Dave Smith Dharma

About Dave Smith Dharma

If you would like to support the work I do, Please consider making a donation, via paypal or venmo: https://www.davesmithdharma.com/contact/ 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. 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.

Publisher

dave smith

Category

education · health & fitness · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Jun 2012

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

99 of 419 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Stress: talk

   Dave Smith explores the nature of stress and offers insights for managing it.

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   5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Desire and Craving: talk/Shannon Smith

   Host Dave Smith interviews Shannon Smith about understanding desire and craving, offering insights for navigating these powerful emotions.

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   18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Equanimity: Overview

   Dave Smith, a meditation teacher, explores the practice of equanimity, offering an overview of this essential heart practice.

Inside a recent episode

Stress: talk

Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And I can kind of have, um, Some some space between it. Maybe there's less reactivity. There's less space between it. And a lot of times the theory has been is if we can have more objectivity about our stress or we can have more space between it, less reactivity, that that that's going to be helpful. And actually, it turns out that that's actually not the case. And this is very true for people with depression. Depression is a very interesting thing, first of all, because it's very much pandemic-like. Everybody seems to have a bit of it. And actually, the thing that Mark was saying about they take brain images and that when people have like chronic, like real chronic, like treatment-resistant, medication-resistant depression, it's one of the only pathologies that they can actually see on an fMRI. […]

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

22,930

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

109 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

27 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 78 / 100

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Quality

87

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

96

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