Teaching Tuesdays Winter 2025

Truths That Set Us Free:
Traditional Buddhist Teachings and Meditations for Freedom and Fulfillment

First and Third Tuesdays
January 21 - May 6, 2025
7:00pm-8:30pm

The first teaching of the Buddha is that our suffering comes not primarily from external circumstances, but rather is due to our mistaken assumptions about permanence, self and the counterproductive habits of desire and hatred that result. Liberation from this suffering comes from perforating our mistaken ideas of these things and disrupting the bad habits that resulted.

This series will use traditional Tibetan teachings and meditations to practice a refreshing openness to reality that can take us closer to awakening.  The 8 units touch on the cycle of birth and death known as Samsara, and how ignorance, karma, and dependant arising play an important role in it.  We will see how these interconnected principles are key to the four noble truths, four thoughts that turn us away from samsara, and most centrally, to our identity of ourselves and buddha nature.

Some traditional concepts we will teach in this course include:

• Bhavacakra (Wheel of Life)
• Four Truths
• Four Thoughts
• Vaibhashika/Sautrantika schools of thought
• Nagarjuna
• Madhyamaka (middle way)
• Foundational Practices Ngondro

Untimately, we will connect everything to Dzogchen, the great completeness and peak of the spiritual paths in our tradition.  If you are new to Buddhism, this is a great introduction to many topics in a way that can be applied to practical life.

Fee:  $160 Standard Rate (includes non-members and Dawn Mountain Basic Members)*
         FREE for Dawn Mountain Full Members* (Full members must still register to receive links)

Dawn Mountain strives to include curious people everywhere. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. For alternative tuition or payment arrangements, please contact Jerri at info@dawnmountain.org to discuss your personal situation.

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*Full Membership - annual fee of $480 or more
 Basic Membership - annual fee of $479 or less