Episodes
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
Small Things
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
The practice of the dharma is a practice of small things. In small things, small moments, we find the dharma, the truth, the qualities of peace, wisdom, and love. As dharma students our task is to pay attention to small things. The talk was given by Peter Doobinin in an online class in March 2021.
"Bhikkhus, if a bhikkhu cultivates loving-kindness for as long as a fingersnap, he is called a bhikkhu."
(Iti 1.53)
Sunday Mar 21, 2021
Two Kinds of Happiness
Sunday Mar 21, 2021
Sunday Mar 21, 2021
Where are we looking for happiness? In the happiness of the world, the happiness we find in sense pleasure, gain, status, and praise? Or the happiness of the heart? In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin describes these two kinds of happiness. The talk was given in 2013 at the Downtown Meditation Community Sunday night class in New York City.
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
What Is Goodness?
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
What is goodness...? This is a question that many of us may ask. In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin describes what goodness is and, importantly, how we learn to develop it. The talk was given at the Downtown Meditation Community Sunday Night Meditation class in January 2016.
Sunday Mar 07, 2021
What We Know
Sunday Mar 07, 2021
Sunday Mar 07, 2021
Much of what will happen to us in the course of our days is unknowable. But there are certain truths that we can rely on and that will see us through in this life. In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin explains how we can know a reliable and true happiness in life despite the uncertain nature of our day to to day experience. The talk was given at at daylong retreat in February 2017.