Ajahn Anan Podcast

By turning our thoughts to the Buddha and his disciples, our minds will grow joyful and radiant.

When we gain true knowledge of the things of this world, we’ll see that they have no real essence to them. What’s of genuine value and worth is the heart that’s been polished by the Dhamma. This is what brings us a lasting happiness that we simply cannot find in the world. 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).

Anathapindika and Lady Visakha were declared the foremost lay supporters of the Buddhasasana. They were stream-enterers and firm in their practice of the 5 precepts and 8 precepts on lunar observance days. For the laity, one practices following their example - practicing dana, sila, and bhavana to see clearly for oneself the Buddha in one’s own 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).

There's a certain equanimity that comes through not knowing, not understanding and not caring, but it's not right. What we're after is the ability to put things down through wisdom.

2021.11.30 | Even though we haven’t been born during the Buddha’s time, we have come into this world while the Buddha’s Dhamma is still here. 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).

2021.11.29 | Inner calm is necessary for awakening to the Dhamma. In this talk, Ajahn Anan tells us ways of bringing our minds to peace and stability so they can gain wisdom. 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).

2021.11.28 | Having built the external temple through faith and effort, what we now need to do is build our inner temple. 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).

2021.11.23 | Delusion cannot affect the mind with wisdom, just as dark cannot affect the light. One trains the mind in a meditation object like loving-kindness or the in and out breathing, then one can contemplate the body. The well-trained mind brings happiness. 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).

2021.11.22 | The four divine abidings of metta, karuna, mudita, and upekkha are qualities a Dhamma practitioner cannot go without. Loving-kindness cools the fires in the heart and is directly linked to generosity, virtue, and the development of wisdom. 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).

2021.11.21 | The path of sila, samadhi, and panya is like a boat we use to reach our destination. Having arrived, we leave the boat and do not use it anymore. We practise with continual effort, wisdom, and patient endurance. Seeing the Dhamma is not hard. 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 8 Oct, 2021, Ajahn Anan talks about the results that come from past lives, and the effort that has to be made in this life, in order to meet with success. "So talent could be called an old merit, which has been done in the past. The merit that has been done in past lives, this is merit, this is talent. But persistent effort must be made in this lifetime, and this must be imbued with Dhamma."

After chanting the Buddha's first sermon, Ajahn Anan gives a talk on how whatever is of the nature to arise, is of the nature to cease.

2021.11.20 | When one sees clearly the things of this world - the body, names, labels, and so on - one sees the Dhamma. Seeing the Dhamma, one sees the Buddha. This is a heart that is bright and pure. May we all set our hearts on this practice, cultivating qualities such as the brahma-viharas, effort, khanti, sacca, dana, sila, samadhi, and mindfulness. 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).

2021.10.31 | Just as we need teachers to impart their knowledge to us in order for us to learn subjects like science and math, the same holds true for the Dhamma. Without a teacher who has practised the Dhamma and knows it directly, it is easy for us to get lost. 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).

2021.10.30 | There are many ways to contemplate the body to give rise to wisdom. The untrained mind tends to see the body as permanent, a source of happiness, beautiful, and a self, but if we look closely we see that the body is changing, stressful, not beautiful, and 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@gmail.com for the link. Daily live sessions at 7pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

In this Māgha Pūja talk from yesteryears, Ajahn Anan tells us of the different kinds of obstructions we must face during the course of our practice.

2021.03.20 | We may think carrying a heavy block of gold will bring us happiness, but all we get is suffering, and there is no end to it. We all want lightness but pick up heaviness continuously. We carry burdens up until old age, sickness, and death, and then keep carrying it to the next birth as well. Seeing clearly the heavy object for what it is, we can realize lightness. To help realize this freedom, we go for refuge in the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha. 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 as a child needs good parents to look after it, making sure it doesn’t get itself into trouble, so too our minds need ‘the one who knows’—this knowing nature—to keep an eye on it, making sure it doesn’t do anything that will cause suffering. 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 the heart of the teachings he learnt from his time with Ajahn Chah.

The mind that’s left to its own devices will cause a lot of suffering. Therefore, we need to have knowledge, mindfulness and wisdom looking after these minds so dukkha does not arise. 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).