Ajahn Anan Podcast

In this talk, Ajahn Anan speaks about the importance of dedicating merit to those who have passed before. 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).

With the steady passing of time, our lives are getting shorter and shorter. Therefore, we must use our time as best we can.

In this talk, Ajahn Anan speaks about how practice consists both in the creation of an internal refuge through the practice of the 8-fold path as well as the destruction of self-view. 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 speaks about how one can harness the energy coming from fear to spur one on in practice, referencing his own experiences in charnel grounds and with wild animals as a young monk. 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 25 December 2020, Ajahn Anan talks about lovingkindness and compassion and how all religions teach compassion.

Even though we may have gained much learning in various academic subjects, this knowledge isn't able to cure the stress and discontent in our hearts. So, we need a new kind of knowledge: clearly seeing dukkha along with its cause, and the cessation of dukkha and its cause. 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).

Ajahn Anan talks on how samatha and vipassana work together as a pair in the practice, enabling the mind to cross to the shore of Dhamma. Even though we may have read about these states, the lived experience is different - a wordless and direct inner knowledge. 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 18 December 2020, Ajahn Anan describes the merit and goodness that arises from listening to and teaching Dhamma, with stories and examples of each. "By listening to Dhamma, we will gradually change our views from being wrong view to right view. We will gain understanding into the foundations of Dhamma practice, understanding about merit doing merit, about practicing bhavana, developing the mind, understanding about meditation and samadhi, knowing the in and out breath, knowing how to contemplate the breath, and the gaining of varying degrees of Dhamma for each person. Ultimately, the result from developing bhavana is for the mind to have emptiness and the body to have emptiness arise. This is the result from listening to Dhamma. And when listening to Dhamma, the mind is radiant and serene constantly. So listening to Dhamma has good results..."

"We are looking for peace, looking for the mind to settle down and be still. So why won't it be still?" If we are constantly seeking happiness in the world—in things external to us—our hearts will never find peace. We'll constantly be tossed around by the changing, uncertain nature of life. But if we direct that search inwardly we'll discover a joy that lasts and is far beyond anything we have experienced before.

Preface to Venerable Ajahn Anan's book, 'The World and the Heart.'

Ajahn Anan tells us how an intelligent mind is similar to a lichen in a tree that's able to get its sustenance from the surrounding air. 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).

The world, and everything in it, turns in accordance with the Worldly Dhammas. If met with delusion, these pairs of gain & loss, fame & disrepute, praise & blame, and happiness & suffering can cause immense confusion and unrest. But, as Ajahn Anan teaches us, if we are well established in mindfulness and wisdom, they don't disturb us. We realize that the world is just this way. 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 11 December 2020, Ajahn Anan describes the merit and goodness that arises from rendering services, rejoicing in other's merits, and sharing merits with others. "So I would like to give my anumodana [rejoicing] to all of you who have rendered services in all kinds of activities and have spread the merit to all living beings. Anumodana to all the merits that everyone has done and all of can anumodana with each other’s good actions. May you all grow in Dhamma and in blessings."

Not long before he lost his speech and slipped into his final illness, Ajahn Chah gave this teaching. He compassionately uses his own failing body as the starting point for this deep reflection on the nature of life and death, and how we can find a true refuge for our own hearts. 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).

The days and nights never stay still, but are constantly passing us by. We should reflect on this so that we give the time we have due importance and use it for achieving our goal—realizing 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).

In this evening talk, Ajahn Anan tells us how we can get to understand our bodies and minds—things that we really should know about already.

In this videoconference talk from 4 December 2020, Ajahn Anan describes the merit and goodness that arises from humility and reverence.

External study is hard to get finished, but inner study does have a point of completion. In this short Dharma talk, Ajahn Chah explains to us how all the teachings of the Buddha take us to look at our body, speech and mind. If we understand just these three things, we'll know the taste of freedom.

After the evening chanting, Ajahn Anan teaches us to view all phenomena—whether skillful or unskillful—as simply dhammas that have arisen. This helps us to avoid the pain and difficulties that come from taking it all so personally.

If we give the practice our best shot, the jewels of the Buddha and Dhamma will transform our hearts into the jewel of the Sangha.