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Rodney Smith's Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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.
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
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2015-12-10 The Spiritual Journey - Ascent and Desent 48:10
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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
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2014-12-13 Questions and Answers 58:35
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and the Heart
2014-12-11 Understanding States Of Mind 45:38
Using boredom as an example, this talk looks at the formation of states of mind and how to quiet their impact.
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2014-12-09 The Counter Intuitive Ground Of Spiritual Practice 45:34
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2013-12-13 Closing Talk 64:41
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Holding Your Life with Kindness, Gratitude, and Contentment: A Weekend Retreat
2013-12-12 Fourth Foundation 43:29
Fourth foundation shifts our paradigm into the formless
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2013-12-10 Second And Third Foundation 48:20
How does the past form within the present and how do we form within the past?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and the Heart
2013-12-08 The First foundation 48:25
The spiritual journey is the movement from form to formless, and the First foundation Of Mindfulness begins that process by questioning deeply what the body is.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and the Heart

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