Join David Oromith for a one-week retreat on transforming everyday life into awakening by following the 37 Practices of a Boddhisattva
About This Course
This course, recorded during a one-week retreat held in Wales in 2024, is guided by the highly revered 14th-century Tibetan Buddhist text, The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas by Gyalse Tokme Zangpo. It offers an opportunity to explore radical teachings that challenge and transform conventional views of our self, others, our reality, and the adversity we face.
This beautifully condensed text gives advice on how to transform our own life by following the bodhisattva path. A bodhisattva is one who, motivated by compassion, works to achieve enlightenment so that they can help all other sentient beings. During this course, this classic text serves as the basis for deep discussions of our life, our priorities, and ways of handling challenge and change.
Gyalse Tokme’s teachings invite us on a journey of deep introspection and awakening. These verses express a bodhisattva’s ideals, and though they may at times be radically different from our own, by emulating them however we can, we cultivate practical tools for living with greater compassion, understanding, and resilience.
Throughout this course, we engage with these teachings in a practical way, to discover how embracing adversity can become a powerful path to inner peace and enlightenment.
What's Included
- Lifetime access to the course
- Seven days of teaching & practice (33 hours of video)
- Downloadable audio versions of each meditation (22 in total)
- 25+ pages of notes & further materials for the retreat
The Teacher
David Oromith is the co-founder of Samadhi. He is a Buddhist contemplative and meditation guide with a background in mental health services. Having practised meditation since the age of 18, his journey into Buddhism began through personal struggles with depression and anxiety, leading him to the Buddha’s teachings.
David has studied under various teachers, with Lama Alan as his root guru, and is influenced by Tibetan Buddhism among other traditions, recognising the value and benefit of multiple points-of-view. He focuses on meditation training and core, practical Buddhist principles in his teachings. He is the author of the book A Practical Guide to Mindful Living and leads several retreats across the UK every year, as well as teaching online and in person across South Wales.
David’s engaging style is clear, practical, and relatable, hoping to make ancient practices applicable to modern life. He envisions and works towards the establishment of the Samadhi Eco Retreat Centre as a community for spiritual development.
About our retreat
Each day, we explore different verses from the 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas, guided by commentaries from H.E. Garchen Rinpoche, H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama, and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. We explore how the wisdom contained in these verses can be applied to modern life. The teachings focus on:
Aligning Behaviour with Intention: Learn how to align your thoughts and actions with your highest aspirations and intentions.
Transforming Adversity: Learn how challenges and difficult people can provide powerful opportunities for growth and awakening.
Radical Compassion: Delve into practices that transform empathy and wisdom into the compassionate mind of bodhicitta.
Reframing Perceptions: Discover how reframing our perceptions can lead to a profound change in how we experience life.
About Gyalse Tokme Zangpo
The text we’ll explore was composed by Gyalse Tokme Zangpo, one of the most humble and impressive figures of Tibetan Buddhism’s past. He was an extremely learned scholar, who studied a vast number of teachings from all traditions. His every instant was devoted to helping others and to Dharma which he spread through composition, teaching and debate. He could teach with total confidence on any subject or text.
Without any expectation as to the result, he was extremely generous to all, particularly the poor, the destitute and the suffering. A formidable and inspiring example of what it truly means to cherish others more than oneself, his words continue to resonate and inspire centuries later.
David guided the diverse group, who were at different levels of understanding of the Buddhist teachings, through the lines of this beautiful 14th century text with such ease, giving modern day examples that were so insightful and relevant to life today with all its many challenges. He always answered our many questions with a patient and considered approach.
Whether new to the teachings or well versed, myself and others found this text quite inspirational and helped me personally to better understand myself, my relationship with others and how to better navigate my life with loving kindness, compassion and awareness by identifying what gets in the way. I can’t recommend these teachings highly enough as a relaxing and enlightening course, that offers sound advice to support wellbeing and happiness."
