Martin Aylward

1 month ago | tricycle.org | Susan Kaiser Greenland |Martin Aylward |James Shaheen

Our life seems to be composed of a near-constant series of choice points, which can bring about excitement and a sense of agency, or overwhelm, anxiety, and paralysis. This talk explores both how we can bring…

Jan 24, 2025 | tricycle.org | Martin Aylward

When I was 19 years old, I traveled to India with a one-way ticket and no luggage. At that point, I hadn’t learned how to be a human yet, let alone an adult human, and honestly, I didn’t really want to be a human—I wanted to be some kind of spiritual being. After completing my first ten-day meditation course in Dharamsala, I fell in love with meditation, and in a characteristically grandiose adolescent way, I decided to head off to the caves. After all, that was what yogis did (or so I believed).