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Martin Aylward's Dharma Talks at Gaia House
Martin Aylward
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2024-09-14 Nothing Matters, Everything Matters 42:03
This talk explores various paradoxes, and covers the inner territory of fear and control, inflationary and deflationary self-importance, the illusion of decision-making, and responsibility vs responsiveness in how we interact with the complexities of the world.
Gaia House Radical Freeness: Everything to Lose, Nothing to Fear
2024-09-13 Identity and Beyond 38:53
This talk discusses different aspects of identity, exploring them through the lens of anatta, or no-essence. Martin explores biological identity, personal identity, social identity, and how we can honour these different forms and their expressions, moving freely through a world of identities without being tied to them.
Gaia House Radical Freeness: Everything to Lose, Nothing to Fear
2024-09-12 Karma, Self-Reflective Consciousness & Buddha Nature 47:06
Martin explores various features of our conditioning, pointing throughout the talk to the natural ease of a free heart as we move beyond self-measurement.
Gaia House Radical Freeness: Everything to Lose, Nothing to Fear
2024-09-11 Visions of Liberation 42:48
This talk examines and contrasts various worldly and spiritual ideas of freedom, while Martin points beyond our inherited, internalised and self-imposed contraints, to the authentic free-ness at the heart of the dharma.
Gaia House Radical Freeness: Everything to Lose, Nothing to Fear
2023-09-22 On Free-ness 49:13
Reflecting on the retreat title - ‘A joyful liberation’ - Martin looks at nuances of joy, and at that which is liberating, pointing beyond our formal meditation practices, into the wider realms of an integrative dharma practice with its personal, social and ecological dimensions.
Gaia House A Joyful Liberation
2023-09-20 On Dissolution 51:52
Martin explores the essence refrain of the heart sutra, looking at emptiness in terms of gone-ness, spaciousness, and dissolution. He looks at what dissolves and what remains as our core structures dissolve, particularly in the areas of desire, belief, conformity and identity, or What I want, What I believe, How I behave and Who I take my myself to be.
Gaia House A Joyful Liberation
2023-09-19 On Awake-ness 43:24
This talk begins with how Consciousness is fundamentally awake by nature. It explores ways this awake-ness gets obscured, ignored and suppressed, and goes on to looks at particular aspects of this awake nature and its functioning, such as consciousness, awareness, presence, and attention, then looks at the fruits of an awakened life.
Gaia House A Joyful Liberation
2019-10-08 Dharma Talk - On Meaningfulness 48:33
Martin explores the inherent human longing for meaning and purpose, in its historical and religious contexts, and in the flawed ways we habitually seek wholeness or meaning. He describes the internalising of a deep meaningfulness that transcends ordinary understanding, entering into a harmony and resonance with life just as it is, constantly expressing its infinite yet goalless meaningfulness.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and in Movement
2019-10-08 Meditation Instructions (Day 4) 17:46
Three Forms of Skilful Attention.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and in Movement
2019-10-07 Dharma Talk - Depths of Connection 59:24
Various components of connection - kindness, empathy, joy -are explored in this talk, spanning both meditative and engaged forms of connecting with ourselves, others and life itself.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and in Movement

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