Episodes
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
Freedom From Regret
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
For many of us, regret about the past is a burden that we carry through our days. But we can find freedom from regret. In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin describes how we develop the skills that enable us to let go of painful emotions and thoughts of regret. The talk was given at the Downtown Meditation Community weekly Sunday class in the winter of 2016.
Sunday Sep 20, 2020
The Way It Is
Sunday Sep 20, 2020
Sunday Sep 20, 2020
To move skillfully through life, we need equanimity. Equanmity enables us to stay balanced and strong in the midst of the joys and sorrows of life. Equanimity is rooted in insight, in understanding of "the way it is," including understanding the truth of aging, illness, death, and separation, and the pain that is unavoidable in human experience. In this talk, Peter Doobinin explains how we develop in this understanding and learn to meet life with wisdom and an open heart. The talk was given at a Downtown Meditation Community daylong retreat in the autumn of 2017.
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
Living in the World
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
It's often said that, as dharma students, we learn live in the world but don't subscribe to the ways of the world. How is this accomplished? In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin describes elements of the path we learn to develop in an effort to follow the path as householders living amidst the complexity of modern life. The talk was given in 2010 at the Downtown Meditation Community Sunday Night Meditation class.
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
Things of the World
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
Where do we look for happiness? The dharma student learns to gradually abandon the effort to find happiness in the things of the world. And, instead, to know a happiness that transcends conditioned, impermanent things. The talk was given in 2016 at the Downtown Meditation Community weekly Sunday Night Meditation class.