Ajahn Anan Podcast

2021.07.17 | We cultivate the divine abiding of loving-kindness, which brings peace and coolness to the mind. Loving-kindness supports the world and allows us to live together in harmony. We can recollect the story of the Buddha in a past life as Suvannasama, when he perfected the parami of loving-kindness. We practice loving-kindness and the four Brahmaviharas throughout the day during all our various activities. 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).

2021.05.10 | We recollect death - life is unsure, death is for sure. Having been born, one must die. And we have all been wandering on in this endless cycle of birth and death for such a long time. Therefore, we do goodness for the sake of shortening our time left in the cycle of birth and death, until we realize the state free of all birth and free of all 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 a recorded talk that Ajahn Anan gave to a large lay group travelling around to many different monasteries, he talks of the nature of humanity. There are physical humans—and we can see many of them—but what’s more important is gaining the mind of a human. To reach this, we must be born again internally—born into goodness, virtue and 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).

When we cultivate all three aspects of generosity, virtue and meditation, our minds gain a wisdom that allows us to travel above the world to a place of only happiness and ease. 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).

2021.05.08 | Even though the practice is tough, it is something that we can do, if we keep at it. Ajahn Anan shares some of his experiences in the practice as a younger monk, the difficulties he went through, and how he managed to reach some profound states. 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).

2021.05.06 | When we hear news of someone having passed away, we should ask ourselves, “What would they have done if they knew they would die?” And what about us? When will we die? And what are we going to do with the time we have left 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).

Seeing the slow but steady nature of deterioration of the body allows our hearts to grow in the Dhamma. 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).

2021.05.05 | Even though we may go on pilgrimage to India, travelling the paths that the Buddha himself walked, we can only do this for a handful of days a year. We spend many days, however, in our own countries, so we should follow his steps right where we are. And we do this by walking the Noble Path of sīla, samādhi and paññā. 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).

2021.05.04 | The lunar observance days—noble days—are a good opportunity for us to cultivate our hearts and bring them to nobility. 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).

Through cultivating goodness and sharing the blessings that arise, we can aid the spirits of those who have passed away.  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).

2021.05.02 | When we see what’s normal as being normal, we’ve seen the Dhamma. 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 21 May, 2021, Ajahn Anan answers a few questions about the Buddha and how we should recollect his teachings. "The Buddha was a normal human. But a human that had a high level of mindfulness and wisdom. He had the highest level of parami in the world. He was one who was developed, supreme, and who was skilled, having mindfulness and wisdom already. He was the most developed in the world. The most supreme in the world. The most excellent in the world."

2021.05.01 | With each step we take, our bodies are moving towards illness and pain. What are we doing now to prepare 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).

2021.04.29 | Sometimes people say, “I’ve made so much merit and kept the precepts for so long, so why am I ill like this?” But they’re getting things mixed up—when we do good things, we receive good things; when we get a body, we get illness. But when illness arises, this is the Dhamma arising. It’s a Noble 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. Daily live sessions at 7pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

Inspired by a monk's encounter with wild elephants the previous night, Ajahn Anan tells many tales of encounters with spirits, snakes and the like while practicing in the jungle. 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).

2021.04.28 | The benefits of generosity and virtue is the arising of heaven. But we shouldn’t stop there, as heaven, too, is a conditioned phenomena that is unstable and unsatisfactory. We must proceed to make the mind firm and calm in order to develop the wisdom that’s able to overcome all defilement. 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).

2021.04.26 | Even though we may already be well established in generosity and virtue, practising meditation is very important. If we put in real effort, then we’ll meet with the real Dhamma. 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).

During this talk, Ajahn Anan tells us of great teachers who had passed away in peace. Even though their bodies were full of illness, their minds were radiant and joyful. 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 videoconference talk from 14 May, 2021, Ajahn Anan discusses the determination and sacrifice that many people had, in order to help others in the fight against COVID-19. "So all the people of this world need to help each other. It's like all the people in the world are fighting with a vicious enemy. That is this covid-19 virus. It is an enemy that is tiny and miniscule, which we cant see. And even if we have weapons that can harm the world, it is unable to harm the infectious covid-19 virus at all. There needs to be medicine, or vaccine, that has been researched and come up with until it can die."

2021.04.22 | When we learn to drive a car, we study about it in books first. But it’s only when we actually start trying to drive that we begin to become skilled. Dhamma is the same—we can read about it in books, but this knowledge doesn’t go in so deep. Only when we get down to meditation can we clearly understand reality. 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).