Podcast episodes
49 podcast episodes in the Samadhi Practice Library, with guided instruction you can follow.
The Samadhi Podcast: short talks and guided meditations to take with you. Free to everyone here, and on Spotify if you would rather listen there.
- Guided Meditation - Mindfulness of Breathing for Relaxation This is a guided mindfulness of breathing meditation, designed to help you relax and release tension and stress. This meditation can help you to bring about a sense of focus, calm
- Navigating People Pleasing In this episode, David explores the roots of people pleasing and how it ties into Buddhist teachings on attachment and the need for approval. He shares insights on recognising this
- Guided Meditation - Navigating the World's Darkness with Our Light In this meditation, David guides us in a compassion practice through the metaphor of a candle flame in darkness. This practice helps us to connect with our compassionate nature, an
- The Story of the Anger-Eating Demon In this episode, David shares the classic Buddhist parable of the 'anger-eating demon' and some ways of interpreting this story, and approaching our difficult emotions and experien
- Guided Meditation - Starting Your Day Right This is a guided meditation designed to help you start your day with mindfulness, a sense of grounded presence, and by thinking ahead and reflecting on how you wish to show up for
- Four Aspects of Patient-Acceptance In this episode, David explores kshanti, or patient-acceptance, a pivotal concept in Buddhism. This approach is more than mere tolerance or passive resignation. Instead, it is a wh
- Guided Meditation on Patient-Acceptance This is a guided meditation on patient-acceptance, which accompanies the previous episode 43. Using the power of our imagination, we see how approaching challenges with Acceptance,
- Beyond Regret - Four Steps to Purifying Past Behaviours In this episode, David explores the transformative wisdom of the Tibetan Buddhist practice of the Four Opponent Powers. As tools for purifying negative karma, these four steps offe
- Guided Meditation - Body of Light This is a guided meditation on Tibetan Buddhist practice of 'Body of Light.'
- Acceptance and Seeing Life as Like a River In this episode, David explores the profound analogy of seeing life as like a river, and how this view highlights impermanence, acceptance, and the importance of living life in a f
- 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 perspect
- 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 st
- 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 distor
- 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,
- 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 outc
- 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.
- 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,
- 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.
- 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
- 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 ou
- The Beauty of Gratitude In this episode, David explores the 'superpower' that is gratitude. Gratitude is supremely important for our well-being and can really turn our day around and bring a radical shift
- Guided Meditation - Starting Your Day With Gratitude This is a guided meditation on gratitude. It is best listened to in the morning, to start your day with a clean slate and an intention to express appreciation for all the things in
- Guided Meditation - Deep Relaxation for Sleep This is a guided meditation designed to help you unwind and relax your body ready for a good night's sleep. By bringing awareness into the body and consciously relaxing individual
- Striving for Perfection Prompted by a post on social media about perfectionism, David draws out how striving for perfect puts pressure on ourselves, on other people who never agreed to our standards, and
- The Gifts of Mindfulness - In Conversation with Neil Seligman Neil Seligman, a mindfulness teacher and former barrister, tells David how a remark in a car park ended an eight year legal career and set him on the work he does now. He names thr
- Guided Meditation - Heartful Presence with Neil Seligman This is a guided meditation on Heartful Presence with Neil Seligman. This practice helps you tune into the body with loving awareness and notice what is arising in your awareness.
- Guided Meditation - Viewing the Mind As Like the Sky This is a guided meditation on viewing the mind as like the sky. Whenever we identify with and get carried away by our thoughts we lose awareness of the spacious clarity of our min
- The Keys to Happiness in Daily Life In this episode, David talks about the keys to happiness in daily life. By taking the time to understand and cultivate the three pillars of genuine wellbeing identified by contempl
- The Art of Forgiveness - In Conversation with Barbara J Hunt In this episode, we are joined by Barbara J Hunt - Forgiveness Specialist, Coach, Bestselling Author, and Workshop and Retreat Leader. Barbara has over 25 years of experience in th
- Saying No to Self-Criticism David separates useful self-criticism, which teaches and moves us on, from the inner critic that fixates on small details, exaggerates them and calls them truth. He traces it back
- Guided Meditation - Self-Criticism to Self-Confidence This is a guided meditation on turning our self-criticism into self-confidence. During this practise, we learn to acknowledge and accept the self-critical mind, detach from its sto
- Changing Negative Habits and Cultivating Positive Ones David answers a listener's question on breaking a damaging habit and embedding a good one, using a bus station and a road network: each thought is a bus pulling in, and boarding it
- Guided Meditation - Experiencing the Mind & Body as a Lake This is a guided meditation on experiencing the mind & body as a lake. During this practice, we mindfully attend to our experience of all sensations inside and outside the mind and
- Guided Meditation - Mindfulness of Feelings This is a guided meditation on the second close application of mindfulness - mindfulness of feelings (Skt. vedana). The four close applications of mindfulness (Skt. smrityupasthana
- Developing a Daily Meditation Practice Meditation as cultivating the heart-mind, rather than a tranquiliser taken when stress gets too much. David explains why a formal practice is a support and not the path itself, and
- Healing Trauma Through Meditation and R.A.I.N. - In Conversation with Charlotte Adle In this episode, we are joined by Charlotte Adler of Bodhicitta Lifeworks. Charlotte is a healer, therapeutic counsellor, and meditation guide and has spent the last 13 years or so
- Guided Meditation on R.A.I.N. (with Charlotte Adler) This is a guided meditation on R.A.I.N., recorded by Charlotte Adler. R.A.I.N. is a method by which we release painful emotions through mindfulness and self-compassion. Charlotte e
- Dealing with Frustration In this episode, David explores a common emotion that many of us experience on a regular basis: frustration. Frustration comes from non-acceptance and our ‘grasping’ at our expecta
- Guided Meditation on Maitrī (Loving-Kindness) This is a guided meditation on Loving-Kindness (maitrī in Sanskrit). Loving Kindness is the first of the Four Immeasurables, a rich compilation of practices that open the heart, co
- The Key to Happy, Healthy & Loving Relationships In this episode, David talks about love and attachment, and the key to happy, healthy and loving relationships from a Buddhist perspective. For a lot of us, if someone was to ask u
- How to Stop Thoughts in Meditation In this episode, David addresses the question 'how to stop thinking 1000 thoughts during meditation?' Talking practically from his own experience and what's been taught by contempl
- Guided Meditation - Anāpānasati This is a short 15-minute guided anāpānasati practice. Simply meaning 'mindfulness of breathing,' anāpānasati was the meditation practice most widely emphasized by the Buddha. It i
- What to Do When You Feel Sad In this episode, David addresses the question: what to do when I feel sad and overwhelmed? In modern life, in the pursuit of a successful and happy life, we have a tendency to abus
- Guided Meditation - Settling the Body, Speech and Mind in their Natural States This is a 15-minute guided meditation in which we engage in the practice of settling body, speech and mind in their natural states. This practice is a wonderful preparation for any
- Guided Meditation - The Space of the Mind This is a 15-minute guided meditation in which we turn our attention to the space of the mind - the domain where thoughts, images, memories, and feelings arise. This meditation hel
- Why You Should Meditate In this episode, David answers the question 'Why Meditate?' and explains why everyone should meditate. When we first try to meditate, we notice that our mind is all over the place.
- Overcoming Anxiety and Worry In this episode, David explores anxiety, worry, and stress - how they arise in our mind, how we can overcome them, and some practical tips for what to do about any anxiety and worr
- Genuine Happiness In this episode, David introduces the Samadhi Podcast and discusses a core Buddhist theme: Genuine Happiness. The desire to be happy and free from any form of discomfort or sufferi
- Guided Breathing Meditation for Relaxation This is a 15-minute guided breathing meditation, designed to help you totally relax and release the turbulence of thoughts and feelings that can plague your mind. This meditation w