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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.

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United States

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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.

Language:

English


Episodes
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What is Dharma?

4/22/2024
Talk given recently at the Durango Dharma Center. Exploring seven ways the term dharma is used in the pali texts. Enjoy!

Duration:00:28:20

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Dharma of Addiction

4/22/2024
Another talk on the dharma of addiction. This was given at the Albq insight group. https://abqinsight.org/

Duration:00:35:39

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Clinging and non-clinging: talk

4/21/2024
This talk was given for Big Heart City. https://www.bigheartcity.org/

Duration:00:42:50

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4 sets of 3: training, refuge, characteristics, systems: talk

4/20/2024
4 talks put together. Exploring the sets lists: 3 kinds of mind training, 3 refuges, 3 characteristics, and the 3 trainings of the 8 fold path. This was given over several weeks for dharma live online. Sign up here: https://www.davesmithdharma.com/live-groups/

Duration:01:37:08

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Turning point: talk

2/29/2024
This two talks are spliced together. I explore the idea of a "turning point" in our life and in our practice.

Duration:00:32:56

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states & traits: talk

2/29/2024
These 2 talks, edited together explore the importance of distinguishing traits and states.

Duration:00:27:06

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Buddhist modernism & truth: talk

2/29/2024
Two talks edited together that outline the location of dharma in American and potential side-effects.

Duration:00:31:31

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Grateful-Sorrow: Talk

1/17/2024
Reflections on view related to joy/sorrow & gratitude/compasssion.

Duration:00:31:07

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20 years sober (6-12-2003): talk from summer 2023

1/17/2024
Random and scattered reflections on 20 years of sobriety. Thanks!

Duration:00:23:50

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8 fold path: TALK

1/17/2024
This is a LONG talk. 8 separate talks spliced together from my weekly mentoring program. It offers academic perspectives on the 8 fold path and its cultivated, along with secular and contemporary points of view in hopes to bring the practice of the 8 fold path to life. Enjoy. If you are interested in joining the mentoring sangha you can find out more HERE.

Duration:02:34:05

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The faith to let go: Talk

1/7/2024
This talk was given at the NYE Big Bear Retreat. It explores the relationship with faith and renunciation.

Duration:00:56:45

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2024 Teacher Checkin': talk

1/7/2024
These 2 talks are edited together, they are very similar. Given for my weekly Dharma/Live Online class and also for students in the mentoring program. This transparent talk offers specific reflection on how approach the practice and teaching of the dharma. To join us: https://www.davesmithdharma.com/live-groups/

Duration:00:46:22

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Metta: talk

1/7/2024
Overview of metta practice. This was given at the 2023 NYE retreat at Big Bear. Dave and Cheryl.

Duration:00:25:29

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Death: talk

12/11/2023
Day Before Halloween. Enjoy.

Duration:00:29:26

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1st Foundation of Mindfulness: talk

12/11/2023
This is my 300th episode! I can't believe it. I started uploading dharma talks back in 2012. Thanks for listening. This talk is HUGE. Seven talks spliced together from my dharma/live online course. It covers the entirety of the first foundation of mindfulness as it appears in the satiphatthana sutta. If you want to join the class, I have a big discount running. You will also get access to my new class called Audio Dharma Talks which has over 250 talks. Those talks are not here on this podcast. Click HERE. https://www.davesmithdharma.com/contact/

Duration:03:50:13

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Talk: Feeling

11/8/2023
This talk was given for the Dharma Live/Online weekly class. Feel free to join the practice community. HERE

Duration:00:33:02

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Universal Empathy: talk

11/3/2023
Talk 3, Montana retreat.

Duration:01:01:25

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Contentment, purpose, meaning: talk

11/3/2023
Talk 4, Montana retreat.

Duration:01:04:00

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Courage: talk

11/1/2023
Second night talk, Montana metta vipassana retreat.

Duration:01:05:02

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Metta Vipassana: guided

11/1/2023
Day one, morning session/guided of the metta vipassana retreat in Montana. https://bozemandharmacenter.org/

Duration:00:19:05