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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 is the first talk from Vallecitos nature retreat. October 1-8.
Overview of feeling tone/vedana. Second foundation of mindfulness.
Talk 2 from Southern Dharma metta-vipassana retreat.
This talk was given at Vallecitos on September 11, 2023. Dave offers some reflection on 30 years in the Dharma. Photo of Dave and Steven Smith, Thailand 2014.
Talk 1 from Southern Dharma metta-vipassana retreat (May 2023). Refections on suffering/dukkha.
We have stopped uploading talks to our Buddhist Recovery Podcast. I will slowly be moving those talks to this podcast. I added this first as it was, by far, the most dowloaded episode. Also, we will …
Not sure when this talk was given. It just popped up in my Itunes, so I thought I would share. For more on my various programs: https://linktr.ee/davesmithdharma
Talk number three from the Big Bear mentoring retreat. Perspectives on path and view.
Talk one from mentoring retreat at Big Bear Retreat Center.
Consider joining the Dave Smith Dharma mentoring program HERE
This short talk offers some overview on the background and upcoming programs offered by the Secular Dharma Foundation.
You can register for the Mindfulness Based Ethical Living Program (MBEL) HERE.
This is the teaching audio from the 1/2 day work shop on mindfulness and the four noble truths. It was done thru the: https://www.floweringlotusmeditation.org/
This is the preliminary teaching that si…
MBEL has been conceived as a collaborative project, which leaves behind the patriarchal and hierarchical power structures often found in Buddhism. Authority is distributed throughout the community of…
Short refections on retreat practice and the what the word "dharma" means from a textual analysis into the pali canon. Enjoy!
This talk was given for the San Fransisco Dharma Collective. It is an overview of the MBEL program created by Stephen Batchelor.
Mindfulness Based Ethical Living (MBEL) is an organized, contemplative …
The final talk from the 15 month Dharma Everywhere program. Dave Smith and Eileen Ybarra offer reflections on the state and potential future of dharma in America.