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
Oct 21, 2024 • 57min
Complete Perspective: talk
Talk 2 from the Big Bear retreat. Refections on right view as a complete perspective. A secular vision.
Oct 21, 2024 • 33min
Dharma Approach: talk
This the opening talk from the Big Bear, sure hearts' release retreat. It covers my approach to the practice.
Oct 21, 2024 • 58min
Arising of Reactivity: talk
Talk number 3, Big Bear Retreat. This talk covers the entire dimension of the 2nd noble truth. Without the noble truth crap.
Oct 17, 2024 • 20min
Middle way: talk
This talk discusses how to cultivate a middle way between the having mode and the being mode. This talk was given at my weekly Dharma Live/Online class. You can sign up for free HERE.
Oct 3, 2024 • 36min
Mindfulness and the middle way: talk
This talk was given at the Durango Dharma Center as part of their Monday night offerings. Enjoy.
Oct 3, 2024 • 17min
A crisis of meaning: talk
The opening talk for the recently updated Dharma/Live Online class. You can now join for no fee. The class is offered as a drop in anytime type of thing. You can do that here: SIGN-UP
Sep 23, 2024 • 59min
Authentic Happiness: talk
Talk two from Vallecitos retreat Center with JD Doyle. Exploring authentic happiness and the awakened life.
Sep 23, 2024 • 46min
On Cultivation: Talk
Talk one, from Vallecitos retreat with JD Doyle. Entitled: On Cultivation.
Sep 18, 2024 • 32min
Gratification, danger, escape: talk
The triad of gratification, danger, and escape is one of the Buddha’s most concise and simple teachings for investigating everyday lived experience. This formula can be applied to every single aspect of our experience. Many Buddhist scholars point out that this teaching contains the earliest roots of what we have come to know as the four noble truths, the basic framework for all Buddhist traditions.What is interesting about this simple teaching is that the Buddha came to this realization before his awakening. He discusses this triad on four separate occasions, relating them to the aggregates, feelings (vedana), the four elements and the six sense doors. The sheer simplicity of this teaching provides a framework for understanding human experience, particularly for those of us living in the digital complexity of the modern world. This is not a realization given from high diction, or a pedestal of great wisdom and knowledge. Nor does it seek to bewilder us with metaphysics such as teachings on non-self, emptiness, rebirth and karma. Instead, it is easily understood and readily available to any of us, at any point in our process.
Sep 16, 2024 • 49min
Nibbana for everyone: talk
Reflections on Nibbana. Reference to attentional systems in the brain. Given at Rocky Mt. Ecodharma August 2024.
