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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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2014-11-19 Generosity 63:40
We explore the important of generosity practice (including how it appears in different cultures), focusing on low it counteracts greed (especially), hatred and delusion. We suggest a number of practices for the next week.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2014-11-09 The Third Foundation of Mindfulness Daylong 40:37
The Third Foundation #2: Further Instructions and Ways of Practicing Based on the Text
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Moving Into Meditation: Working with Hindrances through Mindful Yoga (4-week class series)
2014-11-09 The Third Foundation of Mindfulness Daylong 41:01
The Third Foundation #1: Initial Instructions, Key Terms, and Ways of Practicing
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Moving Into Meditation: Working with Hindrances through Mindful Yoga (4-week class series)
2014-10-31 Widening Circles-Practicing Metta in Everyday Life, in the World 63:10
We explore ways to bring the formal practice and spirit of metta(loving kindness) into our individual, relational and collective practice in the world; with some suggestions, poems and stories.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Research Retreat
2014-10-28 How Metta Practice Works 58:42
After exploring the nature of Metta practice, we focus on how Metta practice increasingly helps us to meet each experience with our awakened hearts; develop in concentration, go through a kind of purification and integration of mind, heart and body; open to our heart's depth and bring our practice out into everyday life and the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Research Retreat
2014-10-26 Initial Metta Instructions 14:15
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Research Retreat
2014-10-22 Ethical Practice 3 - Deepening Our Ethical Practice 60:54
Starting with the observation that often our ethical practice may be taken for granted, we look for ways to deepen our practice. We look to find our own personal ethical learning and practice, whether related to the individual, relational or social aspects of our ethical practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2014-10-08 The Four Noble Truths of Responding to Climate Change 66:01
Continuing our exploration of ethical practice during earth care week. We examine, through the frame work of the Four Noble Truths, the question of the nature of climate change and how to respond as individuals, as communities, nationally and internationally.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
Attached Files:
In collection: One Earth Sangha
2014-10-01 Ethical Practice 1 - An Introduction 58:11
We explore the meaning of ethical practice - its relationship to meditation and wisdom practice, how it is more a training than a following of external principles, how there are individual, relational, and social dimensions to our ethical practice, and how it can deepen for us. There's a brief overview of the five lay precepts and a taking of the precepts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2014-08-27 Practicing with Challenges 5 - Working with Conflict 2 66:06
We continue to explore how to practice with conflicts, focusing especially on the vision of non-dual conflict transformation and empathy, learning particularly though a series of exercises.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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