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Gavin Milne's Dharma Talks
Gavin Milne
Gavin has been practising the Dharma since 2004, and teaching at Gaia House Meditation Centre since 2015. He is particularly interested in the role Dharma teachings and practices can have in responding to our unfolding ecological situation in a transformative way, and turning towards and awakening to the interdependent nature of our collective crisis. He originally trained as an aerodynamics design engineer, studied sustainable development, and has been influenced by the holistic perspectives of Charles Eisenstein and Ajahn Sucitto.
2024-09-29 Instructions & Guided Meditation - Releasing into the Web of Life 1:13:09
The double helix of disentangling, and opening to - noticing qualities of depth, as we release the bind. Normalising Papanca.
Gaia House Awakening in the World (3) : Awakening into the Web of Life (online)
2024-09-28 Dharma Talk - Illuminating the Vortex of Self Within the Ocean of Life 56:25
Talk, followed by inquiry - plunging into your part of the ocean.
Gaia House Awakening in the World (3) : Awakening into the Web of Life (online)
2024-09-28 Relational Practice Instructions 1 - Insight Dialogue 22:36
The step of pause, the step of relax, and exploring what is happening right now.
Gaia House Awakening in the World (3) : Awakening into the Web of Life (online)
2024-09-28 Instructions & Guided Meditation - Penetrating the Root of the Bind 1:18:06
Bringing awareness to the 6 senses, contact and feeling tone. Breathing as exemplar of the interdependent web. Opening to the 6 senses and let sense off the cushion. Continuity of practice.
Gaia House Awakening in the World (3) : Awakening into the Web of Life (online)
2024-09-27 Opening Session - The View of the Web of Life - Wide and Particular. 41:38
Gaia House Awakening in the World (3) : Awakening into the Web of Life (online)
2024-09-22 Dukkha & the Path 60:35
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - September 2024
2024-06-22 Evening Teachings 1:21:59
From radical allowing to radical connecting. Getting a feel for compassion, through the ocean and wave analogy. Mingyur Rinpoche's journey with panic.
Gaia House Awakening in the World : Self Compassion, Whole Compassion
2024-06-21 Morning Instructions 1:18:28
The practice of radical allowing - shifting energy from that which obscures (the usual status-quo), into that which opens. An alive attitude, and the wings of awakening. The imminent experience of life through our 6 senses, as our fluid object of awareness. Continuity of kind awareness.
Gaia House Awakening in the World : Self Compassion, Whole Compassion
2024-05-22 Transforming Afflictive Emotions - An Energetic View 68:20
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - May 2024
2024-04-21 Morning Instructions, Guided Meditation, Daily Life Pratice Instructions. 1:16:28
Relaxing into practice, taking care of the causes of awakening and freedom. To support this - refreshing wise attitude, keeping Yoniso manasikāra simple, and seeing the eight worldly winds. Embracing the first three factors of awakening, as the ones we always have some agency in. Linking them to connecting with the vertical. Relating to the next four factors, more as results of the first three - qualities of our depth. Guided meditation, exploring experience through the senses, and how things build from the raw sense contact. The imminence of all experience through the senses, and becoming curious about the feeling tone of all sense contact. Including feeling the experience of craving and aversion, as the 'suffering that leads to the end of suffering'. Embracing continuity of practice. Including the ways in which we lose our way - and taking ourselves less personally.
Gaia House Awakening in the World (1) - Establishing the Timeless Refuge of Awareness (online series)
2024-04-20 Talk - Turning Towards the Timeless 54:16
The inward turning - parallels across tradition, a natural maturation. Exploring a vertical and horizontal perspective on awakening, and how these trajectories interact. Disentangling from Samsara. Connecting with the vertical - attention, the ground of awareness, and inner peace. Normalising common challenges encountered. The value of beginning again, and infusing the body with wise mindfulness.
Gaia House Awakening in the World (1) - Establishing the Timeless Refuge of Awareness (online series)
2024-04-20 Morning Instructions, Guided Meditation, Daily Life Practice Instructions. 1:33:08
How making teachings more explicit can be helpful for practicing in daily life. Bringing some background assumptions and ideas into the light. Using the 'crossing the river' metaphor for how the path of cultivation works, as a support for gaining trust and momentum in daily life practice. Getting a feel for wise effort and beginners mind. The 'how' of practice - the aliveness of wise attitude, aligning with the timeless, and orientating in terms of the three wholesome roots. The importance of wise attention (Yoniso manasikāra), especially outside of retreat centres, and being curious about how it comes and goes. Experiencing life through the six senses.
Gaia House Awakening in the World (1) - Establishing the Timeless Refuge of Awareness (online series)
2024-04-10 Instructions: Sacred Orientation – The Value of Turning Towards Our Experience. 37:00
Gaia House Deep Ground Practice
2024-04-08 Dharma Talk - Doorway to Depth - Feeling into Vedanā 52:37
Gaia House Deep Ground Practice
2024-04-08 Guided Meditation - Connecting with a Boundless Sense of Kindness 43:14
Gaia House Deep Ground Practice
2024-04-08 Instructions - Recognising & Navigating That Which Draws Us Out 36:31
Gaia House Deep Ground Practice
2024-01-28 Deep Steadfastness in Uncertain Times 50:09
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - January 2024
2023-09-30 Mettā Meditation 20:12
Gaia House Awakening Every Part - Spacious Practice Weekend (online)
2023-09-30 Morning Teaching, Instructions and Meditation 1:15:36
Gathering the mind - making use of the IFS (Internal Family Systems) framework, inner parts and unblending
Gaia House Awakening Every Part - Spacious Practice Weekend (online)
2023-09-14 Further Reflections on Equanimity, Guided Equanimity Meditation, Closing 25:54
Gaia House One Day Meditation Retreat - Equanimity
2023-09-14 Guided Meditation - Standing & Sitting, Supporting Equanimity 11:58
Gaia House One Day Meditation Retreat - Equanimity
2023-09-14 Dharma Talk - Equanimity & Sailing the Oceans of Conditions 30:55
Gaia House One Day Meditation Retreat - Equanimity
2023-09-14 Guided Meditation - Breathing 26:27
Gaia House One Day Meditation Retreat - Equanimity
2023-09-14 Walking Meditation Instructions - Continuing to Gather the Mind 11:44
Gaia House One Day Meditation Retreat - Equanimity
2023-09-14 Instructions & Guided Meditation - Gathering & Settling the Mind 34:27
Gaia House One Day Meditation Retreat - Equanimity

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