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
Breaking the Cycle of Harm – Patience and Friendship With The Lovely, Ayya Medhanandi
The insight into not-self requires a deeper seeing and understanding of reality. Virtue is our saving grace. It gives us the energy for enlightenment which we transform into right effort. Thus we are…
00:35:39 |
Fri 26 Feb 2021
What is Killing You – Thorns, Barnacles and Buoys on the Middle Way, Ayya Medhanandi
When you know what is killing you then you will know what will save you. Right effort protects us and offers safety and seclusion. We find saving grace within if we can navigate through the wildernes…
00:30:33 |
Fri 19 Feb 2021
A Swallowtail Butterfly at the Hummingbird Feeder, Ayya Medhanandi
The quality of energy manifest as courage, commitment and compassion is the way forward. We have to be brave – like a lion. Brave warriors face the powerful maras, monsters of the mind, to overcome t…
00:30:58 |
Fri 12 Feb 2021
A Matter of Death, Life, Truth and Recovery, Ayya Medhanandi
Call suffering by its true name and the face of the Dhamma will emerge from within us. We meet the truth of impermanence, of death, and the universality of pain as we carve out the understanding of w…
00:24:14 |
Fri 05 Feb 2021
Death – A Portal of Deliverance, Ayya Medhanandi
Contemplating the 4 elements, the 32 parts of the living body, and the remains of the body in a charnel ground, we gain a deeper understanding of impermanence and the intrinsic impersonal and empty n…
00:38:51 |
Fri 29 Jan 2021
Masquerade of the Hindrances – A Blameless Life, Ayya Medhanandi
Clearly see the danger of the hindrances in the mind and stop killing goodness. The story of Angulimala's life reveals the power of moral rehabilitation to end our harmful ways and urgently revert to…
00:26:26 |
Fri 22 Jan 2021
Beautiful Qualities – Five of the Ten Perfections, Ayya Medhanandi
The Buddha taught about ten perfections or beautiful qualities of mind that are needed to help us cross the flood of samsara, the cyles of existence. The first five of these are generosity, virtue, e…
00:20:15 |
Mon 11 Jan 2021
How To Cross the Flood – Seven Enlightenment Practices, Ayya Medhanandi
The Buddha answers a deva who wants to know how to cross the flood of sensuality, the flood of existence, and all its dangers. Walk the Middle Way, he taught, not stopping and not over-struggling wit…
00:37:35 |
Fri 08 Jan 2021
I Will Not Be Angry – How Ajahn Gunhah Won the Hearts of Outlaws, Ayya Medhanandi
Laying down weaponry, giving up hostility, we can abandon negativity and establish sanctuary within us. We hear the inspirational tale of how Ajahn Gunhah transformed his kidnappers in northern Thail…
00:12:34 |
Fri 01 Jan 2021
Love Everyone or Die, Ayya Medhanandi
We may speak of or feel that we know about death but until we truly contemplate, approach and move into death, what do we know? This is a tale about looking into the eye of a tortoise shell butterfly…
00:24:24 |
Fri 25 Dec 2020
Shoot Me First: Right Intention, Effort & Social Responsibility, Ayya Medhanandi
As we follow the steps of the Eightfold Noble Path, our hatred, greed, and delusion abate. We may yet suffer, but we use our suffering to fathom the meaning of it, see its causes, and see the possibi…
01:17:36 |
Fri 18 Dec 2020
Ascending the Altar, Ayya Medhanandi
What is renunciation? Patiently we learn how to let go of the thoughts and actions that enslave us to samsara. And we begin to understand what it takes to tame the ego and cultivate greater and great…
00:34:53 |
Fri 11 Dec 2020
Empty the Basket – Guided Meditation and Reflections, Ayya Medhanandi
Let us hone our expertise to witness the charade of gain and loss arising each moment. Seeing the eight worldly winds, impermanent, not giving in when the mind perches in 'self', purify wrong view, e…
00:15:10 |
Fri 04 Dec 2020
Into the Quiet – Guided Meditation and Reflections, Ayya Medhanandi
We go forth into the quiet of the heart, distant from the world, to glimpse the Unconditioned. We are alone but we are as if with all beings. There is no 'one' who wakes up, there is just awakening. …
00:21:28 |
Fri 27 Nov 2020
A Safe Domain: How the Quail Escaped a Hawk, Ayya Medhanandi
The contemplative path of purifying the mind is the most important journey of all - inward. Just as the little quail that tricked a hawk, we no longer fall prey to the 'maras' of the world, safe in o…
00:27:01 |
Fri 20 Nov 2020
The Inner Stopping, Ayya Medhanandi
Wherever we go the mind does not remain happy - unless we fully awaken. How can we end the restless tides and remain inwardly stable, content within ourselves like the well-hewn wheel that stood stil…
00:26:55 |
Fri 13 Nov 2020
Chopping and Burning the Tree of Emptiness, Ayya Medhanandi
Too busy in the world, all entangled, we yearn to be free. So direct the mind to Nibbana - like a tree that leans to the East. And when it falls, it will fall in that direction. We too will arrive if…
00:24:42 |
Fri 06 Nov 2020
A Good Pair of Boots, Ayya Medhanandi
We must not underestimate the significance of dedicating ourselves to the five precepts. Such a commitment to virtue provides a moral and ethical basis for life that will ultimately lessen our suffer…
00:38:56 |
Fri 30 Oct 2020
Change for the Good, Ayya Medhanandi
Are we ready to stop clinging, let go and trust? If we live with gratitude and change for the good, if we learn to really see, we will be able to listen from within and notice the true condition of t…
00:33:54 |
Fri 23 Oct 2020
Speaking of Violence, Ayya Medhanandi
If we can deal with the craziness of the mind, we can help to decrease the craziness and violence of the world. But we have to be so patient and keep faith with the process of of cleaning up our own …
00:36:47 |
Fri 16 Oct 2020
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