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Dharma Talks given at Gaia House
2012-05-28 On Clinging to Existence and Non Existence: Freedom From Self and Not-Self 44:14
Martin Aylward
This talk looks at the inevitability in language of either reifying or negating existence; "It (self) exists" or "it doesn't exist", and how either view is problematic, inviting us in the living immediacy of life, to discover the middle way beyond existing or not-existing.
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-05-27 On Clinging to Thoughts: About the World, About Others, About Self 45:50
Martin Aylward
Martin explores how our various views condition our experience, and keep us locked into viewing and reacting to life in all too familiar ways. We look at the way our views limit our experience of who we are, and how investigating those views can lead us into a more ambiguous, and more liberated sense of our participation in life.
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-05-26 On Wanting: Demands, Defences and Distractions 47:20
Martin Aylward
Martin explores the mechanism of wanting, the felt sense of different types of desire, and 3 ways of contemplating wanting in order to understand it more fully, and to free our relationship with desire.
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-05-25 Letting Go - Three Practices for Heart, Body and Mind 29:59
Martin Aylward
Anupadana, meaning non-clinging (often translated as letting go), is the very essence of Dharma practice. This introductory talk looks at the specifics of cultivating a non-clinging attitude with respect our physical, emotional, and mental experience.
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-05-06 Patterns of Mind, Ethics, Oneness of Mind, Wisdom 64:07
Catherine McGee
which patterns of mind are wholesome and which lead to more suffering? Sila and Samadhi as a basis for presence and the wisdom that sees into the nature of things.
Gaia House Connection and Letting Go

2012-05-05 Connecting or Letting Go? 50:19
Kirsten Kratz
Many of us have a yearning for deeper connection and intimacy. How does this human longing relate to the teachings of "letting go" and "not clinging". This talks reflects on how these, at first sight seemingly contradictory, movements of the heart may support each other, dancing a mysterious dance that will lead to increased freedom and understanding."
Gaia House Connection and Letting Go

2012-05-04 Opening Talk for Connection and Letting Go 65:30
Catherine McGee
This talk also includes Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House Connection and Letting Go

2012-05-01 The Texture of Being 37:59
Helen Stephenson
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2012-04-30 Opening Our Hearts 59:25
Yanai Postelnik
We can at times feel our hearts closed or hardened into a sense of distance, or disconnection from life. As we feel deeply into our experience, we can learn to meet our pain, fear, anger and reactivity, with acceptance, kindness, and courage. In this journey, our heart naturally begins to soften, revealing its natural sensitivity and the profoundly connected openness of our life.
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2012-04-30 Opening Talk 64:14
Yanai Postelnik
Opening talk for the meditation and yoga retreat
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat

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