Donate  |   Contact


The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
 
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.
     1 2 3 4 5 6 ... 38 39
2018-12-10 Perception and Recognition With Guided Meditation. 45:43
How concepts encase reality
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awakening : Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students
2018-12-09 The Critical Role Ego Plays In Awakening 46:29
The much-maligned ego has a crucial role in waking us up by differentiating objects from subject.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awakening : Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students
2018-12-08 Tensionless Sitting 44:03
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awakening : Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students
2016-12-15 Q&A 60:00
Covering a variety of subjects.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and the Heart
2016-12-13 Birthing the quiet mind 43:44
We often miss direct and simple portal of silence, into the sacred.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and the Heart
2016-12-11 Perspectives on pain. 47:54
There is the pain of our narrative. The pain of desire, The pain of separation, The pain of the time – all are terminated through our willingness to meet the here and now
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and the Heart
2015-12-10 The Spiritual Journey - Ascent and Desent 48:10
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and the Heart
2015-12-08 Sophistication To Innocence 43:20
Knowing is the foundation of our worldly life, but innocence is the ground of our spiritual journey
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and the Heart
2015-11-03 Continua of Practice: Sophistication to Innocence 63:05
The ability to enlarge our knowledge base is essential to our success, in our careers, schooling, and home life. Sophistication, the skillful use of knowledge in a civilized and cultured manner is valued, but innocence, which can be seen as guileless and inexperienced, is not. Much of our self-image is formed by how knowledgeable and sophisticated we are and we can find ourselves competing with others to prove how much information we have obtained. When we know something, we place a fixed objective view onto life and freeze it within our past associations. The problem is that nothing is fixed.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society Continua of Practice Series
Attached Files:
2015-10-20 Continua of Practice: Alienation to Belonging 58:53
This continuum speaks to the need to belong that is deeply rooted in our social and biological makeup. This need may well be one of the driving forces in our yearning for spiritual completion. Even when we group like-minded people around us, most of us still feel a subtle sense of alienation that we cannot overcome. We seem to be outside observing life rather than embedded within it.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society Continua of Practice Series
Attached Files:

     1 2 3 4 5 6 ... 38 39
Creative Commons License