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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
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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
2011-05-06 Freedom From Obsessinig and Rejecting 52:31
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This talk uses the Buddha's model of the Middle Way to explore our tendencies to get caught either in obsessing about self, others and world, or in trying to reject and deny the same. Martin points to a creative, dynamic engagement with experience which reflects the title of the talk.
Gaia House :  Whole Life, Whole Practice, Nothing Left Out
2011-05-08 Top Ten Retreatants Questions 64:25
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An exploration of the ten most frequently raised questions, concerns and issues of Dharma practitioners, in sustaining and deepening practice in their everyday life.
Gaia House :  Whole Life, Whole Practice, Nothing Left Out
2011-05-04 Whole Life, Whole Practice, Nothing Left Out - Opening Talk 68:05
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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
2006-06-03 Liberation Through Non-Clinging 56:40
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Gaia House :  Freedom of Being - A Meditation Retreat for Young People
2011-02-12 Making Space for Fear 47:31
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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
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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)
2007-10-13 Four Liberating Truths 60:28
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Gaia House :  Tranquility, Insight and Awakening
2007-10-14 Meeting the World - The Eightfold Path 45:49
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Gaia House :  Tranquility, Insight and Awakening
2007-10-12 Opening Talk for Tranquility, Insight and Awakening - Connection, Curiousity, Care 56:16
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This talk explores three essential qualities of awareness: the precision and brightness of moment-to-moment connection, the investigation of experience through Curiousity, and the allowing of things to unfold with Care. These aspects, which in free translation correspond with the qualities of Samatha, Vipassana and Metta are shown to be both qualities we can cultivate, and the natural orientation of the truly meditative mind.
Gaia House :  Tranquility, Insight and Awakening

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