Ajahn Anan Podcast

2021.11.23 | Delusion cannot affect the mind with wisdom, just as dark cannot affect the light. One trains the mind in a meditation object like loving-kindness or the in and out breathing, then one can contemplate the body. The well-trained mind brings happiness. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you can email wmjdhamma...

2021.11.22 | The four divine abidings of metta, karuna, mudita, and upekkha are qualities a Dhamma practitioner cannot go without. Loving-kindness cools the fires in the heart and is directly linked to generosity, virtue, and the development of wisdom. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you can email wmjdhamma@gmail.com...

2021.11.21 | The path of sila, samadhi, and panya is like a boat we use to reach our destination. Having arrived, we leave the boat and do not use it anymore. We practise with continual effort, wisdom, and patient endurance. Seeing the Dhamma is not hard. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you can email wmjdhamma@gmail.c...

In this videoconference talk from 8 Oct, 2021, Ajahn Anan talks about the results that come from past lives, and the effort that has to be made in this life, in order to meet with success. "So talent could be called an old merit, which has been done in the past. The merit that has been done in past lives, this is merit, this is talent. But persistent effort must be made in this lifetime, and this...

After chanting the Buddha's first sermon, Ajahn Anan gives a talk on how whatever is of the nature to arise, is of the nature to cease.

2021.11.20 | When one sees clearly the things of this world - the body, names, labels, and so on - one sees the Dhamma. Seeing the Dhamma, one sees the Buddha. This is a heart that is bright and pure. May we all set our hearts on this practice, cultivating qualities such as the brahma-viharas, effort, khanti, sacca, dana, sila, samadhi, and mindfulness. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan...

2021.10.31 | Just as we need teachers to impart their knowledge to us in order for us to learn subjects like science and math, the same holds true for the Dhamma. Without a teacher who has practised the Dhamma and knows it directly, it is easy for us to get lost. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you can email wmjdhamma...

2021.10.30 | There are many ways to contemplate the body to give rise to wisdom. The untrained mind tends to see the body as permanent, a source of happiness, beautiful, and a self, but if we look closely we see that the body is changing, stressful, not beautiful, and not self. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you can...

In this Māgha Pūja talk from yesteryears, Ajahn Anan tells us of the different kinds of obstructions we must face during the course of our practice.

2021.03.20 | We may think carrying a heavy block of gold will bring us happiness, but all we get is suffering, and there is no end to it. We all want lightness but pick up heaviness continuously. We carry burdens up until old age, sickness, and death, and then keep carrying it to the next birth as well. Seeing clearly the heavy object for what it is, we can realize lightness. To help realize...

Just as a child needs good parents to look after it, making sure it doesn’t get itself into trouble, so too our minds need ‘the one who knows’—this knowing nature—to keep an eye on it, making sure it doesn’t do anything that will cause suffering. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you can email wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the lin...

In this talk, Ajahn Anan tells us the heart of the teachings he learnt from his time with Ajahn Chah.

The mind that’s left to its own devices will cause a lot of suffering. Therefore, we need to have knowledge, mindfulness and wisdom looking after these minds so dukkha does not arise. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you can email wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the link. Daily live sessions at 7pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, G...

2021.03.29 | All the labels that we give to things are merely conventions. When we can understand this truth, the heart let’s go and reaches freedom. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you can email wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the link. Daily live sessions at 7pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

2021.03.27 | If you heard that the Buddha was one million kilometres away, you would travel to see him, right? Even if it meant passing through immense hardship, and possibly losing our lives, we would still go. But actually, this isn’t necessary as the Buddha is right next to us all the time. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamm...

In this morning talk, Ajahn Anan teaches about establishing mindfulness, contemplating emptiness, the benefits and rare opportunity of ordination, building merit, heedfulness, and more.

When we see for ourselves the nature of reality, we know that the Buddha is real and his teachings are genuine. We know that walking this path actually leads us out of suffering. It doesn’t matter what other people say, we know that the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha are real. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you can email wmjdh...

2021.06.08 | All forms are not self, and so they are empty. And within that emptiness, there is the convention of form. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you can email wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the link. Daily live sessions at 7pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

In this talk, Ajahn Anan gives us guidance on how to develop our hearts in the quality of compassion.

In the world there are many paths that we can travel along—dangerous ones, difficult ones and smooth ones. It’s the same for our minds. We can choose to take them along a path that leads to difficulty and darkness, or a path that leads to happiness and light. It’s up to us. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you can email wmj...

In this talk, Ajahn Anan explains the correct method to purify negative kamma in line with the teachings of the Buddha.

We have a coarse outer body that all people can see, but we also have a subtle inner body that is invisible to our eyes. This is the body of our minds, and it’s important for us to develop this one to be higher and better. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you can email wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the link. Daily live sessions a...

In this talk, Ajahn Anan explains how the world is completely composed of conventions. When our minds understand this, they can put the world down and abide above it. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you can email wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the link. Daily live sessions at 7pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

In many places they teach to focus solely on vipassanā (insight), but really, in the initial stages, every aspect of the practice is samatha (tranquility). When we develop this way of bringing our hearts to peace, then investigating reality, we'll realize the highest happiness that the Buddha himself gained. To listen to most recent talks, you can visit our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/aj...

The five hindrances obstruct peace of mind, samadhi. And having gained samadhi, one must be careful not to misunderstand this peace as awakening and enlightenment. One practises samadhi for the sake of seeing clearly the nature of reality, that all phenomena are anicca, dukkha, and anatta. This insight is capable of liberating the mind from all suffering. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Co...