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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of 15 April, 2024

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Martin Aylward

We’re fortunate that Martin Aylward has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK. Click here to find out more about Martin and to view his other contributions to Sangha Live.

 

This week’s topic is “The Dharma and the Drama: Illuminating Heart and World”

 

Each day this week, Martin will offer some brief reflections as an introduction to meditating together, with the dual focus of supporting a deepening meditation practice, and integrating its themes into your daily life and activities.

Settling between smallness and vastness.

April 15, 2024

Take care of tension and drama; suffering dissolves!

April 16, 2024

Body, mind, world - one fluid process!

April 17, 2024

The ordinary miracle of each moment

April 18, 2024

A world of Dharma, just like this!

April 19, 2024

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