Ajahn Anan Podcast

2021.04.25 | The hindrances feed ignorance and prevent peace, and a very important hindrance is proliferation and restless thinking. In this talk, Ajahn Annan teaches about how to relieve this proliferation. 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 7.15pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

In this translation from a recording, Ajahn Anan describes how we should contemplate the nature of our bodies—how they must get sick and pass away—in order to bring up understanding and heedfulness. 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 7.15pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

2021.04.20 | The Buddha has pointed the way already. What’s left is for us to walk it. Bringing up mindfulness, looking through the body, being aware of everything that arises in the mind—these are what will bring us to purity and freedom. 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 7.15pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

2021.04.15 | In this talk, Ajahn Anan reflects upon the importance of mindfulness, humility, clarity and calm in order to see things for how they actually are. As he explains, our minds are blind and we’ve accepted what we have been taught since we were children without any questions. Now, however, is the time to start asking questions so we can understand reality. 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 7.15pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

2021.04.11 | Ajahn Anan discusses different types of emptiness and how to realize them—natural emptiness, emptiness from samadhi, and emptiness from wisdom. Don’t give up, keep practising without stopping, and with this continuous effort one can see the truth clearly for oneself, thereby dispelling all doubts. 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 7.15pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

2021.04.07 | We practice sila, samadhi, and panna, the path of virtue, collectedness, and wisdom—this cuts off clinging to views and conceit, thinking one is better, equal, or lesser. We see the Buddha in our own heart and all doubts are dispelled. 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 7.15pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

'Why We Don't See Clearly' - A Dhamma talk given by Ajahn Anan on 27 Jan 2022. 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 7.15pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

'Even the Mind is not Ours' - A Dhamma talk given by Ajahn Anan on 26 Jan 2022. 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 7.15pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

2021.04.05 | If we live our lives without much awareness or attention, our minds will be unsettled and thinking without end. So we need to find some inner rest, and the place our hearts can relax and recharge is in the practice. Whether we use mantras or topics of contemplation, this path of meditation brings about calm and inner ease. This then forms a basis for the arising of insight. 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 7.15pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

2021.04.03 | In this talk, Ajahn Anan tells us of the ways that people can falsely believe in their attainments. For beings who have actually realized a stage of awakening, they won’t want to attach to it. They see that picking up anything—even awakening—is heavy and a cause of suffering. They understand that there is knowledge, but no one who knows. 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 7.15pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

2021.04.01 | Despite all the material development we’ve experienced, our hearts still suffer. No one has been able to invent a gadget to bring our minds to calm. The Buddha, however, gave us all the tools we need to realize true peace. 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 7.15pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

2021.03.28 | We practice restraint in virtue, to be mindful, to collect our minds in samadhi, and this allows the mind to see clearly that all conditioned phenomena are, by nature, unstable and ever changing. With this clear seeing, the mind realizes purity, Nibbana. Therefore, we have effort and firm intent to practise the Dhamma to see this for ourselves. 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 7.15pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

2021.03.21 | Four things which should not be done, four things which should be done, and five meditation objects. These are taught to all Bhikkhus (monks) when they ordain. 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 7.15pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

2021.02.14 | Love that is pure must abide within the bounds of morality. If it strays outside, it can cause much harm. We see the deep wish of all beings—ourselves included—to be happy, and so we act in ways that lead to joy and ease. If our love is bound up with attachment, however, it can morph into anger in an instant. 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 7.15pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

The things of this world never bring satisfaction and are never enough. Seeing this, and that one must leave behind everything at death, one seeks a wealth and happiness that does not decay. 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 7.15pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

2021.02.13 | Like dust in a house, sense impressions and our identification with them constantly come in and cover over the mind. We clean our minds with meditation. We also practise patient endurance when the mind is not at peace. 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 7.15pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

In a talk given to a group travelling to many monasteries making offerings, Ajahn Anan describes how to cultivate merit. 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 7.15pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

2021.02.09 | Just as how we need passwords to access our phones, realizing awakening requires a code. The Buddha has already discovered and revealed it to the world, but we must put it to use. 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 7.15pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

All things must pass away. To see this truth clearly, we practise developing a meditation object such as loving-kindness or the other brahma-viharas, amongst others. Old age, sickness, death, and suffering are coming for us. We prepare our minds through this Dhamma practice. 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 7.15pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

2021.02.18 | We can use our wisdom to contemplate our breath—the air is not-self, the sensation of breathing is not-self, the knowing of that sensation is not-self. I am not the five khandas, the five khandas are not me. 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 7.15pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).