Ajahn Anan Podcast

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, you can email wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the link. Daily live sessions at 7pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

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 everyday from 7pm to 9pm. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

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.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).

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 for the link. Daily live sessions at 7pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

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 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 from 7pm to 9pm. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

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, 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 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, among the human, deva, Brahma worlds, from all the Maras and Brahmas. He could not find any individual. So the Buddha respected and honored the Dhamma. And the past Buddhas after becoming Enlightened, respected and honored the Dhamma. And the future Buddhas who will attain Enlightenment, will respect and honor the Dhamma."

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, and a Dhamma talk, you can email wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the link. Live sessions everyday from 7pm to 9pm. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

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 from 7pm to 9pm. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

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 Anan has for his teacher. 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 from 7pm to 9pm. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

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 for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you can email wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the link. Live sessions everyday from 7pm to 9pm. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

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 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).

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 wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the link. Daily live sessions at 7pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

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 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).

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 wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the link. Daily live sessions at 7pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

In this talk, Ajahn Anan tells us of a vision he had of a Dhamma discussion with a Chinese Zen master. 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 2 April, 2021, Ajahn Anan discusses the positive and negative aspects of a developed world and how we should relate to it. "During the Buddha’s time, even though the world was not developed, it was very well-developed in terms of the mind. People had to travel with difficulty, go far distances and through the wilderness, yet many saw and knew the Dhamma. Now, the world is much more developed. These days you can learn the Dhamma, and there is all the technology (communications) to support it. But for those who don't know and are deluded, there are many dangers."

In this question and answer session of the online retreat, Ajahn Anan explains what to do when we encounter visions in meditation. 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).

As we continue to practise, we can experience a rapture and fullness of heart that’s greater than anything we have ever felt before, a greater happiness than we have ever experienced previously. We study to know for ourselves, what is it like to have a mind in peace, a mind that is one-pointed? We experience for 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).

Just like clear water that has been mixed with dye, the mind gets coloured by the objects it experiences. If it meets with a sight or sound that is a basis for anger, the mind picks this up and turns angry. The same is true for love, hate and fear. When we can start putting these sense objects down, however, the mind separates from them, and returns to its clear, original state. 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).