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The millennium question I hear students asking is how they can integrate the path of self-liberation with the path of paying attention to the welfare of others. My focus is guiding practitioners to do both. The dharmic brilliance is that liberation, the core teaching, creates a deep, transformative experience of who we are, which, in turn, transforms our care for the state of all beings everywhere.I love storytelling as a vehicle for the dharma. I find that creating a non-ordinary reality of time and place carries the Buddhist spirit beneath the intellect and straight into the heart. Since we are all on a mythic journey inside the story of our lives, creating a timeless dimension through storytelling fires up our natural wisdom and compassion.One of my deepest passions is engaging with an earth dharma. Dharmic awareness gives us a way to create a profound relationship to the land. We can learn to show care, honor and respect, loving the environment as the true extension of o
Episodes
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Steven Smith: On Equanimity
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
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Steven Smith: Joy In and of Itself
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
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Steven Smith: Metta and Compassion
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
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Steven Smith: Navigating Change or Supporting Gifts of Mindfulness
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
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Steven Smith: Discourse
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
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Steven Smith: Instructions and Questions
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
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Steven Smith: Instructions and Questions
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
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Steven Smith: Discourse
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
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Steven Smith: Discourse
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
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Steven Smith: The Divine Abiding in Joy and Equanimity
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
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Steven Smith: The Divine Abiding in Joy and Equanimity
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
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Steven Smith: The Divine Abiding in Compassion
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
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Steven Smith: Brahma Vihara Heart
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
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Steven Smith: The Brahma Vihara Heart
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
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Steven Smith: Courage on the Journey of Awakening
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) exact date unknown
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Steven Smith: Gratitude and Emptiness
(Hollyhock)
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Steven Smith: Our Practice Is Like A Garden
(Hollyhock)
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Steven Smith: Abiding In Metta
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Moving from the Buddha's original way of teaching Loving-Kindness -- calling it up and abiding in it, then pervading it out to all beings.
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Steven Smith: Metta And Mindfulness - Part I
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) From a ground of Metta how to develop the four foundations of mindfulness: body, feelings, mind,
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Steven Smith: Morning Instructions
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) with Michele McDonald, misc problems
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Steven Smith: Morning Instructions
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) with Joseph Goldstein
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Steven Smith: Transmission Of Metta
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How metta, compassion, joy and equanimity are a healing transmission, opening to our karmic knots and tangles and early conditioning patterns, releasing and transforming energy into pure joy and wel-being.
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Steven Smith: Cool Warmth Of Metta
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Overview of four sublime abidings and description of each one, with stories, examples and mysterious positive consequences of actions motivated by metta, compassion, empathetic joy and equanimity.
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Steven Smith: The Happiness Of Insight
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Inspiring metaphors and stories for retreat practice and daily life about the happiness & joys of insight meditation not dependent upon what's happening in the world around us.
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Steven Smith: Sustaining Mindfulness - Part 2: Patience And Renunciation
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Patience and renunciation: what they are and how they support the development of mindfulness and the path to liberation.
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Steven Smith: Sustaining Mindfulness Part 1: Confidence & Courage
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Part 1 illuminates the fundamental nature and support of faith, or confidence, as a sustaining force in practice. Courageous energy follows, as the courage required to carry Dhamma into depths of one’s being.
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Steven Smith: Spiritual Emotions: Power To Liberate
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Detailed description of each Brahma Vihara, in generating and pervading them through oneself and to others in receiving them. Examples of each - enlightened leadership; using Brahma Viharas as basis for political freedom. How acts of kindness have...
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Steven Smith: Four Kinds Of Happiness From Insight Meditation
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The four vipassana jhanas and the resulting happiness: seclusion, concentration, contentment, wisdom and equanimity.
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Steven Smith: Mindfulness And Supporting Spiritual Virtues
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Introduced by gratitude to teachers and lineage. Followed by a thorough description of mindfulness and the four foundations of mindfulness. Concluded by how to support skillful states of faith and courageous energy.
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Steven Smith: Home In The Heart Of Metta
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A description of the four brahmaviharas and the interconnected nature of things. Good acts of metta especially have far-reaching consequences —changing our patterns, and releasing powerful, previously repressed energy for awareness, love and wisdom.
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Steven Smith: Where Language Stops: Insight Jhanas
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Developing a meditative process that purifies the mind and creates subtle openings for insight and happiness.
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Steven Smith: Courage Of Heart
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Focusing on faith, energy, patience and renunciation--four qualities of mind that stream through our awareness and power our practice.
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Steven Smith: Metta, Equanimity And Emotions
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) When we are still in the midst of emotions, mindfulness draws forth metta and equanimity and helps us to see the layered nature of our own feelings.
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Steven Smith: Vulnerability In Opening To Things As They Are
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Preparing the ground for insight to emerge by developing a deep inner calm.
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Steven Smith: Encouraging The Light Of Metta
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding metta as a concentration and purification practice.
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Steven Smith: Paying Attention, Taking Action, Letting Go
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Bringing wisdom with non-attachment and compassionate action together.
About this show
The millennium question I hear students asking is how they can integrate the path of self-liberation with the path of paying attention to the welfare of others. My focus is guiding practitioners to do both. The dharmic brilliance is that liberation, the core teaching, creates a deep, transformative experience of who we are, which, in turn, transforms our care for the state of all beings everywhere.I love storytelling as a vehicle for the dharma. I find that creating a non-ordinary reality of time and place carries the Buddhist spirit beneath the intellect and straight into the heart. Since we are all on a mythic journey inside the story of our lives, creating a timeless dimension through storytelling fires up our natural wisdom and compassion.One of my deepest passions is engaging with an earth dharma. Dharmic awareness gives us a way to create a profound relationship to the land. We can learn to show care, honor and respect, loving the environment as the true extension of o
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