The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
 
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.
2006-01-05 The Evolution Of Insight Practice 46:33
The practice evolves through phases and stillness deepens.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center New Year's Retreat
2006-01-01 The Bored Mind 48:14
The Mind that configure reality to be boring is without interest. That interest can be aroused by focusing on itself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center New Year's Retreat
2005-12-29 Relax, Observe, Allow 48:40
Relax, observe and allow are three words that capture the complete orientation to meditation. Understanding these words and their near enemies will enhance ones practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center New Year's Retreat
2005-03-30 Boundary Formation 44:59
Boundaries create a self-definition between what I am and what I fear becoming. Understanding how the fear and the self-definition arise together allows their dissolution.
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2005-01-04 Integrity: Confronting The Assumption Of Incompletion 44:36
Integrity is wholeness of heart. The practice is feeding our resistance and argument into our integrity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center New Year's Retreat
2005-01-01 Utterly Ordinary 46:33
We believe the ordinary is boring, mundane, uninteresting, but until we embrace it in ourselves we will forever seek to escape the very freedom that ordinariness contains.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center New Year's Retreat
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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