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Donald Rothberg's Dharma Talks
Donald Rothberg
Donald Rothberg, PhD, has practiced Insight Meditation since 1976, and has also received training in Tibetan Dzogchen and Mahamudra practice and the Hakomi approach to body-based psychotherapy. Formerly on the faculties of the University of Kentucky, Kenyon College, and Saybrook Graduate School, he currently writes and teaches classes, groups and retreats on meditation, daily life practice, spirituality and psychology, and socially engaged Buddhism. An organizer, teacher, and former board member for the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Donald has helped to guide three six-month to two-year training programs in socially engaged spirituality through Buddhist Peace Fellowship (the BASE Program), Saybrook (the Socially Engaged Spirituality Program), and Spirit Rock (the Path of Engagement Program). He is the author of The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World and the co-editor of Ken Wilber in Dialogue: Conversations with Leading Transpersonal Thinkers.
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2018-04-27 Speech in Difficult Situations: 5 Points 18:20
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2018-04-25 Practicing with Thoughts and Emotions in the Context of Speech Practice 67:50
We examine the importance of practicing skillfully with thoughts and emotions as one of the foundations of mindful communication, pointing to several ways of working with thoughts and emotions, with a guided meditation using the "RAIN" method (recognize, accept, develop interest and inquire, and "non-identify" with what is occurring).
Sacred Stream Center :  Mindful Communication: A Wise Speech Retreat
2018-04-25 Morning instructions #3 - Feeling Tone / Vedana 37:32
Sacred Stream Center :  Mindful Communication: A Wise Speech Retreat
2018-04-23 Wise Speech and the Path of Awakening 55:29
We explore (1) the importance of speech practice, (2) the place of speech practice in traditional and contemporary paths of awakening, (3) the central resource from the teachings of the Buddha on speech practice--the four core ethical guidelines, and (4) some ways to implement these guidelines and connect them with other practices.
Sacred Stream Center :  Mindful Communication: A Wise Speech Retreat
2018-04-18 Things Are Not As They Appear 5: The Emptiness of Phenomena 64:47
After a brief review of the previous talks in this series, we look at the "constructed" or "empty" nature of phenomena (trees, chairs, and other "external" objects), with perspectives from psychology, philosophy, the neurosciences, and especially, Buddhist practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2018-04-18 Guided Meditation on Mindfulness of the Flow of Phenomena 39:06
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2018-03-28 Things Are Not What They Appear 4: The Emptiness of Self 59:18
After a review of our first three sessions, exploring three ways that “things are not as they appear,” we explore how there is typically a sense that we are given a world of solid, separate individual beings and objects . We focus here on the counter-understanding related to selves and beings, that the nature of the self is “empty,” as developed in the teaching of anattā or not-self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2018-03-28 Guided Meditation on Impermanence and a Sense of Self 41:42
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2018-03-21 Things Are Not As They Appear 3: Contemplating Impermanence 62:42
After a brief review of our first two sessions on this theme, we explore the third of the five ways that things are not as they appear. We look into how we see permanence and solidity where in reality there is a lack of permanence and solidity, pointing to a number of practices that help us examine this theme.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2018-03-21 Guided Meditation on Impermanence 40:14
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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