Rodney Smith

Rodney Smith spent eight years in Buddhist monastic settings, both at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and 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 throughout the United States.