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Teacher: Rodney Smith
Date: 2009-04-28
Venue: Seattle Insight Meditation Center
Series
- The Ten Paramis 2009-01-27
Description
How to activate the innate intelligence of presence.
Homework
Ask yourself what you understand about the dharma—not what is intellectually satisfying, but what you truly understand. For instance, do you understand how suffering arises? Do your actions demonstrate this wisdom? How deep is this truth? How far has it reached into your cells? Take a point of dharma that you frequently hear in talks but is not sufficiently integrated. For example, dharma talks speak about the pure, clear mind of awareness and nonjudgmental acceptance. Have you experienced this firsthand, or is it a conceptual understanding? First know the difference between the two forms of knowledge. How will you go about understanding dharma issues more directly? Is thinking about them sufficient? Take the issue you select and attempt to experience it firsthand. For example, what is the mind like when it is free of judgment, and what is it like when it judges? Which mind is clearer and therefore more accessible to wisdom? Work with the dharma point all week and notice how wisdom arises naturally from interest and bare attention.
Video
Link to view on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/4412915
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