Rodney Smith's Dharma Talks
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2010-07-24
Living A Blameless Life.
2010-07-22
Effort and the End of Suffering
2010-07-20
Aligned With Selflessness.
2010-01-05
Courage Toward the Infinite
2010-01-01
From Adaptation To Surrender
2009-12-29
From Noise To Stillness
2009-06-23
Three Point Eight Billion Years Ago
2009-06-20
A wise Orientation to Practice
2009-04-08
3.8 Billion Years Ago
2009-04-05
Aligning the Mind With the Now of the Body
2008-07-13
Restless Body, Unworried Mind
2008-04-05
Authentic Action
2008-04-02
The Governing Laws Of The Mind
2008-03-30
Right Effort And Wise Effort
2008-01-05
Questions And Answers
2008-01-02
Recovering The Primary Intention
2007-12-30
In Alignment With Zero
2007-03-19
Contrasting Wise Effort And Right Effort
2007-01-01
The Governing Laws Of The Mind
2006-12-29
Radical Accountabilty
2006-07-14
The Art Of Non Doing
2006-07-11
Untying The Knot Of Contraction
2006-03-11
Relax, Observe And Allow
2006-01-05
The Evolution Of Insight Practice
2006-01-01
The Bored Mind
2005-12-29
Relax, Observe, Allow
2005-03-30
Boundary Formation
2005-01-04
Integrity: Confronting The Assumption Of Incompletion
2005-01-01
Utterly Ordinary
2004-07-23
The Story And The Story Teller
2004-07-21
The Doubting Mind
2004-07-19
Distorting The Mind
2004-05-28
The Non-Doing Of Practice
2004-05-26
The Path Of Not Knowing
2004-05-23
Caring Attention
2003-04-10
The Awakened Heart
2003-04-08
Task-Centered & Heart-Centered Meditation
2003-04-06
The Search For Meaning
2003-03-27
The Spirit Of Questioning
2003-03-24
Wanting: The Payoff And The Pain
2003-01-05
The Urban Buddhist
2002-12-29
Sensitivity Of The Heart
2002-12-23
The Sangha
2002-11-05
The Judging Mind
2002-11-01
Referencing The Moment
2002-04-12
The Four Great Efforts
2002-04-08
Following The Pain Line
2002-03-29
The Eightfold Path 1: Wise View
2002-01-03
The I Of The Storm
2001-12-17
Sitting Practice And Its Effect On Our Life
2001-12-12
Reflections On September 11Th
2001-11-01
Why Meditate?
2001-10-01
After The Retreat: What Now?
2001-03-14
Receiving The World
2001-03-12
Arriving In The Here And Now
2001-03-10
Accessing The Dharma
2001-02-01
Illusion IV: Taking What Lacks Independent Existence As Independently Existing
2001-01-03
The Personal And The Impersonal
2001-01-01
Illusion III: Taking The Momentary Display Of The World As Continuous
2000-12-31
Inspiring The Heart
2000-12-29
Life's Lessons
2000-12-15
Illusion 1: Taking What Is Insubstantial To Be Permanent
2000-08-28
The Obsessive Mind
2000-08-21
The Moody Mind
2000-08-14
The Isolated Mind
2000-08-07
The Controlling Mind
2000-07-05
The "No" Of Love
2000-04-24
The Eightfold Path 8: Wise Samadhi
2000-04-17
The Eightfold Path 6: Wise Effort
2000-04-10
The Eightfold Path 7: Wise Mindfulness
2000-04-03
The Eightfold Path 5: Wise Livelihood
2000-03-27
The Eightfold Path 4: Wise Action
2000-03-13
The Eightfold Path 3: Wise Speech
2000-03-06
The Eightfold Path 2: Wise Aspiration
2000-02-27
A Glimpse Of Connection
2000-01-08
Illusion II: Taking What Is Incapable Of Satisfying As Happiness
1999-12-29
Resolutions Of The Heart
1999-12-02
Touching The Earth
1999-10-13
Perpendicular Universe
1999-02-27
Self-Kindness And Self-Indulgence
1999-02-01
Anger: Transforming Anger
1999-01-05
Leaving The Wilderness
1999-01-01
Journey Into The Mind
1999-01-01
Anger: About Anger
1999-01-01
Anger: Control, Fairness And Non-Existence
1998-08-21
What's Love Got To Do With It
1998-08-17
The Room Of The Mind
1998-08-02
The Need To Conform
1998-03-28
The Evolution Of View
1998-03-26
Death Be Not Proud
1998-03-24
The Way Things Are
1998-02-23
Essential Elemetns Of Formless Practice: Finding Our Passion
1998-02-16
Essential Elements Of Formless Practice: Right Attitude
1998-02-09
Essential Elements Of Formless Practice: Right View
1998-02-02
Essential Elements Of Formless Practice: An Overview
1998-01-06
The Essential Elements Of Formless Practice
1998-01-01
Contemplation On Death And Dying - I
1998-01-01
Contemplation On Death And Dying - II
1998-01-01
Contemplation On Death And Dying - III
1998-01-01
Contemplation On Death And Dying - IV
1998-01-01
The Wanting Mind
1996-04-20
Finding Our Breath
1996-04-18
Wise Speech
1996-03-16
The Natural Way
1996-01-01
Using Death To Understand Life
1995-07-01
Taking Responsibility
1995-01-01
Time: Fractured Time
1995-01-01
Time: Death, The Ending Of Time
1995-01-01
Time: Quieting Time
1995-01-01
Time: Time And The Ending Of Suffering
1975-01-01
Four Foundations Of Mindfulness: Mindfulness Of The Body
1975-01-01
Four Foundations Of Mindfulness: Mindfulness Of Feelings
1975-01-01
Four Foundations Of Mindfulness: Mindfulness Of Consciousness
1975-01-01
Four Foundations Of Mindfulness: Investigating The Dharma
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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.
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, how important it is to open to each loss, change and transition that marks our path. Life is precious. We need to awaken without hesitation.
Many of us crave to be more calm and centered. We know that life has more to offer than this fleeting material world. For each of us, the Dharma offers an immediacy of freedom for which we do not have to strive or wait. In practice, we can learn to relax deeply into the moment and rediscover spontaneous freedom.
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