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The nature of practice: from linear path to inclusive awareness.

With Martin Aylward recorded on June 12, 2016.

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Today, Worldwide Insight founding and guiding teacher Martin Aylward explores the nature of practicing dharma, the way the path tends to unfold for us over time, and its developmental stages, from an initially linear sense of ‘self-improvement’ to an increasing capacity to be with ourselves however we are, and with whatever appears.

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