Ajahn Anan Podcast

In this videoconference talk from 23 Jul, 2021, Ajahn Anan talks about the seven weeks following the Buddha's enlightenment, and the Buddha's great compassion to endure many obstacles to teach. "So this is encompassed in the period that the Buddha travelled to Varanasi City with metta and compassion. We could imagine that if we had the highest happiness already, alone were already happy, what we w...

2021.07.10 | Reality is not hard to see; it’s all around us. Arising and ceasing is happening all the time—leaves constantly fall from trees, people are always ageing and passing away. So why have we not understood this yet? 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 ses...

A talk on overcoming fear and the animal state of animals.

2021.07.08 | Just as a house relies on its foundation for its strength, so too, our minds need meditation objects to give them stability. If we can keep our minds engaged with these skilful activities, they’ll be able to settle into deep peace and gain liberating insight. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you can email...

In this videoconference talk from 16 Jul, 2021, Ajahn Anan discusses about the various types of happiness that laypeople can have. "So we have to train our minds to have metta, karuna, mudita--sympathetic joy, and upekkha--equanimity. Sometimes we don’t have a mind of mudita to others, we have had jealousy in the past as well, but we trained ourselves and then the jealousy reduces by itself. Befor...

2021.07.07 | We spread loving-kindness to ourselves and all beings, then we can contemplate and ask ourselves if any aspect of the body is permanent or stable. This can give rise to more samadhi. We put forth effort to train our minds using the great opportunity we have while still alive. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma tal...

The eightfold path is the way out of suffering, the way to true happiness.

The body is just the body, feelings are just feelings, the mind is just the mind, and dhammas are just dhammas. None of it should be clung to as self. With virtue as a foundation, we can realize samadhi, which in turn allows wisdom to arise. With wisdom we see emptiness and realize the liberation for which we all wish. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, me...

No matter how many times you fall in the practice, never give up. It’s normal to feel discouraged every now and then, but don’t lose 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 (Bangkok, GMT+7).

Is there anything in the world which does not pass away? Look at one’s experience and see. All the six sense objects just come and go. Clinging to experience with delusion is likened to being in a house on fire - and the Buddha taught the way out: the path of virtue, collectedness, and wisdom. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma tal...

All that arises is Dhamma. Dhamma practice is like planting a tree—we take care of the watering, fertilizing, and protection from pests, and the tree flowers and fruits in its own time.

We recollect the first awakened disciple of the Buddha, Venerable Anya Kondanya, and practise to follow in his footsteps. We see that whether one is a Buddha or a disciple, the results of one’s practice come from causes that one has laid down. We put in the causes of generosity, virtue, collectedness, and wisdom, and the result is seeing clearly the nature of reality - the Buddha is seen in one’s...

2021.06.30 | As Buddhists, we all have faith in the Buddha. We believe that he really did awaken to the Dhamma, and that he taught the Dhamma well. We also need to put this faith into action, however, by putting his teachings into practice in our own lives. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you can email wmjdhamma@gmail...

Have you every seen the living dead? Actually they are all around us - those who live their lives in unskillful, negligent ways. These people have died, even though they are still breathing. But we need to learn how to both breathe and be alive. We do this by living our lives well, with heedfulness and integrity. These are the people who never die.

2021.06.29 | When we normally view the world through our physical eyes, we see humans, animals, and other beings. When we view it through the microscope of inner knowledge, however, we see matter arising and ceasing, and we understand the nature of not-self. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you can email wmjdhamma@gmai...

2021.06.28 | What is written in the scriptures is correct, but our interpretations of it are often misguided. Whether or not we have read a lot, what is important is that we come to practise in order to gain direct knowledge from our own experience. 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...

2021.06.27 | There are many types of fear. We begin to train our minds to be free of fear with generosity, virtue, and mental cultivation. When one sees the truth clearly, the sense of self is seen through and fear reduces. Having seen clearly, one truly enters the Triple Gem: the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditati...

There are many levels of wisdom. Listening to the Dhamma brings one kind, and contemplating what we've heard brings another. But the wisdom founded in a peaceful mind goes higher—it transcends the world.

The fetters of self-view, skeptical doubt, and attachment to precepts and rituals are what keep the cycle of birth and death going for limitless lifetimes. When one cuts these off through the strength of the Path, the heart becomes much lighter. Steadily, the defilements are reduced, until only purity remains. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation,...

In this videoconference talk from 9 Jul, 2021, Ajahn Anan discusses about the importance of having the Triple Gem as our highest refuge in facing the many difficulties of life. "So the deep rooted faith we have in the Triple Gem, we should make it to be full in our hearts, because the Buddha was one with the mind of purity and radiance. The Dhamma is the teaching of the Buddha that he has taught w...

Venerable Subadha, Venerable Anya Kondanya, Anathapindika, and Lady Visakha are amongst the Buddha’s most eminent disciples. Looking at their examples, we can gain strength of heart to practise ourselves - to practice giving, virtue, and mental cultivation, to practise the noble path of virtue, collectedness and wisdom, for the sake of true security and freedom, Nibbana. To join Ajahn Anan and the...

In this videoconference talk from 25 Jun, 2021, Ajahn Anan discusses about using our discernment with regards to current events. "Do you really see it? If the economy is good, the pigs die, the chickens die, the ducks die, the cows all die. They are all food for humans. The more well they sell, the more animals die. And even all the animals aren’t crying, they aren’t complaining. But we also come...

In meditation we do need to set a goal and raise our efforts, but we also need to relax and let go.

Even though we have studied a lot at school, what we have received is a superficial knowledge. This is necessary to make our way in this world, but it cannot lead us out of suffering. It’s only the inner knowledge that we gain through cultivating our minds that can lead us to liberation. To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you...

We practice to relieve suffering, not to heap it up upon ourselves. Great determination and self-aversion are a dangerous combination, something we need to be on the lookout for. If our minds do have self hate, it's important to develop kindness towards ourselves. We must also have self awareness to know our own limits and resources, and how much we are capable of. Our efforts must come through wi...