Dave Smith Dharma
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For nearly 30 years, Dave Smith has held a practice rooted in the Insight Meditation (Vipassana) tradition. He was empowered to teach through the Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society, is a certified teacher for Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) which is combines contemporary emotion based scientific research with contemplative practices and psychology drawn from Buddhism and has studied Buddhist psychology at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (BCBS).
Dave teaches residential meditation retreats, weekly live dharma classes, online courses, and workshops. He has developed educational tools and resources, including mindfulness and emotional skills trainings, in both secular and Buddhist contexts. Dave also works with students 1:1 through his dharma mentoring program.
In 2016 he founded the Secular Dharma Foundation to foster the advancement of emotional and psychological well-being through the education and integration of mindfulness, psychology, and various therapeutic modalities. Dave has brought dharma and meditative interventions into a variety of settings including jails, prisons, youth detention centers and addiction treatment facilities. Dave lives in rural Colorado with his wife and two sons.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 369
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
Illimitables: gratitude & compassion: guided practice
This guided practice on the illimitables was given at the Bozeman Dharma Center. It was given at Buddhism and Recovery day long event. It focusses on the practices of compassion and gratitude. There …
Mindfulness and Equanimity
A talk from the Bozeman Dharma Center on Mindfulness and Equanimity.
The War on Emotion
This public lecture was given at the Bozeman Dharma Center. A talk that integrates science and dharma focussing on emotion. https://bozemandharmacenter.org/
Sudden Awakening: Gradual Cultivation
this talk was given at the San Francisco Dharma Collective in April 2019. I
Sila: Dharma as behavior.
This talk was given at the Durango Dharma Center. https://www.durangodharmacenter.org/
Inspired by recent events, as well as the world at large. Dave takes an honest look at the practice of sila. Tr…
Self: a field, a raft and a city. TALK
Self or non-self. Who fuckin cares ?!?! The point is....what are you gonna do about it?
Join me for an online class: realizemedia.org/dave-smith
Citta: again - talk
Understanding and developing Citta (heart-mind).
Description: All schools of Buddhism acknowledge that the development
of Citta is an essential aspect of the awakening process. Within classical
Mindf…
dharma life story
A short interview: https://vimeo.com/297363360
During this final talk from the Vallecitos June 2018, Dave offers a transparent and reflective talk on his experience with Dharma, trauma, addiction and…
Citta: a Talk
This talk, given at the Durango Dharma Center https://www.durangodharmacenter.org/ was offered to the weekly Monday night class. The concept and practice of citta is defined and outlined, from the di…
Metta Vipassana: smiling at the universe
Final morning instructions at Vallecitos. Talk and guided practice.
Genuine Happiness: a talk
How do we find balance between the reality of hedonic worldly pleasure, and the possibility of inner cultivation? Understanding that they are not mutually exclusive, but rather need to be integrated.
Equanimity: guided "feel-know-care-forgive-appreciation-understand"
Liberating the heart and mind. GUIDED.
Equanimity: the both/and of life
This talk, from Vallecitos NM June 2018 Retreat, offers a description and overview of the practice and cultivation of equanimity. The guided practice follows in the next episode.
Metta as gratitude: guided
This session is a guided practice that immediately followed the overview.
Understanding Metta as gratitude (Mudita practice)
This talk outlines how metta transforms into gratitude and appreciation when it encounters goodness and beauty. This talk was given at Vallecitos June 2018. Enjoy.
The wound that seeks the arrow
This talk was given on the 3rd night of the Vallecitos retreat in June 2018. It explores Dukkha-Sankhara, how our unexplored core wounds, give rise to unsuccessful and destructive patterns of thought…
Citta: guided
This guided Citta practice follows the previous overview. It was given at the Vallecitos retreat June 2018
Embodied Metta: guided
This guided practices follows the overview from 2018 Vallecitos retreat. Afternoon session.
Embodied Metta: overview
This afternoon session from the Vallecitos retreat introduces Metta as an embodied practice.