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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.Nature, death and spontaneous freedom continually interweave themselves into my teaching. From the forest of Thailand, where I spent several years, I bring a deep awareness of the healing quality of nature into my teachings. Relaxing into our true nature allows us to realize what it means to be a human being. It is here we find a resting point, a counterbalance to the speed and turbulence of our culture.My work in hospice brings a sense of urgency into my teaching. Working with the theme of death and dying reveals the here and now of life to us, ho

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Episodes

  1. Rodney Smith: A Complete Path Forward

    (Insight Meditation Society - Online)

  2. Rodney Smith: Pure Seeing

    (Insight Meditation Society - Online)

  3. Rodney Smith: What is the Spiritual Journey?

    (Insight Meditation Society - Online)

  4. Rodney Smith: Incomprehensible Reality

    (Insight Meditation Society - Online)

  5. Rodney Smith: Living Time, Dead Time, and Borrowed Time

    (Insight Meditation Society - Online)

  6. Rodney Smith: Awakening Out of the Past

    (Insight Meditation Society - Online)

  7. Rodney Smith: Conceptual Time and Its Alternative

    (Insight Meditation Society - Online)

  8. Rodney Smith: Transcending Identity Day 7 Dharma Talk

    (Insight Meditation Society - Online)

  9. Rodney Smith: Transcending Identity Day 6 Evening Guided Meditation

    (Insight Meditation Society - Online)

  10. Rodney Smith: Transcending Identity Day 6 Morning Guided Meditation

    (Insight Meditation Society - Online)

  11. Rodney Smith: Transcending Identity Day 5 Dharma Talk

    (Insight Meditation Society - Online)

  12. Rodney Smith: Transcending Identity Day 4 Evening Guided Meditation

    (Insight Meditation Society - Online)

  13. Rodney Smith: Transcending Identity Day 4 Morning Guided Meditation

    (Insight Meditation Society - Online)

  14. Rodney Smith: Transcending Identity Day 3 Dharma Talk

    (Insight Meditation Society - Online)

  15. Rodney Smith: Transcending Identity Day 2 Evening Guided Meditation

    (Insight Meditation Society - Online)

  16. Rodney Smith: Transcending Identity Day 2 Morning Guided Meditation

    (Insight Meditation Society - Online)

  17. Rodney Smith: Transcending Identity Day 1 Dharma Talk

    (Insight Meditation Society - Online)

  18. Rodney Smith: Guided meditation on "the now of all time "

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

  19. Rodney Smith: The now of all time

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) As we distance ourselves from now, the reification of thought, the world, and ourselves manifest - all locked within the forever of time.

  20. Rodney Smith: Guided meditation on resolving distance

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

  21. Rodney Smith: Resolving distance

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) We take distance as a factor of reality when in fact it is a mental concept.

  22. Rodney Smith: Guided Meditation on "vulnerability as a threshold into awareness"

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

  23. Rodney Smith: Vulnerability as a threshold into awareness.

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Living within vulnerability provides ongoing access to formless awareness.

  24. Rodney Smith: Guided Meditation on "descending into the heart"

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

  25. Rodney Smith: Descending into the heart

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) To complete its transformation, awareness must enter the body/mine form and transform the spiritual heart.

  26. Rodney Smith: Guided meditation on "the evolution of awareness"

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

  27. Rodney Smith: The evolution of awareness.

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Opening awareness beyond the mine involves three phrases. Phase 1 is self-controlled awareness, phase 2 is self-examining awareness, and phase 3 is freeing awareness from self

  28. Rodney Smith: Guided meditation: merging the heart sutra with the four foundations - part two

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

  29. Rodney Smith: Merging the Heart Sutra with the four foundations of mindfulness - part two

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How the nothing of feelings becomes the something of objects and further exploration of the third and fourth foundations. Plus a guided meditation on the third foundation

  30. Rodney Smith: Merging the Heart Sutra with the four foundations of mindfulness - part one

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) These two ancient sutras fuse seamlessly together/explore how the body (form) becomes formless when we don't infuse the body with knowledge or remembrance

  31. Rodney Smith: Guided meditation on the first foundation of mindfulness

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How something becomes nothing with the release of knowledge and remembrance.

  32. Rodney Smith: Guided Meditation on "Form to Formless"

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

  33. Rodney Smith: Always and forever plus a guided meditation

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring time free of thought plus a guided meditation on the timeless

  34. Rodney Smith: The Landscape of Awakening

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) What does awakening look like from start to finish? We are all on the continuum of waking up.

  35. Rodney Smith: Original sin.

    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Our original sin is trying to discover a way to awaken using the sense of self, which is unconscious, as a mechanism toward being more conscious

  36. Rodney Smith: Exploring Meditation as a Gateway to Transcendent Awareness, Part2

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) There is a direct line through mindfulness to formless awareness. Simply release the “self” associated with mindfulness and awareness reveals itself in its full expanse.

  37. Rodney Smith: Exploring Meditation as a Gateway to Transcendent Awareness, Part 1

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring the beginning instructions reveals both the fullness of a “self, trying,” and the emptiness of a “self, in surrender.” Our world view changes according to which we pursue.

  38. Rodney Smith: Questions From The Retreat

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

  39. Rodney Smith: Grounding Our Practice

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

  40. Rodney Smith: Shifting Identity

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Spiritual practice concerns itself with an identity, who or what we think we are. Our identify shifts over time.

  41. Rodney Smith: Perception and Recognition With Guided Meditation.

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How concepts encase reality

  42. Rodney Smith: The Critical Role Ego Plays In Awakening

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The much-maligned ego has a crucial role in waking us up by differentiating objects from subject.

  43. Rodney Smith: Tensionless Sitting

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

  44. Rodney Smith: Q&A

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Covering a variety of subjects.

  45. Rodney Smith: Birthing the quiet mind

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) We often miss direct and simple portal of silence, into the sacred.

  46. Rodney Smith: Perspectives on pain.

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) 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

  47. Rodney Smith: The Spiritual Journey - Ascent and Desent

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

  48. Rodney Smith: Sophistication To Innocence

    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Knowing is the foundation of our worldly life, but innocence is the ground of our spiritual journey

  49. Rodney Smith: Continua of Practice: Sophistication to Innocence

    (Seattle Insight Meditation Society) 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...

  50. Rodney Smith: Continua of Practice: Alienation to Belonging

    (Seattle Insight Meditation Society) 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...

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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.Nature, death and spontaneous freedom continually interweave themselves into my teaching. From the forest of Thailand, where I spent several years, I bring a deep awareness of the healing quality of nature into my teachings. Relaxing into our true nature allows us to realize what it means to be a human being. It is here we find a resting point, a counterbalance to the speed and turbulence of our culture.My work in hospice brings a sense of urgency into my teaching. Working with the theme of death and dying reveals the here and now of life to us, ho

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