Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism

Latest Episodes
Wisdom Through Love and Compassion: Settling meditation, giving and taking from a spacious heart
Episode 12: Anne Klein/Lama Rigzin Drolma begins this meditation with settling and accepting the support of the earth. Then, supported by a spacious orb of light at our heart center, we practice sending loving energy to others and relieving them of su...
Wisdom Through Love and Compassion: Dissolving “self” leads to wisdom and compassion
Episode 11: In this teaching, Anne Klein/Lama Rigzin Drolma returns to the image of the universe as a net of jewels, each reflecting every other jewel. In the same way, each of us reflects and is connected with all other beings.
Wisdom Through Love and Compassion: Looking for a “self” in the senses
Episode 10: In this meditation, Anne Klein/Lama Rigzin Drolma guides us through a process of natural relaxation and resting in the breath. Then we turn our attention to our sensory experiences, gently searching for a “self” in each of them,
Wisdom Through Love and Compassion: Space as opening to wisdom and compassion
Episode 9: In this teaching, Anne Klein/Lama Rigzin Drolma reminds us that recognizing our similarities with other people helps to break down our strongly felt sense of separation from others. By reflecting on how we’re all connected by the food we e...
Wisdom Through Love and Compassion: Relaxing mind, expanding frames
Episode 8: In this meditation, Anne Klein/Lama Rigzin Drolma guides us through connecting with the earth and our own bodies, and then she invites us to open our eyes and expand our frame of awareness into the room.
Wisdom Through Love and Compassion: King Milinda, emptiness Q&A
Episode 7: This teaching is the second part of last week’s episode; this time Anne Klein/Lama Rigzin Drolma revisits the classic text The Questions of King Milinda [Menander], updating the discussion of where a “chariot” is found among all its pieces t...
Wisdom Through Love and Compassion: Dissolving duality
Episode 6: Harvey Aronson/Lama Namgyal Dorje opens this teaching by emphasizing that both compassion and wisdom undermine our usual sense of dualism: that we’re separate from the world in some concrete way,
Bonus episode: Teaching on practice during unsettled times
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 fresh...
Wisdom Through Love and Compassion: Meditation on noticing sensations
Episode 5: In this meditation, Harvey Aronson/Lama Namgyal Dorje guides us into a relaxed and centered state through a simple breathing exercise followed by a short body scan. The main portion of this meditation is an explanation of labeling our vario...
Wisdom Through Love and Compassion: The importance of not finding answers
Episode 4: In this teaching, Anne and Harvey both offer their wisdom on a key Buddhist doctrine: no-self. They share their own examples of moments when the idea of our “self” — something we usually take completely for granted — was called into questio...