Ajahn Anan Podcast

2021.07.27 | It’s especially easy to notice the uncertain nature of life during this time of pandemic; people of all ages are passing away. But that’s just the way life is. If we can understand this truth—see the arising and ceasing of everything—then we’ll gain the joy and peace of seeing the Dhamma. 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).

2021.07.26 | The Buddha said that the monks who ordain are a special caste, that of the samanas: ones desiring peace. They depend on the pāramī of the Buddha, and the kindness of the laity, for their existence. And in order to repay this and not get into debt, they must practise the Dhamma with ardent effort. 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).

2021.07.25 | On the occasion of entering the 37th rains retreat at Wat Marp Jan, we set our hearts fully and completely on this practice of Dhamma. 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).

No matter how big or small our bodies are, just a small amount of air is what keeps them alive. When the breath stops, the body dies right there. So what can we truly call our own in this world?

2021.07.21 | Most people who are born into this world are always following the current of their emotions. But for those who are willing to endure the hardships of going against the flow of the world, their minds will fall into the stream of the Dhamma. 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).

2021.07.20 | When we chant the praises to the great qualities of the Buddha, our voice is like a speck of dust in the universe, or a small bird singing in the open sky. But due to the power of the Buddha’s virtues, when we chant with faith, the sound reaches to the ends of the universe. 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).

A story of great generosity at a fast food restaurant, the benefits and merit of respect and right view, and more. These bodies are merely natural elements borrowed from the world; we should contemplate them as ‘not me, not mine’ every day.

2021.07.19 | As we bring the Buddha’s teachings into our lives, our hearts grow in radiance and joy. Cultivating goodness is our way of paying homage to the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha. 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).

2021.07.18 | We have all seen old age, sickness, and death in our lives but we don’t yet fully accept these phenomena. This is due to ignorance and not contemplating with samadhi. We train and teach our minds to accept reality. When we see clearly, great rapture, fullness of heart, and happiness arise - the mind realizes Buddha, awakening. 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).

A message from Ajahn Anan to the grandmother of one of his disciples who was ill with terminal cancer. This short teaching tells us how to find a bright and peaceful inner refuge when the body is failing.

2021.07.15 | Through compassion, the Buddha cultivated the pāramīs for countless lives in order to help all of us. It’s due to his great determination and kindness that we are able to hear the Dhamma. 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).

A talk translated on 19 November, 2020. Ajahn Anan discusses letting go of conceit and views, monastic etiquette abroad, a story of cigarettes in a spittoon, and more.

2021.07.04 | We set our hearts on this practice of Dhamma. When sila, samadhi, and panya gather together in the heart, then the Dhamma is revealed. Doubts are dispelled and one sees the truth of reality following Venerable Anya Kondanya, the first awakened disciple of the Buddha. 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).

"So Asalha Puja is important because it is the day that the Triple Gem was complete in the world. Because after Ven. Anya Kodanya had seen the Dhamma, he requested for ordination, and was ordained as the first monk in the Buddha Sasana. So the Buddha taught the Dhamma for the first time, and exclaimed the teachings for the first time. And there was a noble Sangha arising for the first time, which was Ven. Anya Kodanya, who was a noble monk. And it was the first ordination as well, because he had listened to Dhamma, saw the Dhamma, and so ordained. So the Buddha gained his first disciple, Ven. Anya Kodanya."

A talk on how innate knowledge is not enough. We develop our minds to grow and cultivate wisdom to one day know for ourselves that the pure mind does not decay.

In this videoconference talk from 30 Jul, 2021, Ajahn Anan talks about the determination to bhavana, and gives his anumodana to all those who have rendered their help and support to Wat Marp Jan during this period of lock down. "In the present situation, we can see that to have a means of living for a human-being is hard, troublesome, and full of much suffering. There is a battle to fight against the taking over of the pandemic, which is an enemy that we can’t see. And this isn't easy. It's very difficult. So this infectious virus has spread all over the world. But though we may have the most suffering like this or the most fear towards this, when times of disaster come up like this, what should we do? The Lord Buddha said that if the time comes when we are suffering and troubled, without any refuge or support, recollect him, the Tathagatha. We think of the Buddha, we think of the Dhamma, we think of the Sangha as our highest recollection and true refuge. When we recollect like this, then our minds have a re

As good people, we wish for all our actions and thoughts to be good as well. But this often means that we try to force bad thoughts out of our minds, and this pressure just creates more bad thoughts. Then we end up hating ourselves. Ajahn Chah said that the way to overcome this is to just know these thoughts for what they are—yet another phenomenon that arises and ceases and doesn’t belong to us. This way, the mind can have bad thoughts in it, and we don’t suffer. 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).

2021.07.12 | Since being born, we’ve all experienced happiness. This comes to us through experiencing sights, sounds, tastes and odours that we find pleasing, but it’s also a common form of happiness that becomes the cause for suffering. Through practising Dhamma, however, we find more refined forms of happiness—that which comes from being generous and virtuous, from samadhi, and from permanently cutting off the defilements. Finding true happiness of heart is the most important thing. 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 23 Jul, 2021, Ajahn Anan talks about the seven weeks following the Buddha's enlightenment, and the Buddha's great compassion to endure many obstacles to teach. "So this is encompassed in the period that the Buddha travelled to Varanasi City with metta and compassion. We could imagine that if we had the highest happiness already, alone were already happy, what we would do. But the Buddha had to go through difficulties and hardships in walking, in teaching, in receiving arguments from other sects, all for the benefit and happiness of the multitudes of people. For the devas and all human beings. So this the Buddha’s virtue of great compassion, which is boundless and without equal. We can reflect on the sacrifice of the Buddha, where he traveled to teach the Pancavaggiya, and they evaded him by going to the Deer Park, and so the Buddha followed them. Where would there be another teacher that would have the patience, determination and sacrifice like this."

2021.07.10 | Reality is not hard to see; it’s all around us. Arising and ceasing is happening all the time—leaves constantly fall from trees, people are always ageing and passing away. So why have we not understood this yet? 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).