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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Retreat Dharma Talks
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2016-03-30
Grieving the Loss of a Mother - A Tribute to Bernice Rothberg
67:25
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Donald Rothberg
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A remembrance of Donald's mother, Bernice, five weeks after her death (4 weeks were in retreat), identifying the main spiritual themes of her life (love and family, music and beauty, and social justice), and exploring the dynamics and sequence of Donald's grieving process.
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Attached Files:
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Photo of Donald and Bernice
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2016-07-13
Transforming the Judgmental Mind 7 - Practicing with Judgments Related to Social Conditioning
1:11:06
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Donald Rothberg
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Partly with the reference point of recent violence in Orlando, Minnesota, Louisiana, and Dallas, we explore the nature of judgments related to social conditioning. We look at judgments, both conscious and more hidden (in "implicit bias"), related to social hierarchies based on race, gender, class, sexual orientation, etc. We suggest some initial ways to practice.
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2016-10-10
Practicing with Views and Opinions, Cultivating Empathy
1:25:00
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Donald Rothberg
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In the context of the current election campaign as well as the context of our daily lives, we explore how to understand and practice with our views, opinions, and interpretations. We first look at the nature of views, the Buddha’s teachings on views, and three main ways to practice with views, with particular attention to being mindful of reactivity (attachment and aversion) in relation to views. We then examine the nature of empathy and how to cultivate empathy in relationship to others (and ourselves), including those with different views.
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2018-01-03
A New Beginning at a Time of Need and Crisis
65:44
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Donald Rothberg
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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.
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2018-05-02
Things Are Not As They Appear 6: Duality and Non-Duality
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Donald Rothberg
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After a brief review of the previous sessions in this series, particularly the last one, we explore a fifth way that things are not as they appear, looking at the habitual tendency to separate oneself and everything else, to experience on the basis of a core duality of subject and object, knower and known, self and other, and the problematic nature of this habitual tendency.
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