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Martin Aylward's Dharma Talks
Martin Aylward
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2011-05-05 Beyond the Shaping of the Mind 53:07
This talk links the concerns of our life, the tendencies of our minds, and the practice of meditation. Martin explores the way our conditioning and mental attitudes colour all our perceptions, and explores how dharma practice invites us to see through our acquired mental shaping, beyond our ideas, to meet life as directly, as deeply, as freely as possible.
Gaia House Whole Life, Whole Practice, Nothing Left Out
2011-05-04 Whole Life, Whole Practice, Nothing Left Out - Opening Talk 68:05
This talk introduces a way of participating in a silent retreat that leaves room for all aspects of our life. Martin discusses some orientating reflections that run throughout the retreat, beginning with the ongoing questioning of our experience as we settle more deeply into it; 'what is happening now?'
Gaia House Whole Life, Whole Practice, Nothing Left Out
2011-02-12 Making Space for Fear 47:31
We naturally want to reject, ignore, deny, our unpleasant experience. In this talk Martin both encourages us and shows how to turn our attention "fearwards", daring to look deeply and to see clearly through our defenses and distractions, to freedom from fear.
Gaia House Loving What Is (whether we like it or not)
2011-02-11 Opening Talk for Loving What Is (whether we like it or not) 46:52
This talk explores maintaining an open and inquiring attitude to all that arises. We are reminded that there is no wrong experience, no feeling we shouldn't have; that all experience is worthy of our caring, curious, contactful attention.
Gaia House Loving What Is (whether we like it or not)
2010-05-30 Eugene Cash & Martin Aylward 44:18
with Eugene Cash, Martin Aylward
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community
2010-05-22 Longing for Freedom 59:10
We come to dharma practice with a longing for freedom. This talk explores both the longing, in its importance for awakening the heart and nourishing the spiritual journey, and the Freedom of Being - our capacity to fully and freely inhabit and respond to life, to which this longing points.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation and Contemplative Inquiry
2010-05-18 Demands, Defenses and Distractions: Exploring Obstacles to Presence 51:03
We get pulled away from ourselves in different ways. This talk explores both the mechanisms of how we get disconnected from being present, and how come those mechanisms exert such a powerful pull on our consciousness. The exploration encourages a careful and caring investigation of those obstacles, as the way to understand, and liberate them.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation and Contemplative Inquiry
2010-03-27 The State of the World 55:13
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening The Heart
2010-03-26 Unravelling Layers of Experience 48:59
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening The Heart
2010-03-25 Self, Soul, Psyche, Space 51:18
Gaia House Live and Let Go: Unburdening The Heart

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