Ajahn Anan Podcast

In this second half of the talk, Ajahn Anan speaks about how penetrating insight into Nama-Rupa, Name-and-Form, gives rise to a vision of Awakening.

In this first half of the talk, Ajahn Anan explains how we can open our Eye of Dhamma, just as Ven. Añña Kondañña did.

In this talk, Ajahn Anan speaks about how, through using and "attaching" to certain aspects of the practice, such as formal meditation, we reach a point where everything, including the quality of knowing itself, must be let go of.

In this videoconference talk from 7 August 2020, Ajahn Anan discusses working with guilt/the feeling that one has done wrong. One can read talk transcripts with Q and A here: https://watmarpjan.org/en/dhamma-reflections/

In this talk, Ajahn Anan speaks about how to use the three sources of merit - giving, morality, and meditation - to raise the mind to a level where it can develop dispassion for the conditioned world and experience the deathless.

In this talk, Ajahn Anan speaks about how contemplating the fact that all beings are subject to their kamma can help us forgive their unwholesome actions.

In this videoconference talk from 31 July 2020, Ajahn Anan discusses the successful management of one's time. One can read talk transcripts with Q and A here: https://watmarpjan.org/en/dhamma-reflections/

In this talk Ajahn Anan teaches us about the nature of the human world--a place of both ease and strife stuck in the middle of the realms. He also talks on what lies above and below us in the cosmos. If you would like to join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a translated Dhamma talk every day from 7-9 p.m. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT + 7), you can send an email to wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the link. Given on May 20th, 2020

In this videoconference talk from 24 July 2020, Ajahn Anan discusses using our time well. One can read talk transcripts with Q and A here: https://watmarpjan.org/en/dhamma-reflections/

A translation of a recorded talk given 15 or so years back. Here Luang Por Anan describes the dangers coming from the belief that we have attained something. If we think we're a Sotapanna--that's not sure! After all, where is a Sotapanna to be found? In the body? In feelings? In perception, thoughts, or sense-consciousness? If you would like to join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a translated Dhamma talk every day from 7-9 p.m. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT + 7), you can send an email to wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the link.

Ajahn Anan teaches us to understand our experiences in line with truth, and not in terms of a preconceived notion of self. This path of understanding and insight leads us to freedom and real peace. If you would like to join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a translated Dhamma talk every day from 7-9 p.m. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT + 7), you can send an email to wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the link.

In this talk, Ajahn Anan explains how concentration and wisdom practices, or samatha and vipassana, support and strengthen one another. If you would like to join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a translated Dhamma talk every day from 7-9 p.m. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT + 7), you can send an email to wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the link.

In this talk, Ajahn Anan speaks about how to strengthen mindfulness through practice until one can see reality in terms of nature and the four elements rather than the proliferation of the deluded mind. If you would like to join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a translated Dhamma talk every day from 7-9 p.m. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT + 7), you can send an email to wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the link.

In this videoconference talk from 10 July 2020, Ajahn Anan discusses motivation. The story of the great disciple Venerable Yasa Thera is highlighted. Note: One can read Dhamma talk transcripts, with Q and A, here: https://watmarpjan.org/en/dhamma-reflections/reflections-archive/

At the beginning of the annual three month Rains Retreat, some of Ajahn Anan's devoted lay disciples asked to take the eight precepts from him via Zoom. This is a recording of the ceremony, along with a short Dhamma talk on the benefits of keeping this level of Sila, and Ajahn's own experiences with them as a layman. Lastly, Ajahn Anan and the Sangha give a blessing.

Just before the monastic community began the ceremony for determining to spend the three months of the annual Rains Retreat at Wat Marp Jan, Ajahn Anan gave this Dhamma talk on the Duthangas —practices that go against and steadily wear away at the defilements. Among them are the practices of eating all one's food in one bowl, eating only the food offered on alms round, and not lying down.

Asalha Puja commemorates the first teaching of the Buddha. One can watch the replay of the entire Wat Marp Jan ceremony here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiRJ-q_VpVk

In this talk, Ajahn Anan speaks about how to use the first foundation of mindfulness, mindfulness of the body, in order to calm and then direct the mind towards seeing through form. Such practice prepares one for physical difficulties and illness that are inevitable in life. If you would like to join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a translated Dhamma talk every day from 7-9 p.m. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT + 7), you can send an email to wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the link.

This chant, in English, is for the day of Asalha Puja, July 5, the full moon day (2020). Asalha Puja commemorates the first teaching of the Buddha, The Discourse of Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion, the Dhamma-cakkappavattana Sutta. One can watch the replay of the entire Wat Marp Jan Asalha Puja ceremony here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiRJ-q_VpVk This Sutta is found on pages 96-108 of the Wat Marp Jan chanting book, found here: https://watmarpjan.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/Wat-Marp-Jan-English-Chanting-Book-2562-Edition.pdf. On this day the Buddha taught the group of five ascetics, and Anya Kondanya became the first disciple to see the Dhamma.

In this videoconference talk from 3 July 2020, Ajahn Anan discusses the great compassion of the Buddha, the limitless virtues of the Buddha, how the Buddha went to go give the first teaching, the conduct of a Buddha, and a typical day in the life of the Buddha. Note: One can read talk transcripts, including Q and A, here: https://watmarpjan.org/en/dhamma-reflections/reflections-archive/