Ajahn Anan Podcast

2021.10.28 | Is there anything constant in this world? Inconstancy is the only constant thing here. Nature is always trying to teach us this lesson, and the important thing is that we take it to heart. 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, Ind...

2021.10.27 | Dust alighting on a mirror is a simile for sense impressions alighting on the mind. As long as we have a mirror or mind, then we must constantly clean it. With the understanding of not-self, however, we see clearly with wisdom, and there is nowhere for dust to alight. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you c...

The decisions we make are very important; they're what make the difference between heaven and hell. Those with intelligence will pick the way to genuine happiness and peace: the Noble Path.

2021.10.26 | In the beginning of the practice, we must endure many things and develop many qualities, but as we carry on, the practice eventually gains momentum. Here, it's fun to meditate as we know that we are steadily cutting away at the defilements until they are forever gone. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you c...

2021.10.25 | Where can we go to find peace? We may stay in a forest or a cave and flee from disturbing sights and sounds, and this can be useful to bring energy to our minds. But we can't flee forever. So, in order to find true peace, we must develop wisdom that allows us to understand and let go of all sense impressions. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chan...

Every teaching that the Buddha gave gathers into the single point of seeing form, feeling, perception, mental formations and sense consciousness as inconstant.

2021.10.23 | With the recent ending of the rains retreat, we can reflect on the origin story for the Kathina ceremony. We also reflect on the impermanence of worldly Dhammas, external harmony, and the internal harmony of sila, samadhi, and panya in the mind that leads to liberating insight. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma t...

2021.10.11 | All of us currently have mindfulness, samadhi and wisdom, but for the most part it's in a form that is useful for our work and studies, but ineffective for insight into truth. In order to gain this insight, we must walk along the path that the Buddha taught, until we are able to transcend the world and reach freedom from all suffering. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Comm...

2021.10.10 | The 16 Brahma realms of form correspond to the 4 form jhanas, and the upper five levels are the Pure Abodes for Anagamis. If we practise without ceasing, then we are all capable of realizing jhana and insight knowledge. In the beginning, however, we must patiently endure the proliferating mind, increasing our samadhi and reducing kilesas gradually. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat...

As Ajahn Anan teaches in this talk, every aspect of the practice gathers together in the qualities of mindfulness and clear comprehension. If we can bring our minds to stillness and hold awareness over them, then as they start to move, liberating wisdom will arise in our hearts. To listen to most recent talks, you can visit our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/ajahnanan To join Ajahn Anan and...

It’s important to try to keep our mindfulness steady and even throughout the day. If we can do this, our minds will easily settle into peace. Once they are established in calm, wisdom arises which is able to solve all our problems. 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 s...

On the occasion of Thai New Year, Ajahn Anan gave this talk about how to relieve the heat of our bodies and also the heat within our hearts. 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).

With a human birth, we have an excellent opportunity to cultivate goodness. All the other beings—animals, hungry ghosts, and even devas—wish for a rebirth in this state. So, while we have it, we should make the most of it by creating merit, practicing meditation and understanding. To listen to most recent talks, you can visit our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/ajahnanan To join Ajahn Anan a...

When we see the Dhamma, we see the Buddha, and our heart is Sangha. We see that the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha are actually one. When we see clearly like this, no doubts are left in the heart. 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 (B...

2021.10.09 | Some people are born with more innate talents than others. They learn and excel quickly in various fields. This is due to past efforts they have made. Whether we are born with a little or a lot of past merits and skills, we put forth effort in the present to see the Dhamma. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk,...

No matter what meditation method we use, it's important to establish kindness in our hearts first so that it flows from this place of mettā. Really, all the aspects of the path—generosity, virtue and inner cultivation—are an expression of that kindness. To listen to most recent talks, you can visit our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/ajahnanan To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Communit...

When we've come to understand the true worth of the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha, all the wealth in the world won't mean much to us. We see that it's only stuff that we borrow, but it's not actually ours. To listen to most recent talks, you can visit our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/ajahnanan To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamm...

2021.10.07 | Those who have trained their minds in meditation in the past can learn and understand things quickly. We can learn from the examples of Venerable Sariputta understanding Venerable Assaji’s brief teaching, and from Venerable Bhadda Kundalakesa, the Bhikkhuni foremost in quick understanding. We also reflect on the benefits of ordination. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Comm...

2021.10.06 | While being dependent on and using the necessities of life—food, shelter, clothing and medicine—it’s important that we reflect on them, being aware of why we are using them. The same holds true for special practices we may take up; we need to understand what their purposes are. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma t...

In this videoconference talk from 29 Oct, 2021, Ajahn Anan talks about the inner peace that comes from having mindfulness. When we are able to know with mindfulness and wisdom, the various moods and sense objects as they arise, we can realise true peace. "There was once when venerable Ajahn Chah was discussing Dhamma with a western monk, Ajahn Chah said that even if you go up to the moon, to Mars,...

In this talk, Ajahn Anan tells how viewing the body as being stable, a source of happiness, a self, and beautiful are insane perceptions that cause our hearts to be enveloped in darkness. When we perceive the body as unattractive, however, our minds turn bright and radiant. To listen to most recent talks, you can visit our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/ajahnanan To join Ajahn Anan and the...

In this videoconference talk from 8 Oct, 2021, Ajahn Anan talks about the results that come about from ‘talent’, which is a result of merit done in past lives, and ‘persistence’, which is the effort one must put forth in this life. “So talent could be called an old merit, which has been done in...

2021.10.05 | Like Anathapindika and Lady Visakha, we train in giving, virtue, and mental cultivation. We train ourselves in mindfulness and wisdom to know sense impressions as they arise such that the mind may cross over sense impressions and go beyond the world. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you can email wmjdhamma...

2021.10.04 | We can observe change in many ways - natural disasters change the outer environment, our bodies age, get sick, and die, pandemics arise and cease, possessions are gained and lost, perceptions and sense contacts come and go, obstacles arise and cease, and so on. If we practise the eightfold path, we can overcome ignorance regarding reality. May we all be intent on this. To join Aj...

2021.10.03 | It's important for us to be virtuous people as this allows us to live together in happiness and experience inner peace. This calm mind then becomes a suitable foundation for cultivating samādhi. Even though this stage of samādhi is tough, if we are sincere in our efforts, we can certainly achieve it. And with a firm and energised mind, insight and knowledge into the Dhamma can ar...