Author: David Oromith

David is an experienced Buddhist contemplative and meditation guide who has studied and taught internationally for several years. He is the Co-Founder of Samadhi and a qualified mindfulness teacher, Mental Health First Aider, and an active member of the Association for Spiritual Integrity. His teaching style is clear and practical, and his warm and humorous approach makes him a popular mindfulness teacher. In his own practise and teachings, David focusses on the core themes of Early Buddhism and emphasises the practices of Shamatha (meditative quiescence), and its union with Vipassana on the Four Applications of Mindfulness and the Four Immeasurables – which presents a direct path leading to the realisation of our deepest nature and the potentials of consciousness, and closely follows how the Buddha himself attained enlightenment. He considers himself to be the fortunate student of many teachers, including his root lama, Lama Alan Wallace.

Simplifying Our Activities and Closing The Tabs

Our modern lives are like living with hundreds of windows and tabs open on our computer. If your computer was continuously left with loads of tabs open and we were opening new tabs all the time, then it would eventually crash. If you opened a program that was particularly resource heavy and the fan was […]

Reflecting Before Acting

“What do you think, Rahula, What is the purpose of a mirror?” the Buddha asked. Rahula responded, “It is for the purpose of reflection, sir.” “In the same way, Rahula, an action to be done by body, speech or mind should only be done after careful reflection.” Majjhima Nikaya 61 – Instructions to Rahula at […]

Being ‘Intelligently Selfish’ & Tonglen

“If you would like to be selfish, you should do it in a very intelligent way. The stupid way to be selfish is … seeking happiness for ourselves alone. … the intelligent way to be selfish is to work for the welfare of others.” His Holiness the Dalai Lama

The Six Paramitas – Protecting Our Practice (Ethical Discipline)

Notes & Transcript Autogenerated Transcript (may not be accurate) So that practice [referring to meditation on seeing the mind as like the sky and thoughts as like clouds] we’ve done a few times during these sessions. It’s not the easiest practice, belongs to the Mahamudra tradition, but it is a very worthwhile practice to learn […]

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