
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.
Latest episodes

Jun 22, 2022 • 23min
Morning 4: metta-vipassana overview
Southern Dharma Retreat: Morning 4 overview of metta-vipassana

Jun 22, 2022 • 21min
Morning 1 overview
Southern Dharma Retreat: Morning 1 practice overview. https://www.southerndharma.org/

Jun 22, 2022 • 32min
Afternoon 2: Ilimitables guided
Southern Dharma Retreat: Afternoon 2 guided, compassion/gratitude.

Jun 22, 2022 • 26min
Morning 2: vedana/feeling guided practice
Southern Dharma Retreat: Morning 2, guided practice on feeling/vedana

Jun 22, 2022 • 29min
Morning 2: vedana/feeling overview

Jun 22, 2022 • 1h
Suffering: Talk
Southern Dharma Retreat: talk 1

Jun 22, 2022 • 33min
Afternoon 1: Metta - guided

Jun 22, 2022 • 1h 3min
Four Efforts: talk
Southern Dharma Retreat: 2nd night talk, four great efforts.

Jun 22, 2022 • 20min
Afternoon 3: equanimity overview
Southern Dharma Retreat: Afternoon 3, equanimity overview.

Jun 22, 2022 • 21min
Afternoon 1 Metta Overview
Southern Dharma Retreat: Afternoon session 1, metta overview. https://www.southerndharma.org/