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Donald Rothberg"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)

Donald Rothberg, PhD, has practiced Insight Meditation since 1976, and has also received training in Tibetan Dzogchen and Mahamudra practice and the Hakomi approach to body-based psychotherapy. Formerly on the faculties of the University of Kentucky, Kenyon College, and Saybrook Graduate School, he currently writes and teaches classes, groups and retreats on meditation, daily life practice, spirituality and psychology, and socially engaged Buddhism. An organizer, teacher, and former board member for

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38:17

Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation Inspired by Joanna...

Donald Rothberg"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2025/07/23

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin with a period of settling, developing greater samadhi or concentration, and then move to mindfulness practice, including giving some attention to noticing moderate or a little greater levels of pleasant or unpleasant feeling-tone. When we notice pleasant or unpleasant feeling-tones, is there any tendency toward grasping or pushing away, in habitual or automatic ways? We then explore gratitude as a practice, simply reflecting on ways that we are grateful,

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61:30

Donald Rothberg: Dukkha and the End of Dukkha: 10...

Donald Rothberg"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/10/10

(Insight Meditation Tucson) In the first part of the talk, we explore the Buddha's core teaching, "I teach dukkha and the end of dukkha." This teaching can be confusing as the Buddha gave at least four different meanings of "dukkha." We examine each of the four and find that only the last sense of dukkha as reactivity, developed in the teachings of the Two Arrows and Dependent Origination, makes sense of "the end of dukkha." We then look at ten ways of practicing with and transforming reactivity

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33:46

Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation Exploring Reactivity

Donald Rothberg"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/10/10

(Insight Meditation Tucson) After guidance on the basics of our practice--developing stability and concentration, and cultivating mindfulness--and a period of silent practice, there is additional guidance, related to the later dharma talk, on noticing any experiences of reactivity and on exploring moderate or greater experiences of pleasant or unpleasant.

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1:31:09

Donald Rothberg, Ronya Banks: A Community Program on...

Donald Rothberg"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/08/11

(Southern Dharma Retreat Center) In session 2 of this series, Donald Rothberg and Ronya Banks will engage in dialogue around their Jewish and Palestinian identities, their family histories, and their own experiences of being Buddhist teachers navigating the complexities of the conflict in Palestine/Israel. During the course of the conversation, they will offer reflections on what has been most helpful to each of them in dealing with painful truths, strong emotions, and difficult conversations. In

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62:53

Donald Rothberg: Living from Our Depths 1

Donald Rothberg"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/07/24

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How do we live from the depths of our being? We explore this question in a number of different ways. We begin by looking at some of the metaphors for "spiritual practice" (itself involving metaphors), including the sense of touching and living from our depths, becoming a "big person" (a Mahaatta in the Buddha's phrasing), awakening, being on a journey, and seeing through our conditioning, delusions, and the 70,000 veils (as is said in Islamic tradition). In Buddhist

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66:11

Donald Rothberg: Ten Ways of Deepening Practice

Donald Rothberg"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/04/10

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We continue with the main ways of deepening practice identified in the talk from the week before, based on ways of deepening experienced in Donald's March four weeks of retreat. We go into more depth on each of the ten, inviting listeners to choose one or two ways of deepening for the next period of time. The talk is followed by discussion, and there's a downloadable pdf listing the ten ways of deepening practice (see below).

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64:31

Donald Rothberg: Integrating Metta Practice with...

Donald Rothberg"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/01/31

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We continue to explore how we might practice metta (and other heart practices) in a way integrated with mindfulness, wisdom, and insight, building on last week's session. We begin looking at some of the ways historically and culturally that the "mind" and "reason" have been separated from emotion, dating from Plato and the Greeks, and continued in the modern world with the understanding of reason and science as separate from emotion (and the body). This has been a

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39:03

Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation: Mindfulness,...

Donald Rothberg"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/01/31

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin with about 10 minutes of settling with our mindfulness (or another) practice. This is followed by about 5 minutes of practicing metta where it flows as easily as possible, and then by a guided practice in radiating metta, extended to radiating in a boundless way. We then return to a brief way of practicing radiating metta without visualization, followed by returning to mindfulness, infused with metta.

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63:04

Donald Rothberg: Integrating Metta Practice with...

Donald Rothberg"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/01/24

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We often hear that the heart of the teachings and practice is to connect wisdom and compassion, clear seeing and the kind heart, developing what Jack Kornfield calls the "wise heart." Yet such a connection or integration can be challenging in several ways. First of all, we have major conditioning in modern Western culture to separate the "mind" and the "heart" (or emotions), as well as the body. Also we find tendencies in the Theravada tradition to see Metta practice

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38:47

Donald Rothberg: Metta and Mindfulness: Guided Practice

Donald Rothberg"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/01/24

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin with the basic instruction in metta (lovingkindness) practice, using the silent repetition of phrases. Then we move to a period of mindfulness practice, followed by metta practice, where the metta is most accessible, followed by an invitation to return to mindfulness practice, integrated with the energy and intentions of metta practice.

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63:41

Donald Rothberg: Metta Practice with Difficulties and...

Donald Rothberg"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/01/14

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin by exploring the nature of some of the challenges of metta practice, including with difficult emotions, body-states, and thoughts, and how to practice when these challenges arise. The spirit is that of understanding challenges as part of the path of learning. We then focus on one way of deliberating bring metta practice to a challenging situation, through metta with the difficult person, followed by an account of one particular challenge, the “judgmental

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54:45

Donald Rothberg: Metta Practice As A Path of...

Donald Rothberg"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/01/11

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Metta practice is a wonderful, ancient practice that has parallels in the cultivation of kindness and love in other spiritual traditions; developing the wise heart of kindness is an ancient vocation. There are also parallels with the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his emphasis on bringing love to help transform injustice; we play a brief recording from Dr. King. We also explore different dimensions of Metta practice and how it relates to other

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1:20:00

Donald Rothberg, Stephen Fulder: The Dharma in Times...

Donald Rothberg"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2023/12/20

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Stephen Fulder, the founder and senior teacher of Tovana (the Israel Insight Society), is in conversation with Donald Rothberg. We hold the understanding of "crisis" broadly, remembering that we are in the midst of multiple crises, while giving more attention to Israel/Palestine. Such crises are a major challenge to our dharma practice. In this context, we explore a number of different themes, including bringing our practice to difficult experiences that often arise

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66:34

Donald Rothberg: Practicing with Conflict 4: Applying...

Donald Rothberg"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2023/11/29

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin with a brief review of the framework of ten foundations for practicing with differences and conflicts (defining conflicts as differences of goals, values, views, strategies, etc. and not necessarily involving hostility or aggression). Then we apply the ten foundations as guides for seeing how we can bring our practice (both more "inner" and more "outer") to the seemingly complex and intractable conflict of Israel/Palestine. After the talk, there is discussion

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12:06

Donald Rothberg: Brief Guided Meditation Exploring...

Donald Rothberg"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2023/11/29

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

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66:27

Donald Rothberg: Practicing with Conflict: Foundations 3

Donald Rothberg"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2023/11/22

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We start by reviewing briefly the two times' accounts of the foundations for practicing with differences and conflicts, first giving a definition of "conflict" as a difference of values, goals, or strategies, and not necessarily involving hostility or aggression. There's an invitation to focus on a conflict in one's life that is in the moderate range of difficulty, and bring this to mind as we work with ten foundations of skillful practice with conflict. We look again

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68:46

Donald Rothberg: Practicing with Conflict: Foundations 2

Donald Rothberg"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2023/10/25

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We start by reviewing last week's initial account of the foundations for practicing with differences and conflicts, first giving a definition of "conflict" as a difference of values, goals, or strategies, and not necessarily involving hostility or aggression. We also look again briefly at the multiple reasons why bringing our practice to conflicts is often difficult, and then review the more "inner" four foundations of skillful practice with conflict. We then bring in

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66:41

Donald Rothberg: Practicing with Conflict: Foundations 1

Donald Rothberg"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2023/10/18

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin by identifying the importance of developing skillful practice with differences and conflicts, whether inner conflicts or interpersonal conflicts or group or organizational conflicts or social or international conflicts. The claim is that the general principles and practices are fundamentally the same, even as the practices take different forms when there are more complexities. We first give a definition of "conflict" as a difference of values, goals, or

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