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Catching Your Breath

David Oromith · 29 minutes · recorded June 29, 2025

In the open awareness meditation we move attention through each sense in turn, sight, sound and the movements of the mind, resting with bare, non-reactive attention on whatever arises. David tells the story of a traveller who leaps untethered into a river to save a drowning child and is swept away himself, and draws out why we need to secure our own footing before we can help with the world's, or our own, difficulties without drowning in them.

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