{"podcast":{"title":"Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction","slug":"dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-435215","podcast_index_feed_id":435215,"rss_url":"https://dharmaseed.org/feeds/recordings/","website_url":"https://dharmaseed.org","image_url":"https://media.dharmaseed.org/images/DS-rss-logo.jpg","author":"Dharma Seed","episode_count":144,"summary":"Dharma Seed is dedicated to preserving and sharing the spoken teachings of Theravada Buddhism in modern languages. Since the early 1980's, Dharma Seed has collected and distributed dharma talks by teachers offering the vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness) practices of Theravada Buddhism. New recordings are being added continuously from contemporary dharma teachers.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-14T18:20:10.973107+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-435215"},"episode":{"title":"Donald Rothberg: Buddhist Practice and Transforming Social Conditioning","slug":"donald-rothberg-buddhist-practice-and-transforming-social-conditioning","published_at":"2026-06-03T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-435215/donald-rothberg-buddhist-practice-and-transforming-social-conditioning","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-435215","url":"https://dharmaseed.org/talks/97493/","audio_url":"https://dharmaseed.org//talks/97493/20260603-Donald_Rothberg-SR-buddhist_practice_and_transforming_social_conditioning-97493.mp3?rss=","summary":"(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin by focusing on a fundamental perspective for our practice: How our practice moves from underlying ignorance to wisdom. We look at both the traditional understanding of such ignorance and how contemporary psychological and social perspectives help us to identify further dimensions of ignorance, including our initially unconscious social conditioning. We start by considering how the Buddha related both to caste and to women's roles in the sangha. We then look at the nature of social conditioning, including how this is related to \"in-groups\" and \"out-groups,\" along with \"implicit bias,\" and ways that our practice can help us see more clearly and ultimately transform our social conditioning.","meta_description":"(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin by focusing on a fundamental perspective for our practice: How our practice moves from underlying ignorance to wi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3625,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-435215/episodes/donald-rothberg-buddhist-practice-and-transforming-social-conditioning/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-435215/donald-rothberg-buddhist-practice-and-transforming-social-conditioning.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}