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Donald Rothberg's Dharma Talks at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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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2016-04-03 Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness: An Overview of the Retreat 24:01
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Settling, Seeing and Spacious Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Practitioners
2016-03-30 Grieving the Loss of a Mother - A Tribute to Bernice Rothberg 67:25
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.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
Attached Files:
  • Photo of Donald and Bernice (JPG)
2016-02-10 Impermanence 3 18:23
After a brief review including practicing with "gross" impermanence (and death), we focus on (1) practicing with more subtle, moment-to-moment impermanence, (2) or some characteristic challenges to practicing with impermanence, and (3) on how practicing with impermanence takes us more deeply.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2016-02-10 Guided Meditation on Impermanence 2 18:23
Investigating impermanence in the contexts of sound, sensation, thinking, the breath, experience as a whole (with eyes closed), and seeing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2016-02-03 Impermanence Continued 63:14
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2016-01-31 Working with Transforming Judgment Mind 59:00
Working with Transforming Judgement Mind: Welcome, Introduction and Overview.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2016-01-20 Impermanence 61:42
Based on the earlier meditation, we examine the importance of reflection on and mindfulness of, impermanence, both gross impermanence and moment-to-moment impermanence; why it's difficult to be deeply aware of impermanence; practices to explore impermanence; and deeper understandings opened up by practices with impermanence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2016-01-20 Guided Meditation on Impermanence 15:28
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2016-01-17 Metta in Daily Life: Individual Practice, Relational Practice, Metta Changing the World 57:04
Guidance for bringing metta practice from the retreat into our daily lives, in these three inter-related areas, bringing in the voice of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the last part of the talk, at the time of his birthday and the public celebration of his birthday.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat
2016-01-14 Radiating Metta: Guided Practice 20:04
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

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