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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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2013-06-16 Afternoon Instructions #2 55:26
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General Instructions on metta and introduction of the "benefactor" category, with Q & A.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat, June 2013
2013-05-22 Dependent Origination V- Liberative Dependent Origination 61:30
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The last in a series of talks--an outline of the twelve factors of "liberative" or "transcendental" dependent origination, an analysis of the cycle leading from being able to work with suffering through to liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks
2013-05-15 Dependent Origination IV-Review and Introduction to Liberative Dependent Origination 62:35
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After a brief review of dependent origination. We also review ways of intervening in the cycle of suffering, and then begin to explore the teaching of "liberative" or "transcendental" dependent origination-focused on the causes and conditions leading to freedom and liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks
2013-05-08 Dependent Origination III- Intervening to end the cycle of suffering. 64:18
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After a brief review of dependent origination we look at ways of understanding several examples of suffering according to the model, and then point to multiple ways that we intervene-especially in the areas of action, direct experience, dispositions and ignorance.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks
2013-05-02 Self and Not Self - Part 2 53:48
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks
2013-05-01 Dependent Origination II 67:47
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After some general background on dependent origination, we look in detail at the twelve links (nidana) with an interest in seeing how we can intervene to break cycles of conditioning and unskillful action.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks
2013-04-25 Self and Not Self - Part 1 64:38
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks
2013-04-24 Dependent Origination I 50:20
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An introduction to the core teaching of Dependent Arising, with a brief account of (1) what we bring to experience (links 1-5), (2) What happens in experience (links 6-9), and (3) The consequences of experience (links 10-12). This is an analysis of the roots of suffering (dukkha) and how it is perpetuated.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks
2013-04-20 Connecting Inner and Outer Responses to Climate Change 37:37
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At this time of climate disruption, we need powerful responses--integrating more "inner" spiritual practices and principles, on the one hand, with skill in "outer" responses, on the other. This integration or marriage can happen in many ways as we participate in the "great turning"--whether our primary emphasis, to use Joanna Macy's analysis, is stopping further damage from occurring, transforming our institutions, or helping to shift consciousness. Without this integration, however, spiritual practice runs the risk of becoming a kind of middle-class escapism and activism runs the risk of being caught in self-righteousness, attachment to views, demonization of the "enemy," and burnout. We need a new integration! We look at several dharma principles that can be the basis for such an integration, consider briefly how Spirit Rock is responding (and might respond further) to climate issues, and especially look at the figure of the bodhisattva.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Responses to Climate Change: Awareness, Action and Celebration
In collection: Responses to Climate Change: Awareness, Action and Celebration
2013-04-20 Responses to Climate Change: Awareness, Action and Celebration 4:05:21
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with Bob Doppelt, Donald Rothberg, James Baraz, Joanna Macy, Malcolm Margolin, Nina Wise, Paul Hawken
2013-04-20 (1 day) Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Responses to Climate Change: Awareness, Action and Celebration
In collection: One Earth Sangha

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