Sunday Dharma Talk Peter Doobinin

Renunciation and seclusion are integral elements to dharma practice.  In this talk, Peter Doobinin explains how these renunciation puts us in position to practice mindfulness and thusly know the fruits of the path.  The talk was given in November 2023.

As we journey through the fields of our past karma, we have to be mindful, alert, ardent, resolute.  If we're able to embody these, qualities, the Buddha tells us, we can avoid the pain of afflictive emotions and habitual patterns of suffering.  In this dharma talk, given in September 2022, Peter Doobinin describes how we learn to navigate the field of karma.

What would if be like if we could let go of our stories...? In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin desribes how we learn to "not hold on" to our painful narratives about ourselves and the world.  The talk was given at a daylong retreat in 2013.

In meditation practice, we learn to find a rhythm.  We learn to come in to tune.  We learn to be in tune with life.  In this talk, Peter Doobinin describes how our practice leads us to being in tune.  The talk was given in April 2024.

The dharma is found inside.  Although our tendency, as Peter Doobinin explains, is to look for happiness in things outside ourselves, in sense pleasure, in other people, in material things, we find a true, reliable happiness inside.  In this talk, Peter explains what this means and how we come to the dharma inside.  The talk was given in February 2021.

The practice of meditation enables us to "make space."  We become more and more able, in doing so, to find refuge; to bring awareness, and thusly understanding, to our experience; and to know true happiness, a happiness that doesn't die.   In this talk, given in January 2023, Peter Doobinin describes how, by making space, we move toward a greater happiness in our lives.