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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2013-05-21
Freedom From Opposites
39:54
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Martin Aylward
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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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Gaia House
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Right Now It's Like This...
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2013-05-19
What Do I Really Want?
44:03
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Martin Aylward
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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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Gaia House
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Right Now It's Like This...
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2013-05-18
Inhabiting the Body of Life
49:24
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Martin Aylward
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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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Gaia House
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Right Now It's Like This...
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2013-05-14
Not Knowing
53:56
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Eugene Cash
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The skillfulness of not-knowing is part of practice and the contemplative experience. We are released from the limitations of the known with the inclusion of not-knowing. The skill and art of not-knowing becomes one of the doorways to awakening, realization and the continued maturation of our understanding. As the Zen monk/poet Ryokan said, "I do not know others. Others do not know me. Not knowing each other we naturally follow the way."
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Aging as Spiritual Opportunity: A retreat for those 55 and older
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