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Sunday Dharma Talk

Peter Doobinin

A dharma talk given by Peter Doobinin offered weekly on Sunday.

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36:02

Equanimity, Acceptance & Wisdom

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2023/12/10

In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin takes a close look at the skill for being mindful of emotions, including blatant and subtle emotions. He describes the role of equanimity and acceptance in bringing simple awareness to the experiences of mind; and how when these qualites are developed, there is the potential for wisdom. The talk was offered on 3 December 2023.

26:37

Priorities for Life

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2023/12/03

What are our priorities for our dharma practice? What are our priorities for life? How can we change our priorities? In this talk, Peter Doobinin discusses these questions; questions that dharma students are asked to ask. The talk was given on 6 February 2022.

41:56

Noble Escape

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2023/11/26

In making a noble escape, dharma students seeks escape from the prisons of painful thought worlds, from habitual patterns of desire and aversion, from ways of living that can't bring a reliable happiness. In this talk, Peter Doobinin, describes how we learn to find this kind of noble escape. The talk was given at a daylong retreat in New York City in November 2023.

37:46

The Happiness of Morality

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2023/11/19

In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin describes how the development of ethical conduct - the practice of non-harming - leads to happiness of heart. In the talk, Peter explains why it's important to learn to prioritize the cultivation of our goodness, in the form of virtue, and how, when we do this, it has a great benefit in our lives and the lives of others. The talk was given in the autumn of 2023.

33:21

The Path of Truthfulness

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2023/11/12

As Peter Doobinin explains, spiritual growth depends on our ability to be truthful. About ourselves. About our habitual attitudes. In this talk, Peter describes how we develop in truthfulness; and how, in turn, this leads us to a greater happiness in life. The talk was given in August 2023.

29:19

Changing Your Attitude

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2023/11/05

Much of our capacity to find a greater happiness in life depends on the degree to which we're able to change our attitudes. The dharma student learns, by developing her skill, to abandon unskillful attitudes and cultvate skillful, sublime attitudes. In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin decribes the skills we seek to develop in this effort. The talk was given in the summer of 2023.

35:53

Finding the Light

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2023/10/29

Our dharma practice is one of gradually letting go of that which obscures the heart. As we develop in concentration and insight, we're more and more able to access the heart, to find the light within. And as we're more able to find the light in the heart, we're more able to take action that will lead to a greater happiness in our lives. In this dharma talk, offered in September 2023, Peter explains how, little by slowly, we find the light within.

35:15

Developing a Sublime Attitude

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2023/10/22

What is our attitude? As Peter Doobinin explains, being able to develop a sublime attitude is crucial to achieving good results in meditation ... and to knowing a greater happiness in life. In this dharma talk, Peter describes the skill for developing a sublime attitude in meditation and in all postures. The dharma talk was given in the summer of 2023.

30:29

Suffering & the End of Suffering

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2023/10/15

As the Buddha, perhaps famously, said, he taught, "Suffering and the end of suffering." What does this mean...? As Peter Doobinin explains, as dharma students we come to understand that suffering and the end of suffering are not simply intellectual concepts. They're objects for awarness. We're meant to bring awareness to suffering. And, in turn, to the end of suffering. In this talk, offered in the spring of 2023, Peter describes how we learn to do this. .

41:58

Be Who You Are

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2023/10/08

In practicing the dharma, we're learning that we don't have to "be somebody." Instead our practice, as Peter explains in this talk, is about learning to be who we are. Each of us is uniquely different. And each of us has everything we need to know happiness in this life. The talk was given at a daylong retreat in New York City in September 2023.

34:13

Being In Rhythm

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2023/10/01

Not an intellectual or academic process, dharma practice is a process of coming into rhythm. In "coming out of the head" and into the body, we move toward having a felt experience of life. More and more we meet life from the place of our innate wisdom. We come into rhythm. This dharma talk was given by Peter Doobinin in April 2023.

34:00

Meeting Change With Grace

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2023/09/24

Change is a integral condition of life. And our ability to find happiness in life depends on how well we meet the experiences of change. In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin explains the skills that we learn as dharma students that enable us to meet the changes in life with wisdom, compassion & grace. The talk was given in April 2023.

56:18

The Heart

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2023/09/18

In the heart, we find our innate wisdom. In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin explains what the heart is and how we come to this place of wisdom. The talk was given on the last night of the Eight-Day Retreat in 2017.

49:56

Love & Death

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2023/09/11

In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin talks about how the development of mindfulness of death leads to the opening of the heart. The talk was given at the Lovingkindness Retreat in the summer of 2016.

32:28

The Liberation of Awareness

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2023/09/03

As dharma students, in developing insight, we learn to bring awareness to the experiences of affliction (dukkha), blatant and subtle. In this talk, Peter Doobinin explains what it means to bring simple awareness to experience; and how, when we're able to do this, we begin to understand what it is to let go. We begin to understand what it's like when the heart is free from its burdens. The talk was given in June 2023.

28:38

Fear & Love

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2023/08/27

What is the intention behind our actions...? Do we take actions out of fear...? Do we take certain actions in order to gain the approval of others...? In developing the skill of heedfulness, we learn to discern the quality of our intentions. In doing so, we become more and more able to let go of actions driven by fear, and, in turn, take actions motivated by love for ourselves. The talk by Peter Doobinin was given in July 2023.

30:20

Don’t Give Up

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2023/08/20

In this dharma talk, offered in May 2023, Peter talks about the tendency we may have to give up ... in meditation ... and in life. And he explains how we learn to develop determination, the ablity to stay with it, in terms of our practice and, in terms of our efforts to know a greater happiness in life.

54:53

Awake to Love

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2023/08/13

What is love...? In this talk Peter Doobinin describes the differences between the worldly definition of love and the Buddha's definition. And he talks about how, as dharma students, we develop the ability to love. As he explains, when we are awake, we're able to love. The dharma talk was offered at the Lovingkindness Retreat in 2016.

53:31

What Happiness Is

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2023/08/06

What is happiness? In this talk, Peter Doobinin describes the differences between the "happiness of the world" and the happiness we seek to know as dharma students: the happiness of the heart. As he explains, in order to find true happiness in this life, we have to begin to develop an understanding of what this happiness is. The talk was given in July 2016 at the Downtown Meditation Communinty Lovingkindness Retreat.

22:30

The Joyful Path

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2023/07/31

The path is joyful. In this dharma talk, offered in January 2022, Peter Doobinin explains how we make the path and why, when we follow it, it's joyful.

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