Compassion is a quality of heart & mind that informs skillful action.  As such, compassion is a form of action.  A verb.  We develop this action by following certain steps.  It is a skill.  In this talk, Peter Doobinin explains the skill for taking action informed by compassion.  The dharma talk was given in March 2025.

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In meditation we develop tranquility.  Silence.  Our task, we might say, is to cultivate silence and then to listen.  This sort of listening asks for great patience.  In this talk, Peter Doobinin explains how we develop patience ... the patience that is asked for, in finding our way to a greater happiness in life.  The talk was given in February 2025.

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The practice of letting go is just that, a practice.  In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin describes the 'course of treatment' the Buddha prescribes through which we let go and gradually are freed from suffering.  The talk was given in the winter of 2025.

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As dharma students, we don't lose sight of the truth.  We remember the brightness in life.  We remember the joy in life.  We remember our capacity for happiness.  And through it all, we resolve to live live joyfully.  In this talk, Peter Doobinin describes how we learn to make the resolve to live joyfully.  The dharma talk was given in March 2026.

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As dharma students, as an admirable friend, we learn to relate to each other from the heart.  We speak the language of the heart.  In this talk Peter Doobinin describes why it's so necessary to have admirable friends.  

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As dharma students, as human beings, we meet difficulties in life.  We meet difficulty, in ourselves, in others, in the world.  Through it all, we stay true.  We stay true to ourselves.  We stay true to the dharma.  We stay true to the heart.  we don't lose the heart.  We keep to the heart.  And it's important to remember, as Peter Doobinin reminds us, that what enables us to keep to the heart are the skills we develop as dharma students.  The dharma talk was given in March 2026.

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As dharma students, we develop meditation and the skills of mindfulness so that can awaken.  In the process of awakening, we learn to meet life on life's terms.  We learn to meet the difficulties and challenges of life.  In doing so, we're not simply seeking to endure the challenges of life.  We're seeking to learn.  The message of the path, as Peter Doobinin explains, is a message of joy, brightness, true happiness.  By meeting the challenges of life, we know the happiness that the path offers.  

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In dharma practice, we could say, the elemental components are physiology, psychology & spirituality.  We develop each of these elements of the practice.  And each element supports and strengthens the others.  In this talk, Peter Doobinin describes how we might think of our practice in this ... and how these elements of dharma practice, when developed, lead us to a greater happiness in this life.  The dharma talk was given in February 2026.

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It is a tendency of the mind to fixate, to become preoccupied with certain things, with certain thoughts, with certain stories.  In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin explains how, using the skills the Buddha teaches, we learn to ease fixation.  And thereby live in the body and in the heart.  The talk was given in the winter of 2026.

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Emotions, as Peter Doobinin explains, are part of life, part of what it means to be a human being.  In dharma practice, we learn to understand emotions and to develop a skillful relationship to them.  And we learn to move beyond emotions, to know those qualities that are transcendent and conduce to happiness, the qualities of the heart.  The dharma talk was given in January 2025.

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