Ajahn Anan Podcast

In 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).

A 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."

If 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

English devotional chanting for the occasion of Magha Puja.

Really, 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).

When 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).

Some 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).

The 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

Time 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

Everyone 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

The 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).

In 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.

Are 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).

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).