Sunday Dharma Talk

Change is a integral condition of life.  And our ability to find happiness in life depends on how well we meet the experiences of change.  In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin explains the skills that…

In the heart, we find our innate wisdom.  In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin explains what the heart is and how we come to this place of wisdom.  The talk was given on the last night of the Eight-Da…

In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin talks about how the development of mindfulness of death leads to the opening of the heart.  The talk was given at the Lovingkindness Retreat in the summer of 2016.

As dharma students, in developing insight, we learn to bring awareness to the experiences of affliction (dukkha), blatant and subtle.  In this talk, Peter Doobinin explains what it means to bring sim…

What is the intention behind our actions...?  Do we take actions out of fear...?  Do we take certain actions in order to gain the approval of others...?  In developing the skill of heedfulness, we le…

In this dharma talk, offered in May 2023, Peter talks about the tendency we may have to give up ... in meditation ... and in life.  And he explains how we learn to develop determination, the ablity t…

What is love...?  In this talk Peter Doobinin describes the differences between the worldly definition of love and the Buddha's definition.  And he talks about how, as dharma students, we develop the…

What is happiness?  In this talk, Peter Doobinin describes the differences between the "happiness of the world" and the happiness we seek to know as dharma students:  the happiness of the heart.  As …

The path is joyful.  In this dharma talk, offered in January 2022, Peter Doobinin explains how we make the path and why, when we follow it, it's joyful.