

Dave Smith Dharma
dave smith
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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.
https://www.paypal.me/satisila
To find out more, or to join one of my many programs check my site: https://www.davesmithdharma.com/
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.
Episodes
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Jun 8, 2018 • 1h 1min
Genuine Happiness: a talk
How do we find balance between the reality of hedonic worldly pleasure, and the possibility of inner cultivation? Understanding that they are not mutually exclusive, but rather need to be integrated.

Jun 8, 2018 • 31min
Equanimity: guided "feel-know-care-forgive-appreciation-understand"
Liberating the heart and mind. GUIDED.

Jun 8, 2018 • 25min
Equanimity: the both/and of life
This talk, from Vallecitos NM June 2018 Retreat, offers a description and overview of the practice and cultivation of equanimity. The guided practice follows in the next episode.

Jun 7, 2018 • 26min
Metta as gratitude: guided
This session is a guided practice that immediately followed the overview.

Jun 7, 2018 • 23min
Understanding Metta as gratitude (Mudita practice)
This talk outlines how metta transforms into gratitude and appreciation when it encounters goodness and beauty. This talk was given at Vallecitos June 2018. Enjoy.

Jun 6, 2018 • 60min
The wound that seeks the arrow
This talk was given on the 3rd night of the Vallecitos retreat in June 2018. It explores Dukkha-Sankhara, how our unexplored core wounds, give rise to unsuccessful and destructive patterns of thought.

Jun 6, 2018 • 26min
Citta Overview
What is Citta ??

Jun 6, 2018 • 26min
Citta: guided
This guided Citta practice follows the previous overview. It was given at the Vallecitos retreat June 2018

Jun 5, 2018 • 30min
Embodied Metta: guided
This guided practices follows the overview from 2018 Vallecitos retreat. Afternoon session.

Jun 5, 2018 • 20min
Embodied Metta: overview
This afternoon session from the Vallecitos retreat introduces Metta as an embodied practice.