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Sunday Dharma Talk

Peter Doobinin

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

religion & spirituality buddhism

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35:06

Respect for Concentration

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/06/08

The Buddha encouraged his followers to have "respect for concentration." When we have this respect for concentration, we practice. We develop our meditation. We develop in the Buddha's concentration: jhana. When concentration, through effort and determination, becomes developed, we're more able to take skillful action in our lives; we're more able to understand our experience of life; we're more able to develop insight; we're more able to know true happiness. This talk by Peter Doobinin was

32:37

Consequences of Actions

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/06/01

All beings, the Buddha tells us, have a wish for happiness of heart. And, as the Buddha tells us, our happiness depends on our actions. In this talk, Peter Doobinin describes how we cultivate discernment, the skill of understanding the consequences of our actions. As we develop this skill we move toward knowing a greater happiness in this life. The dharma talk was given in November 2023.

41:47

Bodhisatta

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/05/25

A bodhisatta is a being who is striving for awakening ... a being who follows the dharma, who practices the dharma in accord with what the Buddha taught. In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin describes the qualities of the bodhisatta, and the elements of a practice in accord with the dharma. As he explains, we all have the ability to follow this path ... and to know the happiness of heart that it leads us to. The talk was given in November 2024.

31:39

A Lot of Love

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/05/18

Life, by its nature, is often difficult. As human beings we're all faced with the inevitable truths of illness, aging, death, separation. And of course there is much in the world that is difficult, challenging, painful. And there is much that we find in ourselves that is painful. The Buddha's teaching offer us a path through difficulty, and, in turn, to happiness. This, as Peter Doobinin, explains is the path of the heart: the path of love. In this talk, Peter describes how we learn to meet

33:02

What is Clinging?

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/05/11

The teachings of the Buddha tells us that dukkha, or suffering, comes from clinging; and that, in turn, if we abandon clinging, we'll know a true happiness in life. But what is clinging? As Peter Doobinin explains, if we come to understand what clinging is, then our ability to abandon it will be greatly enhanced. In this talk he discusses what clinging is, and how this understanding enables us to let go. The talk was given in March 2025.

36:34

Two Important Skills

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/05/04

In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin describes two important skills that we learn to develop in an effort to meet the difficulties in life. The practice of insight meditation is a practice of developing skills. These skills are "skills for lifetime." If we develop them, practice them, we're surely know a greater happiness in this life. This talk was given in March 2025.

36:38

Cultivating Skillful Thinking

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/04/27

Our path, in practicing the dharma, includes abandoning unskillful thinking and cultivating skillful thinking. It is essential, as we make our way toward a greater happiness, that we learn to cultivating skillful thinking in all our postures, as we go through our days and nights. In this talk, Peter Doobinin describes basic skills for cultivating skillful thinking. As he notes, these are skills that we all can develop. And if we do, it will benefit us profoundly in our efforts to know the fruits

36:19

Abandoning Unskillful Thinking

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/04/20

All that we are, the teachings of the Buddha tell us, begins with our thinking. In this talk, Peter Doobinin explains skills we develop in the service of abandoning unskillful thinking. The emphasis in the talk is on working with thinking in the course of our days. The talk was given in March 2035.

30:08

Ultimate Reality

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/04/13

As dharma students our task is to know reality. And, as the Buddha tells us, there is a conditioned reality, the reality of the senses; and there's an unconditioned reality, a reality that is timeless. The path leads us to knowing this reality: ultimate reality. In this talk, Peter Doobinin discusses ultimate reality, what it is, and what we need to do to know it. The talk was given in the winter of 2025.

31:26

Beginning to Live

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/04/06

A dharma talk given by Peter Doobinin in January 2025 as he turned 70 years old. In the talk Peter talks about the possibility of happiness ... a happiness that transcends time. In practicing the dharma, as the Buddha teaches, we open ourselves, in any moment, to the profound possibilities of the heart. To a greater happiness. This happiness is always available to us; it is this happiness that, as dharma students, we seek to know.

33:14

Journey to the Heart

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/03/30

Where do we look for happiness? Is our practice leading us to a happiness of heart? A reliable happiness? A greater happiness? In this talk, Peter Doobinin talks about how we make the journey to the heart ... and how, in making that journey, we come to know a greater happiness. The talk was given at a daylong retreat in 2015.

33:20

A Different Way of Learning

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/03/23

In dharma practice, we are developing a wisdom that's found in the heart. Typically, we seek intellectual wisdom, the wisdom attained by thinking. In dharma practice, we're engaging in a different way of learning. In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin describes this way of learning, the way in which we develop liberating wisdom, the wisdom in the heart. The talk was given in the summer of 2016.

55:50

Making a Commitment to the Heart

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/03/17

We should take care of the heart, the Buddha tells us, the way a mother would take care of her newborn baby. As dharma students we learn to make a commitment to the heart. In this dharma talk Peter Doobinin discusses what i means to make a commitment to the heart ... and how we're able to do that. The talk was given in 2016 at a Downtown Meditation Community Lovingkindness Retreat.

31:17

Joy & Faith

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/03/09

This dharma talk was offered by Peter Doobinin at the end of the year in December 2024. In the talk, Peter discusses how we might bring joy and faith into the year to come. May all beings find true happiness in their days!

30:37

According to Reality

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/03/02

As meditation students, as Peter Doobinin explains, we learn to see things "according to reality." Much of the time, we're enmeshed in thought worlds. Lost in thought. In our practice, we begin to see things as they are. We abandon our stories. And in the process, we come to know the truth of our goodness, the truth of the dharma inside us. The talk was given in December 2024.

37:07

What You Are

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/02/23

The dharma student resolves to follow a spiritual path in an effort to find freedom from grasping and to free the heart of its burdens. In doing so, we come to learn that what we're grasping on to, our stories, our suffering, is not who we are. We come to learn what we are, our true nature. In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin describes how we come to understand these truths. The talk was given in December 2024.

38:08

The Effort to Be Where You Are

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/02/16

Spiritual practice requires that we make great effort over a period of time; at the same time, we're asked to know the present moment and find happiness in it. In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin discusses this paradox of the spiritual path. He explains how we learn to bring skillful effort to the moment ... and how by doing so, we learn to know happiness of heart. The talk was given in January 2024.

39:45

The True Path

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/02/10

This dharma talk was given at a daylong retreat in New York In November 2024. In the talk, Peter Doobinin explains the Buddha's path, the story of his awakening, and the three knowledges he came to in his journey. These three knowledges provide for the basis of right view. The story of the Buddha's awakening offer us a way, a dharma, that we can follow; but, as Peter describes, it is us to us to make the effort to follow the path. If we're true to the path, we'll come to a greater happiness. As

37:16

Basic Skills: Skillful Intention

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/02/02

We shape our lives, in the service of knowing a greater happiness, through the cultivation of skillful intention. In this talk, Peter Doobinin explains skillful intention, what it is, how we develop it. The dharma talk is the fifth in a series of five talks on "Basic Skills" that were offered in June 2024.

39:22

Basic Skills: Heedfulness

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/01/26

Heedfulness, the Buddha teaches us, is the root of skillfulness. The practice of heedfulness enables us to take action in support of the heart, action that will lead us to happiness of heart. In this talk, Peter Doobinin describes the elements of this essential skill. The talk is the fourth in a series of talks on "Basic Skills" that Peter gave in June 2024.

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