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Martin Aylward's Dharma Talks at Gaia House
Martin Aylward
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2015-10-09 Morning Instructions 51:15
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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
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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
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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
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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
2015-10-07 Day One - Morning Instructions 39:08
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Grounding meditation in bodily experience. Activating qualities of awareness through the posture: Grounded - steady, upright - bright, open - receptive, relaxed - gentle.
Gaia House :  Awake in Our Bones
2015-01-27 The Collective Body - Solidarity, Community and Love 47:13
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In this final talk of the series, Martin looks at the social implications of widening our sense of identification, including not only the world but also other human beings within the field of our experience. The talk explores the suffering born of the us and them mentality and points to how the need to awaken together and take all beings into our heart.
Gaia House :  This Body is the Universe
2015-01-26 The Existential Body - From Thing-ness to Process, Knowing to Loving, Subjective to Inclusive 41:26
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In this talk Martin looks at the tendency to conceive in terms of objects rather than process, unpicking the way we maintain and reinforce the ego structure, and offering a vision of a more expansive and inclusive participation in life.
Gaia House :  This Body is the Universe
2015-01-25 The Psychological Body - Self Image, Self Reinforcement and Self Judgement 51:07
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Continuing from the previous talk, Martin looks at the ways we imagine, maintain and reinforce our psychological sense of self. The talk explores how we live in images and descriptions of who we think we are, layered by our constant critical self evaluation, and points us beyond our psychology to a fuller and freer embodying of our life.
Gaia House :  This Body is the Universe
2015-01-24 The Instinctual Body - Sex, Survival and Social Drives 40:14
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We are bound by our biology, and our health, longevity and death are largely out of our control. This talk explores the way our biology impacts us, including the influences of the sex drive, the survival drive and the social drive. Martin looks at how we can explore and understand our biology in such a way as to inhabit it freely.
Gaia House :  This Body is the Universe
2015-01-23 The Body is the Universe - Introduction 1:12:28
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In this talk Martin looks at the tendency to conceive in terms of objects rather than process, unpicking the way we maintain and reinforce the ego structure, and offering a vision of a more expansive and inclusive participation in life.
Gaia House :  This Body is the Universe

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