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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.
2002-11-01 Referencing The Moment 37:58
Thought continually moves out to reference something uniquely now.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
2001-02-01 Illusion IV: Taking What Lacks Independent Existence As Independently Existing 39:22
The self is a play upon the field of time and has no reality outside of thought.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
2001-03-10 Accessing The Dharma 42:33
Recognizing the specific orientation toward life that we develop when accessing the Dharma.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2001-10-01 After The Retreat: What Now? 44:16
The ingredients of a spiritual life using our natural interest and curiosity.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
2001-12-12 Reflections On September 11Th 43:30
Is September 11th about retaliation and patriotism or unending violence of the human mind?
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
2001-12-17 Sitting Practice And Its Effect On Our Life 44:34
The techniques of sitting meditation effects our attitude to life itself.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
2002-11-05 The Judging Mind 42:26
Judgement is a defense against feeling inadequate. The belief in inadequacy is a defense against the fear of being nothing. The fear of being nothing is a defense against silence, in which our nothingness is confirmed.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2002-12-23 The Sangha 45:41
Sangha is an essential element in the unfolding of ones Path.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
2004-05-23 Caring Attention 52:10
The means of our practice must be aligned with the ends we seek.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2004 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2004-07-19 Distorting The Mind 46:36
We actually distort reality and live by the twisted logic of that mental truth.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2004 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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