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Martin Aylward's Dharma Talks
Martin Aylward
2018-09-15 Sat-PM-03 Q&A 33:05
New York Insight Meditation Center Friction and Free-ness: How We Meet Ourselves and the World
2018-09-15 Sat-AM-01-Introduction-friction and free-ness 11:48
New York Insight Meditation Center Friction and Free-ness: How We Meet Ourselves and the World
2018-09-15 Sat-AM-02-guided-meditation 38:05
New York Insight Meditation Center Friction and Free-ness: How We Meet Ourselves and the World
2018-09-15 Sat-AM-03-bodyfullness and walking instructions 13:12
New York Insight Meditation Center Friction and Free-ness: How We Meet Ourselves and the World
2018-09-15 Sat-AM-04-Q&A 33:11
New York Insight Meditation Center Friction and Free-ness: How We Meet Ourselves and the World
2018-09-15 Sat-AM-05-brief-guided-meditation 10:03
New York Insight Meditation Center Friction and Free-ness: How We Meet Ourselves and the World
2018-06-10 10 Basic Instincts 42:55
Moulin de Chaves Depth and Breadth
2018-06-10 11 Depth and Breadth (Q&A) 53:53
Moulin de Chaves Depth and Breadth
2018-06-09 09 Emptiness of time 42:22
Moulin de Chaves Depth and Breadth
2018-06-08 08 Emptiness of space 36:58
Moulin de Chaves Depth and Breadth
2018-06-07 07 Emptiness and self-existence 43:08
Moulin de Chaves Depth and Breadth
2018-06-06 06 Emptiness and views 48:21
Moulin de Chaves Depth and Breadth
2018-06-05 05 Exploring Desire 45:31
Moulin de Chaves Depth and Breadth
2018-06-04 04 Difficulties, doubt and darkness 45:31
Moulin de Chaves Depth and Breadth
2018-06-03 03 Happiness, peace and unshakeable freeness 43:34
Moulin de Chaves Depth and Breadth
2018-06-02 02 Entanglement or liberation 39:36
Moulin de Chaves Depth and Breadth
2018-06-01 01 Meditation - Experience, Technique and Process 50:09
Moulin de Chaves Depth and Breadth
2018-05-06 02 More fully, more fluidly, more freely 37:29
Moulin de Chaves The True Heart’s Longing
2018-05-05 01 Exploring the True Heart's Longing 37:42
Gaia House
2018-04-01 A Path of Free-ness 41:56
This talk looks at different freedoms - social, worldly and spiritual, and explores Buddhas 3-fold training of Conduct, Meditation and Wisdom as a path of freeness.
Gaia House The Art of Living Freely
2018-03-31 Journey to Inner Space - Understanding Functions of the Mind 47:30
In this talk, Maritn disambiguates various terms of meditative awareness in both English and Pali, helping to refine the way we meet and explore experience: Consciousness, Awareness, Presence, Attention, Vinnana, Sampajanna, Sati, Yonisomanisikara, Samadhi, Vitaka, Vichara, Viveka.
Gaia House The Art of Living Freely
2018-03-30 Life is Out of Control ! 46:14
Martin explores the various ways we attempt to control our experience and the psychology behind our controlling tendencies, and points to how dharma practice can both lead to wise restraint, and to the liberation of relinquishing control over our lives.
Gaia House The Art of Living Freely
2018-03-29 Livestreaming Through Awareness 42:42
Buddhas teachings use the image of a stream in two different senses: Going against the stream of our habits and reactivity, and entering the stream of awakened practice and understanding. Martin uses this talk to explore and connect the two, and to point to the way life streams through awareness.
Gaia House The Art of Living Freely
2017-09-16 Question and Answer Session 54:13
Martin answers questions from students on the closing night of the retreat. Subjects covered include Martins own relationship to dharma practice, questions about integration, exploring Buddhist teachings and working with various obstacles.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2017-09-16 Morning Teachings - Meditation and the Nature of Experience 67:13
Meditation instruction for attending to the fluidity of experience, for tracking the naturally unfolding nature of phenomena in body, heart, mind and world.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2017-09-15 Meditating in the Chitta Field 1:17:51
These morning meditation instructions explore the expanding of attention, to including the various elements of emotional experience and mental states that colour consciousness.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2017-09-15 On Happiness, Joy, Fulfillment and Freeness 45:30
Martin explores resources for wellbeing, noting the importance of being nourished and uplifted by our practice, in order for it to be sustainable. He looks at the nature of happiness and our relationship to pleasure; the practice of opening up to joy, and points to ways in which dharma practice is fulfilling and freeing.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2017-09-14 Healing Layers of Dukkha 47:12
Martin explores the layers of Basic Dukkha, Reactive Dukkha and Judgemental Dukkha; exploring how they show up in different areas of our experience and pointing to different ways of meeting, exploring and healing our relationship with painful experience.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2017-09-14 Morning Teachings - Meditating with Physical Discomfort 1:11:12
Some advice on working with physical and postural discomfort, as well as with meditative discomfort, the heat and tensions that show up when we meditate, as we process the unwinding of various somatized patterns and emotional residue.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2017-09-13 An Embodied Look at Consciousness 39:25
Martin explores the two pali terms for consciousness - Vinnyana and Chitta. He looks at their functioning in experience, and how we can inhabit our conscious experience to as to meet, explore and understand it better.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2017-09-13 Morning Teachings - Meditation is Right Here 53:19
Martin explores the ground of meditation practice as the right-here-ness of experience and awareness. He points to an embodied practice, opening ourselves up to an availability to whatever presents itself.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2017-09-12 Giving it Back to Nature - Opening Talk 28:12
Martin speaks about Ajahn Buddhadasa and his description of practice as giving back to nature what we have wrongly appropriated from her.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2017-07-16 07 Leading with Experience - Tradition and Freeness 48:35
Moulin de Chaves Awakening in Stillness and in Movement
2017-07-15 06 Meditation is a process not a technique 23:06
Moulin de Chaves Awakening in Stillness and in Movement
2017-07-14 05 Meeting, Exploring and Allowing experience - Vitaka, Vicara, Viveka 41:45
Moulin de Chaves Awakening in Stillness and in Movement
2017-07-13 04 Meditation - cultivating qualities of Awareness 21:29
Moulin de Chaves Awakening in Stillness and in Movement
2017-07-12 03 Privilege Wellbeing and Freedom 43:29
Moulin de Chaves Awakening in Stillness and in Movement
2017-07-11 02 Meditation - exploring breath and belly 25:34
Moulin de Chaves Awakening in Stillness and in Movement
2017-07-10 01 Top 5 Troublesome Mind-states 46:14
Moulin de Chaves Awakening in Stillness and in Movement
2017-07-02 On Awakening (Q&A) 48:01
Moulin de Chaves On Awakening
2017-07-02 On the Paradox of Self 47:14
Moulin de Chaves On Awakening
2017-07-01 On Body 30:45
Moulin de Chaves On Awakening
2017-06-20 09 Freeness in the World 44:40
Moulin de Chaves The Art of Living Freely
2017-06-19 08 Meditation on all inclusive awareness 24:28
Moulin de Chaves The Art of Living Freely
2017-06-18 07 Freeness and Self 49:12
Moulin de Chaves The Art of Living Freely
2017-06-17 06 Meditation - Nature of experience 25:46
Moulin de Chaves The Art of Living Freely
2017-06-16 05 Meditation on affect and reactivity 27:50
Moulin de Chaves The Art of Living Freely
2017-06-15 04 Freedom from Tension and Drama 34:41
Moulin de Chaves The Art of Living Freely
2017-06-14 03 Meditation - Awareness and this breathing body 21:21
Moulin de Chaves The Art of Living Freely
2017-06-13 02 Freeness and Relaxation 28:57
Moulin de Chaves The Art of Living Freely

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