Turning Your Back to the Buddha

Buddhist Geeks · Jul 21, 2015 · 26m

Insight Meditation teacher, Rodney Smith, joins us to explore the topic of “urban dharma”–seeing that the transformative potential of one’s life and relationships are on equal footing with silent, more passive forms of meditation. Rodney critiques the common tendency to elevate silent retreat practice above all other aspects of practice. As part of that exploration he also shares a moving story from his time studying with the famous Advaita teacher Nisargadatta Maharaj.

Rodney concludes by exploring what it might it mean to be a “Buddhist revolutionary,” updating and contemporizing the…