Ajahn Anan Podcast

2021.10.02 | Loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity are known as the Four Divine Abidings (brahmaviharas). They are meditation objects that we can use to bring our minds to samadhi. Loving-kindness is also one of the protective meditations. With a heart of loving-kindness, we are naturally well-established in the first precept and do not wish harm to others. To join Ajah...

2021.09.30 | There are many roads in this world, and many ways to travel along them, but they can only take us around this world. We also have this Noble Path, however, and by following it, we can leave this world and go beyond 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 link....

2021.09.29 | Similar to how the immune system can be trained to protect the body from disease, we can teach and train our minds to be protected from arammanas - sense impressions. We all want happiness and do not want suffering, so we use our faith in the Triple Gem to follow the Buddha’s teachings to realize freedom from all stress. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online fo...

In the beginning of our practice it's important to listen to a lot of teachings from the wise. They can help to steer us in the right direction, and through this we can realize within ourselves the validity of their words. 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, me...

2021.09.28 | It’s common these days for people to demand equality, but all beings have their own kamma, and this causes us to be different. But, no matter who we are or what situation we are in, we all have the capability to create new good kamma and grow in merit, mindfulness and wisdom. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma tal...

2021.09.27 | In order to reach peace, firstly we must cultivate it in our body and speech, making sure our external actions are virtuous. Upon this foundation of sīla, we then go about cultivating inner peace through samādhi and 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 for the link. Da...

2021.09.26 | We experience heaven in the present through skillful acts and hell in the present through unskillful acts. We are not sure when sickness and death will arrive. Therefore we should establish ourselves firmly in heedfulness. 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. Dai...

No matter who we are, no matter what position we hold in the world, death is steadily closing in on us. By realizing this, energy arises to walk the path that will lead us to the end of death and towards the birth of an inner Buddha 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 the Wat Marp Jan Community onli...

2021.09.25 | We have the goal of reaching Nibbāna—the end of all suffering—but, how do we get there? We must use this life to cultivate goodness and develop the wisdom that allows us to let go of all things. 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 - 9p...

2021.09.23 | Greed, aversion, and delusion are heat in the heart. Practising the path of sila, samadhi, and panya gives rise to coolness in the heart. We practise patient endurance. We reflect: why get angry when all of our lives must end in death? We cut off heat/unskillfulness, give rise to coolness/goodness, and bring the mind to purity. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community on...

As we progress along this path of practice—being generous, keeping good virtue, and meditating—we'll get the feeling that heaven is close by. And that's because it is—the inner heaven is the happiness we feel from all the goodness we have created. 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 onli...

2021.09.22 | When we are generous and virtuous without expecting anything in return, what we gain is inner wealth, happiness and emptiness. So, we shouldn’t desire any plane of birth or state of becoming, but set our hearts on the highest happiness instead: Nibbāna. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you can email wmjdha...

2021.09.21 | In this talk, Ajahn Anan tells the story of Lady Uttarā and Lady Sirimā, and how it is possible to go from a heart afflicted by very strong, painful emotions to seeing the Dhamma. 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 Ti...

2021.09.19 | The mind that sees the truth enters into the stream of Dhamma, a stream which is cool and peaceful. One disciple during the Buddha’s time, upon receiving a teaching from Venerable Ananda, saw that he must die and separate from all his material possessions. His mind gathered together and cut the first three fetters. If we practise ourselves, it is not beyond our ability to enter t...

In this talk, Ajahn Anan explains to us the many ways we can build goodness, including generosity, virtue, meditation and humility. As this merit grows in our hearts, so too does our joy and vitality. It gives us an energy that propels us along the Noble Path. 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 C...

2021.09.18 | For those who can easily be generous and virtuous, it shows they have cultivated these qualities and deeds in the past. And as difficult as it is to find someone like this, it is far more difficult to come across someone interested in meditation and who can bring their minds to peace. But whatever the case, we must ensure that we are one of those people. To join Ajahn Anan and th...

2021.09.16 | Ajahn Chah often said to his monks, “If you know how to eat, you know how to practise.” In this talk, Ajahn Anan explains this teaching and how we can implement 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, GM...

The timeless truth that the Buddha pointed to is the most amazing thing there is. If we humbly bow our hearts into this Dhamma, we can experience a wondrous inner joy. 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 Dhamma talk, you can email wmjdhamma@gm...

2021.09.15 | Is the body permanent or impermanent? Impermanent. Is that which is impermanent sukha (pleasurable) or dukkha (stressful)? Dukkha - it cannot last or endure. That which is changing and stressful is unsuited to be called ‘self’. The same is true for feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chant...

2021.09.14 | The real nature of our minds is one of brightness and purity, but because we are deluded by the sense impressions we experience, we never see this radiance. We need to bring our minds to peace in order to know what they are really like. 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...

2021.09.13 | If we are sincere in our studies and work, using effort, mindfulness and wisdom to overcome all the obstacles we encounter, we will be able to find success and wealth in this world. What we will also find out, however, is that these things cannot give brightness to our hearts. Even though we may build a mansion for our bodies, this cannot offer shelter to our hearts. So we should...

As long as it is still breathing, the body becomes a vessel for the mind to reside in. If we are intelligent, we’ll use it while it’s still strong and living to create merit and goodness. 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 Dhamma talk, you ca...

2021.09.12 | Moods and sense impressions, arammanas, are constantly contacting the mind through the six sense doors. If there is clinging to these phenomena, then birth and death, suffering, arises. This cycle of birth and death has gone on and on for a long time - a beginning is not to be found. Therefore we would do well to have sincere effort in training our minds, to practise dana, sila,...

2021.09.11 | Even though we may be right, if we attach to that rightness, it turns wrong. It’s normal for everyone in the world to have their own views, but if we each cling on to our own, there will be no end to the arguments and chaos. So we must learn to lay aside our opinions and listen to others, reflecting on what they have to say. And who knows? Maybe they actually are correct. But it’...

In this videoconference talk from 24 Sep, 2021, Ajahn Anan talks about how making merit and building goodness leads to good results, whether through Dana, Sila or Bhavana. Whether we are coming from darkness or from brightness, in this life may we build our parami and go to brightness. "So we people need everything in all ways. We need a good place to live. We need a strong body. We need a beautif...