Ajahn Anan Podcast

2021.05.01 | With each step we take, our bodies are moving towards illness and pain. What are we doing now to prepare ourselves? 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).

2021.04.29 | Sometimes people say, “I’ve made so much merit and kept the precepts for so long, so why am I ill like this?” But they’re getting things mixed up—when we do good things, we receive good things; when we get a body, we get illness. But when illness arises, this is the Dhamma arising. It’s a Noble Truth. 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).

Inspired by a monk's encounter with wild elephants the previous night, Ajahn Anan tells many tales of encounters with spirits, snakes and the like while practicing in the jungle. 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. Every day 7-9 p.m. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT + 7).

2021.04.28 | The benefits of generosity and virtue is the arising of heaven. But we shouldn’t stop there, as heaven, too, is a conditioned phenomena that is unstable and unsatisfactory. We must proceed to make the mind firm and calm in order to develop the wisdom that’s able to overcome all defilement. 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).

2021.04.26 | Even though we may already be well established in generosity and virtue, practising meditation is very important. If we put in real effort, then we’ll meet with the real 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 wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the link. Daily live sessions at 7pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

During this talk, Ajahn Anan tells us of great teachers who had passed away in peace. Even though their bodies were full of illness, their minds were radiant and joyful. 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. Every day 7-9 p.m. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT + 7).

In this videoconference talk from 14 May, 2021, Ajahn Anan discusses the determination and sacrifice that many people had, in order to help others in the fight against COVID-19. "So all the people of this world need to help each other. It's like all the people in the world are fighting with a vicious enemy. That is this covid-19 virus. It is an enemy that is tiny and miniscule, which we cant see. And even if we have weapons that can harm the world, it is unable to harm the infectious covid-19 virus at all. There needs to be medicine, or vaccine, that has been researched and come up with until it can die."

2021.04.22 | When we learn to drive a car, we study about it in books first. But it’s only when we actually start trying to drive that we begin to become skilled. Dhamma is the same—we can read about it in books, but this knowledge doesn’t go in so deep. Only when we get down to meditation can we clearly understand reality. 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).

2021.04.21 | The mind under the influence of delusion grasps at things of this world, such as the body, as a self, a ‘me’ or ‘you’. Grasping at things as a self is nothing but suffering. So we train our minds to put down the heavy burden of grasping things as self through the path of virtue, collectedness, and wisdom in order to reach true lightness and freedom from all stress. 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).

No state of birth is eternal. We seek the Dhamma, true peace and happiness. To reach this goal we must be firm and continuous in our efforts, like making a fire by rubbing sticks together. We come back to our meditation object, make the mind peaceful, then contemplate with wisdom to see the truth clearly, thereby realizing freedom. 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).

When we have reached a state of calm, there's no need to give it a label. Like fruit in a basket—what people name them is insignificant; what's important is that we taste their flavor. 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. Every day 7-9 p.m. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT + 7).

2021.04.18 | We can study about the stages of dependent origination in books, but it happens so quickly in reality that very few people are able to observe them. Like falling from a tree—we only know that we’ve hit the ground and it hurts. So, given this, what do we do? We focus at the point where the mind attaches, and see how that is the cause of suffering. 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).

2021.04.17 | After hearing the news of a disciple in hospital with stage four cancer, Ajahn Anan gave this talk about how we should prepare ourselves now for our last moments. 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 7 May, 2021, Ajahn Anan discusses the 7 types of inner wealth and why they are so important. "The outer wealth, the money and gold, is not lasting, stable, or doesn't stay safe. Sometimes it may be taken from us. This wealth may disappear one day. It is possible. Or it may be a cause for its owner to get into big trouble. If the owner likes to boast, like they wear gold, or valuables on their body, ornaments around their neck or on their wrist. This may catch the eye of a bad person who comes to kill, or to steal it away from us.  So if we have wealth and we don’t know how to maintain it well, it could be a danger to its owner. But in regards to the inner wealth, there are many types. We call it supreme wealth, because it is far from enemies, there is no-one who can take it away from us."

"Put a fish on land and he will remember the ocean until he dies. Put a bird in a cage and he'll never forget the open sky." So why is it that us humans have forgotten our true home—the radiant, joyful purity of our original mind?In this talk inspired by a poem by the zen master Han Shan, Ajahn Anan tells us how we can return to where we really belong. 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. Every day 7-9 p.m. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT + 7).

2021.04.14 | Reflecting on the Thai New Year, Songran, we reflect on the Dhamma. We are fortunate to be alive and to meet with the teachings of the Buddha. We reflect that all conditions are unstable and we practise to purify our hearts. We contemplate that all phenomena arise, stay for a little while, and pass away—we can be confident that this is the way to see the Dhamma for sure. 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).

2021.04.13 | Some people ask, “Why do we have to take precautions with COVID-19? Won’t the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha protect us?” But it doesn’t work like that. The Buddha taught us to be heedful, to see how everything is uncertain. 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).

2021.04.12 | What we are doing when we sit in meditation, is making new friends, getting our hearts closely acquainted with wholesome objects that lead to peace and wisdom. The problem is that we also have old friends—the qualities that prevent inner calm and stability. We need to break away from these old, bad friends, and be faithful to our new ones. 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 a talk the day prior to Ajahn Somchai's birthday, Ajahn Anan tells us of children's capacity for realising truth, if only we can get them to listen to the Dhamma. He then speaks about the pain hidden within our bodies, and Ajahn Chah's great bravery and endurance in getting all of his teeth pulled in one go. 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. Every day 7-9 p.m. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT + 7).

2021.04.10 | On the occasion of Markus’ ordination as a novice, Ajahn Anan teaches about the meditation objects he received from his preceptor. 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).