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
Buddhist authoritarianism: talk/rant
A fun little rant and dealing with dogma all "isms" in general. Enjoy.
Citta 2: talk
Talk number two on citta. This talk emphasizes the role of the bramha viharas.
Meditation Systems: talk
That talk offers a brief overview of the various meditative systems within the theravada tradition. This talk was given for my Sunday mentoring group. If you are interested in being part of the pract…
Citta 1: talk
This is the first talk of two. Given at Vallecitos in July 2024. It offers reflections on mind or citta.
Cultivation and the solar buddha: talk
Talk 1: Rocky Mt. Eco Dharma Retreat. Natural Awareness and Wisdom.
4 foundations/satipatthana: talk
Talk 2: Rocky Mt. Eco Dharma Retreat. Natural Awareness and Wisdom. Exploring the full implications of the teachings on mindfulness.
Effort, hindrances, awakening factors: talk
Talk 3: Rocky Mt. Eco Dharma Retreat. Natural Awareness and Wisdom.
Dharma transmissions: talk
Talk 4: Rocky Mt. Eco Dharma Retreat. Natural Awareness and Wisdom. Personal reflections on dharmic interventions. Emphasis on: faith, courage, service and authenticity.
Metta and it's qualities: talk
Talk 5: Rocky Mt. Eco Dharma Retreat. Natural Awareness and Wisdom. The full entire teachings on metta and it's friends.
A life worth living: talk
Final evening talk. Exploring secular perspectives on the 8 fold path. Adopting a non-orthodox take on this core teaching. Southern Dharma retreat, mindfulness and the four noble truths.
The arising of reactivity: talk
Evening two talk from the Southern Dharma retreat. Mindfulness and the four noble truths.
Faith: talk
Evening one Dharma talk. Southern Dharma NC, mindfulness and the four noble truths.
3 kinds of Mindfulness. Overview of concepts/talk
Mindfulness is understood to have different applications of different occasions for different purposes. These ideas have been discovered form the work of academics of early buddhist discourse (pali t…
The Dharma of Addiction: talk (again)
A talk on the Dharma of Addiction. Given in Tulsa Ok. May 2023. Online addiction coarse.
What is Dharma?
Talk given recently at the Durango Dharma Center. Exploring seven ways the term dharma is used in the pali texts. Enjoy!
Dharma of Addiction
Another talk on the dharma of addiction. This was given at the Albq insight group. https://abqinsight.org/
Clinging and non-clinging: talk
This talk was given for Big Heart City. https://www.bigheartcity.org/
4 sets of 3: training, refuge, characteristics, systems: talk
4 talks put together. Exploring the sets lists: 3 kinds of mind training, 3 refuges, 3 characteristics, and the 3 trainings of the 8 fold path. This was given over several weeks for dharma live onlin…