Dealing with Stressful Situations
In this episode, David addresses a question about how to deal with stressful situations. Firstly, he explores the internal causes of stress and frustration from a Buddhist perspective, and then looks at some opposing minds that can bring us greater peace and wellbeing in such turbulent times. Minds such as acceptance, understanding, and compassion can help […]
Guided Meditation – Reflecting Back On The Year
This is a guided meditation on reflecting on our growth in the last year. We often don’t notice the changes and growth we go through on a day-to-day basis, and it’s only when we stop and look where we were that we notice what has changed. In this meditation, spend time reflecting on and appreciating […]
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 […]
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 […]
In Conversation with B. Alan Wallace – Looking Within and Exploring The Potentials of Consciousness
In this episode of The Samadhi Podcast, David is joined by his teacher, B. Alan Wallace. Lama Alan very kindly offers us his thoughts on the nature and potentials of consciousness, the importance of shamatha and contemplative inquiry, and his vision for the Centers for Contemplative Research.
Guided Meditation – Present Centring for Grounding and Relaxation
This is a guided meditation on present centring. This practice is designed to help us bring ourselves back into the present moment when we have become lost in worries of the future or resentments of the past. Present centring is a skill that we need to develop in order to live mindfully and purposefully.
How to Preserve Our Inner Peace and Calm in Daily Life
In this episode, David responds to a question that came through our Facebook Group about how to preserve the calm and peace we find over the holidays when normal life starts again. Responding in the context of The Five Obscurations, which obscure our natural peace and clarity of mind, David stresses the importance of keeping a watchful eye over our mind at every moment and averting afflictions as they arise.
Guided Meditation – Working Through a Challenge or Question In Our Life
This is a guided meditation pulled from our Sunday meditation class on September 12th. This meditation allows us to bring a difficult challenge, question or problem we have into our meditation practice. Quite often, the thinking mind tries to work its way through our problems and can obscure our natural intuition and creativity. This meditation […]
