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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
2010-01-05 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
2009-04-05 Aligning the Mind With the Now of the Body 48:10
As the mind begins to enter the Now of the body, a merging occurs between the two and a new deminsion discovered.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2009-04-08 3.8 Billion Years Ago 46:43
Each of us contain the moment when consciousness took form as well as the adaptive responses since that moment many billions of years ago.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2008-07-13 Restless Body, Unworried Mind 47:37
When sufficiently investigated, the whole of the Dharma can be seen within a single hindrance.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat
2007-03-19 Contrasting Wise Effort And Right Effort 43:03
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2008-04-05 Authentic Action 49:25
What is action when it is not related to conditioning and fear? This talk explores action from stillness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat

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