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Dave Smith Dharma

323 episodes - English - Latest episode: 23 days ago - ★★★★★ - 96 ratings

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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.

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Episodes

Ehipassiko: Come and see for yourself.

July 09, 2017 03:10 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MB

Ehipassiko: Come and see for yourself. All of the Buddha's teaching are meantime to be investigated within your own direct experience.

4 foundations of mindfulness

July 09, 2017 03:07 - 36 minutes - 34 MB

This talk from a Sunday night at ATS in Santa Monica CA outlines the 4 foundations of mindfulness. Thus I heard...

hindrances & awakening factors

July 09, 2017 03:02 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MB

This talk was given at ATS Melrose in the spring of 2017. It outlines the goal of mindfulness practice as a strategy to overcome hindrances and cultivate awaken factors as outlined in the 4th foundation of mindfulness in the satipatthana. http://rebelsaintdharma.com/resources/academic-dharma/

What the Buddha taught?

July 09, 2017 02:57 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MB

Is there a difference between what Buddha may have said, and what he may have taught. This talk outlines the most basic features of what the earliest buddhist teaching point to. Come and see for yourself... http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390562.What_the_Buddha_Taught

Aspects of Dharma...

July 09, 2017 02:52 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MB

This talks points to basic aspects of Dharma, dissatisfaction, denial and ignorance. This talk was given at the ATS Center in Nashville TN in mid-2016 on a return visit. https://againstthestreamnashville.com/

The wound that seeks the arrow.

July 08, 2017 19:53 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MB

A talk on embracing wounded-ness. Emphasizing that the hearts strength lies in its weakness. A call for vulnerability. The talk concludes with some reflection on the work of Mario Martinez. http://www.beaboveleadership.com/2011/12/07/human-wounds-and-healing-fields/

Metta Vipassana

July 08, 2017 14:27 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MB

Mindfulness practice unites the steadiness of concentration with the immediacy of moment to moment experience. As we learn to collect the body and mind, intuitive wisdom arises. This allows us to open to the truth of each moment’s experience within and around us. Metta (kind-friendliness) meditation practice calls forth the beautiful spiritual emotions within our heart: kindness, compassion, empathetic joy and equanimity. Mindfulness of these qualities strengthens and brings them into fruiti...

Arriving into dharma

July 08, 2017 14:10 - 54 minutes - 50 MB

This talk was recorded at the Green Papaya Sangha in Chaing Mai Thailand in the winter of 2015. The talk explores my introduction to the dharma. http://rebelsaintdharma.com/about/ http://www.newlifethaifoundation.com/

Cultivating gratitude and appreciation

June 28, 2017 02:47 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MB

This talk was given at Vallecitos mountain retreat center in northern NM, June 2017. This talk explores and offers practical instructions on the cultivation of gratitude & appreciate, aka Mudita. The talk is followed by a guided instruction.

compassion: talk and guided meditation

June 25, 2017 01:58 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MB

This talk was given at the Vallecitos mountain retreat center in NM, June 2017. The talk discusses how the cultivation of compassion can be established. The talk is followed by a guided meditation. Please enjoy.

Compassion and dissatisfaction

June 23, 2017 01:52 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MB

This talk was given at Vallecitos retreat center in the mountains of NM in June 2017. The talk outlines that compassion can be awaken thru embracing the difficulties that we face in life. http://www.vallecitos.org/

Variations on a theme: Clinging

December 09, 2016 01:48 - 38 minutes - 21.9 MB

Reaching into the old archives, here is an old talk given on a Monday night class at Against the Stream.

Papanca

December 23, 2014 01:50 - 31 minutes - 18.2 MB

One from the ATS Nashville vaults: A reflection on the difficult to define, yet easy to notice process of papanca (mental proliferation) and some strategies to work with it.

Lets talk about sex....

December 12, 2014 01:35 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MB

A talk given on sex, not sure where, December 14 2014.

Sila-Samadhi-Panna

November 22, 2014 00:47 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MB

This talk was given at Insight Santa Cruz, November 2014. Dave had just left Nashville, on his way to relocated to LA.

Mindfulness and the 4 noble truths

May 21, 2014 22:34 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MB

Mindfulness and the 4 Noble truths. A talk form 2014 at Against the Stream Santa Monica.

Karma

May 21, 2014 22:31 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MB

A talk deep from the vaults of Against the Stream Nashville. A talk on karma, as related to right view.

Faith and renciation

June 22, 2013 19:27 - 34 minutes - 20 MB

Another talk pulled from the vaults of ATS Nashville, the early years of Dave's teaching. Discussing the pali diad of Sadhha-Nekkamma (faith-renunciation).

Life of the Historic Buddha

January 28, 2013 01:31 - 28 minutes - 16.3 MB

This was the opening talk at the opening of the Against the Stream Nashville Center on Charlotte Pike, it was freezing in the room. 1-27-2013

Love: reflections on...

June 21, 2012 23:44 - 23 minutes - 13.6 MB

Refections on love from the vaults of talks given in Nashville, a long time ago.....in a galaxy far. far away. Thus Ive heard.

I hate this

June 11, 2012 00:44 - 25 minutes - 14.7 MB

An old talk from the 12 South Dharma Center. Circa June 2012.

Dharma Life Story

June 06, 2012 22:28 - 54 minutes - 31.6 MB

This talk, deep from the vaults, was given at the 2nd anniversary of ATS-Nashville back in 2012. enjoy.

SEX

January 22, 2012 08:30 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MB

A talk on sex, back from the days at the 12 South Dharma Center in Nashville TN>