Dharma Library

Teacher: Donald Rothberg
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July 8, 2024 | 2 hr.

Monday Night Meditation & Talk

Donald Rothberg

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January 25, 2024 | 110 min.

The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 3: Practicing with the Six Senses and the Aggregates

Donald Rothberg

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July 17, 2023 | 1 hr. 52 min.

Monday Night Meditation & Talk

Donald Rothberg

This meditation and talk was recorded at Monday Night Meditation and Talk on Monday, July 17, 2023.

Talks

May 8, 2023 | 2 hr.

Seven Stages of the Spiritual Journey

Donald Rothberg

This meditation and talk was recorded at Monday Night Meditation and Talk on Monday, May 8, 2023.

Talks

July 4, 2022 | 2 hr. 02 min.

Dharma and Democracy: A Talk on the Fourth of July

Donald Rothberg

This meditation and talk was recorded at Monday Night Meditation and Talk on Monday, July 4, 2022.

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February 2, 2022 | 66 min.

Honoring the Great Teacher of Interbeing and Engaged Buddhism, Thich Nhat Hanh

Donald Rothberg

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January 14, 2022 | 61 min.

Mettā and Forgiveness

Donald Rothberg

First, a reminder that mettā practice is a training. We’re training to lead with our kind hearts—to lead with the heart in our own experience, and in our interactions. Sometimes we can do that by asking a question. “Where’s my heart at right now?” This is a great daily life practice. “Am I present? Am I present to my heart?” Or as Julia Butterfly Hill asks, “Am I meeting this moment with love?” Just like the mettā phrases, questions like these are not demands, but invitations to the heart.

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January 11, 2022 | 52 min.

The Nature of Mettā and Mettā Practice

Donald Rothberg

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December 29, 2021 | 67 min.

Inquiry as a Factor of Awakening in Formal Meditation and Daily Life

Donald Rothberg

The most basic way the Buddha taught inquiry was about looking directly into experience and seeing what’s there. We see the patterns of experience, and the nature of the different experiences we have: the nature of anger, or sadness, or happiness, or joy. Inquiry can take us into our unconscious, to what is actually driving us that we’re not aware of. It’s how we practice seeing clearly.

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November 7, 2021 | 64 min.

Introduction to Awakened Awareness

Donald Rothberg

Awakened awareness is a nondual awareness beyond the structure of knower and known—beyond the ordinary self. It is also beyond the kinds of meditative selves that we set up. Have you noticed that we set up a kind of a self in meditation: the one who tracks things, the one who knows things? This is very important and helpful, but it’s still a kind of construction. Awakened awareness goes beyond that, and beyond many of the structures of ordinary experience: time, space, the sense of self, ordinary objects, and so forth. Samādhi and insight practices really build toward and lead to this kind of awareness.