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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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2011-11-08 Satipatthana Sutta, Fourth Foundation: Application of Discernment 56:22
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Applying discernment requires an honesty of intent. That honesty is the discernment at work. If you need skillful means to help balance the energy, use it. It can be helpful to back up to the First Foundation and see how the state of mind is affecting the body. Next, move to the Second Foundation and catch the feeling tone and the accompanying story. Moving onto the Third Foundation, settle to see just what this state is in essence. Finally, apply discerning questions that pick apart the solidity and truth of the state of mind such as, "Is there space for this too?" "Where is the "me" in this state?"
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta
2011-11-22 Satipatthana Sutta, Fourth Foundation: Discernment and the Hindrances 47:25
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Struggling with the hindrances draws us back into form. Each hindrance has to be thoroughly understood so that when it arises we no longer invest reality into its appearance. Discernment is the only tool that can reveal the truth of its emptiness. In seeing the true nature of the hindrance, we see our own and the struggle ends. All other applications of practice reinvest thought into the form and make it more than what it is.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta
2011-12-13 Satipatthana Sutta, Fourth Foundation: Discerning the Self 67:28
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Discernment must ultimately understand the nature of self completely. Awareness saw in the Third Foundation how the self was born from a feeling and elaborated on with thought forming the story and image of "I." Even though that process is now understood (wisdom), still, because of its tremendous momentum, there may be a residual belief in the self when it arises. Discernment wears down that residual belief by tracking the sense of self through all its manifestations until there is no longer the belief in self even though there is the occasional arising of self.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta
2010-03-02 Satipatthana Sutta, Introduction: Wise Effort 56:41
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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
2010-03-16 Satipatthana Sutta, Introduction: Understanding Mindfulness 60:14
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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
2010-03-30 Satipatthana Sutta, Introduction: From Mindfulness to Awareness 3:50
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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
2010-04-13 Satipatthana Sutta, First Foundation: Body as the Body 55:48
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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
2010-04-27 Satipatthana Sutta, First Foundation: The Image of the Body 56:54
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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
2010-05-11 Satipatthana Sutta, First Foundation: The Body in Movement 61:37
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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
2009-07-14 Ten Paramis: Energy (2) 61:51
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Suffering leads either to contraction and further distortion of energy, or connection and release of resistance.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Ten Paramis

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