Events Calendar

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MEDITATION: Every Sunday 11:00 am - 12:00 pm.

Dawn Mountain Tibetan Buddhist Temple provides a guided meditation every Sunday which is appropriate for the entire community. The meditation is lead by our senior sangha members who are happy to answer questions about the practice and Dawn Mountain. Come and join us for an hour of serenity and fellowship. Donations welcome.

RELIGION, MENTAL HEALTH AND THE SEARCH FOR MEANING

Saturday, August 28
9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Jones Hall, 3910 Yoakum
Free and open to the public
Parking available in Moran Parking Center: Graustark and W. Alabama
For more information, contact Dr. Elizabeth Maynard 713-525-6967  maynare@stthom.edu

Sponsored by:
University of St. Thomas, Houston Psychological Association, The Jung Center
UST Center for Faith & Culture, Mental Health America of Greater Houston
Institute for Spirituality & Health

Harvey Aronson, Founder and teacher at Dawn Mountain will be part of the afternoon panel of this event which will explore the division between the perspectives of religion and psychology? Why are so few mental health professionals trained to integrate religion and spirituality into their work with clients? What roadblocks might one encounter in the attempt to discuss spirituality in a clinical setting? In this free, one-day conference, psychotherapists, scholars, and clergy engage in conversation about the universal search for meaning and the value of religious and psychological approaches.  For more information and schedule click here

2010 FALL SERIES

Rousing Enlightened Love for All While Staying Sane Oneself
1st & 3rd Tuesdays Sept. 7th-Dec.7th, 7:00 - 9:00 pm

" It is possible to have compassion without attachment, and similarly, to have anger without hatred. Therefore we need to clarify the distinctions between compassion and attachment, and between anger and hatred".-
HH. Dalai Lama

Enlightened love (bodhicitta) is all an all-inclusive embrace of others, helping them discover the happiness that real inner freedom brings. This generous motivation is the source of all good qualities. Tibetan wisdom traditions offer clear step-by-step instructions for deepening this spacious responsiveness to others.

The steps are easy to understand. We don't need to change them and yet, as modern Westerner practitioners, we can use the West's own wisdom to help further our progress and understand the challenges that everyone, east and west, agrees will arise as we seek to move past our ordinary way of being.

Thus, our unique approach to these practices is to bring traditional methods of cultivation into conversation with contemporary insights into the culture in which we live, especially its unspoken assumptions about self and other. Harvey Aronson, Ph.D., LCSW, will lead the meditation and instructions and subsequent discussions that will look at making the profound instructions of Buddhist practice genuinely productive for Western students. Excellent for new and long time students.                                                                                                

Optional Reading:  Harvey Aronson, Buddhist Practice on Western Ground
Jigme Lingpa, Treasury of Precious Qualities

A Seven-Part Sequence: All Seven Sessions: $75 ($65 for members)
Individual Classes $12 ($10 for members).

MINDFULNESS FOR EVERYONE NOW CLOSED- CHECK BACK FOR FALL CLASS !

New 10 Week Course Begins June 7 - August 9, Monday Evenings 7:00-8:15 pm

ABOUT THE COURSE: This ten-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. A new element in this series is the opportunity to explore fundamentals of Buddhist principles which can be used to enrich and sustain our personal practice.

ABOUT THE 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.

Registration is open to all for the first two weeks. The cost of the course is $95 with a special discount rate of $55 offered to returning students.

No one turned away due to lack of funds.

MOVIE NIGHT 

More movie nights to come:
Friday, August 20, 7:00 pm Friday & October 15, 7:00 pm
Movies to be announced.

DAWN MOUNTAIN TIBETAN BUDDHIST TEMPLE RETREAT (Save the Date!)

All Sangha Retreat
October 8-10
More Details Coming Soon

Arriving at a place of deep rest, centeredness, and focus is an essential basis
for practice. In Nyingma, these practices also become an orientation to the kind of
inner knowing essential to Dzogchen. Our emphasis this weekend is on appreciating that orientation, and on the practices themselves.

SCREENING OF "THE BUDDHA"  A DOCUMENTARY DIRECTED BY DAVID GRUBIN      Sunday, October 24, 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm

“Buddhism is growing more and more popular in America,” said filmmaker David Grubin talking about what motivated him to create The Buddha.  “But the Buddha himself remains a mysterious, exotic figure, the founder of a religion in a different key. The Buddha never claimed to be God, or his emissary. He said only that in a world of unavoidable pain and suffering, he had found a serenity which others could find, too.”

This 2-hour documentary, narrated by Richard Gere, features depictions of the Buddha’s life by some of the world’s greatest artists and sculptors, and offers insights into the narrative of the Buddha’s life by contemporary Buddhists, including Pulitzer Prize winning poet W.S. Merwin and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Join Dr. B. Jill Carroll and Dr. Anne C. Klein as they introduce this special screening by considering the relevance of the Buddha’s life and teachings to the challenges of our own time.  Dr. Carroll is Adjunct Associate Professor of Religious Studies and former Executive Director of the Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance at Rice University.  Dr. Klein is former Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University, and a founding director of Dawn Mountain Center for Contemplative Study and Practice.

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