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
Equanimity and the middle way: talk
This talk and instruction comes from the final talk at southern dharma. An overview of the Buddhist endeavor
http://southerndharma.org/schedule.shtml#/event/291/liberating-the-mind-and-heart-a-metta-…
compassion and appreciation: talk and guided practice
This talk and instruction comes from the afternoon session, day 2, from Southern Dharma Retreat Center, for a metta-vipassana retreat. Working with the illimitables, karuna/mudita
http://southerndhar…
Embodied Metta: talk and guided practice
This talk and instruction comes from the morning session, day 2, from Southern Dharma Retreat Center, for a metta-vipassana retreat.
http://southerndharma.org/schedule.shtml#/event/291/liberating-the…
Awakening
This talk from the first night dharma talk session of the metta vipassana retreat at southern dharma. http://southerndharma.org/
Vipassana: talk and instruction
This talk and instruction comes from the afternoon session, day 1, from Southern Dharma Retreat Center, for a metta-vipassana retreat. http://southerndharma.org/
Metta: Talk and Instruction
This talk and guided instruction comes from the first morning session of the metta vipassana retreat at southern dharma. http://southerndharma.org/
Mindfulness and cultivating emotional balance
This talk was given as a clinical training in Asheville NC, at the Urban Dharma Center. It outlines how mindfulness can be used for the establishment of cultivating emotional balance, a secular progr…
Metta Vipassana: talk
This talk was given at the Urban Dharma Center in Asheville NC.
Vipassana meditation unites the stillness of concentration with the immediacy of moment to moment experience. As we learn to calm the b…
Appreciation / Gratitude: Guided practice
Session 9 of the a 10 month course at Against the Stream in Los Angeles. Appreciation / gratitude
Compassion: Guided meditation
Session 9 of the a 10 month course at Against the Stream in Los Angeles.
Metta: Guided practice
Session 9 of the a 10 month course at Against the Stream in Los Angeles.
Equanimity: Both/And
Everybody wants one more talk on equanimity!
The final talk from the mindfulness and early buddhism study course at 1440. https://1440.org/
Awakening- thru-mindfulness- to- dharma
What can we expect from a meditation practice? Realistically.
This talk was given at the Aspen Chapel in beautiful Aspen Colorado. This was Dave's first visit to the Roaring Forth Insight meditation …
Fourth foundation of Mindfulness: overview
This final talk introduces the practice of the 4th foundation of Mindfulness/dhammas. The talk is recorded at 1440 Multiversity in Scotts Valley CA. This practice and study course focus's on Mindful…
Developing a Gratitude practice: Mudita
The 3rd heart practice, brahma vihara. Mudita, appreciate joy, gratitude. etc.
The talk is recorded at 1440 Multiversity in Scotts Valley CA. This practice and study course focus's on Mindfulness in …
Mindfulness of Mind: 3rd foundation overview
This day 3 talk introduces the practice of the 3nd foundation of Mindfulness/citta. The talk is recorded at 1440 Multiversity in Scotts Valley CA. This practice and study course focus's on Mindfulnes…
Mindfulness of Feeling: Vedana overiew
This day 2 talk introduces the practice of the 2nd foundation of Mindfulness/vedana. The talk is recorded at 1440 Multiversity in Scotts Valley CA. This practice and study course focus's on Mindfulne…
Metta: Talk and Instructions
The first talk in a series on the heart practices. The talk is recorded at 1440 Multiversity in Scotts Valley CA. This practice and study course focus's on Mindfulness in early Buddhism (pali discour…
Livelihood
Livelihood: Looking at our relationship to money, desire and making meaning in this world.