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Meeting Tara: Mother of all Buddhas, Heart of Awakening

Short Course

With Martin Aylward

Learn how ancient symbolism can powerfully inspire your practice

What beautiful, liberating qualities of heart and mind can be cultivated in every moment?

In this on-demand course, we introduce and explore the qualities of the popular Himalayan deity, Tara. Tara can be seen as both a symbolic representation of the Original Ground of Awakened Awareness, and as the affectionately named Mother of All Buddhas.

Sangha Live’s founding teacher, Martin Aylward, helps us to explore the symbolism of Tara, and invites us to recognise, invoke and cultivate the qualities she represents: clarity and wisdom, playfulness and spontaneity, confidence and skilfulness, tenderness and compassion. Martin also decodes what can sometimes seem like an overly complex or esoteric relationship to deity symbolism.

This session includes sitting meditation practice and chanting of the Tara Mantra.

Meeting Tara Mother of all Buddhas Heart of Awakening

Join this session to learn to:

  • Dissolve and integrate ideas about inner and outer, the psychologic/symbolic and the real/ontological
  • Consider a love that is neither given nor received, yet which can permeate experience and consciousness
  • Appreciate how symbolism and imagery can go beyond orthodox or traditional interpretations, and can deepen our practice and its qualities

What are Short Courses?

With the independent student in mind, previously recorded Dharma practice sessions have been curated and trimmed into short guided videos that are easy to understand and put into practice.

Short courses include longer periods of meditation interspersed with wise teachings, practice exercises, a recorded Q&A from the live class, and more.

When you sign up, you’ll get instant access so you can join the course on your own schedule, and at your ideal pace. With lifetime access, you can watch and re-watch the videos as you please.

What’s Included

Approximately 3 hours of pre-recorded video content. Every video – whether a lesson, meditation, exercise, or Q&A – includes a description, so you have total flexibility when planning your self-paced study.

Cost

Short Courses are offered on a sliding scale basis, with a suggested rate of $35. We wholeheartedly welcome all to practice with us; no one turned away for lack of funds.

Questions?

Please email us at info@sangha.live.

About Martin Aylward

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Martin Aylward is the founding teacher of Sangha Live. After spending his early adult years in Asian monasteries and with Himalayan hermits, Martin settled in Southern France with his wife Gail and their 2 children, co-founding the Moulin de Chaves retreat centre where he lives and teaches.

Martin teaches meditation, guides students and leads retreats internationally, emphasising the integration of the deepest wisdom teachings into the midst of the lives we live. He is also a director of the Mindfulness Training Institute. Martin’s book Awake Where You Are: The Art of Embodied Awareness (2021) is now available via Wisdom Publications. Click here to learn more about Martin Aylward.

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