Guided Meditation – Compassion (karuṇā)

This is a guided meditation on Compassion (karuṇā in Sanskrit). Compassion is one of the Four Immeasurables, a rich compilation of practices that open the heart, counter the distortions in our relationships with ourselves and deepens our relationship with others. The essential nature of compassion is a yearning for the person we are directing our […]

How to Attend to Suffering Without Feeling Burdened

In this episode, David explores how to attend to the sufferings of the world without falling into despair and feeling burdened. Using his own experience of compassion and despair, and inspired by the teachings of the Dalai Lama, he explores why we should cultivate compassion for the sufferings of the world in the first place, and […]

Letting Go of Our Expectations (Live Talk)

The talk is from one of our weekly online guided meditation & discussion groups. The topic of discussion is ‘expectations’ – how our attachment causes us to grasp onto certain outcomes and thus results in us becoming upset when these expectations are not met. We invite you to join us live on Sundays to share in […]

Failure and Guilt

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In Conversation with Joanne Cacciatore: Bearing The Unbearable – Grief & Loss

In this episode of The Samadhi Podcast, David is joined by Dr Joanne Cacciatore, an expert and acclaimed public speaker on grief and traumatic death. During this conversation, we look at how to bear the unbearable. Exploring Joanne’s personal journey with grief, the Selah grief model and hearing her thoughts on some questions from our […]

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