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
Practise like the barley reaper, Ayya Medhanandi
In a dialogue between King Milinda and Venerable Nagasena, we hear the Buddha’s instruction on mental training and how to apply our allies of mindfulness, restraint and wisdom. Devoted to the traini…
00:25:32 |
Fri 02 Oct 2020
Secure Connection, Free Roaming, Ayya Medhanandi
Removing our harness to the world, we really detach and make the intention in the mind to stop. Having moved inwardly into this now moment, we pause and secure our internal connection to truth. This …
00:23:03 |
Fri 25 Sep 2020
Four astounding things, Ayya Medhanandi
Four astounding things happen when the Buddha teaches the Dhamma. When he teaches about non-attachment, people want to listen and to understand how to give up attachment. When he teaches about the re…
00:24:36 |
Fri 18 Sep 2020
We Are Not Separate At All, Ayya Medhanandi
During times of global pandemic, it’s easier to see how deeply connected we are in our vulnerability to disease. Meditating and touching the silent space of the heart, we see how deeply connected we…
00:32:43 |
Fri 11 Sep 2020
A Cry of Surprise, Ayya Medhanandi
In the inner sea, we know what is truly true. Knowing is the mother, breathing is the child. Going beyond past hurts, beyond thought, being old or young, desolate or delighted, go even beyond Covid, …
00:21:05 |
Fri 04 Sep 2020
The Quail’s Tale – A Path to Harmlessness, Ayya Medhanandi
Praising Truth for its own sake, we lean in the direction of Truth. We make our intention not to harm by body, speech, or thought. Harmlessness leads to selflessness. Selflessness leads to the Deathl…
00:41:39 |
Fri 28 Aug 2020
Mantra of Compassion, Ayya Medhanandi
Fear is the absence of love. Our inner purification is a movement away from fear to the embodiment of pure love - even to love the dying moment. We grow in stillness and peace as if sailing an ocean …
00:13:44 |
Fri 21 Aug 2020
The Unequivocal Law of Kamma, Ayya Medhanandi
Responding to questions about social change during COVID pandemic protests: seeing that we are the owners of our actions, subject to the law of kamma, we can embody the Buddha's teachings by respecti…
00:13:44 |
Fri 14 Aug 2020
Bowing on Two Knees: COVID Compassion and Nonviolence, Ayya Medhanandi
We long to change for the good, to grow in the ways of wisdom, to sit at the feet of the Buddha. But how? The world is on fire with the flames of greed, hatred and delusion. In this COVID year, we se…
00:19:27 |
Fri 07 Aug 2020
On the Altar of this Moment, Ayya Medhanandi
A guided meditation into the heart of our struggles and fears where, on the altar of our tears, the jewels of the Dhamma are revealed radiant within us. Breath by breath, wisely seeing through and co…
00:23:36 |
Fri 31 Jul 2020
When Fear Dies, Ayya Medhanandi
In the Sallekha Sutta, MN 8, the Buddha teaches us how not to imitate the faults of others, how to be fearless in the good, and how to vanquish unwholesome mental habits. We start where we are and tr…
01:01:24 |
Fri 24 Jul 2020
We Are Here To Forgive, Ayya Medhanandi
Digging deep through life's trials and pains with unfaltering compassion, discover the way beyond harming, the way beyond anger. At last, can we forgive all the monsters of the mind, letting them go,…
00:42:16 |
Fri 17 Jul 2020
Empty Mirror: Awake, Forgiving, Free, Ayya Medhanandi
Forgiveness is the greatest generosity we can give ourselves. We come to it by wisely seeing that the harm in the world, whether it originates within ourselves or others, comes from ignorance. So th…
00:45:32 |
Fri 10 Jul 2020
Polish the Moon & Sweep the Clouds, Ayya Medhanandi
What stops us from realizing Truth? We face the human condition besieged with obstacles in the mind that can be overcome with a total commitment to giving up our many forms of addiction. We learn to …
00:38:56 |
Fri 03 Jul 2020
Come to the Edge, Ayya Medhanandi
In our meditation practice, we journey inwards to come to the edge and see ourselves as we really are. To do this, we have to cultivate special qualities, the paramis or perfections. And so we learn …
00:35:42 |
Fri 26 Jun 2020
Fall Apart, Fall Apart, Rise Anew, Ayya Medhanandi
Intuitive wisdom develops gradually as we learn more and more to drop the story and view the flood of impermanence in the silence of the mind. Eventually we will be able to answer the question: what …
00:24:57 |
Fri 19 Jun 2020
How Do I Save That Moth?, Ayya Medhanandi
The Winter of the World is here... How do we bear it? What does the mind need in order to open to the teachings? Dana. Sila. Generosity and virtue. Cultivating generosity, starting with the material,…
00:20:07 |
Fri 05 Jun 2020
On the Cross of Our Illusions – A Guided Dying Meditation and Reflections, Ayya Medhanandi
To simulate the natural process of death is to experience the impermanence of the five aggregates and a pure awareness that knows the inherent emptiness of things as they truly are. Dying is a potent…
00:42:36 |
Fri 29 May 2020
The Currency of COVID: Protection from Harm Through Spiritual Awakening, Ayya Medhanandi
Waking up to our spiritual wealth, we learn the true currency of COVID - it is not fear and frailty but courage, compassion, loving-kindness, community and connection. We see what is protection for o…
00:24:16 |
Fri 22 May 2020
Boundless Metta in Difficult Times: A Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi
We can develop boundless quality of Metta in difficult conditions. A guided meditation during Waking Up to the Peace in Our Hearts Monastic Retreat at Insight Meditation Society Retreat Centre in 201…
00:41:25 |
Thu 09 Apr 2020
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