Sunday Dharma Talk

Working skillfully with our thinking, in meditation and in our daily lives, is an extremely important element in dharma practice.  In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin describes how, by bringing insight to our thinking, we're able to abandon sticky thoughts and afflictive narratives.  The talk was given in October 2024.

What is our commitment to the heart...?  What is our commitment to taking action in support of the heart...?  What is our commitment to love...?  In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin explore these questions.  He describes how we learn to take action informed by love.  And how we develop that resolve.  The talk, given in July 2024, is the fourth talk in a series of four talks on Lovingkindness.

What is our wish for ourselves?  To what degree are we driven by our wishes for the so-call worldly satisfactions?  In cultivating lovingkindness, we are learning to develop the wish for a happiness that transcends that kind of happiness.  We're developing our wish for a greater happiness.  The happiness of heart.  This dharma talk, given in July 2024, is the third in a series of talks on Lovingkindness.

This talk is the second in a series of talks on the theme of "Lovingkindness" given by Peter Doobinin in August 2024.  As Peter explains, our efforts to connect to the heart, to lovingkindness (metta) must include both the cultivation of the heart and the abandoning of the that which is a burden on the heart.  In the talk, Peter describes how we cause the heart to be burdened and how we relieve the heart of its burdens.

May all beings be happy of heart.

This is the first in a series of talks on Lovingkindness that Peter Doobinin gave in July 2024.  The essence of lovingkindness in found in our wish for happiness, for ourselves and others.  All beings, the Buddha tells us, have this wish.  In this dharma talk, Peter discusses how we develop our wish to be happy.

What is our sense of purpose in this life?  In this talk, Peter Doobinin explains how following the Buddha's path, living along spiritual lines, being a dharma student, give our lives a sense of purpose.  The dharma talk was given on the final night of the April Retreat at Powell House in 2024.

In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin discusses the art of letting go.  As Peter explains, developing the resolve to let go is essential, if we're going to let go, know freedom from suffering, and find our way to the heart.  The talk was given at the April 2024 Eight Day Retreat.

In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin takes an in-depth look at the Buddha's seminal teaching on the Four Noble Truths.  By accomplishing the tasks the Buddha sets forth in this teaching, we're able to rid the heart of its burdens and know true happiness in this life.  The talk was offered in April 2024 at the Eight-Day Retreat at Powell House.

In following the path of the dharma, we come to know our goodness.  The goodness that each of us, as human beings, has within.  In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin describes how we come to know this goodness .... and how this knowledge informs our way forward.  The talk was given at a daylong retreat in Berlin in September 2024.

In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin describes the simple practice of awareness.  If we can trust in awareness, our innate wisdom will lead us to freedom, the end of suffering, true happiness.  In the talk Peter explains the obstacles to awareness ... and how we learn to develop in awareness.  The talk was given at the April 2024 Eight-Day Retreat.