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
Noble Virtues, Reflections & Chant of the Ten Pāramῑ, Ayya Medhanandi
We are Dhamma gardeners putting in the right ingredients to develop ten perfections. These noble qualities are essential to enhance the practice of growing in wholeness, unconditional love and balanc…
00:07:07 |
Fri 13 Aug 2021
Where the Flame of Truth Burns Bright – Reflections & Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi
Dhamma is like mother, father, guardian, the Truth that we can rest in. So rest in the purity of one moment. Offering to listen, what is the message we receive? In the silence of the mind, what do we…
00:26:01 |
Fri 23 Jul 2021
I Sit Here In Blessing – Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi
How can we care for ourselves and each other, using our formal meditation practice as a template for daily living? As we sit for meditation, mark an intuitive pathway through painful, burdensome mind…
00:10:59 |
Fri 16 Jul 2021
Softly Close The Gates, Ayya Medhanandi
There is so much for us to understand. Preparing yourselves for that unfolding of wisdom, take your rightful seat in a balanced way and follow the path inward. Softly close off all the gates and give…
00:30:01 |
Fri 09 Jul 2021
Baptism of Fire, Ayya Medhanandi
Sometimes it takes an illness or a loss to wake up. The wheel of Dhamma turns us towards the centre point, where all the mind’s movements are stilled so that we can see the truth of suffering. Fear a…
00:17:48 |
Fri 02 Jul 2021
The Nimitta of Suffering, Ayya Medhanandi
When we’re out of balance, it's due to the worldly winds. Even if you call them Dhamma winds, they end up being worldly - as soon as we grasp them, we’re back in samsara and we’re circling. The endin…
00:31:54 |
Fri 25 Jun 2021
The Value of Death, Ayya Medhanandi
This path takes us to our true home through cultivating sanctity, and understanding the value of death: the death of greed, hatred and delusion. When we see all things as impermanent, death gives def…
00:25:54 |
Fri 18 Jun 2021
Feast of Patience, Ayya Medhanandi
Can we not give vent to the wanting mind, not blame conditions nor allow discontentment to grow? Develop patience and persevere on the path. Know things as they are and accept them. Patience is the h…
00:17:25 |
Fri 11 Jun 2021
Virtue Goes Full Circle, Ayya Medhanandi
Virtue creates a force in the heart, a field of goodness, from generosity to joy to enlightenment. Bring each moment back to awareness. Once there is joy in the heart, the mind finds ease to go to it…
00:30:11 |
Fri 04 Jun 2021
The Teacher is Present – Vesak Joy and Dhamma Refuge, Ayya Medhanandi
To celebrate the Buddha’s life is to be his disciple in enlightenment. Every day becomes a day of Vesak when we emulate the Buddha’s virtues and follow his gradual training in Dhamma-Vinaya and spiri…
00:54:28 |
Fri 28 May 2021
Spiritual Athlete, Ayya Medhanandi
Every Canadian knows Terry Fox, a teenage athlete who lost his leg to cancer, continued to train as a runner and ran across Canada with one leg before he succumbed to his illness. His mission was to …
00:27:56 |
Fri 21 May 2021
The Torah and Triple Gem, Ayya Medhanandi
An autobiographical portrait of Ayya Medhanandi’s life, from her meeting with her first teacher in India in her early twenties to her career as a nutritionist and going forth to become a Theravada Bu…
01:12:51 |
Fri 07 May 2021
Delusion is Not the Way Out, Ayya Medhanandi
How can we have compassion for others without falling apart? The Buddha's path of awakening teaches us how to disarm our internal armour, to be harmless. This will be for us a true basis for followin…
00:32:51 |
Fri 30 Apr 2021
On the wings of the breath, Ayya Medhanandi
Using the breath to move into the silent space in the heart and attentively following its rhythm, the breath becomes our whole world. We let go of all objects that arise, all thought, as we stay pres…
00:17:39 |
Fri 16 Apr 2021
A Little Renunciation, Ayya Medhanandi
How training the mind in following precepts, such as the rules regarding the use of four monastic requisites - food, robes, shelter, and medicines, can win us greater patience, faith, gratitude, calm…
00:32:45 |
Fri 09 Apr 2021
A Gift from the Sea – Unbroken Pāua Shell and Consummate Trust, Ayya Medhanandi
There are many skills and restorative qualities needed for us to grow in our spiritual work. Let us not underestimate the essential ingredient of mettā. This universal quality of love will unfailingl…
00:42:15 |
Fri 02 Apr 2021
Dwell in Intrinsic Emptiness – The Liberating Quality of Loving-kindness, Ayya Medhanandi
What are the prerequisites and supports for walking such a path of awakening? Kindness and a loving forgiveness rank with those qualities that are foremost. They allow us to repair the seemingly unfo…
00:37:53 |
Fri 26 Mar 2021
Don’t Be Afraid, Mahanama – Lean Towards Nibbana, Ayya Medhanandi
The Buddha told Mahanama not to be afraid of the muddled mind, just to keep developing the qualities which incline the mind to Nibbana. This Dhamma is for one who is content. A mind unburdened can pa…
00:32:54 |
Fri 19 Mar 2021
Repair What Feels Broken – The Hardest Walk of All, Ayya Medhanandi
The path is a gradual one. Don’t go to the depths immediately. First develop the strength. Going slowly but deeply. Forgiveness, supported by patience endurance, acknowledging and seeing the breakage…
00:37:45 |
Fri 12 Mar 2021
A Mystical Ladder – Patience, the Incinerator of Defilements, Ayya Medhanandi
We are ascending a mystical ladder which must be done so carefully and gradually. For a spiritual warrior, the path of practice is a gradual one. We are in a cloud of unknowing but patiently the clo…
00:39:26 |
Fri 05 Mar 2021
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