Ajahn Anan Podcast

2021.07.31 | Right now, we still have life and breath. So we should use this opportunity to create as much goodness and cultivate our hearts as best we can, because we simply don’t know when we will die. 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, I...

There are many kinds of goodness that we can cultivate, and one of them is being humble. Just as how a rice plant laden with grains bows over, so too, when we are able to be humble and respectful, it shows our hearts are filled with goodness, and the Dhamma is about to blossom.

2021.07.29 | Sacca adhitthana, or determinations of truth, play a role in our Dhamma practice. For example, the monastics determine to stay in one place for the annual rains retreat and may make additional determinations for this time period, as well. Our Buddha, as a Bodhisattva, had immense truthfulness parami, as demonstrated in the story of the baby quail. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat M...

2021.07.28 | All people want wisdom, as this is the quality that can solve all the difficulties and suffering we experience. But how does it arise? The Buddha taught that we need a strong, stable and still mind—one that has been brought into samādhi—in order for us to gain knowledge of reality. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dham...

In this videoconference talk from 13 Aug, 2021, Ajahn Anan shares stories on gratitude and how it is a mark of a good person. "So a person who knows the goodness they have received and tries to repay it is a person who has gratitude. They know the value of the goodness that others have done to them, and they express themselves in homage to that goodness. And they aren't careless and don't put off...

Having come into this world, shortly we must depart. Given this, what should we do? We build goodness and practice virtue, collectedness, and wisdom.

In this videoconference talk from 6 Aug, 2021, Ajahn Anan talks about the importance of harmony in today's world. "Our world is livable together because of metta and karuna. But if there is no metta and karuna anymore, the world will come ablaze, and we will be unable to live together. This is because of not having Dhamma, which are just these qualities of metta and karuna. So metta and karuna are...

2021.07.27 | It’s especially easy to notice the uncertain nature of life during this time of pandemic; people of all ages are passing away. But that’s just the way life is. If we can understand this truth—see the arising and ceasing of everything—then we’ll gain the joy and peace of seeing the Dhamma. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and...

2021.07.26 | The Buddha said that the monks who ordain are a special caste, that of the samanas: ones desiring peace. They depend on the pāramī of the Buddha, and the kindness of the laity, for their existence. And in order to repay this and not get into debt, they must practise the Dhamma with ardent effort. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditat...

2021.07.25 | On the occasion of entering the 37th rains retreat at Wat Marp Jan, we set our hearts fully and completely on this practice of 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 Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

No matter how big or small our bodies are, just a small amount of air is what keeps them alive. When the breath stops, the body dies right there. So what can we truly call our own in this world?

2021.07.21 | Most people who are born into this world are always following the current of their emotions. But for those who are willing to endure the hardships of going against the flow of the world, their minds will fall into the stream of 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...

2021.07.20 | When we chant the praises to the great qualities of the Buddha, our voice is like a speck of dust in the universe, or a small bird singing in the open sky. But due to the power of the Buddha’s virtues, when we chant with faith, the sound reaches to the ends of the universe. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk,...

A story of great generosity at a fast food restaurant, the benefits and merit of respect and right view, and more. These bodies are merely natural elements borrowed from the world; we should contemplate them as ‘not me, not mine’ every day.

2021.07.19 | As we bring the Buddha’s teachings into our lives, our hearts grow in radiance and joy. Cultivating goodness is our way of paying homage to the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha. 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 (Bangk...

2021.07.18 | We have all seen old age, sickness, and death in our lives but we don’t yet fully accept these phenomena. This is due to ignorance and not contemplating with samadhi. We train and teach our minds to accept reality. When we see clearly, great rapture, fullness of heart, and happiness arise - the mind realizes Buddha, awakening. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community onl...

A message from Ajahn Anan to the grandmother of one of his disciples who was ill with terminal cancer. This short teaching tells us how to find a bright and peaceful inner refuge when the body is failing.

2021.07.15 | Through compassion, the Buddha cultivated the pāramīs for countless lives in order to help all of us. It’s due to his great determination and kindness that we are able to hear 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, Indo...

A talk translated on 19 November, 2020. Ajahn Anan discusses letting go of conceit and views, monastic etiquette abroad, a story of cigarettes in a spittoon, and more.

2021.07.04 | We set our hearts on this practice of Dhamma. When sila, samadhi, and panya gather together in the heart, then the Dhamma is revealed. Doubts are dispelled and one sees the truth of reality following Venerable Anya Kondanya, the first awakened disciple of the Buddha. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you ca...

"So Asalha Puja is important because it is the day that the Triple Gem was complete in the world. Because after Ven. Anya Kodanya had seen the Dhamma, he requested for ordination, and was ordained as the first monk in the Buddha Sasana. So the Buddha taught the Dhamma for the first time, and exclaimed the teachings for the first time. And there was a noble Sangha arising for the first time, which...

A talk on how innate knowledge is not enough. We develop our minds to grow and cultivate wisdom to one day know for ourselves that the pure mind does not decay.

In this videoconference talk from 30 Jul, 2021, Ajahn Anan talks about the determination to bhavana, and gives his anumodana to all those who have rendered their help and support to Wat Marp Jan during this period of lock down. "In the present situation, we can see that to have a means of living for a human-being is hard, troublesome, and full of much suffering. There is a battle to fight against...

As good people, we wish for all our actions and thoughts to be good as well. But this often means that we try to force bad thoughts out of our minds, and this pressure just creates more bad thoughts. Then we end up hating ourselves. Ajahn Chah said that the way to overcome this is to just know these thoughts for what they are—yet another phenomenon that arises and ceases and doesn’t belong to us....

2021.07.12 | Since being born, we’ve all experienced happiness. This comes to us through experiencing sights, sounds, tastes and odours that we find pleasing, but it’s also a common form of happiness that becomes the cause for suffering. Through practising Dhamma, however, we find more refined forms of happiness—that which comes from being generous and virtuous, from samadhi, and from permane...