am I only one.
Knowing me is knowing all Great Bliss."
--Secret Scripture Collection, the voice of Samantabhadra, p. 229 Unbounded Wholeness.
It is a rare event when a book is able to uncover some aspect of ancient knowledge that has been hidden in the recesses of prehistory. Not since the publication of Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and its Transmission Through Myth by Giorgio De Santillana and Hertha Von Dechend has a book reached back so far and revealed something so fundamental in the history of consciousness. Unbounded Wholeness translates a text that dates back in stages; first to its discovery in eleventh century Tibet and then, in another leap, to the pre Buddhist eighth century Himalayan kingdom of Zhang Zhung and, in yet another leap, back much deeper into a prehistoric strata of human culture and intellectual development.
Unbounded Wholeness is a translation and detailed commentary of a Tibetan text titled The Authenticity of Open Awareness: A Collection of Essential Reasonings attributed to Lishu Daring. It is a text from one of the oldest surviving Tibetan literary traditions, the Bon Dzog Chen. Bon was the indigenous religion of Tibet prior to the onset of Tantric Buddhism in the eight century C. E.. Pre Buddhist Tibet was known as Zhang Zhung and its capital was in the vicinity of Mount Kailas in what is now western Tibet. Bon continues to exist even today as a distinct religious tradition. Recently the Dalai Lama has begun to refer to Bon as the fifth school of Tibetan Buddhism. Anne Carolyn Klein has collaborated on this book with Tenzen Wangyal Rinpoche who is the first representative of the Bon to establish a center in America. Anne Klein has been an influential force in establishing this tradition in America and this book is one of the first fruits of that collaboration. Unbounded Wholeness defines a whole new set of principles describing non conceptual logic. The text provides the rules of logic for how the mind works from the perspective of wholeness as opposed to the perspective of the individual.
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Dawn Mountain Has a New Website & Webstore! |
We have the same address www.dawnmountain.org but with a new design and expanded store. Please take time to browse our new site. We would like to express our gratitude to the volunteers which dedicated enormous time and talent to make these changes. Particularly, Sharon Jackson of Natural Graphics, S.O. Creative Web Design and Lynn Bell Design for website services.
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An Eight Week Course
Monday Evenings
Oct. 5 - Nov. 23
7-8:15 p.m.
There is still time to join the seventeen students who came to the first class to explore new possiblities through meditation.
Open enrollment will last through Monday, Oct. 12. After that, admission will be on a case by case basis.
THE COURSE
This eight-week course will introduce beginners to the basics of meditation, including what to do during a session as well as how to make meditation a part of daily life. These are simple and enjoyable techniques that anyone from any background can practice, both now and for years to come. More advanced students are invited to review the basics of sitting and enjoy beginner's mind again. This course will be perfectly suitable for adolescents and teens that are interested.
COURSE LEADER
Claire Villarreal started practicing meditation in 1997 and has made several long trips to Asia to practice various meditation techniques in traditional cultural contexts. She graduated from Rice in 1999 and began leading eight-week courses in 2004, and she is currently a third year graduate student in the Rice University Religious Studies Program.
The course is $85, however, no one turned away for lack of funds
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Tibetan Buddhist Symbols
The Dharma Wheel |
"The three componenets of the wheel - hub, spokes, and rim, symbolize the three aspects of the Buddhist teachings upon ethics, wisdom and concentration. The central hub reprersents ethical discipline, which centers and stabilizes the mind. The sharp spokes represent wisdom or discriminating awareness, which cuts through ignorance. The rim represents meditative concentration which both encompasses and facilitates the motion of the wheel. A wheel with eight spokes symbolizes the Buddha's Eightfold Noble path and the transmission of these teachings towards the eight directions." The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols by Robert Beer
Eightfold Noble Path: The method or path that leads to the cessation of suffering: 1)correct view 2) correct thought 3) correct speech 4)correct action 5) correct livelihood 6) correct effort 7)correct mindfulness 8) correct concentration or meditative equipose.
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| Dawn Mountain Mission |
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The mission of Dawn Mountain is three-fold. First, as a Tibetan temple offering traditional Buddhist teachings tailored towards contemporary Americans. Second, as a community center we provide services including programs that promote physical and mental well-being independent of any religious orientation. And third, as a research institute we support translation of materials on Tibetan philosophy, ritual and culture.
DAWN MOUNTAIN is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization and depends on the generosity and support of its donors to continue our mission.
1925 - B Richmond Ave.
Houston, Texas 77098
713-630-0354 |
| Anne & Harvey's Fall Schedule |
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Oct. 16-17 Bel-Air, CA. Enlightening Relationships: Buddhism and Psychoanalysis,
CANCELLED
Nov. 13-15 Dawn Mountain Fall Retreat: Receptivity & The Path
Nov. 6 How the West was ONE
8:30 am - 4:00 pm
St. Pauls United Methodist Church, Fondren Room
5501 Main Street
Houston, TX 77004 Institute for Sprituality & Health
Nov 20-22 Mexico City. Green Tara and the Nine Vehicles/Tara Verde y Nueve Caminos Espirituales Introducing and deepening connection to the fresh healing force that is supremely Tara's quality, and letting this illuminate the entire spectrum of Buddhist practice. Contact tonykaram@casatibet.org.mx
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OM AH HUM
"Enlightened Body, Speech & Mind" |
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Sunday Meditation
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Every Sunday!
Every Sunday morning Dawn Mountain conducts a guided meditation which is suitable for the entire community, beginners or seasoned meditators alike. Join us for an hour of serenity which is dedicated to and benefits all sentient beings. The meditation is lead by our senior practitioners who are happy to answer questions after the meditation. As well, there is time for fellowship and a browse through our bookstore.
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