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Sunday Dharma Talk

Peter Doobinin

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

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33:52

Moving Beyond Fear: The Other Side of Fear

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/10/26

We learn, as dharma students, to relate to fear skillfully. In this effort, we learn to meet fear with love. We learn to meet experience that is fearful with the heart, with metta, compassion, joy. This is elemental to our training. We have this profound potential, to meet things with love. We become more and more able, as we practice, to move beyond fear. The other side of fear is love. And love will always see us through. This is the fourth in a series of talks given by Peter Doobinin in

37:17

Moving Beyond Fear: Mindfulness of Fear

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/10/19

As dharma students, we're asked to confront fear. And, in this effort, we're asked to be skillful. We're asked to develop certain skills. In this talk, Peter Doobinin explains the elements of the skill for practicing mindfulness of fear. If we develop this skill, we'll be able to meet fear and, in turn, move beyond it. The talk is the third in a series of dharma talks offered in June 2025 on the subject of "Moving Beyond Fear."New York Dharma: www.nydharma.org

35:37

Moving Beyond Fear: A Home for the Mind

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/10/12

This dharma talk is the second in a series of talks given by Peter Doobinin in June 2025 on the theme: "Moving Beyond Fear." In this talk Peter explains the critical role that concentration plays in the dharma student's ability to move beyond fear. He describes how we learn to "put to good use" our concentration in this effort. May all beings find freedom from fear! New York Dharma: www.nydharma.org

40:32

Moving Beyond Fear: Qualities to Develop

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/10/05

This talk is the first in a series of dharma talks given by Peter Doobinin in June 2025 on the theme of "Moving Beyond Fear." In this talk Peter describes an essential principle of the Buddha's, that to meet fear we must develop certain qualities. In the talk Peter discusses these qualities, what they are, how we become developed in them, and how they enable us to meet fear.

34:21

The Values of the Dharma Student

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/09/28

In this talk, Peter Doobinin describes the values of a dharma student and how we can develop these values. The values that we cultivate as dharma students lead us to a greater happiness in this life. And the teachings of the Buddha provides us with skills that enable us to cultivate these values. The dharma talk was given in the spring of 2025.www.nydharma.org

33:21

Your True Home

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/09/21

The path of the dharma is path that leads us home. We find our true home inside us. In the body. And, ultimately, in the heart. In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin describes the journey to our true home. To the place where we know true happiness. The talk was given in the spring of 2025.

58:43

Effort Pleasure Love

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/09/14

The development of concentration, the unfolding of the path, is a process. We move, in deepening our practice, from effort to pleasure to love. In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin explains the elements of this process, the cultivation of the Buddha's path. The talk was given on the final night of the NY Dharma April 2025 Eight Day Retreatwww.nydharma.org

64:59

Time & Timelessness

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/09/07

In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin offers thoughts about the passing of time and that which transcends birth & death, coming & going. The talk was given on the 6th night of the NY Dharma April 2025 Retreat at Powell House. May all beings live in ease and peace.

01:01:20

The Burdens on the Heart

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/08/31

To know a greater happiness, to make the most of our lives, we're asked, as dharma students, to free the heart of its burdens. We're asked in this effort to practice mindfulness of these burdens, the afflictions that prevent us from the heart. Indeed, the Buddha's first noble truths gives us this task: to comprehend these burdens: dukkha. In this dharma talk Peter Doobinin describes the burdens on the heart and the practice of insight that enables us to put them down. The talk was given on the

49:58

Contentedness

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/08/24

What does it mean to know contentedness...? And how do we develop this sublime state of being...? In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin discusses what it is to be content ... and why it is something that we should aspire to. The talk was given at the NY Dharma April 2025 Eight-Day retreat.

54:30

Strength of Mind

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/08/17

When developed in strength of mind we're able to meet the difficulties and challenges in life; and we're able to make the most of life, to know the joy of living. What does it mean to have strength of mind? How do we develop it? And why should we? In this dharma talk Peter Doobinin discusses these important questions. The talk was given at the April 2025 Eight-Day Retreat.

53:11

Training the Mind

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/08/10

Meditation is the practice of training the mind. In this talk, Peter Doobinin describes some essential skills for training the mind. Particular attention is paid to working with the "fetters" of restlessness, doubt, and self identity view. The dharma talk was given on the second night of the NY Dharma April 2025 Eight-Day Retreat.

53:39

The Path of Skillful Resolve

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/08/03

Why, in practicing the dharma, is it important to learn to establish skillful resolve? What does it mean to establish skillful resolve? How do we establish skillful resolve? In this talk Peter Doobinin discusses these essential questions for every dharma student. The dharma talk was given at the NY Dharma April 2025 Eight-Day Retreat.

40:46

Freedom from Doubt

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/07/27

As we make an effort to be present, to practice the dharma, we'll encounter doubt. Doubt in ourselves. Doubt in the path. All beings experience doubt; those who are able to move forward on the journey of awakening are those who learn to meet doubt skillfully. In this talk Peter Doobinin explicates the skill for practicing mindfulness of doubt. And how, in turn, we develop in conviction. The talk was given in the winter of 2024.

36:49

A Window of Time

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/07/20

Life is short. If we learn to understand, truly, the brevity of the time we have in this life, we'll be able to make the most of the time we have. In this talk, offered in the winter of 2024, Peter describes how to skillfully reflect on the truth of death. As he explains, this practice of 'mindfulness of death' is an essential element of practice for the dharma student looking to know a true happiness.

33:30

Compassion for Thinking

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/07/13

Through wisdom and compassion we're able to abandon habitual patterns of unskillful thinking, our painful narratives. In this talk, Peter Doobinin describes how we develop mindfulness of thinking and, in turn, how we develop compassion for thinking. The dharma talk was given in September 2024.

30:06

Faith in the Goodness of Life

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/07/06

There is a goodness in life. But we're often not bringing our awareness to it. In this talk Peter Doobinin explains how we develop faith in the goodness in life, how we learn to know this goodness, why it's essential that we make this effort. The talk was offered in the spring of 2025.

35:30

Compassion & Freedom

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/06/29

Our capacity to know happiness in the this life - true happiness - depends on our ability to open to difficulty, pain, suffering. Meditation practice enables us to meet difficulty ... and to respond with the heart, with wisdom and compassion. From the heart, we move forward in life, happily, joyfully. In this dharma talk Peter Doobinin explains how our practice leads us to the heart, to freedom, to true happiness. The talk was given in July 2023.

31:00

The Challenge of Compassion

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/06/22

The skillful response to suffering - our own suffering, the suffering of others, the suffering in the world - is compassion. As dharma students, we're asked to cultivate this sublime attitude of the heart. But it's not always so easy to do. In this talk, Peter Doobinin discusses the challenges we face in developing compassion ... and how to develop in our skill so that we're able to cultivate compassion. The talk was given in the summer of 2023.

37:54

Refuge Within

Sunday Dharma Talk ·

2025/06/15

In meeting life, in all its difficulties and challenges, it's essential that we have a place to go for refuge. As dharma students, we find refuge in our communities. And the ultimate refuge is the refuge that we find within. Developed in our practice, we learn to rely, in all the circumstances of life, on being able to find refuge within. In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin explains the skill of developing refuge ... and putting that refuge to good use. The talk was given in November 2023.

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