Steven Smith's Dharma Talks
Steven Smith
The millennium question I hear students asking is how they can integrate the path of self-liberation with the path of paying attention to the welfare of others. My focus is guiding practitioners to do both. The dharmic brilliance is that liberation, the core teaching, creates a deep, transformative experience of who we are, which, in turn, transforms our care for the state of all beings everywhere.
I love storytelling as a vehicle for the dharma. I find that creating a non-ordinary reality of time and place carries the Buddhist spirit beneath the intellect and straight into the heart. Since we are all on a mythic journey inside the story of our lives, creating a timeless dimension through storytelling fires up our natural wisdom and compassion.
One of my deepest passions is engaging with an earth dharma. Dharmic awareness gives us a way to create a profound relationship to the land. We can learn to show care, honor and respect, loving the environment as the true extension of our hearts and minds that it is, feeling one with it in our blood.
People all over are seeking and longing for a sense of connection, community and an inner life. When we fuse the traditions of the dharma as self-liberation and as compassionate action, we infuse our daily lives with the power of the ancient lineage of Buddhism. We learn about the true nature of who we are and what it means to lead a compassionate life with ourselves, with others and our environment.
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Select from Steven Smith's
84
talks
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2004-10-12
Abiding In Metta
1998-10-01
AM Instructions
2000-10-02
As It Is: Mystery Beyond Mystery
1999-06-13
Bamboo Mind:
2011-07-24
Brahma Vihara Heart
2019-04-26
Brahma Vihara Overview and Impact on my Recent Stroke
1997-06-16
Carrying On - Practice In Daily Life
2019-04-28
Compassion. Friendliness, Serenity, and Brokenness
2000-09-25
Confidence, Courage, Acceptance, Simplicity = 4 Supports Of Mindfulness
2004-06-06
Cool Warmth Of Metta
2001-10-14
Courage Of Heart
2011-07-23
Courage on the Journey of Awakening
2000-07-21
Courageous Moment
2012-07-21
Discourse
2012-07-23
Discourse
2012-07-26
Discourse
2001-06-04
Encouraging The Light Of Metta
1997-05-25
Energetic Presence Of Mind
1997-06-09
Facets Of Mindfulness
2019-05-04
Faith: Waking up from Spiritual Slumber
1999-06-23
Finding Your Passion
2011-04-19
Four Domains of Mindfulness - Flame of Awareness
2003-07-25
Four Kinds Of Happiness From Insight Meditation
1997-09-28
From Doubt To Confidence: Walking On
2011-04-23
Gratitude and Emptiness
1993-11-02
Guided Karuna Meditation
2011-04-12
Harness the Chariot - The jhanic factors & the restoration of the peaceful mind
2003-06-15
Home In The Heart Of Metta
2012-07-25
Instructions and Questions
2012-07-24
Instructions and Questions
1993-10-07
Instructions, Q&A
2013-07-22
Joy In and of Itself
1999-06-11
Keeping The Island Of Peace In Mind
2000-05-20
Make Of Yourself A Light: Care And Understanding
1992-05-30
Meditation Instruction Q&A (Metta Series)
1993-09-27
Meditation Instructions
1993-10-03
Meditation Instructions, Q&A
2013-07-20
Metta and Compassion
2004-09-29
Metta And Mindfulness - Part I
2001-09-30
Metta, Equanimity And Emotions
2003-07-21
Mindfulness And Supporting Spiritual Virtues
2004-09-27
Morning Instructions
2004-09-27
Morning Instructions
1993-10-12
Morning Q&A
1993-10-27
Morning Q&A
2019-04-30
Mudita. Cultivating Joy and Connecting with the Goodness Inside
2012-07-30
Navigating Change or Supporting Gifts of Mindfulness
2013-07-24
On Equanimity
2010-04-12
Our Practice Is Like A Garden
2000-10-22
Paying Attention, Taking Action, Letting Go
1993-10-12
Q&A
2010-04-24
Seven Factors of Awakening, Part 1 - The Joy that Depends on Nothing
2010-04-26
Seven Factors of Awakening, Part 2 - The Mind that Smiles Unprompted
1997-11-08
Seven Factors Of Awakening: Calm
1997-11-06
Seven Factors Of Awakening: Concentrations And The Vipassana Jhanas
1997-10-17
Seven Factors Of Awakening: Courageous Energy
1997-11-21
Seven Factors Of Awakening: Equanimity
1997-10-13
Seven Factors Of Awakening: Investigation
1998-06-10
Seven Factors Of Awakening: Mindfulness
1997-11-21
Seven Factors Of Awakening: Piti: Dhamma Pleasures
1993-11-01
Shadows and Light
2003-10-06
Spiritual Emotions: Power To Liberate
2003-10-20
Sustaining Mindfulness - Part 2: Patience And Renunciation
2003-10-12
Sustaining Mindfulness Part 1: Confidence & Courage
2011-07-24
The Brahma Vihara Heart
2011-07-26
The Divine Abiding in Compassion
2011-07-26
The Divine Abiding in Compassion
2011-07-28
The Divine Abiding in Joy and Equanimity
2011-07-28
The Divine Abiding in Joy and Equanimity
2000-10-16
The Great Being Of Metta & Mindfulness
1994-10-01
The Great Journey Part 2: Sati
1993-10-18
The Great Journey Part 3: Samadhi
1993-11-29
The Great Journey Part 5
1993-10-04
The Great Journey: The Great Journey Part 1
2003-10-28
The Happiness Of Insight
2019-05-06
The Parallel Paths of Transformation and Transcendence
2011-04-21
The Seven Factors of Awakening - Everything We Need Is Already There
2017-05-01
The Seven Factors of Awakening - Part 1
2017-05-02
The Seven Factors of Awakening - Part 2
2017-05-03
The Seven Factors of Awakening - Part 3
2011-04-25
Touched by Samvega - Spiritual Courage
2004-06-10
Transmission Of Metta
2001-09-26
Vulnerability In Opening To Things As They Are
2001-10-21
Where Language Stops: Insight Jhanas
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Select one of Steven Smith's 25 retreats
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1992-05-29
Metta Retreat: Smith and McDonald-Smith
1993-09-22
1993 Three Month Retreat
1994-09-21
1994 Three Month Retreat
1997-05-23
Memorial Day Weekend (3 days)
1997-06-07
Vipassana Retreat (10 days)
1997-09-20
1997 Three Month Retreat
1998-06-06
Vipassana Retreat (10 days)
1999-06-05
Vipassana Retreat (10 days)
1999-06-21
Young Adult Retreat (4 days)
2000-09-20
2000 Three Month Retreat
2001-06-01
Metta Retreat
2001-09-21
Three Month Retreat Part 1
2003-06-13
Metta Retreat
2003-09-19
Three Month Retreat Part 1
2004-06-04
Metta Retreat
2004-09-24
Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2010-04-07
Metta Vipassana Retreat with Mindful Movement
2011-04-06
Metta Vipassana with Mindful Movement
2011-07-22
Lovingkindness and Mindfulness Meditation Retreat
2011-07-22
Lovingkindness and Mindfulness Meditation Retreat
2012-07-19
Divine Abiding Meditations as Path to Liberation Silent Meditation Retreat
2012-07-29
Courage on the Journey of Awakening Insight Meditation Retreat
2013-07-18
Affectionate Awareness as a Path to Liberation
2017-04-26
Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation
2019-04-24
Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation