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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of 19 May, 2025

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Martin Aylward

We’re honored to have Martin Aylward offering our Daily Meditation sessions this week. We hope they are nourishing for your practice.

This week’s theme is: Slow Down, Open Up: Ways Into Being Where You Already Are

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Doing nothing; Going nowhere; Being nobody

May 19, 2025

Boundlessly Beautiful; Boundlessly Painful

May 20, 2025

Presence, Love and Wisdom

May 21, 2025

Resting our attention

May 22, 2025

The Deep, the True, the Good and the Beautiful

May 23, 2025

Discussion

2 thoughts on “Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of 19 May, 2025

  1. Thank you for your teachings! (your kind wisdom and humor are so refreshing!)
    Bringing my focus to the three qualities, depending on where I might be stuck, is so helpful. My tendency is to absorb pain and suffering, so being able to breathe and sit with solidity/belly and transparency/ mind is something I will bring to my practice.
    Wishing you a day of joy and peace..

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