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Donald Rothberg's Dharma Talks
Donald Rothberg
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 the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Donald has helped to guide three six-month to two-year training programs in socially engaged spirituality through Buddhist Peace Fellowship (the BASE Program), Saybrook (the Socially Engaged Spirituality Program), and Spirit Rock (the Path of Engagement Program). He is the author of The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World and the co-editor of Ken Wilber in Dialogue: Conversations with Leading Transpersonal Thinkers.
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2018-01-10 Not Knowing But Keeping Going 1 61:50
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We explore the centrality of the practice of "not knowing," that helps us to move from ordinary knowing to extraordinary knowing. We examine both the obvious value of many kinds of knowing and the shadow side of knowing, including its habitual and often addictive nature. Then we look at three ways of practicing not knowing: (1) in our mindfulness practice; (2) in listening to others as a practice; and (3) in being with transitional periods in our lives, when some important aspect of our lives remains unresolved.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2018-01-06 The Process of Practicing Metta: How Metta Develops 56:08
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We look from several perspectives at the nature of metta. We then identify several ways that metta practice develops, as we deepen in samadhi (concentration); as we learn to "lead" with our awakened hearts; as we work through difficult states, emotions, and unconscious material that may block metta; as we integrate metta with our wisdom and embodiment; and as we bring our metta practice out into the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  January Metta Retreat
2018-01-03 A New Beginning at a Time of Need and Crisis 65:44
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Framing practice broadly in terms of our individual, relational, and collective practice, we explore on New Years Day the meaning of letting go and setting intentions, being in touch with visions. We end with a short ritual of letting go and setting intentions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks
2018-01-01 Monday Night Dharma Talk 1:23:40
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2017-12-20 Second Morning Instructions: An Overview (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 40:04
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Instructions on breath, body and senses, thoughts, and emotions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat
2017-12-19 Practicing with Darkness at the Time of the Winter Solstice: Five Metaphors to Guide Practice 61:19
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Inspired by the darkness of the earth, we are guided by a sense of the darkness as suggesting: 1) stopping and stillness; 2) being with difficulties; 3) opening to unknowing and mystery; 4) generativety, creativity and fertility and 5) luminosity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat
2017-12-06 Cultivating Equanimity 2 65:37
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After a review of the basic qualities of equanimity and five main practices to cultivate equanimity, we focus on two ways in particular that equanimity can be confusing and/or become distorted: (1) when equanimity is not integrated with the awakened heart, and (2) when equanimity is more aloof and not responsive and active. As equanimity develops, it becomes rooted in a deep, compassionate, responsive, and unshakeable awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2017-11-29 Cultivating Equanimity 64:57
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Continuing after our exploration of the first parami, generosity, with examining the last parami, equanimity-- what it is, and some ways to cultivate great equanimity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2017-11-15 Generosity 63:45
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We look at the nature and importance of generosity, and how to practice and activate generosity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2017-10-09 Buddhist Practice, Nonviolent Action, and the Nonviolent Peaceforce (with Tiffany Easthom) 1:22:16
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Donald Rothberg first gives an account of the connection between the core of Buddhist practice and the nonviolent traditions of Gandhi and King. He then poses the common critique of nonviolence—that it doesn’t work with dictators, authoritarian governments, and situations of pervasive violence, that “it wouldn’t work with Hitler,” while telling some stories of actual highly effective nonviolent resistance against the Nazis. Tiffany Easthom, the Executive Director of the Nonviolent Peaceforce, an organization working to protect civilians and foster dialogue in situations of violence, then gives an extended account of the organization’s work, with a PowerPoint presentation (attached pdf file available at this site). She covers both the basic principles and strategies of the organization and a number of accounts of its work in various countries where there is violence, ranging from South Sudan to Syria to Myanmar.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Attached Files:
  • Presentation Slides PDF File by Donald Rothberg (PDF)

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