New York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talks

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana) Questions réponses

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Gaia House)

(Gaia House)

(Gaia House)

(Gaia House)

(Gaia House)

(Gaia House)

(London Insight Meditation)

(London Insight Meditation)

(London Insight Meditation)

(London Insight Meditation)

(London Insight Meditation)

(London Insight Meditation)

(London Insight Meditation)

(Gaia House) 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) 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) 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) 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.

(London Insight Meditation)

(London Insight Meditation)

(London Insight Meditation)

(London Insight Meditation)

(London Insight Meditation)

(London Insight Meditation)

(London Insight Meditation)

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Terre d'Éveil Vipassana)

(Gaia House) 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) 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.