Ajahn Anan Podcast

If you were asked what the purpose of your life is, how would you respond? Most people in the world can't give a good answer because they don't know. But, as Ajahn Anan tells us, the answer we can give depends on the energy in our hearts. As we practice further and our minds gain more clarity, we begin to uncover the highest purpose of them all. 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).

Like leaves falling, the lives of beings in this world all must pass away. When we truly understand nature in this way—that it’s not sure—our hearts become sure. 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).

Reaching our goals in our studies, professions, or in transcendent liberation, requires resolve and setting our minds on the task at hand. If we can do this without giving up, one day we will meet with success. 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).

In this talk, given on the Uposatha day, Ajahn Anan speaks about how to use wisdom to develop the factors of enlightenment. 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).

Some people read the texts and wonder whether certain objects of meditation will lead to true insight, but as Ajahn Anan points out in this talk, all of them reach peace and 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. Live session everyday at 7-9 p.m. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT +7).

In this videoconference talk from 12 February 2021, Ajahn Anan discusses Chinese New Year, the topic of blessings, stories of Great Disciples, and more. "So let us look at these blessings, that whatever the blessings that are given to others, everything comes down to having causes and conditions. So we need to practice ourselves as well. Like if we want to have a long life. Everyone wants to have a long life, of the type where we are strong. Then we need to have a mind of metta, loving-kindness, and not killing living beings, not harming living beings. This is the practice to gain long life."

All the actions we create get stored in our mind, like how a single seed stores roots, leaves, branches and fruit within it. All it takes are the right conditions, and those things will manifest. Therefore, creating goodness and abandoning evil are of great importance. 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).

It's normal for us to meet with difficulties along this path, but they don't go away just because we don't like them. Instead, we must figure out a way of clearing these obstacles out and then steadily go about doing it. None of the Buddha's teachings are beyond our capabilities. 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).

In this talk, Ajahn Anan commemorates the Buddha’s first discourse by describing the difference between the wisdom of the world and the wisdom of 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).

In this talk, Ajahn Anan speaks about how to develop the perception of death to the point where one understands the importance of developing a goodness that doesn’t fade. 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 to develop wisdom to the point of awakening through looking carefully at the body’s true nature as Ajahn Chah taught. 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).

It's natural for us to want to know which method of practice will give us the fastest results. But this attitude of wanting things quick can easily stir our hearts into a mess. Ajahn Anan tells us how the best way of cutting through this line of thinking—and the doubts that produce it—is the reflection on emptiness.

In this videoconference talk from 29 January, 2021, Ajahn Anan discusses samadhi - concentration or collectedness. "...So try to train in samadhi well. Restrain your actions and speech to be within sila, restrain the mind to have samadhi, and ultimately you will progress to have wisdom, step by step, until one sees the Dhamma. May you all have happiness and prosperity, may you grow in blessings."

In the beginning, the minds of most beings are weighed down by the defilements. But as we progress along this path of generosity, virtue and meditation, they grow lighter, and are able to rise up to higher and higher levels. 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 tells us how to make our mindfulness like a spider waiting in the middle of its web. He then goes on to teach how we don't need to concern ourselves with developing deep levels of samādhi, or seeing visions; we just need to straighten out our views. 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 the many years since Luang Pu Chah's passing in 1992, this is the first year Ajahn Anan has not been to his Memorial Day gathering at Wat Nong Pa Pong due to the pandemic. He gave this talk at Wat Marp Jan on how Luang Pu Chah is still with us in his teachings. If we have deep respect for him, we should practice what he taught until we reap their liberating results.

During this time of pandemic, it's important that we look after our bodies so they stay strong enough to fight off illness. It's also the same for our minds—we need to use mindfulness and samādhi to forge inner strength. And when the mind is strong, it's able to ward off suffering.

Ajahn Anan relates the story of how Nāgasena's father developed faith in Buddhism, and how Nāgasena in turn used his great wisdom to inspire King Milinda to become a devout Buddhist. 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 22 January 2021, Ajahn Anan talks about equanimity, evenness of mind.

Ajahn Anan talks about what it is that covers over the body's qualities of inconstancy, pain and not-self. He then gives a detailed description of the many ways we can see the unattractive nature of these bodies. 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).