All About Boundaries
All About Boundaries with Rodney Smith (ONLINE)
This is a set of webpages to help you navigate your online retreat experience. Please take the time to look through them. Thank you!
Meeting ID: 864 9012 8352
Passcode: 485127
We will begin admitting Zoom attendees from the waiting room about 10 minutes before the retreat starts so you can get settled in.
If you are joining by telephone (audio only), dial by your location:
+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma), +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston), +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose), +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC), +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago), +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)
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Description
This is a 2 day Online retreat, Saturday February 17 – Sunday February 18. During this retreat, you will be nourished by the Dharma with the immeasurable wisdom, compassion, and humor that is SIMS beloved Founding Teacher, Rodney Smith.
In this nonresidential online weekend retreat, we will explore how and why we conceptually impose internal and external boundaries upon a world that is naturally boundary free. Each time we draw a line of demarcation internally (my body, my mind, my persona) or externally (others, the external world, nature) we establish a narrowing definition of ourselves while increasing our psychic distance from others. We believe we gain control by establishing boundaries but are usually unaware of how it restrains and limits our freedom.
Join Rodney on this two-day exploration of boundaries, which will also explore the sanity of setting healthy personal boundaries and establishing principled ethical limits. The weekend will include dharma talks, silent and guided meditations, Q & A sessions, and Qigong with Ellen.
Retreat Schedule
Saturday
9:00 Talk, sit and instructions
10:15 Walk / break
10:30 Sit / Guided Inquiry on talk 1
11:15 Walk / break
11:30 Sit
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Chi Gong
1:45 Talk and sit
2:30 Walk / break
2:45 Sit / Guided Inquiry on talk 2
3:30 Break
3:45 Questions
4:30 End
Sunday
9:00 Talk, sit and instructions
10:15 Walk / break
10:30 Sit / Guided Inquiry on talk 3
11:15 Walk / break
11:30 Sit
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Chi Gong
1:45 Talk and sit
2:30 Walk
3:00 Sit / Guided Inquiry on talk 4
3:45 Questions and Closing Comments / Metta
4:30 End
Books by Rodney
Rodney Smith's Bio
Rodney Smith spent eight years in Buddhist monastic settings, both at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Massachusetts and several years as a Buddhist monk in Asia. He ordained with Mahasi Sayadaw in Burma then practiced for three years with Ajahn Buddhadassa in Thailand. He disrobed as a monk in 1983 and, after returning to the West, started working in hospice care and teaching vipassana meditation throughout the U.S.
At the end of 2016, Rodney retired from a full-time teaching role after more than 30 years of teaching. He served as a Senior Teacher for IMS and the founding and guiding teacher of Seattle Insight Meditation. He is author of the books Lessons From the Dying, Stepping Out of Self-Deception: The Buddha’s Liberating Teaching of No-Self, and Awakening: A Paradigm Shift of the Heart.
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Retreat Information
Retreat Schedule: The retreat will go from 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM PST both Saturday and Sunday.
Will this event be recorded? This event will be made available within a few weeks on the SIMS web site: https://seattleinsight.org/talks/talk-library
Dana: Following tradition, none of the registration donations to SIMS go to the teacher. Please consider offering teacher dana, to support the teacher’s livelihood. (Dana is a term for generosity, or freely offered giving.) See Dana information below on this webpage.
Cancellations: If you need to cancel your registration, please email registrar@seattleinsight.org prior to the beginning of the event. You may receive a refund of your donation (less than $10.00 handling fee). No full or partial refunds will be given after the start of Saturday’s retreat. If you instead wish to donate your fee to SIMS, just let us know by email: registrar@seattleinsight.org
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