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
Our Dhamma Compass, Ayya Medhanandi
Strong in restraint, courageous in wisdom, we use our Dhamma compass of right view to steer us on the Noble Eightfold Path, while right intention sustains the healing actions of mind that let go unwh…
00:23:12 |
Fri 05 Jul 2024
Selfie of the Mind, Ayya Medhanandi
Are we present here and now? How much do we obsess in thought? Is the mind filled with worry – wavering from anxiety to fear? Here and now, we examine and ascend to peaceful states. When we’re dream…
00:25:57 |
Sat 29 Jun 2024
Soft Landing – Reflections and Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi
When we meditate, we are alone and yet with all the world. Thoughts intrude from all sides. But we remain secluded within, protected, serene. Gently we open the door to the heart with unassailable tr…
00:22:18 |
Sat 22 Jun 2024
Sacred and Sublime, Ayya Medhanandi
Compassion is a sublime, healing quality that restores us to goodwill, integrity, wisdom and equanimity. Not only do we repair the harm that we have caused, but we turn the wheel of Dhamma in this wo…
00:26:35 |
Sun 16 Jun 2024
The Buddha’s Promise, Ayya Medhanandi
The human realm is ever fraught with greed and delusion, conflicted and loud in its extremes. These violations are just that – destroyers of our spiritual verve. As pilgrims of peace, we disarm them …
00:23:42 |
Fri 07 Jun 2024
Like the Sun Awakening the Lotus, Ayya Medhanandi
Throughout history, hatred, human violence and horrific sufferings have plagued the world. Truth is never diminished by these worldly conditions. So we feed the mind with what supports inner peace an…
00:28:53 |
Fri 31 May 2024
A Ray of the Absolute, Ayya Medhanandi
Just as the sun is eclipsed by the moon passing over it, so the mind is submerged in 'totality' due to the veil of our human conditioning. But we can shatter that darkness by diving deeply with moral…
Fri 24 May 2024
Unsurpassed Protection of the Dhamma, Ayya Medhanandi
Impermanence stares us in the face. How then can we free ourselves to understand the raw truth of what we are? There is a sorrowless state, a way out of the pains of life where we can abide in blamel…
00:23:02 |
Fri 17 May 2024
We Have Nothing To Fear – Reflections and Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi
Emptying the mind of fearful thoughts, we stop clinging to anything of the world – one moment at a time. And we come to know a liberating joy. It's a way to enter the dimension of transcendence that …
00:25:24 |
Fri 10 May 2024
Food for Awakening, Ayya Medhanandi
Peace, patience, and practice ripen with the quality of faith. We trust the teacher on a path distinguished by compassion and a diet for awakening the heart. “All suffering arises when we think about…
00:22:21 |
Fri 03 May 2024
The Buddha Was Right – Reflections and Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi
As seekers of truth, we turn the wheel of Dhamma inwardly. There alone can we understand the mind’s purity and directly know the true rhythm of the heart, undiluted by worldly refrains. The sounds of…
00:18:17 |
Fri 26 Apr 2024
Mount Everest, Ayya Medhanandi
As the witness of suffering, we gain new eyes to see. A doorway to knowing non-duality opens – there is no 'you', no 'me'. We are in the realm of no separation in one moment – gone beyond opinions, b…
00:28:22 |
Fri 19 Apr 2024
There Is An Oasis, Ayya Medhanandi
Too long we have been caught in the grip of anxiety, anger, and clinging that lead nowhere. But there is an oasis in the depths of our native humanity. To understand what is true, we must empty all t…
00:22:51 |
Sun 14 Apr 2024
Unencumbered, Ayya Medhanandi
Fire is our teacher – the fire of pain, the fire of persevering through difficulty and the fire of going beyond what we think we are capable of. For we are greater that we know and our journey is one…
00:19:14 |
Sat 06 Apr 2024
Resilience, Ayya Medhanandi
The winds of change blow constantly. We seek shelter, gazing attentive and unobstructed into the mind – aware, in pure presence each moment. We sit, warming the heart and our precepts with gratitude.…
00:17:08 |
Sat 30 Mar 2024
The Power of Loving Kindness, Ayya Medhanandi
When universal love leading to liberation of the heart is ardently developed, unrelentingly resorted to, it becomes the foundation of our life. We travel in a divine vehicle, our inheritance from the…
00:37:19 |
Wed 20 Mar 2024
We Are That Song, Ayya Medhanandi
Our suffering may feel too great or the mountain may look too high. But we are resilient and we have it in us to do this work, to walk this path – if we can give up thoughts of self-cherishing and fe…
00:18:39 |
Sat 09 Mar 2024
Out of This World, Ayya Medhanandi
By deeply examining the mind as the Buddha taught, we see our stark human predicament, why we suffer, and the real source of happiness. For he awakened to suffering’s end and the noble path to freedo…
00:27:44 |
Sat 02 Mar 2024
Give Up the Cloud, Ayya Medhanandi
When the mind is completely silent, we experience the peace and happiness of pure awareness. This far surpasses any worldly promise of impermanent gains or pleasures. Instead, through wise intuitive …
00:27:01 |
Tue 27 Feb 2024
Kindness Through and Through, Ayya Medhanandi
Contentment and generosity nurture a quality of metta that is kind through and through. We learn to respond to life like the good earth that is ever patient with and tolerant of our heedlessness. Wha…
00:25:13 |
Wed 21 Feb 2024
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