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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.
2002-04-08 Following The Pain Line 42:09
The first step of spiritual maturity is to move into pain. Holding the pain without explanation or justification allows it to open into emptiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2002-04-12 The Four Great Efforts 46:15
Balancing between cultivating wholesome qualities and not pursuing them as ends in themselves is the art of Buddhism.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2003-03-24 Wanting: The Payoff And The Pain 44:56
The whole of desire must be understood—what it gives us and its inevitable pain—in order for it to be put to an end.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat
2003-03-27 The Spirit Of Questioning 48:45
To hold a question is to keep the mind unformed and resting in stillness. Seeking an answer reconfirms the person who knows.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat
2003-04-06 The Search For Meaning 45:05
We search throughout our lives for what is meaningful, only to find it in front of our eyes.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat
2003-04-08 Task-Centered & Heart-Centered Meditation 47:21
The movement from task-centered practice to heart-centered awareness contains the whole of the spiritual path.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat
2004-07-21 The Doubting Mind 42:54
Doubting is a frequent component of the western mind. We must explore it thoroughly.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2004 at IMS - Forest Refuge
1995-07-01 Taking Responsibility 45:20
developing self-confidence and making the practice our own
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1995-01-01 Time: Fractured Time 41:08
Is there something more fundamental than the movement of time?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
In collection: Time
2003-04-10 The Awakened Heart 48:13
The heart cannot open when it is on a journey in time. Love is found when we add nothing to this moment.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat

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