Martin Aylward's Dharma Talks
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2013-10-27
Open and Free: A Life of Liberation
2018-05-05
01 Exploring the True Heart's Longing
2017-06-12
01 Meditation - essential principles
2018-06-01
01 Meditation - Experience, Technique and Process
2017-04-01
01 The art of inquiry
2017-07-10
01 Top 5 Troublesome Mind-states
2018-06-02
02 Entanglement or liberation
2017-06-13
02 Freeness and Relaxation
2017-07-11
02 Meditation - exploring breath and belly
2018-05-06
02 More fully, more fluidly, more freely
2017-04-02
02 Point map of Inquiry
2018-06-03
03 Happiness, peace and unshakeable freeness
2017-06-14
03 Meditation - Awareness and this breathing body
2017-07-12
03 Privilege Wellbeing and Freedom
2017-04-03
03 What is happening right now
2018-06-04
04 Difficulties, doubt and darkness
2017-06-15
04 Freedom from Tension and Drama
2017-04-04
04 How do I meet experience
2017-07-13
04 Meditation - cultivating qualities of Awareness
2018-06-05
05 Exploring Desire
2017-06-16
05 Meditation on affect and reactivity
2017-07-14
05 Meeting, Exploring and Allowing experience - Vitaka, Vicara, Viveka
2017-04-05
05 Who is experiencing
2018-06-06
06 Emptiness and views
2017-04-06
06 Inquiring into Self
2017-06-17
06 Meditation - Nature of experience
2017-07-15
06 Meditation is a process not a technique
2018-06-07
07 Emptiness and self-existence
2017-06-18
07 Freeness and Self
2017-04-07
07 Inquiring into the World
2017-07-16
07 Leading with Experience - Tradition and Freeness
2018-06-08
08 Emptiness of space
2017-04-08
08 Inquiring into This
2017-06-19
08 Meditation on all inclusive awareness
2018-06-09
09 Emptiness of time
2017-06-20
09 Freeness in the World
2014-07-22
1. Nuances of Practice (grounding, learning, purifying, living together)
2014-07-15
1. On embodiment and thought
2018-06-10
10 Basic Instincts
2018-06-10
11 Depth and Breadth (Q&A)
2014-07-16
2. On vedana, blessing and devotion
2014-07-23
2. Reflections on Inquiry
2014-07-24
3. On Caring Deeply
2014-07-17
3. On Citta, patience and loving what is
2014-07-18
4. On fluidity, unburdening and devotion
2014-07-25
4. On Revolution - IN heart and World
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
2019-09-08
AM01-intro & dharma talk
2019-03-09
am01-intro-contrast of vast view and fine awareness
2019-09-08
AM02- Guided Meditation
2019-03-09
am02-guided practice on theme
2019-09-08
AM03- Guided Meditation
2019-03-09
am03-further reflections-the Manhattan experience.
2019-09-08
am04-concluding-remarks-morning-session+qa
2019-03-09
am04-QA
2017-09-13
An Embodied Look at Consciousness
2022-03-05
Awake where you are meditation
2016-10-26
Awareness: Experience
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
2025-05-31
Bowing
2025-05-31
Chanting
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
2024-03-23
Death and renewal are intertwined
2013-03-09
Defenses Against Spaciousness
2010-05-18
Demands, Defenses and Distractions: Exploring Obstacles to Presence
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
2025-05-31
Egocentric vs Cosmocentric View
2004-03-27
Endless, Immediate, Ultimate View
2023-11-19
Enseignement
2023-11-19
Enseignement et instruction pour la pause repas
2010-05-30
Eugene Cash & Martin Aylward
2010-03-24
Fear and Freedom
2023-02-25
Finding a Free Life in a World of Constraints
2007-10-13
Four Liberating Truths
2017-02-25
Free to be Human - Saturday - chanting bodhisattva vows
2017-02-25
Free to be Human - Saturday AM
2017-02-25
Free to be Human - Saturday AM Guided Meditation
2017-02-25
Free to be Human - Saturday PM
2017-02-25
Free to be Human - Saturday PM Guided Meditation
2017-02-26
Free to be Human - Sunday AM
2017-02-26
Free to be Human - Sunday AM Guided Meditation
2017-02-26
Free to be Human - Sunday PM
2017-02-26
Free to be Human - Sunday PM Guided Meditation
2017-02-26
Free to be Human - Sunday PM Guided Standing Meditation
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
2023-02-25
Freeness and Constraints
2017-09-12
Giving it Back to Nature - Opening Talk
2017-05-30
Going Against the Stream: Cultivating Wisdom, Compassion and Peace from the Ins…
2017-05-30
Going Against the Stream: Guided Meditation
2025-05-31
Guided Elements Meditation
2023-02-25
Guided meditation
2024-03-23
Guided meditation
2024-03-23
Guided meditation on the deathless
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
2023-11-19
Instructions pour la marche méditative
2023-11-19
Instructions pour le temps d'échange
2023-11-19
Instructions sur la marche avec questionnement
2014-06-23
Intimacy and Infinity - Born of Love
2023-11-19
Introduction
2024-03-23
Introduction to Maranasati
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
2024-03-23
Living fully and dying freely
2010-05-22
Longing for Freedom
2008-04-17
Love Itself
2013-05-20
Love, Death and Indivisibility
2024-03-23
Making sense of death
2011-02-12
Making Space for Fear
2017-09-15
Meditating in the Chitta Field
2023-11-19
Méditation guidée assise
2023-11-19
Méditation guidée assise
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
2025-05-31
More Than Meditation
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
2017-07-02
On Awakening (Q&A)
2017-07-01
On Body
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
2017-07-02
On the Paradox of Self
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
2019-03-09
pm01-post-lunch-face-stretching-and talk-leading-to-guided-practice
2019-09-08
pm01-standing meditation & movement
2019-09-08
pm02-guided-meditation-heart-center+sound (ooow)
2019-03-09
pm02-guided-meditation-open-eyes-big-skies
2019-03-09
pm03-dharma-talk
2019-09-08
pm03-movement-interaction-exercise+sharing
2019-09-08
pm04-mind-Vijñāna-Sampajañña-Sati
2019-03-09
pm04-q&a
2019-09-08
pm05-mind-guided-meditation-short
2019-09-08
pm06-qa+closing rmearks
2017-09-16
Question and Answer Session
2025-05-31
Rebirth
2018-09-15
Sat-AM-01-Introduction-friction and free-ness
2018-09-15
Sat-AM-02-guided-meditation
2018-09-15
Sat-AM-03-bodyfullness and walking instructions
2018-09-15
Sat-AM-04-Q&A
2018-09-15
Sat-AM-05-brief-guided-meditation
2018-09-15
Sat-PM-01 guided sitting meditation
2018-09-15
Sat-PM-02 dharma talk-the assertive (sense of) self, From somebody To anybody
2018-09-15
Sat-PM-03 Q&A
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
2018-09-16
Sun-AM-01 dharma talk - relaxation into alignment, enabled embodied, cellular w…
2018-09-16
Sun-AM-02 guided meditation
2018-09-16
Sun-PM-01 guided meditation - presence & experience
2018-09-16
Sun-PM-02 talk - kinds of drama, roles in and towards drama
2018-09-16
Sund-PM-03 q&a
2009-04-02
Taking Care of Oneself
2025-05-31
Taking Refuge
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
2024-03-23
The deathless
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
2023-02-25
The taste of freeness
2023-02-25
The Taste of Freeness Guided Meditation
2016-06-21
The The 3 Facets of Practice, in Meditation and in Life
2025-09-27
The Three Refuges - Awake. Here. Together
2015-04-04
The Way Things Are: Uncovering The Deep Truth of Experience - Sat. AM
2015-04-04
The Way Things Are: Uncovering The Deep Truth of Experience - Sat. PM
2015-04-03
The Way Things Are: Uncovering the Deep Truths of Experience - Friday evening
2003-02-23
There's No Such Place As Somewhere Else
2011-05-08
Top Ten Retreatants Questions
2016-10-27
Transformations
2010-03-26
Unravelling Layers of Experience
2021-12-18
Visceral Enlightenment: Somatic Practice as a Dharma Path
2024-09-11
Visions of Liberation
2009-04-01
Vulnerability and Fulfilment
2013-05-19
What Do I Really Want?
2022-03-05
What do we awake to?
2022-03-05
What it means to be awake where you are
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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1900-01-01
NYI Regular Talks
2003-02-21
Retreat with Martin Aylward
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
2010-05-16
Insight Meditation and Contemplative Inquiry
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
2014-07-15
Reflections on the way it is
2014-07-21
Infinite Possibility
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
2016-10-26
Indian pilgrimage to Buddhist sites 2016
2017-02-25
Free To Be human
2017-03-07
Your Life is Your Teacher
2017-04-01
The Art of Inquiry
2017-06-12
The Art of Living Freely
2017-07-01
On Awakening
2017-07-10
Awakening in Stillness and in Movement
2017-09-12
Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2018-03-29
The Art of Living Freely
2018-05-05
The True Heart’s Longing
2018-06-01
Depth and Breadth
2018-09-15
Friction and Free-ness: How We Meet Ourselves and the World
2018-10-06
Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2019-03-09
Vast View, Fine Attention with Martin Aylward
2019-03-15
Freeness and Friction: How We Meet Ourselves and the World
2019-09-08
Wisdom, Love and Presence: Awakening the Three Centers of Head, Heart and Belly
2019-10-04
Awakening in Stillness and in Movement
2021-12-18
Visceral Enlightenment: Somatic Practice as a Dharma Path
2022-03-05
Martin Aylward - Awake Where You Are
2023-02-25
Martin Aylward – A Free Life in a Constrained World
2023-09-18
A Joyful Liberation
2023-11-19
Une vie libre et libérée dans un monde de contraintes
2024-03-23
Martin Aylward – “Maranasati: How reflecting on your death can liberate your li…
2024-09-10
Radical Freeness: Everything to Lose, Nothing to Fear
2025-05-31
Martin Aylward – More Than Meditation
2025-09-23
Tools of Liberation: Presence, Curiosity and a Tender Heart
2024-09-13
Identity and Beyond
38:53
This talk discusses different aspects of identity, exploring them through the lens of anatta, or no-essence. Martin explores biological identity, personal identity, social identity, and how we can honour these different forms and their expressions, moving freely through a world of identities without being tied to them.
Gaia House
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Radical Freeness: Everything to Lose, Nothing to Fear
