Dave Smith Dharma

Dave Smith Dharma

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If you would like to support the work I do, Please consider making a donation. 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.

Recent Episodes

  • Dharma of Addiction

    5 days ago
  • What is Dharma?

    5 days ago
  • Clinging and non-clinging: talk

    6 days ago
  • 4 sets of 3: training, refuge, characteristics, systems: talk

    7 days ago
  • Buddhist modernism & truth: talk

    2 months ago
  • states & traits: talk

    2 months ago
  • Turning point: talk

    2 months ago
  • 20 years sober (6-12-2003): talk from summer 2023

    3 months ago
  • 8 fold path: TALK

    3 months ago
  • Grateful-Sorrow: Talk

    3 months ago