By asking questions in skillful ways we learn to free the heart of its burdens and know the happiness inside, the happiness of heart. In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin explains the skill of asking skillful questions. The talk was given in January 2026. It's the third in a series of dharma talks on cultivating skillful thinking that Peter offered during the month.

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Our happiness in this life depends on the way that we think and the actions that follow. As dharma students, our task is to abandon unskillful thinking and to cultivate skillful thinking. In this talk, Peter explains the skill for cultivating skillful thinking, thinking that leads us to true happiness. The dharma talk is the second in a series of talks on "Skillful Thinking" offered in January 2026. ​"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world." (Dhp 1)

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This dharma talk is the first in a series of talks on the theme of "Skillful Thinking" given by Peter Doobinin in January 2026. As Peter explains, the Buddha's path is a path of developing skills. The skill of skillful thinking is integral to the path. Through developing skillful thinking we are able to shape our lives, we are able to live with wisdom & compassion, we are able to know the happiness of heart. In this talk, Peter explains the basics for developing the skill of skillful thinking.

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Meditation is often difficult. But, as Peter Doobinin explains, it's time well spent. This talk was given by Peter in December 2025.

The practice of the dharma is the practice of being aware in the here & now. Being aware of our experience, as it is, in the moment. And, in turn, shaping our experience of the here & now. In this talk, Peter Doobinin explains what it is to live in the here & now; and how we're able to do that. The dharma talk was offered on December 21, 2025.

You shouldn't chase after the past or place expectations on the future. What is past is left behind. The future is as yet unreached. Whatever quality is present you clearly see right there, right there. Not taken in, unshaken, that's how you develop the heart. (MN 131)

The truths of the heart, the dhamma, are timeless and deathless. The dharma has always been there and will always be there. The Buddha didn't invent the dharma. He found it. And he taught a way, a path, by which we might find it. Our task is to follow the path and, in turn, to be alert to the dhamma, that timeless quality. It is from this place, that we seek to live. The talk was offered by Peter Doobinin in January 2025.

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The dhamma is found inside. Inside each of us. It is found inside and it is always there. It is timeless. This talk was given by Peter Doobinin at the end of the year in December 2025.

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There is that which is subject to birth & death; and there is that which doesn't die. As we understand the truth of impermanence, we gradually move toward knowing the happiness that doesn't die: the happiness of the heart. In this dharma talk, Peter Doobinin explain how our understanding of impermanence leads us to a greater happiness in this life. He encourages us to ask, "Is there a happiness that doesn't die?" The talk was given at a New York Dharma daylong retreat in December 2025.

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