Martin Aylward's Dharma Talks
at Gaia House
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2018-05-05
01 Exploring the True Heart's Longing
2018-04-01
A Path of Free-ness
2015-10-10
Afternoon Teachings - Countering Self-Centredness
2015-10-07
Afternoon Teachings - Freedom and Stimulus
2015-10-08
Afternoon Teachings - Practice as Purification (Part 1)
2015-10-09
Afternoon Teachings - Practice as Purification (Part 2)
2017-03-10
Afternoon Teachings: A Generous Spirit
2017-03-08
Afternoon Teachings: No Wrong Experience
2017-03-09
Afternoon Teachings: Time, Space, and Becoming
2014-06-24
Against the Stream - Teachings of Revolution in the Heart and in the World
2017-09-13
An Embodied Look at Consciousness
2014-06-21
Beneath the Trees - The Body of Life
2003-10-01
Beyond Optimism and Pessimism
2011-05-05
Beyond the Shaping of the Mind
2004-10-09
Connection, Curiousity, Care
2007-03-10
Creativity, Love, Generosity
2015-10-10
Day Four - Morning Instructions
2015-10-07
Day One - Morning Instructions
2015-10-08
Day Two - Morning Instructions
2013-03-09
Defenses Against Spaciousness
2019-10-07
Dharma Talk - Depths of Connection
2019-10-05
Dharma Talk - Gender Blending Buddha Bodies
2019-10-08
Dharma Talk - On Meaningfulness
2019-10-06
Dharma Talk - The Hallmarks of Insight
2025-09-25
Dimensions of Relaxation - Total Belonging is Close at Hand
2004-03-27
Endless, Immediate, Ultimate View
2010-03-24
Fear and Freedom
2007-10-13
Four Liberating Truths
2012-05-29
Freedom From Clinging: The Experience of the Unlimited Heart
2011-05-06
Freedom From Obsessinig and Rejecting
2013-05-21
Freedom From Opposites
2019-03-16
Freely Abiding
2019-03-18
Freely Allowing
2019-03-19
Freely Engaging
2019-03-17
Freely Knowing
2017-09-12
Giving it Back to Nature - Opening Talk
2012-02-25
Happiness - Beyond Differentiation
2017-09-14
Healing Layers of Dukkha
2016-06-18
Human Experience Under the Microscope of Awareness
2024-09-13
Identity and Beyond
2016-03-13
Inclining Towards Freedom - Clarity, Skilfulness and Love
2017-03-07
Independent in This World - Introductory Talk
2013-05-18
Inhabiting the Body of Life
2018-10-09
Inhabiting the Fields of Experience
2009-08-08
Inhabiting the Truth of the Moment
2007-03-09
Insight
2014-06-23
Intimacy and Infinity - Born of Love
2018-03-31
Journey to Inner Space - Understanding Functions of the Mind
2004-03-26
Karma Yoga, Bakhti Yoga
2024-09-12
Karma, Self-Reflective Consciousness & Buddha Nature
2012-05-25
Letting Go - Three Practices for Heart, Body and Mind
2006-06-03
Liberation Through Non-Clinging
2018-03-30
Life is Out of Control !
2016-03-14
Life is Your Teacher
2018-03-29
Livestreaming Through Awareness
2008-04-17
Love Itself
2013-05-20
Love, Death and Indivisibility
2011-02-12
Making Space for Fear
2017-09-15
Meditating in the Chitta Field
2025-09-24
Meditation Instruction - Full Presence, Posture, Walking
2025-09-25
Meditation Instruction - Smiling & Relaxing into Big Bellied Presence & Awarene…
2019-10-05
Meditation Instructions (Day 1)
2019-10-06
Meditation Instructions (Day 2)
2019-10-07
Meditation Instructions (Day 3)
2019-10-08
Meditation Instructions (Day 4)
2014-06-22
Meeting Anger and Hatred
2018-10-10
Meeting it All - Contact, Curiosity, Care
2007-10-14
Meeting the World - The Eightfold Path
2025-09-24
Mind as Water, Practice to Clear the Mind, the Mind is Already Clear
2025-09-27
Mind-moments, Mountains & Molehills
2015-10-09
Morning Instructions
2017-03-08
Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation
2017-03-09
Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation
2017-03-10
Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation
2017-03-11
Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation
2016-03-15
Morning Reflections on Awareness and the Tone of Experience
2016-03-13
Morning Reflections on Awareness of Body Breathing
2016-03-16
Morning Reflections on Inclusive Awareness
2016-03-14
Morning Reflections on Sustaining & Returning to Presence
2017-09-14
Morning Teachings - Meditating with Physical Discomfort
2017-09-16
Morning Teachings - Meditation and the Nature of Experience
2017-09-13
Morning Teachings - Meditation is Right Here
2003-10-04
No Duality, No Separation, No Problem
2009-04-03
Non-Clinging Is Not Detachment
2024-09-14
Nothing Matters, Everything Matters
2023-09-19
On Awake-ness
2012-05-28
On Clinging to Existence and Non Existence: Freedom From Self and Not-Self
2012-05-27
On Clinging to Thoughts: About the World, About Others, About Self
2023-09-20
On Dissolution
2014-03-02
On Fluidity, Uncertainty and Inconceivability
2023-09-22
On Free-ness
2008-03-01
On Happiness
2017-09-15
On Happiness, Joy, Fulfillment and Freeness
2014-03-01
On Immediacy and Here and Now-ness
2014-03-04
On Non-Difference and Bringing Our Practice into the World
2014-03-03
On Non-Duality, the World and the Void
2014-02-28
On Presence
2012-05-26
On Wanting: Demands, Defences and Distractions
2013-03-08
Opening Talk for Full Life Spacious Mind Retreat
2010-03-23
Opening Talk for Live and Let Go Retreat
2011-02-11
Opening Talk for Loving What Is (whether we like it or not)
2012-02-24
Opening Talk for Retreat Entitled Loving What Is
2008-04-15
Opening Talk for Revolution In The Heart
2009-03-31
Opening Talk for Training the Mind, Freeing the Heart
2007-10-12
Opening Talk for Tranquility, Insight and Awakening - Connection, Curiousity, C…
2009-08-07
Opening Talk From Inhabiting the Truth of the Moment
2003-07-14
Our Response-ability to Life
2017-09-16
Question and Answer Session
2010-03-25
Self, Soul, Psyche, Space
2008-04-15
Sila, Samadhi, Panna as Limitless Practice
2003-02-21
Sometimes It's Hard To Be A Yogi
2016-06-19
Spaciously & Graciously
2016-06-19
Spaciously and Graciously
2003-08-29
Starting From Where We Are
2003-10-03
Suffering and Love
2009-04-02
Taking Care of Oneself
2011-09-11
Talk Five - The Heart Free of Clinging: Four Expressions of Love
2011-09-10
Talk Four - To Be Or Not To Be : Is There a Self or Isn't There?
2011-09-07
Talk One: Opening Talk for Live and Let Go - Freedom From Clinging Retreat: In…
2011-09-09
Talk Three - Beyond Belief
2011-09-08
Talk Two - Freedom and Desire
2016-06-20
The Ambiguity of Self and World
2012-06-15
The Art of Inquiry
2016-06-17
The Art of Non Doing
2015-01-23
The Body is the Universe - Introduction
2015-01-27
The Collective Body - Solidarity, Community and Love
2018-10-07
The Dharma and the Drama
2015-01-26
The Existential Body - From Thing-ness to Process, Knowing to Loving, Subjectiv…
2008-04-16
The Illusion of Doing
2016-03-15
The Inner and Outer Practice of Dharma - Meeting Experiences Generously
2015-01-24
The Instinctual Body - Sex, Survival and Social Drives
2015-01-25
The Psychological Body - Self Image, Self Reinforcement and Self Judgement
2010-03-27
The State of the World
2016-06-21
The The 3 Facets of Practice, in Meditation and in Life
2025-09-27
The Three Refuges - Awake. Here. Together
2003-02-23
There's No Such Place As Somewhere Else
2011-05-08
Top Ten Retreatants Questions
2010-03-26
Unravelling Layers of Experience
2024-09-11
Visions of Liberation
2009-04-01
Vulnerability and Fulfilment
2013-05-19
What Do I Really Want?
2011-05-04
Whole Life, Whole Practice, Nothing Left Out - Opening Talk
2003-08-30
Why Not Let Go?
2007-03-08
Wisdom and Love
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2003-02-21
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2003-07-14
Retreat with Martin Aylward
2003-08-29
Retreat with Martin Aylward
2003-10-01
Retreat with Martin Aylward
2004-03-26
Retreat with Martin Aylward
2004-10-09
Retreat with Martin Aylward
2006-06-02
Freedom of Being - A Meditation Retreat for Young People
2007-03-08
A Revolution in the Heart
2007-10-12
Tranquility, Insight and Awakening
2008-03-01
Tranquility Insight and Awakening
2008-04-15
A Revolution In The Heart
2009-03-31
Training the Mind, Freeing the Heart
2009-08-07
Inhabiting the Truth of the Moment
2010-03-23
Live and Let Go: Unburdening The Heart
2011-02-11
Loving What Is (whether we like it or not)
2011-05-04
Whole Life, Whole Practice, Nothing Left Out
2011-09-07
Live and Let Go: Freedom From Clinging
2012-02-24
Loving What Is
2012-05-25
Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart
2012-06-12
Training the Mind, Freeing the Heart
2013-03-08
Full Life, Spacious Mind
2013-05-17
Right Now It's Like This...
2014-02-28
The Dynamics of Freedom
2014-06-20
Intimacy and Infinity
2015-01-23
This Body is the Universe
2015-10-06
Awake in Our Bones
2016-03-12
Your Life is Your Teacher
2016-06-17
Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2017-03-07
Your Life is Your Teacher
2017-09-12
Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2018-03-29
The Art of Living Freely
2018-10-06
Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2019-03-15
Freeness and Friction: How We Meet Ourselves and the World
2019-10-04
Awakening in Stillness and in Movement
2023-09-18
A Joyful Liberation
2024-09-10
Radical Freeness: Everything to Lose, Nothing to Fear
2025-09-23
Tools of Liberation: Presence, Curiosity and a Tender Heart
2014-03-03
On Non-Duality, the World and the Void
39:33
Using the zen image of first there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is, Martin charts the evolution of relating to form and emptiness, exploring the fundamental duality of conventional experience, and the natural pull towards its dismantling, transcendance and integration.
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The Dynamics of Freedom
2014-03-01
On Immediacy and Here and Now-ness
39:09
Rather than the meditator trying to become present, this talk emphasises the way life is always immediate and available, always and only present. And how attuning to that invites us into presence, not as a property of mind, not as a state we create, but as the formless ground into which mind can rest, allowing presence to reveal what arises.
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The Dynamics of Freedom
2013-05-21
Freedom From Opposites
39:54
When we hold tightly to our views and positions, we feel like we are right. In this talk Martin explores then tendency to cling to views, to see life through the dichotomies of rational mind that obscure what is outside of our own view. He invites us in to to abiding with life's ambiguity, the inclusion of all opposites, the infinite breadth of the Middle Way.
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Right Now It's Like This...
2013-05-20
Love, Death and Indivisibility
46:30
Martin explores the indivisible nature of life, the mystery of an existence that is constantly slipping away from us, and love as the true heart's response to the inevitability of death. This talk stands alone, yet also builds on the themes of the previous two teachings from the same retreat.
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Right Now It's Like This...
2013-05-19
What Do I Really Want?
44:03
Avoiding fixed positions and judgements about desire, Martin encourages an open inquiry into wanting. He examines the root of all desire; wanting things to be different, and explores how we can use wanting as a mirror to learn from our reflected experience. The talk points towards the deep desire to give up our endless interventions and manipulation of our experience, and discusses the freedom of undemanding, undefended, undistracted awareness.
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Right Now It's Like This...
2013-05-18
Inhabiting the Body of Life
49:24
In this talk, Martin explores the ideas and images we hold of Body, the habitual ways we react to bodily experience and body image, and the tendency to relate to body as a thing rather than a process. He guides the listener through the direct experience of body as a fluid, edgeless, inconceivable unfolding, inviting us to more and more inhabit the visceral ground of all experience; the body of life.
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Right Now It's Like This...
2013-03-09
Defenses Against Spaciousness
50:33
We long for inner space and peace, yet we also defend against it, compulsively filling the open space of consciousness with the endless mental proliferation that gives us our sense of self and world. In this talk Martin explores the 3 major expressions of this inner momentum, showing us ways to recognise, understand, and let go of our demands, defences and distractions, and allowing instead the genuine, wide open spaciousness of our nature.
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Full Life, Spacious Mind
