Donald Rothberg's Dharma Talks
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2012-09-26
A New Beginning--Guided Reflections
2013-01-01
A New Year's Day of Practice: Talk and Guided Visualization
2013-06-16
Afternoon Instructions #2
2013-06-17
Afternoon Instructions #4
2007-05-23
Attending To Beauty
2012-03-21
Awakening in Awareness
2012-05-02
Becoming Bodhisattvas
2012-05-09
Becoming Bodhisattvas II--Ethical Practice
2012-05-16
Becoming Bodhisattvas III: Practicing with Views and Concepts
2012-03-16
Concentration and it's Development in Practice
2011-02-09
Concentration Practice II- and discussion
2011-02-16
Concentration Practice III
2013-04-20
Connecting Inner and Outer Responses to Climate Change
2010-10-18
Continuing the Momentum of the Retreat in Daily Life Practice
2007-10-20
Cultivating Clear Seeing - The Path Of Mindfulness
2009-04-22
Cultivating Equanimity, pt I
2009-04-29
Cultivating Equanimity, pt II
2010-11-24
Cultivating Generosity and Gratitude
2007-11-17
Cultivating Joy & Equanimity In Engaged Practice
2009-03-25
Cultivating Mudita (Appreciative Joy) pt I
2013-02-23
Cultivating Wise Speech
2012-01-13
Daily Life Practice
2011-06-02
Deep Listening and Speech Practice in Challenging Situations
2012-02-01
Deepening Daily Life Practice II
2012-01-25
Deepening Daily Life Practice, I
2010-03-31
Deepening Our Formal Meditation Practice
2010-04-07
Deepening Our Practice II: Deepening in Three Domains of Our Life
2010-03-10
Delight in the Dharma (Liberative Dependent Arising 3)
2013-04-24
Dependent Origination I
2013-05-01
Dependent Origination II
2013-05-08
Dependent Origination III- Intervening to end the cycle of suffering.
2013-05-15
Dependent Origination IV-Review and Introduction to Liberative Dependent Origination
2013-05-22
Dependent Origination V- Liberative Dependent Origination
2012-12-16
Determination
2007-03-28
Developing Energy In Our Practice: Wise Effort - part 1
2007-04-04
Developing Energy In Our Practice: Wise Effort - part 2
2013-04-17
Dharma practice and the climate Crisis
2011-09-14
Dharmic Reflections on the 10th Anniversary of September 11th, Part II--Wisdom, Compassion ...
2011-09-07
Dharmic Reflections on the Tenth Anniversary of September 11
2009-11-25
Distraction
2010-12-20
Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light.
2009-11-11
Emptiness & Compassion III
2009-10-28
Emptiness & Compassion Part II
2009-11-18
Emptiness & Compassion Part IV
2009-10-21
Emptiness and Compassion Part I
2012-05-22
Engaged Buddhism - Vignettes, Challenges, Possibilities
2011-12-20
Entering Darkness, Emerging Light
2012-12-19
Entering the Dark, Entering the Light
2011-05-04
Equanimity in Action II
2011-05-11
Equanimity in Action III-Somatic Practices
2011-05-25
Equanimity in Action IV - Committed Action, Non-Attachment to Outcome.
2011-04-27
Equanimity in Action- Part I
2012-01-11
Fear and Lovingkindness
2012-03-09
Feeling-Tone and Its Importance for our Practice
2008-05-26
Five Guidelines For Practicing With Conflict
2012-12-05
Foundations of Mindfulness VI: The Third Foundation II
2012-10-24
Four Foundations of Mindfulness II- Mindfulness of the Body
2012-11-14
Four Foundations of Mindfulness III--Mindfulness of the Body @@
2013-01-09
Four Foundations of Mindfulness IX: Fourth Foundation III
2012-11-28
Four Foundations of Mindfulness V- The Third Foundation; Mindfulness of Thoughts and ...
2012-12-12
Four Foundations of Mindfulness VII- Fourth Foundation I: Mindfulness of Patterns of ...
2013-01-30
Four Foundations of Mindfulness XI - Fourth Foundation 5 - Four Ways ...
2010-05-05
Four Reflections That Turn Us to Deeper Practice, II
2010-04-28
Four Reflections Which Turn us to Deeper Practice- Part I
2011-07-06
Freedom in Awareness II-How we can cultivate freedom
2011-07-13
Freedom in Awareness III-From ordinary to extraordinary mind
2011-07-20
Freedom in Awareness IV--Deconstructing Ordinary Experience
2011-08-03
Freedom in Awareness V--Accessing Extraordinary Mind
2011-06-30
Freedom in Awareness-Ordinary and Extraordinary
2011-10-05
Getting Down to Direct Experience
2011-10-26
Getting Down to Direct Experience III
2011-11-02
Getting Down to Direct Experience IV: How Can We Relate Skillfully to ...
2011-11-09
Getting Down to Direct Experience V: And practicing with views, concepts, and ...
2011-10-19
Getting Down to more Direct Experience II
2010-12-08
Gradual and Immediate Awakening, I
2010-12-15
Gradual and Immediate Awakening, II
2012-08-01
Guided Meditation on Self and Not-Self Part I
2012-02-15
Holding Our Days with the Tenderness of Patience: Reflections from a Two-week ...
2011-02-23
How Effort, Mindfulness and Concentration Are Interwoven
2008-01-09
How Metta And Equanimity Lived Happily Ever After Together
2011-01-12
How Metta Transforms Us
2009-01-06
How Metta Works Through Us
2010-09-22
Inner and Outer- Part 2
2010-09-15
Inner and Outer- Part I
2007-05-30
Inquiry And Investigation - part 1
2007-06-06
Inquiry And Investigation - part 2
2007-06-13
Inquiry And Investigation - part 3
2007-04-18
Inquiry Beneath The Surface: Working With Difficulity - part 2
2011-02-02
Introduction to Concentration Practice
2010-07-07
Introduction to Wise Speech Practice
2007-10-25
Invoking The Beautiful - The Divine Abodes Of Lovingkindness
2007-10-11
Judgement & Anger
2011-07-10
Kalyana Mitta (KM) Groups Workshop on Wise Speech (with Dawn Neal)
2010-03-17
Knowledge and Vision of Things as They Are (Liberative Dependent Arising 8)
2011-06-24
Leading with the Heart
2008-09-08
Listening And Speaking From The Heart
2012-02-22
Loving One's Enemies I
2012-03-07
Loving One's Enemies II
2012-03-14
Loving One's Enemies III
2008-05-21
Maintaining A Sense Of Vision And Practice In The Midst Of Conflicts
2013-04-10
May Practice and One's Life Be one--Reflections on Four weeks of Retreat
2007-10-23
Metta And The Opening Of The Heart - How Metta Transforms Us
2007-01-12
Metta For Self, Metta For The World
2013-01-20
Metta into the World
2010-10-15
Metta practice and the Transformation of the Heart
2012-01-08
Metta Practice as a Path of Awakening
2009-11-02
Mindfulness - What It Is and What Makes It Difficult
2011-11-30
Mindfulness and Ethics
2011-12-07
Mindfulness and Metta
2007-01-31
Mindfulness And Papanca - part 2
2010-06-30
Mindfulness and Speech Practice
2010-06-30
Mindfulness and Speech Practice
2011-12-14
Mindfulness and Wisdom
2010-03-03
Mindfulness of the Body and Why It Is So Important
2008-04-09
Mindfulness Of The Body, III
2010-10-13
Mindfulness-What it is and What Makes it Difficult.
2009-04-15
Mudita, pt II
2010-01-10
Opening to our Radiant Hearts
2012-08-19
Patience
2009-03-11
Practicing Compassion, I
2009-03-18
Practicing Compassion, pt II
2011-01-17
Practicing Metta in Daily Life - Widening Circles of Metta
2008-09-10
Practicing Wise Speech In Difficult Conditions
2009-06-10
Practicing with Anger, Pt I
2009-06-17
Practicing with Anger, pt II
2009-12-21
Practicing with Darkness (and Light) at the Winter Solstice
2007-12-19
Practicing With Darkness And Light At The Winter Solstice
2007-12-19
Practicing With Darkness And Light At The Winter Solstice
2012-05-26
Practicing with Difficult Emotions and thoughts
2008-10-22
Practicing With Fear - part I
2008-12-03
Practicing With Fear - part II
2008-12-10
Practicing With Fear - part III
2012-05-10
Practicing With Feeling
2010-11-17
Practicing with Intentions
2007-10-22
Practicing With Sates Of Mind And Heart
2010-02-17
Practicing with the Body Part 3: Cultivating Wisdom
2010-02-10
Practicing with the Body- Part 2
2010-02-03
Practicing with the Body- Part I
2010-02-24
Practicing with the Body- Part IV The Body-Mind-Heart Connection
2010-12-22
Practicing with the Dark and the Light at the Winter Solstice: Talk ...
2009-08-05
Practicing with the Eight Worldly Winds, pt 2
2009-05-06
Practicing with the Shadow, pt 1
2009-05-13
Practicing with the Shadow, pt 2
2009-05-20
Practicing with the Shadow, pt III The Collective Shadow and How We ...
2007-10-31
Practicing With Thoughts And Emotions
2007-11-07
Practicing With Thoughts And Emotions II: Invoking Inquiry, Wisdom, And Antidotes
2012-05-23
Practicing with Views and Judgements in the Context of Service and Social ...
2009-12-16
Practicing With Views II
2009-12-02
Practicing with Views Part I
2011-04-06
Reflections on a Month long Retreat
2007-09-19
Relationship As Spiritual Practice I
2007-10-03
Relationship As Spiritual Practice II
2008-12-24
Renewal In Our Practice And Lives
2011-12-28
Renewing and Revisioning our lives. Talk Guided meditations, and Ritual
2008-09-03
Renewing Our Practice - Reflections On A Mountain Retreat
2010-04-08
Resources from the Teachings and Practice of the Buddha for Transforming Distressing ...
2007-05-02
Right Livelihood And Vocation
2013-04-25
Self and Not Self - Part 1
2013-05-02
Self and Not Self - Part 2
2008-05-14
Self And Not Self III
2012-08-22
Self and Not Self VI--Integration and Review
2008-04-30
Self And Not-Self - part 1
2008-05-07
Self And Not-Self - part 2
2012-07-18
Self and Not-Self II-Five Varieties of Self
2012-07-25
Self and Not-Self III-Three Ways of Practicing
2012-08-01
Self and Not-Self IV- The Core Teachings of the Buddha Part II
2012-08-08
Self and Not-Self V-A sequence of Training in Opening to not-self
2012-08-29
Self and Not-Self VII-Self and Not-Self in the context of Global Crisis.
2012-07-11
Self and Not-Self-An Overview
2009-09-30
Service and Work as Practice III: The Centrality of Intention
2009-06-27
Service as a Path of Practice
2009-09-16
Service as a Path of Practice, Pt 1: Challenges and how to ...
2010-07-01
Speaking from the Heart-Metta and Speech Practice
2010-06-29
Speech Practice and the Path of Awakening
2011-06-04
Speech Practice From the Retreat to Daily Life
2010-07-03
Speech Practice in Difficult Situations
2012-03-04
Suffering and Freedom from Suffering
2007-06-20
Summer Solstice And The Factors Of Enlightenment - part 1
2007-10-26
Supporting And Deepening Daily Life Practice
2009-07-29
The 8 Worldly Winds, I
2009-06-23
The Awakening Prophet
2007-09-05
The Basics Of Our Practice - Reflections On 3 Weeks In Mountain ...
2012-07-04
The Bodhisattva and the Second American Revolution: Reflections on the Fourth of ...
2012-03-26
The Bodhisattva: "Let Your Life and Practice Be One"
2013-06-16
The Challenges and the Fruits of Metta Practice
2007-07-04
The Dharma And Democracy
2007-01-17
The Dharma And Martin Luther King, Jr
2008-11-06
The Dharma Practice Of Facing The Crises Of Our Times
2007-10-21
The Five Difficult Energies
2012-10-03
The Foundations of Mindfulness-An Overview
2012-11-21
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness IV-Mindfulness of Feeling-Tone
2012-12-26
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness- The Fourth
2012-12-26
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness- The Fourth - pt 2
2010-03-24
The Heart of Wisdom: Connecting Loving Kindness and Equanimity
2012-04-18
The Journey
2009-11-06
The Mature Heart - the Integration of the Four Brahmaviharas
2009-05-23
The Path of Engagement and Its importance for our Times
2007-04-28
The Path Of The Bodhisattva
2007-07-11
The Path Of The Bodhisattva - part 1: Intention - Vow And ...
2007-07-18
The Path Of The Bodhisattva - part 2
2007-07-25
The Path Of The Bodhisattva - part 3
2007-08-01
The Path Of The Bodhisattva - part 4 and the Vow Ceremony
2009-11-03
The Secret Beauty of Hearts: Transformations Through Metta
2007-06-27
The Seven Factors Of Awakening
2007-11-14
The Transformative Process In Engaged Practice
2013-01-15
The Unfolding of Metta Practice
2012-10-06
Third Foundation of Mindfulness 1: Review of the Nature of Mindfulness and ...
2012-10-06
Third Foundation of Mindfulness 2: Guided Meditation: Instructions for the Third Foundation ...
2012-10-06
Third Foundation of Mindfulness 3: The Third Foundation of Mindfulness
2012-10-06
Third Foundation of Mindfulness 4: Guided Meditation Further Instructions for the Third ...
2012-10-06
Third Foundation of Mindfulness 5: Further Exploration of the Third Foundation of ...
2012-10-06
Third Foundation of Mindfulness 6: Guided Meditation: Review of the Instructions for ...
2012-10-06
Third Foundation of Mindfulness 7: Further Tools and Guidance for Daily Life ...
2008-01-30
Three Ways Of Deepening Daily Life Practice
2007-05-16
To Study The Self, To Forget The Self, To Be Oneself
2007-03-14
Transforming Judgment - part 1
2007-03-21
Transforming Judgment - part 2
2012-04-19
Transforming the Judgmental Mind - An Overview
2010-11-10
Twelve Reasons Why We Practice
2011-04-22
Two Pathways for Transforming the Judgmental Mind
2008-01-30
Ways Of Deepening Daily Life Practice
2007-01-03
What Comes Next In Our Wild, Precious Lives? - part 1
2010-10-12
Why do we practice?
2009-01-10
Widening Circles: Practicing Metta In The World
2007-10-24
Wisdom
2009-11-05
Wisdom
2010-07-02
Wisdom and Speech Practice
2010-10-14
Wisdom-suffering, impermanence and the Heart
2011-05-30
Wise Speech and the Path of Awakening
2008-09-06
Wise Speech And The Path Of Liberation
2011-09-11
Wise Speech in Groups, Part 2: Becoming More Skillful in Challenging Group ...
2010-07-14
Wise Speech Practice #2- Minfulness and Speech Practice: includes exercises/discussions
2010-07-21
Wise Speech Practice 3- Mindfulness & Nonviolent Communication
2010-07-28
Wise Speech Practice 4- Mindfulness & Non-Violent Communication 2
2010-08-04
Wise Speech Practice 5: Wise Speech in Difficult Conditions
2010-08-11
Wise Speech Practice 6- Wise Speech in Difficult Conditions, Part 2
2009-09-23
Work and Service as a Path of Practice, II Aspects of the ...
2011-05-31
Working with Thought and Emotions as a Foundation for Speech Practice
2007-10-26
Supporting And Deepening Daily Life Practice
53:25
Practicing mindfulness and metta in the United States is definitely challenging for a variety of reasons which are explored briefly. We outline a number of basic supports for practice (daily practice, community, study, etc. ) and then focus on four main ways of deepening daily life practice - (1) Finding regular ways to break habits, (2)Working with a mentor or teacher, (3) Grounding in the body, and (4) Learning to take obstacles and suffering as opportunities.
(note: There is a 15 minute gap about 11 minutes into this talk and cuts out again at 53 minutes, due to technical difficulties.)
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Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart
