Ajahn Anan Podcast

2021.03.31 | A Dhamma talk given by Ajahn Anan on his Birthday. 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@gmail.com for the link. Daily live sessions at 7pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

In this videoconference talk from 23 April, 2021, Ajahn Anan discusses the topic of humbling and lowering oneself, as well as a story of venerable Maha Kassapa. "Respect and reverence is being aware of the goodness and virtue of others or of other things. And then one behaves to that person with respect and reverence, mainly shown through one’s body and speech. In regards to humility and lowering...

2021.03.31 | The worldly winds come and go, and the mind that clings to them is tossed about in suffering. By seeing clearly and not attaching, the mind realizes peace and true happiness. 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, y...

2021.03.30 | If we sincerely put in our efforts, always trying to be mindful, and meditating whenever we get the chance, it won’t be long at all until we see into the Dhamma. 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...

In this talk, Ajahn Anan speaks about how the path, strengthened, can transcend the defilements and issue into a vision of emptiness. 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@gmail.com for the link. Live session...

In this translation from a recorded talk, Ajahn Anan tells us a story about the next Buddha from the time of our own Buddha. 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@gmail.com for the link. Daily live sessions a...

2021.03.24 | The truth that the Buddha discovered pervades the whole universe. Through understanding its emptiness, our mind turns empty and leaves. But it doesn’t actually go anywhere; all of this happens within our heart. 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 chanti...

Beginning with the Buddha's words on persistence, Ajahn Anan then encourages his monks to develop viriya, effort, by taking on the traditional dhutanga practice of sitting all night. 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 ema...

2021.03.23 | If we have wisdom, all of the experiences we have—the things we see, hear and feel—can all become a source of knowledge and faith. The difficulty is when we have an undiscerning mind—everything we contact becomes a source of confusion and turmoil. This is why we must practise. To listen to most recent talks, you can visit our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/ajahnanan To joi...

In this videoconference talk from 16 April, 2021, Ajahn Anan discusses the Buddha-nature of every person and how people aren't high or low according to their birth. "The Buddha taught that we people aren't high or low according to our birth. This birth, if we practise goodness, practise with sila dhamma, morality, then we can be high on the level of the mind. We aren’t high or low because of the e...

2021.03.22 | Those inclined towards wisdom should use that discernment to always be reflecting upon their experiences—who is the one talking? Who is the one listening? Everything is empty. 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,...

Ajahn Anan explains how understanding our role in our own suffering can help us accept it and bring heedfulness to our practice. 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@gmail.com for the link. Live sessions eve...

The wealth of this world is a source of stress—we have to protect it from dangers and thieves, and even then we may lose it all the same. Virtue, however, provides us with human and divine wealth and leads us to inner peace. When we use this calm mind to reflect upon the nature of reality, we gain the wealth of Nibbāna. To listen to most recent talks, you can visit our YouTube page: https://www.yo...

Old age, sickness, and death, are closing in—what should we do? We do goodness with heedfulness. The heedful do not die; the heedless are as if dead already. 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@gmail.com fo...

Nature has always been the way it is; truth is always true. Even though we may have eyes, if they are closed, everything will be dark. It's when our minds are full of goodness and our hearts are at peace that we can open our eyes of Dhamma, thereby giving birth to light in our hearts. To listen to most recent talks, you can visit our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/ajahnanan To join Ajahn An...

If you received news that four great mountains were coming towards you, crushing everything in their path, leaving no chance for escape, what would you do? How are you going to prepare for death? 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...

In this videoconference talk from 9 April, 2021, Ajahn Anan discusses the value of the Dhamma and how fortunate we are to have the conditions to practise it. "The Buddha was the highest, the Supreme Teacher, complete in all ways and qualities, but his mind still inclined to have homage and respect. But he could not find anyone whom he could respect with regards to sila, samadhi, wisdom, liberation...

In this talk, Ajahn Anan speaks about the importance of cultivating the true refuge of the Triple Gem rather than allowing the mind to get deluded by the false refuges of superstition, wealth, and entertainment. 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, a...

In this talk, Ajahn Anan speaks about how to contemplate and practice with food in order to let go of attachment to it. 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@gmail.com for the link. Live sessions everyday fro...

Beginning with a reflection on the benefits of contemplating Dhamma, Ajahn Anan then tells stories of his teachers. Firstly, Luang Pu Boonnaa and the joy found in being verbally harassed by a nun. Then many beautiful tales of Luang Pu Chah and his skill in guiding his disciples. One of them is about a train ride they had together to Bangkok, which illustrates the reverence and admiration Ajahn Ana...

When we endure the difficulties that present themselves in the initial stages of the practice, our hearts start to gain peace and clarity. They stop swinging between attraction and aversion, staying settled and centered, like a still pendulum. 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 f...

2021.03.13 | In the same way as our minds, it’s like our dwelling or house is on fire with ageing, illness and death. We are in the house while it is on fire all around us, and we try to escape. This is seeing the drawbacks of our situation, that death is coming. To listen to most recent talks, you can visit our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/ajahnanan To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Ma...

2021.03.12 | Whatever we attach to will be a cause of stress for us. So Luang Por Chah taught that no matter how important anything might be, letting go is more important. 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 wmj...

2021.03.11 | One needs to see the drawbacks of Samsara, the endless cycle of wandering on. Time passes; the days are passing by and life is uncertain. When our time runs out, we are unable to do acts of merit anymore. So we need to train our minds to be firm in the doing of goodness, not to let go of one’s effort and get lost in the various moods and sense objects of the world. To listen to m...

2021.03.11 | Faith, effort, mindfulness, samādhi and wisdom give strength and energy to our search for freedom from suffering. In this talk, Ajahn Anan tells us how they work. 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...