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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.
This talk was given at Insight Santa Cruz, November 2014. Dave had just left Nashville, on his way to relocated to LA.
Mindfulness and the 4 Noble truths. A talk form 2014 at Against the Stream Santa Monica.
A talk deep from the vaults of Against the Stream Nashville. A talk on karma, as related to right view.
Another talk pulled from the vaults of ATS Nashville, the early years of Dave's teaching. Discussing the pali diad of Sadhha-Nekkamma (faith-renunciation).
This was the opening talk at the opening of the Against the Stream Nashville Center on Charlotte Pike, it was freezing in the room. 1-27-2013
Refections on love from the vaults of talks given in Nashville, a long time ago.....in a galaxy far. far away. Thus Ive heard.
An old talk from the 12 South Dharma Center. Circa June 2012.
This talk, deep from the vaults, was given at the 2nd anniversary of ATS-Nashville back in 2012. enjoy.
A talk on sex, back from the days at the 12 South Dharma Center in Nashville TN>