Ajahn Anan Podcast

We're all trying to solve the problems in our lives. How successful we are depends whether the methods we're using are correct or not, and whether our minds have peace and wisdom.

2021.06.16 | Faith in dana, sila, and bhavana is of value beyond measure. When we see the results of meditation practice for ourselves, then motivation to practise arises of its own accord. 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).

Whenever we have our mindfulness established on a right object, right then and there we are practising Dhamma. 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 cared for all of us—every being in every realm—like we were his own children. This is what drove him through so much difficulty to realise perfect self-awakening.

Our actions of body, speech and mind form the central principles of the Buddha’s teachings. There’s no point in seeking happiness outside of ourselves; if we create good kamma, the result will be 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).

2021.06.09 | If we live our lives as we always have, then nothing changes. But it’s when we try to improve our acts of body, speech and mind that our lives get better and we grow in goodness. When we develop our minds well enough, we’ll be able to pass the test of samsāra, and not have to come back and be reborn in order to retake the test. 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 scriptures the process of ignorance and stress—dependent origination—is mapped out in great detail. In the practice, however, all we need is to have mindfulness over our hearts when they begin to attach to anything at all.

When we look at our lives, and see how they are steadily passing by, it will be clear to us that we must be heedful. We must use the time that we have left as best we can in order to cultivate as much goodness and peace as possible. 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 strength of the Buddha Sāsanā depends on the faith and practice of the fourfold assembly—the lay men and women, monks and nuns. By devoting ourselves to practising the teachings of the Buddha, we are helping to strengthen the religion. 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 develop mindfulness over feelings, we come to see how they're conditioned by the worldly winds. The mind then puts all of it down—returns the whole lot—and gains freedom.

2021.06.03 | Eight days after the Buddha’s passing into final Nibbāna, many of his disciples, kings and devas gathered to pay their final respects and cremate his body. Ajahn Anan gives a talk of the 2564th anniversary of this day, relating the events that took place around this occasion and their importance. 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).

2021.05.31 | What is right samādhi? How can one obtain it? How can it give rise to wisdom? In this talk, Ajahn Anan gives the answers to these questions. 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).

We practise sharing merits with those who have passed away, like King Bimbisara did in the time of the Buddha. But we shouldn’t wait until we are dead to get merit; being alive now we have the great opportunity to build goodness through giving, virtue, and mental cultivation. This gives us an inner wealth that cannot be stolen away and goes with us when we die. 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 said, it's effort that releases beings from suffering. As we carry on skillfully applying our effort, it turns into a factor for awakening that, when combined with the other factors, are able to permanently destroy the defilements.

2021.05.29 | On his final day, the Buddha gave two important teachings. The first was to Subhadda about what conditions are necessary for awakening, and the second was to the monks gathered around him to be consummate in heedfulness. 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).

2021.05.27 | Sometimes people ask, “Out of the four holy sites, which is the most important?” In this talk, Ajahn Anan explains the significance of each location, and tells us where the most important place is. 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).

We've been stuck in this cycle of birth and death for so long. It's like a tangled ball of yarn a thousand kilometers wide—how can we possibly find its beginning? And if our hearts don't gain Dhamma, we'll never see the end either. But as we persist on this Noble Path, we steadily cut samsara down.

2021.05.22 | It was due to the immense forbearance of the Buddha and his great determination to help all beings to be freed from suffering that has allowed us to find this path out of delusion. When we gain clear understanding, the mind turns bright, and its darkness vanishes. Here is where we meet with the inner purity that the Buddha was pointing to. 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).

2021.05.20 | It’s important to bring our minds into the present moment and gain understanding of arising and ceasing here. To do this, we must go against our ingrained habits to be thinking and following our moods. It can be tough, but it can also be done. What we have to gain is freedom from all 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).

2021.05.19 | We are born and we die countless times even in a single day, based on grasping after phenomena of the six senses as a self. Out of great compassion for the welfare of beings, the Buddha built parami and sacrificed over the course of inestimable lifetimes in order to break through to the truth, and teach us all the path to freedom from birth and death. What is left for us to do is simply to walk the path and realize the fruits for ourselves. 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).