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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Putting Out the Fire of Jealousy
19/01/2021 Duration: 24minFor us living in the highly competitive, self-centered societies that we do, it's natural that we'll feel jealous sometimes when others gain success. This can feel like an inner fire, and is something we need to be cautious of. We can combat this unskillful emotion by cultivating sympathetic joy—thoughts and feelings of finding happiness in the gains and achievements of others.
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Right Here in the Heart
17/01/2021 Duration: 28minA talk given to a lay group from Bangkok who frequently visit forest monasteries throughout Thailand to give offerings and listen to 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).
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Growing in Goodness During a Pandemic
16/01/2021 Duration: 21minEven though we may be experiencing restrictions in certain areas of our lives, it's still very possible to cultivate merit during lockdown. In this talk, Ajahn Anan tells us of some of the ways that we can do this.
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Who’s to Blame for my Suffering?
15/01/2021 Duration: 23minWhen we suffer, we mostly look to the world outside of us to find a cause—the nasty things people say; the inconsiderate things they can do. But this is looking in the wrong place, as the cause is inside of ourselves.
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Appreciative Joy
15/01/2021 Duration: 15minIn this videoconference talk from 15 January 2021, Ajahn Anan discusses the practice and quality of mudita, sympathetic joy/appreciative joy. "...mudita is a meditation that looks after our mind well. Our sila will be complete, and our samadhi concentration will be able to be firmly established. Wisdom will be able to arise. We will be able to see the truth of Dhamma."
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Love for Oneself
13/01/2021 Duration: 28minAjahn Anan teaches us of the importance of giving metta to oneself first, because if our hearts are full of suffering, we aren't able to relieve the suffering of others. Keeping good morality is also a way of developing kindness, as through this we harm neither ourselves nor others. Ajahn then goes on to tell stories from the time of the Buddha that illustrate the importance of kindness and morality. 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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May All Beings Be Free from Suffering
11/01/2021 Duration: 17minIn this videoconference talk from 8 January 2021, Ajahn Anan discusses compassion. "In reference to the compassion as in the virtue of Great Compassion of the Lord Buddha, this is extremely vast, boundless, and incomparable. Wise people have given a simile that if we praise the great virtues of the Lord Buddha, it's like a little bird that chirps into the infinite universe. This is because the virtue of great compassion of the Lord Buddha is incomparable. 'So let's talk about compassion, in terms of the compassion that we cultivate as a meditation, or the compassion of the 4 Brahmaviharas, sublime abidings. When we want to practice or meditate by developing compassion, then this is the mind that thinks to help free others from suffering."
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Finding the Path (Chapter Two from The World and the Heart)
11/01/2021 Duration: 23minBeginning with an explanation of one of the Buddha's most famous and succinct teachings to, "Refrain from all wrongdoing, bring goodness to perfection and purify the mind," Ajahn Anan then goes on to talk on the importance of grounding our minds in patience and kindness. Upon this foundation we can build the mindfulness and wisdom that will allow us to directly and clearly understand the nature of our lives.
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The Highest Goal in Life—Luang Por’s 66th Birthday
10/01/2021 Duration: 21minIn this translation from a recording of the talk Luang Por gave during his 66th birthday celebration in March 2020, he tells us we should use the time we have left in this life to persuade the highest, most noble goal there is. 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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Wisdom for the New Year
07/01/2021 Duration: 23minIn this evening talk, Ajahn Anan tells us how to approach this new year with wisdom that allows us to let go and solve our suffering.
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Objects of Recollection
06/01/2021 Duration: 18minAjahn Anan talks on the how to use patient endurance and the various objects of recollection to bring our minds to peace and allow us to let go of all physicality and mentality. 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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Skillful and Unskillful Ways to Relieve Suffering
05/01/2021 Duration: 37minWe all experience stress and pain in life, and how we try to escape from that depends on our mindfulness, wisdom and pāramī. Those who lack wisdom will use unwholesome routes—drinking alcohol, for example—that just work to dig themselves into a deeper mess. But for those with true intelligence, they'll seek out the Dhamma—that which is actually able to cure our suffering. 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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Remembering the Dead
03/01/2021 Duration: 14minIn 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).
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The Days are Falling Away
31/12/2020 Duration: 20minWith the steady passing of time, our lives are getting shorter and shorter. Therefore, we must use our time as best we can.
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Building a Refuge, Demolishing Self-View
30/12/2020 Duration: 20minIn 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).
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Using Fear’s Energy for Awakening
27/12/2020 Duration: 27minIn 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).
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Lovingkindness and Compassion
26/12/2020 Duration: 14minIn this videoconference talk from 25 December 2020, Ajahn Anan talks about lovingkindness and compassion and how all religions teach compassion.
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A New Kind of Knowledge
23/12/2020 Duration: 18minEven 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).
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Silence and Wisdom Woven Together
20/12/2020 Duration: 29minAjahn 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).
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The Merit of Listening to and Teaching Dhamma
19/12/2020 Duration: 14minIn 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..."