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Martin Aylward's Dharma Talks at Gaia House
Martin Aylward
2016-03-14 Morning Reflections on Sustaining & Returning to Presence 52:24
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher
2016-03-13 Inclining Towards Freedom - Clarity, Skilfulness and Love 52:25
Martin looks at qualities of mind that open up our Freedom of Being.He explores how Clarity dissolves our wrong views, how Skilfulness transforms our habits of mind, and how Love can hold all types of experience gently and wisely. The talk keeps references our common experiences, offering practical ways to integrate the teachings.
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher
2016-03-13 Morning Reflections on Awareness of Body Breathing 26:37
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher
2015-10-10 Afternoon Teachings - Countering Self-Centredness 49:35
Our practice offers the opportunity to move beyond a self-centred relationship to life, yet much of our practice is centered on the self! This talk explores dharma practices and skilful means by which to counter our self-centredness and points us towards the ultimate transparency of our sense of self.
Gaia House Awake in Our Bones
2015-10-10 Day Four - Morning Instructions 45:10
The nature of experience. The open field of experience and the open embrace of Awareness. Meditation with no body, no mind, no world.
Gaia House Awake in Our Bones
2015-10-09 Afternoon Teachings - Practice as Purification (Part 2) 46:46
In this follow-up, Martin continues to look at the purificatory nature of dharma practice, opening up a space to meet and transform the impact of past habit energy. The teaching deconstructs the notion of karma, and maps the purification of mind-states.
Gaia House Awake in Our Bones
2015-10-09 Morning Instructions 51:15
Recognizing states. Skilful response to how the mind is. Body and mind as a unified field of experience.
Gaia House Awake in Our Bones
2015-10-08 Afternoon Teachings - Practice as Purification (Part 1) 48:14
This teaching examines our problematic associations with ideas of Purity, and explores ways that the practice of sitting meditation can be purificatory - both in terms of developing wholesome qualities, and in healing and releasing stored tension patterns.
Gaia House Awake in Our Bones
2015-10-08 Day Two - Morning Instructions 47:15
No wrong experience. Allowing the passage of all that arises. Exploring the pleasant, unpleasant and neutral in meditation.
Gaia House Awake in Our Bones
2015-10-07 Afternoon Teachings - Freedom and Stimulus 45:40
Martin points out the 3 different kinds of stimulation (vedana) and explores skilful ways of exploring and responding to pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral experience. Emphasis is given to somatic practice, recognizing the physical contractions that form around the 3 types.
Gaia House Awake in Our Bones

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