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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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2020-01-14 The Transformative Power of Metta Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:21
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Guided by a recent translation of a poem about metta practice by an early Buddhist nun, from The First Free Women, we contemplate the simple yet radical and profound spirit of metta practice. The author tells us: "I have followed this Path of friendship to its end. And I can say with absolute certainty—it will lead you home.” We look at how metta cuts through fear, how it deepens concentration, how we work with the challenges of metta practice, how we navigate the “purification process” linked with metta practice, and how we integrate the kind heart, mindfulness, wisdom, and skillful action.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  January Metta Retreat
2007-11-14 The Transformative Process In Engaged Practice 43:01
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It is helpful to identify four broad phases of transformation, whether in the context of intensive meditation practice, everyday life, or engaged practice in the world: (1) building resources (perspectives, tools, methods, the ethical “container”); (2) opening to and honoring our suffering; (3) coming to see in a new way; and (4) the integrative work of stabilizing, grounding, and expressing our insights and learning as we go forth into the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Path of Engagement, Retreat 2
2017-09-06 The Two Arrows 1 2:07:14
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We explore the powerful teaching and how it might be understood and practiced, this week more in terms of individual inner practice, and next week, more in terms of interpersonal and social action.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2017-09-13 The Two Arrows 2 66:08
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We review the core teaching of the Two Arrows in terms of individual practice, and then understand its application in the social context as exemplified by Dr. King's nonviolence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2017-09-02 The Two Arrows and Nonviolence Training: Teaching and Guided Practice 28:49
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Buddhist Practice and Gandhian/Kingian Nonviolence Training
2013-01-15 The Unfolding of Metta Practice 56:31
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Weaving in the views and voice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on his birthday with the teachings of the Buddha on metta, and with observations of how metta practice develops, we explore the spirit of metta practice and themes of living from the awakened heart; developing concentration, purifying and eventually unifying mind, heart and body and opening to our radiant depths, we bring metta to the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat
2015-10-07 The Urgency of Now - Connecting Inner and Outer Transformation 66:23
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As we face multiple crises, yet also open to new transformations - inner and outer- a new type of spiritual practitioner is needed, who is able to connect inner and outer transformation. Echoing the Buddhist bodhisattvas, Jewish prophets, Jesus, many indigenous leaders, Gandhi, King, and Dorothy Day, among others, the "new bodhisattva" follows a new kind of training which is outlined.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks
2013-12-18 The Winter Solstice, the Dark and the Light and our Practice 62:13
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At the Winter Solstice, we can learn better to embrace the dark-in multiple ways, and to invite the light. Using poetry, stories and teachings, we explore how practicing with darkness and light can deepen and illuminate what Mary Oliver calls our one "wild, precious life."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat
2018-02-28 Things Are Not As They Appear 1 1:16:27
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Our Practice is to "wake up" from being asleep and not seeing our lives and experience clearly, with wisdom. We explore four ways that we see in a distorted manner, and explore the first two in this session, pointing to practices to help us see more clearly in these two areas.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2018-03-14 Things Are Not As They Appear 2: Examining the Personal and Collective Lenses of Perception 64:01
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We review some of the main themes covered in the first session on this theme, in the context of a series of talks on five ways that “things are not as they appear.” We first examine in more depth some ways that we see through the lens of the personal self. We then explore how we also see through the lens of our social conditioning, particularly focusing, on this morning when students are walking out of their schools and universities to point to the need to respond to gun violence, on ways that we don’t see, for various reasons, many of the roots of gun violence clearly.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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