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Martin Aylward's Dharma Talks at Gaia House
Martin Aylward
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2019-10-05 Meditation Instructions (Day 1) 1:22:33
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Entering into presence.
Gaia House :  Awakening in Stillness and in Movement
2019-03-19 Freely Engaging 55:35
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These talks build on one another and work well as a series. Building on and referring to the previous talks on the retreat, these reflexions serve as an invitation to reflect on our engagement with the world. Reflections draw on a full and free engagement with thought, speech and action for showing up amidst the turbulence and uncertainty of the world we live in.
Gaia House :  Freeness and Friction: How We Meet Ourselves and the World
2019-03-18 Freely Allowing 40:53
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These talks build on one another and work well as a series. Dharma practice is an invitation, and training, in meeting experience spaciously and graciously. These reflections unpack what that means, pointing to the inherently spacious nature of awareness, and the free heart’s capacity to hold experience tenderly.
Gaia House :  Freeness and Friction: How We Meet Ourselves and the World
2019-03-17 Freely Knowing 46:55
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These talks build on one another and work well as a series. This talk looks at the inherently knowing nature of mind. Martin looks at the way we get stuck in knowledge, or knowing about, and generate anxiety and a sense of deficiency about not knowing. He invites us beyond conventional knowing into non-conceptual awareness, and the direct knowing of whatever is happening.
Gaia House :  Freeness and Friction: How We Meet Ourselves and the World
2019-03-16 Freely Abiding 50:01
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These talks build on one another and work well as a series. In this talk Martin explores the capacity to inhabit experience, to be with experience from the inside; to abide in the midst of what is happening. The talk uses the storm that is raging outside the hall as an example of sitting steadily in the midst of turbulence, and all that swirls around our attention.
Gaia House :  Freeness and Friction: How We Meet Ourselves and the World
2018-10-10 Meeting it All - Contact, Curiosity, Care 43:07
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Martin looks at these Curiosity qualities as both inherent qualities of awareness, and qualities we can support and cultivate in each moment, whether in meditation or daily activity, in silence or in communication.
Gaia House :  Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2018-10-09 Inhabiting the Fields of Experience 42:14
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This talk looks at expanding fields of presence, exploring the composites of experience (khanda) through inhabiting the 'body-field', the 'citta-field' and a whole, or all-inclusive field of experience.
Gaia House :  Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2018-10-07 The Dharma and the Drama 43:18
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Martin explores the meaning of dharma as Nature. What would it be like to meet all our experience as natural? To let in all that arises so as to meet and explore the whole of experience. And what of the drama that we generate? Maybe, the more we can make room for our inner dramas, the less hold they might have over us.
Gaia House :  Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2018-05-05 01 Exploring the True Heart's Longing 37:42
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2018-04-01 A Path of Free-ness 41:56
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This talk looks at different freedoms - social, worldly and spiritual, and explores Buddhas 3-fold training of Conduct, Meditation and Wisdom as a path of freeness.
Gaia House :  The Art of Living Freely

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