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Martin Aylward's Dharma Talks at Gaia House
Martin Aylward
2017-09-13 Morning Teachings - Meditation is Right Here 53:19
Martin explores the ground of meditation practice as the right-here-ness of experience and awareness. He points to an embodied practice, opening ourselves up to an availability to whatever presents itself.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2017-09-12 Giving it Back to Nature - Opening Talk 28:12
Martin speaks about Ajahn Buddhadasa and his description of practice as giving back to nature what we have wrongly appropriated from her.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2017-03-11 Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation 46:10
Freely abiding awareness, freely unfolding experience.
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher
2017-03-10 Afternoon Teachings: A Generous Spirit 42:13
We look at the kinds of attitudes we habitually bring to our practice, seeing the inertia and familiarity of unwholesome attitudes or spirits. We then explore the power of a generous spirit, or the practice of Dana, as a foundation for happiness.
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher
2017-03-10 Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation 45:19
Appropriate Attention.
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher
2017-03-09 Afternoon Teachings: Time, Space, and Becoming 53:20
Martin explores the flexible nature of perception, and how deepening meditative skill can uncover, deconstruct and understand how we create the familiar reference points of experience.
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher
2017-03-09 Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation 51:33
Complete and Continuous attention.
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher
2017-03-08 Afternoon Teachings: No Wrong Experience 59:04
This talk explores how embodied attention can feels into and find out about all our experience. We explore how inquiry works, not as intellectual curiosity but as a body-cantered investigation that allows everything to be met and explored.
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher
2017-03-08 Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation 38:39
Embodied attention (Yoniso Manisikara)
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher
2017-03-07 Independent in This World - Introductory Talk 27:25
In this opening talk, Martin points to 3 kinds of liberation that form the ground of the retreat practice - freedom from views, freedom from compulsions, and freedom from self-concern.
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

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