Ayyā Medhānandī
Dhamma Talks by Ayya Medhanandi and Others at Sati Saraniya Hermitage in Perth, Ontario, Canada
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 262
- Years Active
- 2004 - 2025
To Die With A Peaceful Heart, Ayya Medhanandi
Develop health of the mind. Many who face dire illness and many at the cusp of death overcome their fear or face death fearlessly. How is that possible? Caring for the mind can bring it to peace wher…
00:08:46 |
Fri 07 Jan 2022
The Basis of Our Happiness, Ayya Medhanandi
Take refuge and commit to ethical precepts to deepen the purification of virtue within us. This is the basis for true happiness. We take refuge in enlightened wisdom, and in our ability to awaken. We…
00:04:41 |
Fri 31 Dec 2021
We Will Arrive – Beating a Path to Awakening, Ayya Medhanandi
How can we beat a path to awakening? Meditate and develop deep, wise insight, training like a spiritual athlete in this new millenium. Like clearing a trail in dense forest, walk it again and again, …
00:34:57 |
Fri 24 Dec 2021
A Generosity of Presence: Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi
When we remember to empty out all the distraction, all the movement, all the roughness of life, nameless, formless, without identity - we touch the shore of truth as waves touch the shores of the oce…
00:24:09 |
Thu 16 Dec 2021
What Will Heal Us, Ayya Medhanandi
Discover the riches of the Noble Eightfold Path again and again. See into the depths of the mind by rightly remembering and using the Buddha's guidance not only in formal meditation practice but in e…
00:22:49 |
Fri 03 Dec 2021
The Novice With An Empty Bowl, Ayya Medhanandi
A humble novice with his bowl empty exemplifies where true riches lie in this world. Meditating deep in the unchartered borders within, gain those riches by giving up worldly pursuits. See the value …
00:24:52 |
Fri 26 Nov 2021
We Are Stronger Than We Know, Ayya Medhanandi
Practice wise attention, train in right view, and see things as they are. Touch the fires of trauma and rise from their ashes. Attend to ancient hurts with conscious full-hearted forgiveness. As we d…
00:30:15 |
Fri 19 Nov 2021
Opinions, Ayya Medhanandi
Are you watching your breath or watching your opinions? It is not enough to just watch the breath; you must reflect closely on what is arising. Come to the truth of the way things are by identifying …
00:33:21 |
Fri 12 Nov 2021
An Island Beyond Which We Cannot Go, Ayya Medhanandi
The Buddha gives us lessons in emptiness. We are compelled to trust so completely to be able to truly receive these teachings, surrendering to the Dhamma, offering everything. We bless each step, har…
00:29:48 |
Fri 05 Nov 2021
Gatekeeper Mindfulness, Ayya Medhanandi
When we clear the mind of obstacles, we gain a special skill in developing samadhi. Mindfulness is the gatekeeper enabling the burning away of the defilements. There in the clear, stilled, stabilized…
00:43:45 |
Fri 29 Oct 2021
Fictitious Noodles: The Fake News of Old Fears, Ayya Medhanandi
What are we doing on this planet? How do we cope with feelings of fear? Can we observe wisely and penetrate through the fictions of the mind? To abandon them, we must understand them. Ayyā Medhānand…
00:21:22 |
Fri 22 Oct 2021
Holding the Lotus to the Rock, Ayya Medhanandi
Sariputta said (SN 21.1): “There is nothing in the world with whose change there would arise in me sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, and despair.” It is hard to remember the Buddha’s teachings whe…
00:42:44 |
Fri 15 Oct 2021
Noble Friendship, Noble Warming, Ayya Medhanandi
As we grow in wisdom, our fear of death dissolves. The more we purify from within, the more we abide with a clarity of mind that bestows the ultimate seeing, our cosmic ordination, our unburdening fr…
00:35:32 |
Fri 08 Oct 2021
In the Stream of the Noble Ones, Ayya Medhanandi
Two overarching supports for gaining the fruits of the Path are mental purity and spiritual friendship. Consummate virtue and prize virtuous friends, the highest being the Blessed One himself. Emulat…
00:32:05 |
Fri 01 Oct 2021
Even as a Mother, Ayya Medhanandi
How can we love everything the same? How can we come to a place of pure love within us so that whatever energy is arising in the heart, we can receive it, and we can accept it fully. We don't have to…
00:43:17 |
Fri 24 Sep 2021
Standing for the Dhamma: Reflections & Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi
Standing up in pure presence is one of the four great postures. In this simple act of being present, know one mind-moment at a time, repeatedly. Grateful for one breath, one posture, one point, we ga…
00:07:58 |
Fri 17 Sep 2021
When Truth Speaks – Limbless Man On the Bridge, Ayya Medhanandi
When delusion, impatience and lack of trust prevail in our spiritual work, we rape our own goodness and execute ourselves over and over again. This suffering, clearly known, helps us to see how we cl…
00:31:22 |
Fri 10 Sep 2021
Rising Up Like A Swan, Reflections & Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi
Reviewing our effort to practise, recalibrate and make adjustments as needed. Make peace with what arises – neither controlling nor being passive; like a parent – compassionate, mindful, discerning. …
00:15:06 |
Fri 03 Sep 2021
On the Look Out, Dhamma Talk, Ayya Medhanandi
Venerable Punna was one of the great bhikkhus of the Buddha’s time, known especially for his fierce faith, practice skill, and his fearlessness. When the Buddha hears that Punna plans to wander on f…
00:34:00 |
Fri 27 Aug 2021
Don’t Own the Second Arrow, Ayya Medhanandi
How do we deal with life when it bites us? Without trust in the Path, there is no way we can fulfill it. Practise seeing what works and what doesn’t, what binds us and what frees us. Seeing pain as o…
00:36:36 |
Fri 20 Aug 2021
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