Ajahn Anan Podcast

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).

In this evening talk, Ajahn Anan explains the three types of seclusion: external, internal, and lastly, the seclusion of relinquishment.

“Through chanting the recollection of the Buddha 108 times a day with firm intention, the mind is firmly established on the path to heaven and Nibbāna.” Itipi so bhagavā (He, the Blessed One) Arahaṃ (Is indeed the Pure One) Sammāsambuddho, (The Perfectly Enlightened One) Vijjācaraṇa-sampanno (He is impeccable in conduct and understanding) Sugato (The Accomplished One) Lokavidū, (The Knower of the Worlds) Anuttaro purisadamma-sārathi (He trains perfectly those who wish to be trained) Satthā deva-manussānaṃ (He is Teacher of gods and humans) Buddho (He is Awake) Bhagavā’ti. (And Holy) This chant praises the qualities of the Buddha. Chanted in Pali 108 times by Venerable Ajahn Anan Akincano. This chant is a support for one's practice of Buddhanusati, the recollection of the Buddha. Ajahn Anan praises the recitation of this chant as part of one's practice in many of his Dhamma talks. Ajahn Anan suggests that we chant it every day, even many hundreds of times in a day, and throughout our d

2021.05.18 | Some people can realise Dhamma very quickly, while others slowly with much effort. Why is this the case? Why do we differ like we do? 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).

2021.05.17 | It’s possible to gain bodies of great refinement and pleasure. We can also develop deeply peaceful and collected mind states. None of these, however, last. It’s only the path of virtue, samādhi and wisdom that can destroy 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).

Just as we need to feed and care for our bodies in the right way, so too we must nourish our hearts with the Dhamma.

2021.05.16 | If we live in a nice house and someone tries to convince us that it is not ours and we should leave, they would have difficulty changing our minds. It’s even harder to change the mind into letting go of the view of self - but it is possible. We use the supreme medicine that the Buddha found and taught, the medicine that is the path of virtue, collectedness, and wisdom. This medicine has the power to cure the disease of 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 videoconference talk from 4 Jun, 2021, Ajahn Anan answers a few questions about certain events in the Buddha's life and what we can learn from them. "The Buddha had metta and compassion to walk to teach the son of a goldsmith, named Cunda, to become a sotapanna. And the Buddha went to teach the last disciple, the ascetic who became the Ven. Arahant Subaddha. He had made a determination to be the last arahant monk. So the Buddha walked the journey, which was something no one else could do. The Buddha travelled having diarrhea (dysentery). Where would he have the strength to travel? But the Buddha had effort and resolution, along with the parami of the Buddha, so he could do it. If it was any other person, they would have died along the way. It would not be possible to walk that distance."

In this recorded talk, Ajahn Anan tells stories of monks’ encounters with snakes and dogs, elephants and monkeys. 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).

2021.05.12 | Just like how scientists worked diligently to make a Covid vaccine quickly, so we should strive with sincerity to obtain medicine for the diseases in our hearts. Practitioners have achieved the highest of goals in the past; if we make effort without giving up then we, too, must reach the goal of true 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).

In this talk, Ajahn Anan tells us about the great aspiration of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, and how the pāramī of the arahants is still here.