Buddha, Brain, and Body: The water element in refuge and bodhichitta

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Buddha, Brain, and Body: The water element in refuge and bodhichitta

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Oct 25, 2016

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Bonus track: Anne explains how some of the qualities of the water element–softness, ongoing flow, receptivity–can help us take refuge and generate bodhichitta more deeply.

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Oct 25, 2016

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Buddha, Brain, and Body: Shaping our Karma: Opening teaching: Episode 2: In the opening teaching, Harvey tackles gratitude, opening with a reflection on the ways our habit patterns can obscure our ability to feel gratitude. Then he brings in some reflections from a traditional Buddhist perspective–feeling grati... by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Buddha, Brain, and Body: The water element in refuge and bodhichitta: Bonus track: Anne explains how some of the qualities of the water element–softness, ongoing flow, receptivity–can help us take refuge and generate bodhichitta more deeply. by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Deep Equanimity: Opening meditation on cultivating (and resisting) equanimity: Episode 2: Anne guides this meditation beginning with bringing awareness to the body and opening to the blessings available to us. Then she leads us through an exploration of our reactivity and how familiar it feels, by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Buddha, Brain, and Body: Anne teaches on inviting the support of the earth element: Episode 8: In this teaching, Anne opens with a classic Buddhist question: What are we, really? One traditional answer is that we’re composed of five elements (earth, water, fire, wind, and space), and in this episode she explains the golden, by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Buddha, Brain, and Body: Sharon teaches on getting beyond reactive patterns: Episode 4: In this special episode, senior student Sharon Jackson teaches on cultivating active attention–and the habitual, reactive patterns that can derail our intention to be present. She reminds us that we can feel strong emotions without being r... by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Buddha, Brain, and Body: Q&A on the earth element: Episode 9: This Q&A session was so good we had to include it in this series! Anne and Harvey both address questions on pride as an emotional reaction pattern and a part of our identity, and they also discuss the important distinction between the holl... by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
17 min listen
Body, Brain, and Karma: Meditating with the water element: Episode 10: Anne begins this meditation with guidance on settling into the body and breath from the previous meditation (because this file got cut off when it was recorded). Anne then guides attention practice with a focus on the water element qualiti... by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Buddha, Brain, and Karma: Teaching on the wind element: Episode 16: In this teaching, Anne guides us on a tour of the wind element, which in its balanced form is associated with accomplishing everything we need to do. Unbalanced air, though, is more associated with distraction, by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Deep Equanimity: Harvey guides meditation, imagining feeling different toward dear, unpleasant, and neutral person: Episode 8: In this meditation, Harvey gets us settled into a meditative state by guiding us through feeling the support and connection that frame our practice. Then he guides us to reflect on someone dear to us and imagine what they could do to make u... by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Deep Equanimity: Anne teaches on the challenges and opportunities of equanimity: Episode 3: Anne weaves her teachings on equanimity around students’ questions following our meditation on equanimity. by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Deep Equanimity: Anne’s meditation on aspiring to equanimity: Episode 12: In this meditation, Anne Klein/Lama Rigzin Drolma begins by guiding us to settle into the moment and into the body, then asks us to cultivate curiosity instead of judgment. We feel what it’s like to aspire to greater equanimity, by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Deep Equanimity: Anne teaches on the definition of equanimity: Episode 7: In this teaching, Anne Klein/Lama Rigzin Drolma begins by defining what equanimity is (and isn’t) and distinguishes judgment from information. She then guides us through a short reflection on equanimity. (Just FYI, by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Buddha, Brain, and Body: Teaching on water, connection, and clarity: Episode 11: Anne teaches on the water element, which is associated with both connection and clarity. We long for connection, yet we also often fear it, which we can understand through the imagery of an imbalanced water element. by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Buddha, Brain, and Karma: Water (and earth) Q&A: Episode 12: There are a lot of rich nuggets in this Q&A following Anne’s talk on the water element. Anne and Harvey address, among other things, the difference between earth wisdom and water wisdom and the way reflecting on the elements can help us de... by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Deep Equanimity: Anne guides a meditation on noticing judgment: Episode 6: In this meditation Anne Klein/Lama Rigzin Drolma guides us on a journey into a deeply grounded state of mind. We begin with connecting to the earth and feeling into the flow of the breath, then note the physical sensations related to judgme... by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Buddha, Brain, and Karma: Meditating with spacious awareness: Episode 17: Harvey guides us in a meditation that begins with recognizing and labeling our sensory experiences and internal monologue; then the meditation shifts into loving-kindness mode, emphasizing being free from inner criticism and cultivating pur... by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Buddha, Brain, and Body: Anne leads a meditation on the stability of the earth: Episode 7: This meditation actually begins with Anne’s explanation (which lasts until 4:10) of the next part of the course: that to know what type of beings we truly are, we have to recognize and work through what obstructs us currently. by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Buddha, Brain, and Karma: Teaching on fire element: Episode 14: Anne reviews the earth and water elements before teaching on fire, the warmth of connection whose imbalance leads to a fear of disconnection or being consumed by an intense relationship. In this teaching, by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Bonus episode: Mindful Intentions teaching 2016: Bonus teaching: In this “rebroadcast” from Claire Villarreal’s winter 2015-16 miniseries, she reflects on using our various devices and media intentionally to nourish our minds rather than allowing our technology to clutter our minds. by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Buddha, Brain, and Body: Sharon leads meditation on gratitude and attention: Episode 3: In this special episode, senior student Sharon Jackson leads a meditation that connects the practice of attention with the cultivation of gratitude. Sharon closes the meditation by spending some time on a very relaxed practice of noticing ... by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
27 min listen
Bonus track: Harvey leads a 10 minutes loving-kindness meditation: On this day when Houston has seen a mass shooting in Dawn Mountain’s general part of town and when the evening will bring the first debate of a polarized election season, we’d like to offer this bonus episode. In it, by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Bonus post: Mindful Holidays 2015 teaching: Bonus teaching episode: Last winter our Programs Director Claire Villarreal taught a two-part miniseries for the holidays. We posted the meditations from this class (published on 12/15/15 still available if you want to listen to it), by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Deep Equanimity, opening mini-teaching: Episode 1: In this short teaching Anne offered before beginning the opening meditation of the series, she reminds us that equanimity is a portal to wisdom, that its rich, nonjudgmental quality of presence and attention can support our practice and dimi... by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Deep Equanimity: Q&A with Harvey: 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. by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Tantric Teachings: Meeting Amitabha Through Devotion: Episode 2: In this episode, taken from a teaching from our Enlightened Heart Teaching Tuesday series, Anne C. Klein/Lama Rigzin Drolma explains that Amitabha (the focus of Pure Land Buddhist traditions of East Asia) also plays a significant role for ma... by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Deep Equanimity (final episode): Transforming judgment into wisdom: Episode 13: In the final teaching of the series, Anne Klein/Lama Rigzin Drolma begins by reflecting on our habits of judgment and reactivity–the very things that obstruct equanimity–and how we can begin to notice our own contributions to our reactions.... by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Deep Equanimity: Harvey guides a meditation on feelings toward friends, enemies, and neutral people: Episode 4: In this meditation, Harvey guides us through a variation on a classical meditation on equanimity, first reflecting on a neutral person as someone who wants to be happy and who’s also acted harmfully toward their enemies. by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Buddha, Brain, and Karma: Meditating with the wind element: Episode 15: After we settle into our seat with the earth element, Anne guides this meditation on wind, which is connected with our own capacity for getting things done. We reflect on what it feels like to act from a balanced wind element as well as o... by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Practice and Our Nature: Meditation on resting at ease: Episode 4: In this episode, Anne Klein/Lama Rigzin Drolma guides us in a meditation on aligning with the center of the earth and the apex of space, then settling the mind deep in the belly. by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
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Deep Equanimity: Harvey teaches on knowing reality, not being indifferent: Episode 10: In this teaching, Harvey Aronson/Lama Namgyal Dorje begins by introducing Tsongkhapa’s seven cause and effect precepts and the ways we actively cultivate love and compassion for all beings, which is very different from trying to remain emot... by Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism
14 min listen

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Buddha, Brain, and Body: The water element in refuge and bodhichitta

Buddha, Brain, and Body: The water element in refuge and bodhichitta

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Titles in the series (100)

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