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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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2010-03-02 Satipatthana Sutta, Introduction: Wise Effort 56:41
It is important to learn the meditation technique, but to adhere too strictly to the form of the practice can mask self-doubt. Risking doing it wrong begins the "art" of practice, and insight develops within the art of quiet observation free from the pressure of failure.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta
2010-02-16 Satipatthana Sutta, Introduction: Moving the Principle Through the Application 60:54
Guiding the application of the teaching from the sense of self and not the true principle of selflessness is the single greatest mistake made in Buddhist practice and distorts all the revelations.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta
2010-02-02 Satipatthana Sutta, Introduction: Selfless Application 59:10
Let the application of the teaching be informed by the root principle of selflessness and each mindful exercise manifest that selflessness through bare attention and total acceptance.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta
2010-01-19 Satipatthana Sutta, Introduction: Foundations 59:27
The Satipatthana Sutta is the application of the Buddha's teaching. After the view has been offered and an intention has been aroused, it answers the question, "What do I do now?"
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta
2010-01-19 The Satipatthana Sutta 37:55:23
The Satipatthana sutta is the fundamental teaching by the Buddha, revered by all Buddhist traditions, on the application of mindfulness. Mindulness is the the basic teaching that connects the isolated individual to his/her internal and external environments. Through a steady integration of mindfulness our unconscious tendencies become conscious, and we discover a preexisting awareness and interconnectedness to life that changes everything. The four applications of mindfulness (body, feelings, mind, and mind objects), as well as the underlying principles behind it, are explored thoroughly through talks, discussions, dyads, and homework.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
2010-01-12 A Paradigm Shift of the Heart 46:55
The true resolution of the heart is not a wavering New Year's pledge but a determination to switch the very paradigm of our life.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
2010-01-05 Courage Toward the Infinite 48:55
Radical realization requires radical discernment and a ferocious willingness to tear the Dharma apart.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Resolutions of the Heart: New Year’s Retreat
2010-01-01 From Adaptation To Surrender 42:12
The Dharma demands a paradigm shift, not a modification of our narrative.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Resolutions of the Heart: New Year’s Retreat
2009-12-29 From Noise To Stillness 47:01
The spiritual journey can be understood as moving from the constricting and confining environment of noise to the free expanse of stillness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Resolutions of the Heart: New Year’s Retreat
2009-12-15 Ten Paramis: Equanimity (2) 46:18
There are a number of ways to incline the mind toward the discovery of equanimity. Each perception of equanimity has a training explored in this discourse.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Ten Paramis

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