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Sunday Dharma Talk

Peter Doobinin

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

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31:46

Cultivating Skillful States

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2022/10/16

Our effort, in following the dharma, is put toward abandoning the unskillful and cultivating the skillful. The tendency may be to focus all our efforts on abandoning unskillful states; but it's as important to cultivate skillful states. In this talk Peter Doobinin describes how we cultivate skillful states in meditation and in the course of our lives. The talk was given in July 2022.

23:52

Change of Heart

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2022/10/09

To follow the dharma, the path of the Buddha, requires that we have a change of heart. In this talk, Peter Doobinin explains what it means to have a change of heart and what we can do to bring about this kind of change within us. The dharma talk was given in July 2022.

31:11

Self Confidence

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2022/10/02

When we're developed in self confidence, we have the strength needed to make the journey of awakening. In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin describes by how cultivating parami, the elements of our goodness, we build in self confidence and support our efforts to make the path. The talk was given in July 2022. Your own self is your own mainstay, for who else could your mainstay be? (Dhp 160)

34:12

Making a Commitment To the Truth

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2022/09/25

Our capacity to be truthful is essential to our efforts to alleviate suffering. As the Buddha said, "Give me a person who is truthful and I can teach that person the dharma." In this talk, given in October 2021, Peter Doobinin discusses the quality of truthfulness that we're asked to develop in making our way across the river of suffering, toward a greater happiness in life.

37:28

Staying Awake

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2022/09/18

What does it mean to be awake? How do we learn to be awake? In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin describes what it means not to be awake ... and what it means to be awake. And he explains how we learn to stay awake. Not just in meditation, but in all postures, as we go through our days. The talk was given in October 2021.

28:07

The Light Within

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2022/09/11

Each of us has a light within. As dharma students, our task is to know this light within us. In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin explains how, through the practice of breath meditation and the development of mindfulness of the body we come to know the light within. The talk was given in June 2022.

40:15

Being In Tune With the Dharma

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2022/09/04

We learn, as dharma students, to be in tune with the dharma. Instead of fighting our experience, we develop a relationship to experience that is informed by equanimity, acceptance, wisdom. When we're able to do this, we come to understand what it means to be awake. This talk was given by Peter Doobinin at a daylong retreat in June 2022.

59:46

The Possibility of Letting Go

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2022/08/28

What would it be like to let go of our suffering? What would it be like to let go of our grasping? Can we learn to consider the possibility of letting go? In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin discusses the process by which, little by slowly, we open to our potential to let go ... and, in turn, to know true happiness. The talk was given at the Eight-Day Retreat in April 2022.

41:30

Freedom From Our Stories

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2022/08/21

What would it be like to find freedom from our stories? Most of us cling to certain stories, habitual narratives about ourselves and the world. These stories are a prison for us; they prevent us from moving forward in life. But, as Peter Doobinin explains in this dharma talk, we can find freedom these stories. And when we do, life opens up for us. The talk was given in January 2018, at a Downtown Meditation Community daylong retreat.

32:29

The Teaching on Not Self

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2022/08/14

If we develop an understanding into not self, it will lead us toward an end of suffering. But what is the Buddha's teaching on not self? There are all kinds of misconceptions about what the Buddha taught in this regard. In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin explains the Buddha's teaching on not self and how to apply this teaching in our practice. May all beings be well and at ease.

56:26

The Freedom of Simplicity

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2022/08/07

What are the burdens we're carrying through this life? The things of life may bring us some happiness. However, as dharma student, Peter Doobinin explains, we come to know a greater happiness when we let go of these things. In this talk, Peter describes how the simplicity the path asks us to develop leads to awakening, freedom, bliss. The dharma talk was given at the Eight-Day Retreat in April 2022.

35:22

A Light Touch

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2022/07/31

In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin describes how we develop a light touch in meditation and in life. As dharma students, this is elemental to our practice: we seek to move through life with ease, connected to an internal pleasure, in tune with our aliveness. The talk was given in July 2022. And better than a hundred years lived apathetic & unenergetic, is one day lived energetic & firm. (Dhp 110)

27:38

Courage

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2022/07/24

Dharma practice is a process of change. A practice of moving forward. As such, it requires courage. But what is courage in the context of the Buddha's teachings? In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin describes what courage is and how we develop it. The talk was given in April 2022.

25:51

How the Path Develops

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2022/07/17

If we understand how the Buddha's path develops, it will serve us greatly as we make the journey toward a greater happiness. In this dharma talk, Peter discusses three metaphors that the Buddha offers in the service of helping us understand how the path unfolds. The talk was given in April 2022.

52:51

How the Body Feels is Important

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2022/07/10

When the body feels good, we function most effectively. How the body feels is important. To this end, the dharma student seeks to cultivate, in meditation, a pleasant abiding in the body; and she seeks to maintain this pleasant abiding in all postures. In this talk Peter Doobinin explains how we develop skillful internal pleasure and why it's so important to learn to do this. The talk was given at the Eight-Day Retreat in April 2022.

55:55

Awareness, Breath, Compassion

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2022/07/03

What does it mean to bring awareness to our experience? Why is this skill important to develop? In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin explains the simple practice for bringing awareness to our experience of mind and body. The skill is captured in the acronym ABC: Awareness, Breath, Compassion. The talk was given at the Eight-Day Retreat in April 2022.

01:00:23

Seclusion & Action

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2022/06/26

In dharma practice we develop seclusion & action. The practice of seclusion, including meditation, enables us to take action. Action, specfically, that is driven by compassion and love. The path asks that we take action. This action, supported by the qualities we develop in meditation, is in fact the fruition of the path. The dharma talk was given by Peter Doobinin on the closing night of the April 2022 Retreat.

31:36

Look After Your Mind

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2022/06/19

Our happiness in this life, the Buddha tells us, depends on what we do. In large part what this means is, our happiness depends on what we do with our mind. In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin explains why it's important to look after your mind ... and how we learn to do this. The talk was given in October 2021. Be heedful, monks, mindful, virtuous. With your resolves well-concentrated, look after your minds. (DN 16)

40:49

The Felt Experience of Life

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2022/06/12

What is our experience of life? As dharma students we seek to have a felt experience of life. A felt sense. In fact, our capacity to know happiness in life depends on developing a deeper understanding, an understanding that transcends intellectual knowledge, an understanding that we apprehend in the body, and, ultimately, in the heart. In this dharma talk, Peter explains how we cultivate a felt experience of life. The talk was given at a daylong retreat in New York City in May 2022.

29:58

To Comprehend Suffering

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2022/06/05

The Four Noble Truths comprise a set of four tasks that as dharma students we're asked to accomplish. The task of the First Noble Truth is: to comprehend suffering. What does this mean? What is suffering? How do we learn to comprehend suffering? In this talk Peter Doobinin addresses these crucial questions. The dharma talk was given in February 2022.

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