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Martin Aylward's Dharma Talks
Martin Aylward
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2017-02-25 Free to be Human - Saturday PM 1:35:51
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Teachings of liberation can seem to point to a kind of superhuman perfection, one reinforced by classical images and stories of Buddha and other semi-mythical historical saints. This can make our own freedom of being seem unattainable or at least far distant, yet Dharma teachings and practices emphasize immediate experience as the ground of liberation. This day/weekend will look at our human freedom as very near to hand, and will explore how to contemplate and integrate the liberating possibilities of our practice in the midst of our everyday lives.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Free To Be human
2017-02-25 Free to be Human - Saturday AM Guided Meditation 29:09
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Teachings of liberation can seem to point to a kind of superhuman perfection, one reinforced by classical images and stories of Buddha and other semi-mythical historical saints. This can make our own freedom of being seem unattainable or at least far distant, yet Dharma teachings and practices emphasize immediate experience as the ground of liberation. This day/weekend will look at our human freedom as very near to hand, and will explore how to contemplate and integrate the liberating possibilities of our practice in the midst of our everyday lives.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Free To Be human
2017-02-25 Free to be Human - Saturday PM Guided Meditation 45:15
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Teachings of liberation can seem to point to a kind of superhuman perfection, one reinforced by classical images and stories of Buddha and other semi-mythical historical saints. This can make our own freedom of being seem unattainable or at least far distant, yet Dharma teachings and practices emphasize immediate experience as the ground of liberation. This day/weekend will look at our human freedom as very near to hand, and will explore how to contemplate and integrate the liberating possibilities of our practice in the midst of our everyday lives.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Free To Be human
2016-10-27 Transformations 37:01
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Moulin de Chaves :  Indian pilgrimage to Buddhist sites 2016
2016-10-26 Awareness: Experience 48:10
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Moulin de Chaves :  Indian pilgrimage to Buddhist sites 2016
2016-06-21 The The 3 Facets of Practice, in Meditation and in Life 45:38
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This talk was given on the Summer solstice, and the teachings were held outside under the large Plane tree in the Gaia House gardens. Martin explores 3 facets of awareness practice, seeing how they can be applied in any moment, both within the formality of meditation and moment by moment in our wider lives. The 3 are Embodied Presence, Exploration and Inquiry, and Openness to the Nature of experience.
Gaia House :  Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2016-06-20 The Ambiguity of Self and World 37:04
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We rely on a sense of certainty and familiarity with how things are, yet when we look closely our experience is uncertain and always presenting anew. Martin looks at the big reference points for our experience; Life, Death, Self and World, pointing to a liberating way of understanding and relating to them that is free of the narrowness of certainty.
Gaia House :  Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2016-06-19 Spaciously & Graciously 43:00
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Martin explores the twin aspects of Wisdom and Love, as they are expressed in relating to our experience. He looks at the compulsions that easily takes up space in our consciousness, and shows how we can soften around them, and at the tendency to be intolerant, both of ourselves and others, and how we can be forgiving and gracious with our own humanness.
Gaia House :  Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2016-06-19 Spaciously and Graciously 43:00
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Martin explores the twin aspects of Wisdom and Love, as they are expressed in relating to our experience. He looks at the compulsions that easily takes up space in our consciousness, and shows how we can soften around them, and at the tendency to be intolerant, both of ourselves and others, and how we can be forgiving and gracious with our own humanness.
Gaia House :  Awakening in Stillness and Movement
2016-06-18 Human Experience Under the Microscope of Awareness 55:39
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Martin looks at the constructs of human experience (Nama-Pupa or the aggregates) and explores the transformative insights available to us in looking closely at our moment to moment sense of ourselves and the world around us.
Gaia House :  Awakening in Stillness and Movement

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