Ajahn Anan Podcast

No one is able to take the things of this world with them when they die, and so they don’t hold much worth to them. Therefore, we should focus on seeking out that which is of true value: our own minds. 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).

2021.02.07 | The Earth is always spinning in orbit around the sun, but no matter how far it travels, it always comes back to the same spot. Likewise, for most people, life never really gets anywhere; each day is spent lost in the world. Time, however, is different—it is always moving onwards and never returns. Those with intelligence will spend their time left in this life walking along the path that leads to heaven and 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. Live session everyday at 7-9 p.m. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT +7).

In this talk given to a gathering of monks, Ajahn Anan teaches on the standards of practice and living that he learned from Luang Pu Chah. He also explains how it is important to take time and place into account when applying these principles, adapting them where necessary to be appropriate for the situation at hand. 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).

2021.05.03 | The ways of the world come from agitation and lead to more agitation; struggling to get what we want, then struggling to get more. But the whole purpose of the path of Buddhism is to reach 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 7pm - 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).

Ajahn Anan tells us of the lessons he learned from the years he spent with his teacher, and how these gave him the motivation and confidence to meet with terror and hardship.

By turning our thoughts to the Buddha and his disciples, our minds will grow joyful and radiant.

When we gain true knowledge of the things of this world, we’ll see that they have no real essence to them. What’s of genuine value and worth is the heart that’s been polished by the Dhamma. This is what brings us a lasting happiness that we simply cannot find in the world. 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).

Anathapindika and Lady Visakha were declared the foremost lay supporters of the Buddhasasana. They were stream-enterers and firm in their practice of the 5 precepts and 8 precepts on lunar observance days. For the laity, one practices following their example - practicing dana, sila, and bhavana to see clearly for oneself the Buddha in one’s own heart. 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).

There's a certain equanimity that comes through not knowing, not understanding and not caring, but it's not right. What we're after is the ability to put things down through wisdom.

2021.11.30 | Even though we haven’t been born during the Buddha’s time, we have come into this world while the Buddha’s Dhamma is still here. 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).

2021.11.29 | Inner calm is necessary for awakening to the Dhamma. In this talk, Ajahn Anan tells us ways of bringing our minds to peace and stability so they can gain wisdom. 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).

2021.11.28 | Having built the external temple through faith and effort, what we now need to do is build our inner temple. 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).

2021.11.23 | Delusion cannot affect the mind with wisdom, just as dark cannot affect the light. One trains the mind in a meditation object like loving-kindness or the in and out breathing, then one can contemplate the body. The well-trained mind brings happiness. 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).

2021.11.22 | The four divine abidings of metta, karuna, mudita, and upekkha are qualities a Dhamma practitioner cannot go without. Loving-kindness cools the fires in the heart and is directly linked to generosity, virtue, and the development of wisdom. 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).

2021.11.21 | The path of sila, samadhi, and panya is like a boat we use to reach our destination. Having arrived, we leave the boat and do not use it anymore. We practise with continual effort, wisdom, and patient endurance. Seeing the Dhamma is not hard. 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 8 Oct, 2021, Ajahn Anan talks about the results that come from past lives, and the effort that has to be made in this life, in order to meet with success. "So talent could be called an old merit, which has been done in the past. The merit that has been done in past lives, this is merit, this is talent. But persistent effort must be made in this lifetime, and this must be imbued with Dhamma."

After chanting the Buddha's first sermon, Ajahn Anan gives a talk on how whatever is of the nature to arise, is of the nature to cease.

2021.11.20 | When one sees clearly the things of this world - the body, names, labels, and so on - one sees the Dhamma. Seeing the Dhamma, one sees the Buddha. This is a heart that is bright and pure. May we all set our hearts on this practice, cultivating qualities such as the brahma-viharas, effort, khanti, sacca, dana, sila, samadhi, and mindfulness. 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).

2021.10.31 | Just as we need teachers to impart their knowledge to us in order for us to learn subjects like science and math, the same holds true for the Dhamma. Without a teacher who has practised the Dhamma and knows it directly, it is easy for us to get lost. 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).

2021.10.30 | There are many ways to contemplate the body to give rise to wisdom. The untrained mind tends to see the body as permanent, a source of happiness, beautiful, and a self, but if we look closely we see that the body is changing, stressful, not beautiful, and not self. 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).