Overcoming Distraction in Daily Life
Notes & Transcript Transcript Sunday Morning Meditation, February 8th David Oromith Good morning everyone. A joy to see all of your faces today. So thank you all for joining. I hope the week’s been kind to you. I know I saw some of you yesterday for our book launch talk, which went very well, I […]
Ryokan and the Moon
Notes & Transcript Transcript Sunday Morning Meditation February 1st David Oromith Hello, good morning everyone. Wonderful to see you all. Thank you for coming. Hope the week has been kind to you. So we’ll jump straight in as we always do. Meditation, then talk, then discussion. We’ll be practicing for about 20min. Meditation And so […]
Return, Renew and Begin Again
Teaching & Meditation for the International Day of Peace 2025
Hope In Difficult Times
Take a Step Back
Comparison is the Thief of Joy
Notes & Transcript Transcript Sunday Morning Meditation May 10th Teachings This week, for our discussion, I wanted to turn to this famous saying: ‘Comparison is the thief of joy’ that comes from Roosevelt and I believe that Mark Twain has a very similar version. And so this idea of comparison, comparing oneself is, as you […]
Do You Need To Be Right?
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1070764209/166c98b039 Notes & Transcript Transcript Sunday Morning Meditation 30th march Hello, hello, hello. Good morning to you all. Welcome to our Sunday session. To the mothers among us, a Happy Mother’s Day. And my love and well wishes are with those of you for whom today is a hard day. You’re in my heart and […]
Our Essential Nature is Basic Goodness
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1066302639/fbf0cd4642 Notes & Transcript Transcript Sunday morning Meditation 16th March 2025 Teachings Well, for this morning’s talk or reflection, I thought we could reflect on the Buddhist teaching that we all essentially have within us a basic goodness. Sometimes, of course, what we refer to as our Buddha nature or our enlightened nature. And essentially […]
Training the Monkey Mind
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1059430667/9aa14bb5de Notes & Transcript Transcript Sunday Morning Meditation 23rd February 2025 Hello. Good morning to you all. So wonderful to see you. Thanks for joining. Teachings So we’ve returned this morning to this practice of shamatha or calm abiding meditation, which is a practice of stabilising the mind; a practice of training the attention, training […]