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 4, 2018 • 50min
Intro to practice: overview and guided instructions
This is the first morning instructions given at the Vallecitos NM retreat in June 2018. It offers a nuts an bolts approach to mindfulness practice. The intro is followed by a guide practice. Enjoy!
https://www.vallecitos.org/
Jun 4, 2018 • 1h
awakening into right view
This was the first night talk given at the Mindfulness and Compassion to awaken the heart retreat at Vallecitos NM, June 2018. It outlines the big picture and moment to moment experience of sama ditti, sati and sanna.
May 29, 2018 • 26min
Embodied Metta: guided
The guided practice from the overview. These talks and instructions were given at the southern dharma retreat center, March 2018, Metta Vipassana retreat.
May 29, 2018 • 15min
Embodied Metta: talk and overview
This talk expands on the metta instructions to bring a wider focus on the practice, internally and externally.
May 20, 2018 • 22min
Attitude Y'all: guided practice on Citta
This guided practice follows the talk here on Citta. Attitude of mind, as opposed to object.
May 20, 2018 • 22min
Citta: talk overview (aka, third foundation)
This talk was given in the morning session at Southern Dharma retreat center as part of the Metta Vipassana retreat in March 2018.
May 12, 2018 • 27min
Metta: guided practice
This guided practice, accompanies the talk preceding it. Southern Dharma, Metta Vipassana, March 2018.
May 12, 2018 • 26min
Metta Talk: Overview
This talk was given at the afternoon session, day 1, of the metta vipassana retreat at Southern Dharma in March 2018. http://southerndharma.org/
May 10, 2018 • 23min
Anchor: guided practice
This guided practice follows the talk on anchor, listed previously. Enjoy.
May 10, 2018 • 28min
Establishing an Anchor: talk
Welcome to my 100th episode! This talk was given on morning 1, of the Southern Dharma Metta Vipassana Retreat in March 2018. This "back to basics" instructional talk introduces and emphasizes the importance of developing an anchor in practice, while pointing out that this is a preliminary skill, not the end sum game.
