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Rodney Smith's Dharma Talks
Rodney Smith
More and more, the teaching practice takes me into the community where I engage directly with students. My focus right now is on bringing the continuity of the Dharma into the market place. Although retreating is an important form for self-knowledge, I find myself less interested in the immediate results of a retreat and more interested in helping students investigate their relationship to the ups and downs of their everyday life.
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2010-07-22 Effort and the End of Suffering 48:10
Effort shows us what we are contracting around, our hopes, goals, and view. Tuning to that feedback provides a clear direction towards liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat
2010-07-20 Aligned With Selflessness. 48:21
To access the central teaching of the Buddha, all components of the mind, body, and effort - must be in alignment.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat
2010-07-06 Satipatthana Sutta, First Foundation: Death and the Body (1) 59:24
The Buddha seems to be encouraging an exploration of the themes of death and the body in this passage of the Satipatthana Sutta. Though all of us know we are going to die, few of us realize that fact as a living truth. This passage is meant to release us from our denial that fixates on permanency and continuity.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta
2010-06-08 Satipatthana Sutta, First Foundation: Loving the Whole Body 58:27
We start with an aversive or attractive response to the body or body part, and quickly an emotional attitude arises that fixates upon the appearance; a story is formed, an opinion is held, and our body is made into something it never was. To love the whole of the body requires an intentional reversal of stepping out of those perceptual fixations and embracing the pleasant and unpleasant components in totality.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta
2010-05-25 Satipatthana Sutta, First Foundation: Integrating Body and Actions 58:44
Once we have accepted the fact that we cannot control the dharma, our practice opens up to the full catastrophe of living. We open first by backing away from our egoic demands and then by infusing our actions with the wisdom of the body.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta
2010-05-11 Satipatthana Sutta, First Foundation: The Body in Movement 61:37
Movement integrates our insights into living reality rather than theoretical assumptions. When the insights become part of the living tissue of our body, a natural spontaneity arises.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta
2010-04-27 Satipatthana Sutta, First Foundation: The Image of the Body 56:54
We continually misrepresent the body by forcing it to be governed, controlled, and defined by the mind. When we set the body free from imposed boundaries we find a natural and intelligent life energy that knows its way.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta
2010-04-13 Satipatthana Sutta, First Foundation: Body as the Body 55:48
The body is a residing stranger to most of us. We think we know what it is, but we have not given ourselves to it thoroughly so that it reveals its secrets.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta
2010-03-30 Satipatthana Sutta, Introduction: From Mindfulness to Awareness 3:50
Mindfulness is the tool, awareness is the result. All we need to do to convert the tool into the result is get out of the way.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta
2010-03-16 Satipatthana Sutta, Introduction: Understanding Mindfulness 60:14
Mindfulness is at the heart of the Buddha's teaching, but few people understand how it evolves from the simple practice of being mindful into a mature, full-embodied awareness.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

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