All Creating Majesty with Lama Tenzin

Friday, November 1- Sunday November 3

How we see the world is an open door to the view of reality.  In this retreat, we carefully, gently investigate our own way of seeing. This is an accessible, and unique method highlighted in Longchenpa’s distillation of the “All Creating Majesty”, and the first time it is taught in the West. Because of its special, accessible qualities, Lama Tenzin Samphel is opening it to all interested students. We invite you to share a liberating appreciation of your own experience. 

Lama Tenzin Samphel has a gift for teaching Western students. Every year he includes meditations and observations that benefit both newer and more long-term students. For those starting in this year, year five, we will send a transcript of year one and encourage you to catch up on the prior years at your own pace.

Treasury of Basic Space with Lama Tenzin

Friday, November 8- Sunday November 10

Chöying Dzö is one of Longchenpa’s famous Seven Treasures, exquisite poetry illuminating the centrality of the dharmadhātu to the awakening described in Dzogchen. Lama Tenzin’s teaching also draws richly and selectively from Longchenpa’s own commentary on this work, translated by Richard Barron as A Treasure Trove of Scriptural Transmissions. 

Many accomplished masters rely on reading the Chöying Dzö in their daily practice. Those of you who have been with us for this ongoing teaching have experienced first-hand how Lama Tenzin Samphel transmits key principles for realization. We have been immersing ourselves annually in this text since 2013 and are now reaching the culminating sections of this text, a great gift, not to be missed. 

This course is for those who have completed Ngongro.  If you have completed and have not yet joined, please contact us about connecting with this teaching. 

This event is by invite only. Please check your inbox for the link.

If you would like to be considered for invitation to this event, email [email protected]

Compassion in Action

November 12, 7:00 pm- 8:30 pm

Compassion in Action focuses on how we can join our best intentions with our daily activities so that they are fruitful and helpful, fulfilling our intuitive desire to be responsive to others. Dr. Renée Ford and Dr. Nathaniel Rich will share instructions on a meditation practice called tonglen, which cultivates care and courage by focusing on breathing out positive wishes as an expression of care for ourselves and others and breathing in (and dissolving) pain as an expression of courage in confronting the reality of suffering. This practice encourages us to reorient our thoughts toward wishing for all beings to be happy. This reorientation in our thinking is not the end of this practice, however. We will also discuss how we can carry this new orientation into our daily lives and activities so that we begin to engage an intention that genuinely wishes for happiness while we are actively engaged in helping others, whatever our circumstances are. If good intentions can be cultivated and nurtured just like good habits, can we imagine putting forth a little effort toward developing them and then joining those with action? Please join us in Compassion in Action to explore methods for integrating thought and action in ways that benefit all of us.

Events with Our Lamas in Other Organizations

The events listed below are not hosted by Dawn Mountain. Please reach out to the host organization for any issues with registration.