HeyJaredDonald Rothberg's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
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.
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- Sep 9, 2026
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- Jul 13, 2026
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Donald Rothberg: Practicing the Wise Speech Guideline of Truthfulness: Four Dimensions of Practice 1 (opens the original)
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha taught four guidelines for Wise Speech (as a core aspect of ethical practice): truthfulness, helpfulness, care and kindness, and appropriateness (especially good timing). We explore the first guideline, partly in connection with the other three guidelines, in four dimensions of practice. First and most basically, we explore how we practice with truthfulness in our individual practice with others. Secondly, we look at how truthfulness is also a central e
Donald Rothberg: Dukkha and the End of Dukkha: The Core Teaching of the Buddha (opens the original)
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(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Buddha famously said, "I teach dukkha [suffering or reactivity or a sense of unsatisfactoriness] and the cessation of dukkha.” We explore this core teaching as it is expressed in the Four Noble Truths and the teachings of the Two Arrows and Dependent Origination, including ways that it can be confusing. We suggest ways to understand and implement this teaching both in formal meditation and in everyday life. (See document 328 below, on "Four Meanings
Donald Rothberg: Bringing Our Practice to the Current Difficult Times: A Contemporary Eightfold Path (opens the original)
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(Gay Buddhist Fellowship)
Donald Rothberg: A Map of Practice for Our Times: From Ordinary Mind to Awakening, Part 2 (opens the original)
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this second part of a two-part set of talks, we first review briefly last week's talk, including the three traditional areas of training--in wisdom, meditation (including the development of concentration, mindfulness and insight, and the heart practices), and ethical practice. We then identify two further contemporary areas of practice: Psychological work of different kinds (including psychotherapy, various forms of "shadow" work, examination of one's social co
Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation on Four Foundational Meditative Practices (opens the original)
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Connected with the later talk giving a contemporary map of our practices, we review four foundational practices: (1) developing concentration (samadhi); (2) cultivating general mindfulness, (3) cultivating mindfulness of impermanence; and (4) a heart practice developing kindness, compassion, or other heart qualities. This is followed by two brief reflections on one's practice.
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