Ajahn Anan Podcast

In this videoconference talk from 19 March, 2021, Ajahn Anan discusses the parami of Nekkhamma, renunciation. "In the Buddhist Mahayana tradition, 20th March 2021 is the anniversary of when the Buddha practised Nekkhamma parami, the spiritual perfection of renunciation. So we can reflect on the Bodhisattva who was born as the son of the great King Suddhodana, and who had the parami to rule over the four directions as a wheel-turning monarch. However, he saw that no matter how much power and virtue he had like this, it would not lead to freedom from old age, sickness and death. He must still part from loved ones and loved things. So he renounced everything in order to realise the truth, and spread the Dhamma until it reached us."

If we don't know of a higher happiness, then we'll stubbornly cling to our current views and habits. Even if someone tries to pull us up, we won't want to go. So, we must learn to let go of our thoughts in order to cultivate our minds to the highest level. 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 Dhamma discourse, Ajahn Anan speaks on the importance of forgiveness and understanding. When we are involved with others, be it in a monastery, a family, or at work, we should realize that it's natural for us to hold different opinions. The difference between harmony and conflict lies in our relationship to our views, and how strongly we attach to them. 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 videoconference talk from 12 March, 2021, Ajahn Anan discusses the goal of Nibbana. "And the highest of these 38 blessings is making Nibbana clearly visible, leading to the goal of the Buddha’s teachings in this dispensation. It is taking the mind to the highest point, developing the mind to the highest. Because it is leading to the goal at the end of the path for the mind. We could compare it to setting a goal of leading one’s life to having the highest happiness."

In the cycle of birth and death there are no winners or losers. If we see the danger of being trapped in this cage, we gain the incentive to practice the Dhamma and rise above birth and 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. Live sessions everyday from 7pm to 9pm. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

When we have a firm faith in the Triple Gem, our efforts will be aroused to reach Nibbāna. We gain the energy and strength to do things we previously thought we couldn’t do. 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).

The Buddha praised forbearance, so much so that in a former life he exalted this quality even while being tortured to death. We, too, need to endure with all the frustrations and emotions we feel, and in doing so, we steadily forge ahead along the path to the highest peace. 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).

Being caught in doubt is like being lost in a dark cave without a torch. We need a guide to lead the way, to show us the right path that will take us out of darkness and towards the light of 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. Every day 7-9 p.m. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT + 7).

When we take inner peace and purity as our highest ideal, we then devote ourselves to this path that the great teachers have practised and taught. Reaching Nibbāna is not too difficult for us. We can get there in this life. 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 5 March 2021, Ajahn Anan talks about the quality of khanti, patient endurance, described by the Buddha in the Ovada Patimokkha as the supreme incinerator of defilement. "...especially coming to Dhamma practice and bhavana [mental cultivation], then we must have patience towards the practice and bhavana - standing, walking, sitting, and lying down with effort. To aspire to Nibbana, we must be determined to practice seriously. Then ultimately we will gain peace in the mind. We will then know and see the Dhamma."

Every single Buddha teaches the principles of abandoning harmful acts, bringing skillfulness to completion, and making the mind pure and bright. In this talk, Ajahn Anan expands on what it means to put these principles into 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. Daily live sessions at 7pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

In the Ovādapatimokkha Sermon, the Buddha laid down the ideals that we aim for: Nibbāna and purity of mind. To get there, however, we need to put into practice the methods of the Path. 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).

Beginning with highlighting the importance of forbearance, Ajahn Anan then goes on to relate an occasion when Luang Pu Chah taught a couple of Catholic nuns who came to see him. He said that really all religion is 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. Every day 7-9 p.m. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT + 7).

In this talk, Ajahn Anan emphasises the importance of everyone pulling their weight and doing their part in the community. 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 the Buddha emphasised, whoever sees the Dhamma, sees the Buddha. By realising that all conditions are inconstant, we see his Dhamma body. We understand that the Buddha and the Dhamma are the same thing. 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 explains how there is a natural path to the practice: getting lost in worldly pleasures, seeing the pointlessness and suffering inherent in that kind of happiness, seeking a way out, finding that path, and finally, going beyond dukkha. It can take time though, and we may get lost in worldly delights for a while. But if we stick with it, we'll make 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. Every day 7-9 p.m. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT + 7).

A talk on the occasion of Magha Puja (February 26, 2021) by Venerable Ajahn Anan Akincano. "Whether lying down or sitting in a quiet place, one must put down all sense stimulation. Be determined to train one's mind, to make one's mind peaceful, and to be concentrated in samadhi. Make the mind greater than the ordinary level that already possesses goodness, such as giving alms and keeping the moral precepts. But the thinking still doesn't stop, so we then train the mind to be concentrated in samadhi. Then we will see the enormous value of the teachings of the Lord Buddha. This is the principle of Dhamma practice and of developing the mind (bhavana). However you practice, may you all, the monks and laity, see the Dhamma in this life."

If you spent a whole year building a strong and beautiful home, what would it take for someone to convince you to pull it down? When the mind has resided in this body since birth and is clinging so tightly to it, how can we get it to let go? Ajahn Anan will be conducting an 8-Days Virtual Retreat via Zoom, on 6th - 13th March 2021. The daily programme is scheduled from 5am to 9.30pm (Bangkok, GMT+7), and includes daily sitting/walking meditation, Dhamma talks and QnA sessions. This retreat will be conducted in both Thai and English, and welcomes those who are not able to commit to all sessions due to time zone differences, work commitments, etc. Registration Link: http://t.ly/QTD8 Closing Date: 26th Feb 2021 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. Indochin

English devotional chanting for the occasion of Magha Puja.

Really, there is no one who walks the path; no one who sees the Dhamma, no one who knows the Dhamma, and no one who is freed from suffering. Everything is empty. This is how the awakened mind sees things. Ajahn Anan will be conducting an 8-Days Virtual Retreat via Zoom, on 6th - 13th March 2021. The daily programme is scheduled from 5am to 9.30pm (Bangkok, GMT+7), and includes daily sitting/walking meditation, Dhamma talks and QnA sessions. This retreat will be conducted in both Thai and English, and welcomes those who are not able to commit to all sessions due to time zone differences, work commitments, etc. Registration Link: http://t.ly/QTD8 Closing Date: 26th Feb 2021 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).