Synopsis
Translations of Dhamma talks given by Ajahn Anan, a disciple of Ajahn Chah and abbot of Wat Marp Jan Monastery in Thailand. For more information, visit www.watmarpjan.org/en.
Episodes
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Taking Nibbāna as Our Ideal
06/03/2021 Duration: 25minWhen we take inner peace and purity as our highest ideal, we then devote ourselves to this path that the great teachers have practised and taught. Reaching Nibbāna is not too difficult for us. We can get there 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).
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The Supreme Incinerator of Obscurations
05/03/2021 Duration: 18minIn this videoconference talk from 5 March 2021, Ajahn Anan talks about the quality of khanti, patient endurance, described by the Buddha in the Ovada Patimokkha as the supreme incinerator of defilement. "...especially coming to Dhamma practice and bhavana [mental cultivation], then we must have patience towards the practice and bhavana - standing, walking, sitting, and lying down with effort. To aspire to Nibbana, we must be determined to practice seriously. Then ultimately we will gain peace in the mind. We will then know and see the Dhamma."
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The Teaching of All Buddhas
05/03/2021 Duration: 32minEvery single Buddha teaches the principles of abandoning harmful acts, bringing skillfulness to completion, and making the mind pure and bright. In this talk, Ajahn Anan expands on what it means to put these principles into practice. 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).
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Buddhist Methodology & Ideology
04/03/2021 Duration: 22minIn the Ovādapatimokkha Sermon, the Buddha laid down the ideals that we aim for: Nibbāna and purity of mind. To get there, however, we need to put into practice the methods of the Path. 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).
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Religion is Emptiness
03/03/2021 Duration: 17minBeginning with highlighting the importance of forbearance, Ajahn Anan then goes on to relate an occasion when Luang Pu Chah taught a couple of Catholic nuns who came to see him. He said that really all religion is emptiness. 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).
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Not Taking Advantage of the Community
02/03/2021 Duration: 23minIn this talk, Ajahn Anan emphasises the importance of everyone pulling their weight and doing their part in the community. 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).
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The Buddha’s Dhamma Body
01/03/2021 Duration: 21minAs the Buddha emphasised, whoever sees the Dhamma, sees the Buddha. By realising that all conditions are inconstant, we see his Dhamma body. We understand that the Buddha and the Dhamma are the same thing. 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).
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How Suffering Can Save Us
28/02/2021 Duration: 27minIn this talk Ajahn Anan explains how there is a natural path to the practice: getting lost in worldly pleasures, seeing the pointlessness and suffering inherent in that kind of happiness, seeking a way out, finding that path, and finally, going beyond dukkha. It can take time though, and we may get lost in worldly delights for a while. But if we stick with it, we'll make it. 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).
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Magha Puja 2021
26/02/2021 Duration: 18minA talk on the occasion of Magha Puja (February 26, 2021) by Venerable Ajahn Anan Akincano. "Whether lying down or sitting in a quiet place, one must put down all sense stimulation. Be determined to train one's mind, to make one's mind peaceful, and to be concentrated in samadhi. Make the mind greater than the ordinary level that already possesses goodness, such as giving alms and keeping the moral precepts. But the thinking still doesn't stop, so we then train the mind to be concentrated in samadhi. Then we will see the enormous value of the teachings of the Lord Buddha. This is the principle of Dhamma practice and of developing the mind (bhavana). However you practice, may you all, the monks and laity, see the Dhamma in this life."
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Tearing Down Our Own House
26/02/2021 Duration: 24minIf you spent a whole year building a strong and beautiful home, what would it take for someone to convince you to pull it down? When the mind has resided in this body since birth and is clinging so tightly to it, how can we get it to let go? Ajahn Anan will be conducting an 8-Days Virtual Retreat via Zoom, on 6th - 13th March 2021. The daily programme is scheduled from 5am to 9.30pm (Bangkok, GMT+7), and includes daily sitting/walking meditation, Dhamma talks and QnA sessions. This retreat will be conducted in both Thai and English, and welcomes those who are not able to commit to all sessions due to time zone differences, work commitments, etc. Registration Link: http://t.ly/QTD8 Closing Date: 26th Feb 2021 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. Indochin
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Magha Puja Chanting (English)
25/02/2021 Duration: 02minEnglish devotional chanting for the occasion of Magha Puja.
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No One Walks the Way
25/02/2021 Duration: 28minReally, there is no one who walks the path; no one who sees the Dhamma, no one who knows the Dhamma, and no one who is freed from suffering. Everything is empty. This is how the awakened mind sees things. Ajahn Anan will be conducting an 8-Days Virtual Retreat via Zoom, on 6th - 13th March 2021. The daily programme is scheduled from 5am to 9.30pm (Bangkok, GMT+7), and includes daily sitting/walking meditation, Dhamma talks and QnA sessions. This retreat will be conducted in both Thai and English, and welcomes those who are not able to commit to all sessions due to time zone differences, work commitments, etc. Registration Link: http://t.ly/QTD8 Closing Date: 26th Feb 2021 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).
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Knowing the True Mind
24/02/2021 Duration: 19minWhen we've come to know our true mind, we'll understand that all the things of this world have no truth to them. Ajahn Anan will be conducting an 8-Days Virtual Retreat via Zoom, on 6th - 13th March 2021. The daily programme is scheduled from 5am to 9.30pm (Bangkok, GMT+7), and includes daily sitting/walking meditation, Dhamma talks and QnA sessions. This retreat will be conducted in both Thai and English, and welcomes those who are not able to commit to all sessions due to time zone differences, work commitments, etc. Registration Link: http://t.ly/QTD8 Closing Date: 26th Feb 2021 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).
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Leaving in Light
23/02/2021 Duration: 19minSome people are born in darkness, and others in brightness. But regardless the case, we should take this way of light. Ajahn Anan will be conducting an 8-Days Virtual Retreat via Zoom, on 6th - 13th March 2021. The daily programme is scheduled from 5am to 9.30pm (Bangkok, GMT+7), and includes daily sitting/walking meditation, Dhamma talks and QnA sessions. This retreat will be conducted in both Thai and English, and welcomes those who are not able to commit to all sessions due to time zone differences, work commitments, etc. Registration Link: http://t.ly/QTD8 Closing Date: 26th Feb 2021 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).
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Encouragement to Practise
22/02/2021 Duration: 20minThe Buddha went through so much difficulties to discover this Noble Path and reveal it to us, and all we have to do is walk along it. So, whether we are energetic, lazy, doubtful or impatient, we just carry on walking. In the end, we’ll get there. Ajahn Anan will be conducting an 8-Days Virtual Retreat via Zoom, on 6th - 13th March 2021. The daily programme is scheduled from 5am to 9.30pm (Bangkok, GMT+7), and includes daily sitting/walking meditation, Dhamma talks and QnA sessions. This retreat will be conducted in both Thai and English, and welcomes those who are not able to commit to all sessions due to time zone differences, work commitments, etc. Registration Link: http://t.ly/QTD8 Closing Date: 26th Feb 2021 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. In
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The Truth in This Life
21/02/2021 Duration: 21minTime consumes everything, including itself. The Buddha, therefore, taught us not to be heedless. We should endeavor to cultivate our inner virtues by being generous and moral, and making meditation practice a normal part of our everyday lives. If we can do this, in no long time we can realize the truth. Ajahn Anan will be conducting an 8-Days Virtual Retreat via Zoom, on 6th - 13th March 2021. The daily programme is scheduled from 5am to 9.30pm (Bangkok, GMT+7), and includes daily sitting/walking meditation, Dhamma talks and QnA sessions. This retreat will be conducted in both Thai and English, and welcomes those who are not able to commit to all sessions due to time zone differences, work commitments, etc. Registration Link: http://t.ly/QTD8 Closing Date: 26th Feb 2021 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
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There is No Light Equal to the Light of Wisdom
20/02/2021 Duration: 15minEveryone wishes for wisdom, and we all do have it to one degree or another to make our way in the world. But the wisdom that can illuminate the truth is a different kind—one that must be based on a virtuous and calm mind. This is what we gain through our practice. Ajahn Anan will be conducting an 8-Days Virtual Retreat via Zoom, on 6th - 13th March 2021. The daily programme is scheduled from 5am to 9.30pm (Bangkok, GMT+7), and includes daily sitting/walking meditation, Dhamma talks and QnA sessions. This retreat will be conducted in both Thai and English, and welcomes those who are not able to commit to all sessions due to time zone differences, work commitments, etc. Registration Link: http://t.ly/QTD8 Closing Date: 26th Feb 2021 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 at
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Seeing Through our Inner Eye
19/02/2021 Duration: 20minThe truth is right in front of our nose, so why don’t we see it? It’s because our minds are dark. Just as if there is no external light, we can’t perceive forms; when our minds lack radiance, they can’t understand Dhamma. When we settle our hearts down, however, they grow bright, and here wisdom can emerge. 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 session everyday at 7-9 p.m. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT +7).
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The Teaching on the Entryway to Liberation
18/02/2021 Duration: 12minIn this videoconference talk from 19 February 2021, Ajahn Anan discusses Magha Puja, a holiday falling on February 26 this year. This is the day the Lord Buddha gave the Ovada Patimokkha (which can be roughly translated as "Teaching on the Entryway to Liberation) to a group of 1,250 bhikkhus who had come together without any prior arrangement on the full moon day of the third lunar month (the Magha month), who were all fully enlightened with psychic abilities, and who were ordained by the Buddha himself. The Ovada Patimokkha contains the heart of the Buddha's teachings, which is to refrain from evil, do good, and purify the mind.
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The Dhamma is Open for Everyone
18/02/2021 Duration: 19minAre we able to realise the fruits of this practice? Can we reach Nibbāna? This depends on us—how firmly we set our hearts on walking this path. And we can do it, no matter who we are, because the Dhamma is there for those who practise 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. Live session everyday at 7-9 p.m. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT +7).