Awakening by Rodney Smith

Awakening by Rodney Smith

An amazingly succinct and accessible answer to the question "What is enlightenment?"--from one of America's most prominent teachers of Insight Meditation

Former Buddhist monk and highly regarded Insight Meditation teacher Rodney Smith describes the process of enlightenment in a way anyone can understand--demonstrating in clear language why we operate with the illusion of separation, how we can move out of it to the realization of emptiness and no-self, and how we can live from that state of awakening. He provides brief, powerful exercises that enable us to challenge the reality of our thoughts in order to free ourselves from the illusion they keep us bound to--all the while steering us away from the temptation to regard spiritual practice as a process of self-improvement or a goal to be obtained.

 
"With systematic precision, and with subtle wisdom born of a lifetime of practice, Rodney Smith uses science, psychology, and traditional Buddhism to explain the unexplainable: the how and why of authentic spiritual awakening . . . an original work by a contemporary spiritual master at the height of his powers." --Norman Fischer, author of Training in Compassion

Rodney Smith is the founding and guiding teacher of the Seattle Insight Meditation Society and a guiding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society, Barre, Massachusetts. He leads classes and retreats throughout the United States. He is also the author of Lessons from the Dying, a book that grew out of the many years he spent in hospice work.

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ISBN 13	9781611801262
ISBN 10	1611801265
Title	Awakening
Author	Rodney Smith
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Shambhala Publications Inc
Year published	2014-03-11
Number of pages	256
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