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
What More Can I Give?, Ayya Medhanandi
After long years of monastic renunciation, living in seclusion and devoted to spiritual practice, I began to question if this was enough. Was I deluded about the quality of my efforts? Had I really l…
00:21:37 |
Sat 19 Apr 2025
A Map to Freedom, Ayya Medhanandi
We have the gift of a priceless inheritance, a BPS – Buddha's Positioning System. It's a map to freedom from hatred by way of undaunted love and compassion. It sets our feet on the hero’s path to the…
00:25:27 |
Fri 11 Apr 2025
What the Angel Asked the Buddha, Ayya Medhanandi
How are we to nurture truth and peace in the midst of a world besieged by moral disintegration and violence? The Buddha gave an angel this advice: “Not apart from awakening and austerity, not apart f…
00:29:34 |
Fri 04 Apr 2025
Anger, Forgiveness, and Gratitude, Ayya Anuruddha
How can we remain calm and inwardly strong when we feel anger or fear, greed or grief? Meditate with new eyes – keen, open, attentive, and dare to forgive even difficult feelings or troubling conditi…
00:18:05 |
Fri 28 Mar 2025
Darkness Just Before Dawn, Ayya Medhanandi
Could we really love if we lived forever? There is no true love without suffering. This is revealed through our mortality and the impermanence of all conditioned things. We are not the body but its f…
00:28:22 |
Sat 22 Mar 2025
At Home With the Wise, Ayya Medhanandi
What frees us from fear, anger, sorrow, chaos and all the many other sufferings of the mind? Beneath the rubble and ruin we may feel, in the silent depths of our own heart, there is a treasure. It ma…
00:24:09 |
Sun 16 Mar 2025
Refuge, Ayya Nimmala
True refuge is a call to stop, even for a moment, to see and know the breath that brings the world into and out of consciousness. We witness the liberating silence of that present moment awareness. I…
00:28:49 |
Sat 08 Mar 2025
Empty Yourself of Fear, Ayya Medhanandi
One night, while Malani was dying, we gathered a group of her close friends to meditate with her. Each breath was a struggle yet she stayed aware, serene, composed, and at peace. We listened in silen…
00:25:03 |
Sun 02 Mar 2025
As the Hollow Reed Becomes a Flute, Ayya Medhanandi
There is a transcendent Reality – inaccessible to the thought world – but to be known with right mindfulness and its accompanying powers of mind, patiently developed and polished day by day. These sk…
00:28:31 |
Sun 23 Feb 2025
Even Owls Know Who, Ayya Medhanandi
Who are we? More than two and a half millennium ago, the Buddha hesitated to teach us, but he relented for the benefit of those with little dust in their eyes. Can we actually clear the dust away, ea…
00:22:48 |
Sat 15 Feb 2025
Wisdom Power, Ayya Medhanandi
Treasure the silence within and listen attentively. Where else can we find the spiritual heights but within our own heart? In one moment of pure presence, we discover the joy, patience, mindfulness a…
00:27:02 |
Sat 08 Feb 2025
The Guests Come and Go, Ayya Medhanandi
“Being human is a guest house” wrote Rumi. Every day we greet new arrivals – joys, sorrows, hostilities and more; and moments of awareness too. We bow to the present moment and greet them all, be the…
00:24:42 |
Sat 01 Feb 2025
No Self Drive to Nibbana, Ayya Medhanandi
We are travelling a spiritual highway. Our precepts are like safety belts – upholding the core of our humanity with moral restraints that serve as both compass and anchor. They also act like brakes o…
00:19:50 |
Fri 24 Jan 2025
From A Single Flame To Vast Light, Ayya Medhanandi
Guided by the Dhamma, our life path is courageous. See how the world burns from cruel and chaotic forces. So we cultivate a heart of compassionate awareness and peace, knowing that freedom from suffe…
00:33:38 |
Fri 17 Jan 2025
At the Shrine of Forgiveness, Ayya Medhanandi
It’s good to clear everything before we die, to leave no spiritual debts that may heavily impact our karma. Seeing the powerful healing of joy and kindness, I take up the practice of inner cleansing …
00:23:23 |
Fri 10 Jan 2025
Our True Inheritance – Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi
We keep searching for happiness through travel, surfing the internet, shopping, and other worldly ways – but does it ever last? Supreme happiness arises right here in the heart. When we are present a…
00:18:40 |
Fri 03 Jan 2025
Life Saving Sanctuary, Ayya Medhanandi
Our spiritual home is within the heart. Are we able to activate that awareness and treasure kindness and goodness in our daily actions and speech? Can wholesome states of mind prevail even when we fa…
00:25:32 |
Sat 28 Dec 2024
Spiritual Joy – A Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi
Giving our full attention inwardly is waking up to the truth of pure presence. In one breath, one moment of pure awareness, we can know a spiritual joy that deeply calms the mind. The shutters of the…
00:25:22 |
Sun 22 Dec 2024
Choose Love, Not Sorrow, Ayya Medhanandi
We can be kind to anyone with practice. So start where you are and trust this practice of kindness. Even in the face of painful times, reflect wisely – not to be poisoned by fear, despair, or sorrow.…
00:20:45 |
Fri 13 Dec 2024
Our Weapon Is Love, Ayya Medhanandi
We wake up to Truth in the silence of the mind. Where else could we possibly discover it? To see and understand what we truly are, abandon the distractions of the world and purify consciousness. But …
00:28:27 |
Sun 08 Dec 2024
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