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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        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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        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