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Martin Aylward's Dharma Talks
Martin Aylward
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2024-09-14 Nothing Matters, Everything Matters 42:03
This talk explores various paradoxes, and covers the inner territory of fear and control, inflationary and deflationary self-importance, the illusion of decision-making, and responsibility vs responsiveness in how we interact with the complexities of the world.
Gaia House Radical Freeness: Everything to Lose, Nothing to Fear
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 Radical Freeness: Everything to Lose, Nothing to Fear
2024-09-12 Karma, Self-Reflective Consciousness & Buddha Nature 47:06
Martin explores various features of our conditioning, pointing throughout the talk to the natural ease of a free heart as we move beyond self-measurement.
Gaia House Radical Freeness: Everything to Lose, Nothing to Fear
2024-09-11 Visions of Liberation 42:48
This talk examines and contrasts various worldly and spiritual ideas of freedom, while Martin points beyond our inherited, internalised and self-imposed contraints, to the authentic free-ness at the heart of the dharma.
Gaia House Radical Freeness: Everything to Lose, Nothing to Fear
2024-03-23 Living fully and dying freely 32:34
London Insight Meditation Martin Aylward – “Maranasati: How reflecting on your death can liberate your life”
2024-03-23 Guided meditation on the deathless 27:48
London Insight Meditation Martin Aylward – “Maranasati: How reflecting on your death can liberate your life”
2024-03-23 The deathless 23:49
London Insight Meditation Martin Aylward – “Maranasati: How reflecting on your death can liberate your life”
2024-03-23 Guided meditation 17:52
London Insight Meditation Martin Aylward – “Maranasati: How reflecting on your death can liberate your life”
2024-03-23 Death and renewal are intertwined 9:30
London Insight Meditation Martin Aylward – “Maranasati: How reflecting on your death can liberate your life”
2024-03-23 Making sense of death 18:29
London Insight Meditation Martin Aylward – “Maranasati: How reflecting on your death can liberate your life”
2024-03-23 Introduction to Maranasati 3:27
London Insight Meditation Martin Aylward – “Maranasati: How reflecting on your death can liberate your life”
2023-11-19 Instructions sur la marche avec questionnement 8:42
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Une vie libre et libérée dans un monde de contraintes
2023-11-19 Méditation guidée assise 30:33
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Une vie libre et libérée dans un monde de contraintes
2023-11-19 Enseignement 7:06
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Une vie libre et libérée dans un monde de contraintes
2023-11-19 Enseignement et instruction pour la pause repas 10:44
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Une vie libre et libérée dans un monde de contraintes
2023-11-19 Instructions pour la marche méditative 7:09
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Une vie libre et libérée dans un monde de contraintes
2023-11-19 Instructions pour le temps d'échange 4:14
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Une vie libre et libérée dans un monde de contraintes
2023-11-19 Méditation guidée assise 33:35
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Une vie libre et libérée dans un monde de contraintes
2023-11-19 Introduction 10:42
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Une vie libre et libérée dans un monde de contraintes
2023-09-22 On Free-ness 49:13
Reflecting on the retreat title - ‘A joyful liberation’ - Martin looks at nuances of joy, and at that which is liberating, pointing beyond our formal meditation practices, into the wider realms of an integrative dharma practice with its personal, social and ecological dimensions.
Gaia House A Joyful Liberation
2023-09-20 On Dissolution 51:52
Martin explores the essence refrain of the heart sutra, looking at emptiness in terms of gone-ness, spaciousness, and dissolution. He looks at what dissolves and what remains as our core structures dissolve, particularly in the areas of desire, belief, conformity and identity, or What I want, What I believe, How I behave and Who I take my myself to be.
Gaia House A Joyful Liberation
2023-09-19 On Awake-ness 43:24
This talk begins with how Consciousness is fundamentally awake by nature. It explores ways this awake-ness gets obscured, ignored and suppressed, and goes on to looks at particular aspects of this awake nature and its functioning, such as consciousness, awareness, presence, and attention, then looks at the fruits of an awakened life.
Gaia House A Joyful Liberation
2023-02-25 Finding a Free Life in a World of Constraints 49:42
London Insight Meditation Martin Aylward – A Free Life in a Constrained World
2023-02-25 The Taste of Freeness Guided Meditation 25:12
London Insight Meditation Martin Aylward – A Free Life in a Constrained World
2023-02-25 The taste of freeness 6:20
London Insight Meditation Martin Aylward – A Free Life in a Constrained World
2023-02-25 Guided meditation 32:49
London Insight Meditation Martin Aylward – A Free Life in a Constrained World
2023-02-25 Freeness and Constraints 22:09
London Insight Meditation Martin Aylward – A Free Life in a Constrained World
2022-03-05 What do we awake to? 39:51
London Insight Meditation Martin Aylward - Awake Where You Are
2022-03-05 Awake where you are meditation 28:01
London Insight Meditation Martin Aylward - Awake Where You Are
2022-03-05 What it means to be awake where you are 19:38
London Insight Meditation Martin Aylward - Awake Where You Are
2021-12-18 Visceral Enlightenment: Somatic Practice as a Dharma Path 1:31:19
with Martin Aylward, Willa Baker
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Visceral Enlightenment: Somatic Practice as a Dharma Path
2019-10-08 Dharma Talk - On Meaningfulness 48:33
Martin explores the inherent human longing for meaning and purpose, in its historical and religious contexts, and in the flawed ways we habitually seek wholeness or meaning. He describes the internalising of a deep meaningfulness that transcends ordinary understanding, entering into a harmony and resonance with life just as it is, constantly expressing its infinite yet goalless meaningfulness.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and in Movement
2019-10-08 Meditation Instructions (Day 4) 17:46
Three Forms of Skilful Attention.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and in Movement
2019-10-07 Dharma Talk - Depths of Connection 59:24
Various components of connection - kindness, empathy, joy -are explored in this talk, spanning both meditative and engaged forms of connecting with ourselves, others and life itself.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and in Movement
2019-10-07 Meditation Instructions (Day 3) 14:51
Awareness as an Open Field.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and in Movement
2019-10-06 Dharma Talk - The Hallmarks of Insight 45:59
Martin looks at the quality of investigation. He shows how to inquire directly into experience, and explores the features of liberating understanding and insight into different realms of experience.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and in Movement
2019-10-06 Meditation Instructions (Day 2) 21:00
Dwelling as Embodied Awareness.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and in Movement
2019-10-05 Dharma Talk - Gender Blending Buddha Bodies 52:36
This talk explores different depths and dimensions of embodied presence as on learns to inhabit experience more fully, freely and expansively.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and in Movement
2019-10-05 Meditation Instructions (Day 1) 1:22:33
Entering into presence.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and in Movement
2019-09-08 AM01-intro & dharma talk 60:39
New York Insight Meditation Center Wisdom, Love and Presence: Awakening the Three Centers of Head, Heart and Belly
2019-09-08 AM02- Guided Meditation 25:53
New York Insight Meditation Center Wisdom, Love and Presence: Awakening the Three Centers of Head, Heart and Belly
2019-09-08 AM03- Guided Meditation 29:53
New York Insight Meditation Center Wisdom, Love and Presence: Awakening the Three Centers of Head, Heart and Belly
2019-09-08 am04-concluding-remarks-morning-session+qa 24:02
New York Insight Meditation Center Wisdom, Love and Presence: Awakening the Three Centers of Head, Heart and Belly
2019-09-08 pm01-standing meditation & movement 14:45
New York Insight Meditation Center Wisdom, Love and Presence: Awakening the Three Centers of Head, Heart and Belly
2019-09-08 pm02-guided-meditation-heart-center+sound (ooow) 32:23
New York Insight Meditation Center Wisdom, Love and Presence: Awakening the Three Centers of Head, Heart and Belly
2019-09-08 pm03-movement-interaction-exercise+sharing 47:29
New York Insight Meditation Center Wisdom, Love and Presence: Awakening the Three Centers of Head, Heart and Belly
2019-09-08 pm04-mind-Vijñāna-Sampajañña-Sati 25:06
New York Insight Meditation Center Wisdom, Love and Presence: Awakening the Three Centers of Head, Heart and Belly
2019-09-08 pm05-mind-guided-meditation-short 9:07
New York Insight Meditation Center Wisdom, Love and Presence: Awakening the Three Centers of Head, Heart and Belly
2019-09-08 pm06-qa+closing rmearks 11:17
New York Insight Meditation Center Wisdom, Love and Presence: Awakening the Three Centers of Head, Heart and Belly
2019-03-19 Freely Engaging 55:35
These talks build on one another and work well as a series. Building on and referring to the previous talks on the retreat, these reflexions serve as an invitation to reflect on our engagement with the world. Reflections draw on a full and free engagement with thought, speech and action for showing up amidst the turbulence and uncertainty of the world we live in.
Gaia House Freeness and Friction: How We Meet Ourselves and the World

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