Seattle Insight Meditation Society

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Audio recordings of Buddhist teachings and discussions with local and visiting teachers of the Dhamma. Visit seattleinsight.org for more information.

Recent Episodes
  • Cultivating the Three Insights of the Fourth Noble Truth
    Apr 7, 2025 – 01:12:54
  • Cultivating the Three Insights of the Third Noble Truth
    Mar 31, 2025 – 01:08:53
  • The End of Suffering: Understanding and Applying the Third Noble Truth
    Mar 30, 2025 – 00:48:50
  • Nibbana, Entering the Stream, and an Appropriate Response
    Mar 24, 2025 – 01:07:45
  • Is This Moment Enough?
    Mar 23, 2025 – 00:54:51
  • Third Noble Truth: Awakening from Ignorance and the Ten Fetters
    Mar 17, 2025 – 01:12:08
  • Epiphanies and the Third Noble Truth
    Mar 16, 2025 – 00:37:35
  • Joy, Peace, and Inner Freedom
    Mar 13, 2025 – 01:45:54
  • Third Noble Truth, Recap & Discussion
    Mar 10, 2025 – 00:51:54
  • Faith, Imagination, and the Third Noble Truth
    Mar 9, 2025 – 00:57:17
  • Third Noble Truth
    Mar 3, 2025 – 01:10:36
  • An Introduction to the Third Noble Truth
    Mar 2, 2025 – 00:41:18
  • Volunteer Recognition Event
    Mar 1, 2025 – 01:15:51
  • Removing the Thorn, Shedding the Snake’s Skin, Calming the Flame: Images for Abandoning Craving
    Feb 24, 2025 – 01:04:13
  • How the Eight Worldly Winds Can Help Us Understand the Second Noble Truth of Clinging
    Feb 23, 2025 – 00:42:57
  • Sila—Not Killing, Stealing, Lying—as a Path to Nibbana
    Feb 20, 2025 – 00:34:10
  • Four Kinds of Clinging with a Focus on Attachment to a “Solid Self”
    Feb 17, 2025 – 00:52:26
  • Day 2 Afternoon Talk: Surrendering
    Feb 16, 2025 – 00:27:11
  • Day 2 Qigong
    Feb 16, 2025 – 00:44:48
  • Day 2 Morning Guided Meditation
    Feb 16, 2025 – 00:42:12
  • Day 2 Morning Talk: Releasing Ourselves into a New Paradigm
    Feb 16, 2025 – 00:42:25
  • Day 1 Afternoon Talk: Trusting The Process
    Feb 15, 2025 – 00:38:01
  • Day 1 Qigong
    Feb 15, 2025 – 00:45:15
  • Day 1 Morning Guided Meditation
    Feb 15, 2025 – 00:46:50
  • Day 1 Morning Talk: An Opening Without Protection
    Feb 15, 2025 – 00:39:26
  • Practicing the Second Noble Truth: Tanha
    Feb 10, 2025 – 01:08:49
  • Practicing with the Second Noble Truth
    Feb 9, 2025 – 00:33:44
  • Choice and Agency
    Feb 8, 2025 – 00:20:55
  • Starting Over
    Feb 8, 2025 – 00:35:24
  • Principles of Change
    Feb 8, 2025 – 00:19:33
Recent Reviews
  • Omika Jikaria
    Thankful!
    Thankful to have access to these even though I currently live outside of the US. Lots of wisdom and thoughtfulness. Please keep sharing so the rest of the world can continue to benefit. Sending metta to Seattle.
  • Joe Adams Music
    So helpful.
    This has been a boon to me as a new father. I am unable to leave the house to go to the wonderful dharma talks around MN so hearing these from WA is the next best thing! Very good people out West and maybe someday I'll be able to see the center. Working on being a Buddha and this podcast helps.
  • RenCuddles
    Absolutely the BEST talk I've heard on Buddhism.
    Rodney Smith's talk--particularly the "Fourth foundation" is amazing and beautiful and eye opening. He breaks it all down without pretense & ends it so very beautifully that one feels there is nothing more important that following the spiritual path he sets before you.
  • Cynthia Cushman
    A national treasure
    These podcasts are a part of a growing library of Dharma talk recordings that are the single most valuable spoken-word recordings I have ever heard. (The full set is available at seattleinsight.org, including a six-class beginning meditation series.) Of course, I'm a biased reviewer--these talks happen to speak to my heart and to motivate my daily practice: they may not speak to yours. The guiding teacher, Rodney Smith, was a Buddhist monk and then a hospice social worker before becoming a full-time dana-supported Dharma teacher. He is committed to extending the authentic practice of Buddhism beyond the monasteries and into everyday life--what he terms 'Urban Buddhism.' His style is direct, sincere, impassioned and so entirely without style or artifice or adornment that when I first heard him speak at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, I dismissed him in my mind. Then I noticed that his talks moved my practice and my life in ways that the fancier stuff did not. Maybe it'll be that way for you, too.
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