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Martin Aylward's Dharma Talks in English
Martin Aylward
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2014-07-15 1. On embodiment and thought 36:52
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Moulin de Chaves :  Reflections on the way it is
2014-06-24 Against the Stream - Teachings of Revolution in the Heart and in the World 52:09
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Martin uses this talk to examine the Buddhas description of Dharma practice as Going against the stream of Greed, Hatred and Delusion. He traces these forces in our contemporary lives in their personal, social and global dimensions, inviting us to reflect on how to make an appropriate response to the life in which we find ourselves.
Gaia House :  Intimacy and Infinity
2014-06-23 Intimacy and Infinity - Born of Love 51:14
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This talk questions our willingness to really be in contact with our experience. Martin explores our tendency to divide ourselves from life, from others and from our own experience, and points the way back to an undivided, undefended existence. The talk also reflects on the natural boundlessness of heart that opens up as a liberated response to different types of experience.
Gaia House :  Intimacy and Infinity
2014-06-22 Meeting Anger and Hatred 48:06
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Martin explores different personality styles of resistance and rejection, the ways anger functions and the importance of letting ourselves feel negative emotions as a way of freeing them up and letting go of our personal hard luck story. He also explores the way practice can transform anger into fearlessness as an important force against injustice, oppression and inequality.
Gaia House :  Intimacy and Infinity
2014-06-21 Beneath the Trees - The Body of Life 43:05
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On this summer solstice evening out under the trees at Gaia House, Martin reflects on the importance of trees in the Buddhas life, the disingenuousness of the term mindfulness and what it means to be embodied.
Gaia House :  Intimacy and Infinity
2014-03-04 On Non-Difference and Bringing Our Practice into the World 37:44
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Here, Martin looks at the dichotomy we easily make between the retreat situation and the rest of life, and explores the skilful integration of our practice, as well as looking at some of the forces that tend to shape our into our personal, relational and cultural lives.
Gaia House :  The Dynamics of Freedom
2014-03-03 On Non-Duality, the World and the Void 39:33
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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.
Gaia House :  The Dynamics of Freedom
2014-03-02 On Fluidity, Uncertainty and Inconceivability 44:06
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This talk explores bringing the fundamental truth of lifes fluidity, and the familiarity of teachings on impermanence, right into the heart of every-moment practice.
Gaia House :  The Dynamics of Freedom
2014-03-01 On Immediacy and Here and Now-ness 39:09
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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.
Gaia House :  The Dynamics of Freedom
2014-02-28 On Presence 62:52
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An introduction to 5 days of retreat practice, using the inherent characteristics of life as the grounds for contemplation and insight.
Gaia House :  The Dynamics of Freedom

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