Ajahn Anan Podcast

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).

For 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.

A 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).

Even 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.

When 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.

In 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."

Ajahn 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).

In 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."

Beginning 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.

In 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).

In 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.