South West Wales Meditation & Mindfulness Group

Come Celebrate With Us 🎉
Come and celebrate the launch of Calm Mind, Open Heart, our new pocketbook from David Oromith.

We’ll share food, mingle and connect with one another, hear a short talk from David on the heart of the book, followed by Q&A and a chance to get your copy signed.

Schedule
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Mingling & Food Served
2:00 pm – 2:50 pm – Book Talk and Q&A (will be livestreamed online)
2:50 pm – Book Signing

About the Book
Calm Mind, Open Heart: 108 Reflections from Buddhism, Psychology & Real Life

In this book, Buddhist contemplative David Oromith distils the most resonant teachings into a pocket-sized companion for the everyday, pairing timeless Buddhist insight with real life. Guided by warmth, humour and the disarming honesty of someone who has walked the path with depression, anxiety and burnout, each reflection offers a clear step towards a calmer mind and an open heart.

Join us for our free weekly online guided meditation and group discussion on Sundays at 10am.

Everyone welcome, no pressure to speak or have your camera on - simply listen in and enjoy.

These sessions include a guided meditation, a short talk on our practice of the week, and some time for group discussion. There is no need to commit to every week, you can drop-in whenever you wish.

During these sessions, we will engage in various meditations from the Buddhist and other contemplative traditions. These meditations will help you to unwind, relax, let go of things like stress and anxiety, and cultivate positive minds such as patience, compassion, and equanimity.

With a regular meditation practice, you will gain greater and greater peace of mind and discover a more positive approach to life, as well as improved levels of emotional and mental health. Meditation has numerous benefits for the health of both your body and mind, is easy to do, and something everyone can learn.

"Since nearly everyone living in the modern world is coping with an overload of thinking, remembering, and planning this may be just what the doctor ordered: a general prescription for soothing and healing overworked bodies and minds." – B. Alan Wallace

Everybody is welcome to join these sessions.

We put a lot of effort into trying to make life go the way we planned. But then… it doesn’t. We miss our chance, something goes wrong, someone says no, or something unexpected happens. The mind often reacts as if it’s been personally insulted.

In this talk, hosted on Insight Timer Live, we’ll explore what’s really going on when we don’t get what we want, and how to work with disappointment without turning into a monster or completely falling apart. We’ll look into the basic Buddhist psychology of attachment and aversion, and how your expectations become the tension and frustration you experience.

You’ll leave with insights that help you to:
– recognise when desire turns into attachment
– manage frustration in the body and mind (without making it everyone else’s problem)
– let go of an outcome without giving up on what matters
– meet life as it is, with greater wellbeing and happiness

We’ll conclude with a brief guided practice and time for questions.

Anger is one of the most powerful and persuasive human emotions. It can feel justified, energising, and even necessary – yet the Buddha consistently presents it as a source of suffering, distortion, and limitation.

Many of us encounter Buddhist teachings on anger through summaries, later texts, or modern interpretations. In this short Sutta Study series, we will turn directly to a small selection of early Buddhist texts from the Pāli Canon to see how the Buddha and the early tradition approached anger directly.

Drawing on discourses from the Saṃyutta and Aṅguttara Nikāyas, a reflection from the Theragāthā, and short passages from the Dhammapada, we will explore anger from several perspectives: how it arises in response to insult, how it relates to power and strength, its consequences, and how understanding and practice can gradually transform it. Rather than offering a single solution, we’ll see how the Buddha provided a range of skilful responses, encouraging curiosity and openness to different approaches.

This series is suitable for those with some familiarity with Buddhist practice who are interested in studying the suttas or reflecting on the role of anger in the path to freedom. No prior textual study experience is necessary to join and benefit from the series.

Each session will include a guided meditation, a reading of the texts with commentary, and time for group discussion. We will focus on how these teachings can help us respond skillfully to anger in everyday life, making the practice relevant and accessible.