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
The Sound of Silence, Ayya Medhanandi
Can we quieten the mind enough to hear that divine frequency of the heart’s innermost chamber? Into that stillness, we come, softly, humbly – to try – and we persevere, secluded from the noise of the…
00:22:24 |
Sat 23 Sep 2023
Unexpected Treasure, Ayya Medhanandi
Deep in the space of our hearts there is a sanctity unreachable by any vehicle other than wisdom. We travel there silently to explore the galaxies that lie within us. Until we try, we can’t know the …
00:19:39 |
Sat 16 Sep 2023
Taste the Mountain, Ayya Medhanandi
Rather than running away from suffering, we use it as the way to deliverance. Out of suffering, we draw beneficial mind states, especially compassion – not blaming our dukkha on any external or inter…
00:27:47 |
Sat 09 Sep 2023
Holding the Chalice, Ayya Medhanandi
We underestimate the power of renunciation to gain our true spiritual inheritance from the Buddha. These deeper levels of practice require not a formulaic approach but faith enough to let go the clin…
00:33:59 |
Sun 03 Sep 2023
The Fire of Illumination, Ayya Medhanandi
We wish for perfect conditions in life. But true perfection only arises within the awakened mind. So we are like mendicants of the present moment – not able to control or know what lies ahead. Let us…
00:26:37 |
Sun 27 Aug 2023
I Just Wanted Some Toothpaste, Ayya Medhanandi
The way out of pain is not in sense pleasure. But suffering can be a ticket to Nibbana – maybe not the one we asked for, but it's in our hands. So we try. Taste the moment just as it is. Choose love …
00:35:18 |
Sat 19 Aug 2023
Those Who Rightly Love Wisdom, Ayya Medhanandi
In a psychic feat for his sister, Sundari Nanda, the Buddha creates a vision of a beautiful lady who transforms into an old woman. Through this direct experience of impermanence, her mind is liberate…
00:28:05 |
Fri 11 Aug 2023
Purest Gold, Ayya Medhanandi
The sublime attitudes of loving kindness, compassion, joyous empathy, and serene composure create for us a path, a moral training to guide us not to ransom our goodness or our intrinsic values for th…
00:31:41 |
Mon 07 Aug 2023
Silent Thunder, Ayya Medhanandi
The Dhamma is deep, subtle yet powerful enough to teach us how to stop, how to listen, how to see the truth of things. For what we thought we knew, we may have not really understood. So how can we tr…
00:18:06 |
Mon 31 Jul 2023
Compassion Enough to Care, Ayya Medhanandi
Let us truly live with compassion enough to care. And share that beautiful mind energy with a depth of awareness and attention to each moment. Keeping far from the noise of the world, every breath, e…
00:11:34 |
Wed 26 Jul 2023
My Religion is Kindness, Ayya Medhanandi
Joy comes softly. First, we plow through the labyrinth of our emotional compost. We know anguish, selfishness, and all their truant cousins. Then we learn skillful ways to let go. Dying to the ‘self’…
00:22:42 |
Wed 19 Jul 2023
When the Canoe Starts to Tip, Ayya Medhanandi
Right mindfulness developed with meticulous appreciative attention on the breath enables us to tame the wilderness of the mind. If we are careening off course – just when the canoe starts to tip – we…
00:28:23 |
Tue 11 Jul 2023
Behind the Mask of Fear, Ayya Medhanandi
What do we fear the most? Love, unconditional love. Learning to see intuitively, we truly see. And when we have eyes to see, we are fearless. We may not feel fearless but we know how to face our fear…
00:30:26 |
Thu 06 Jul 2023
A Way of Benevolence, Ayya Medhanandi
The Buddha guides us on a way of benevolence, worthy of our praise, worthy of our attention, worthy of our devotion. It extinguishes the fire of delusion in the mind to kindle the fire of awakening. …
00:31:38 |
Thu 29 Jun 2023
A Bow To Silence, Ayya Medhanandi
The spiritual path may be exceedingly long and demands nothing less than the most supreme culminating effort. But our patience and faith are radical. In every moment of pure attention, insight into …
00:33:29 |
Tue 20 Jun 2023
Remember What You Love, Ayya Medhanandi
To harvest the real riches of the journey, seek refuge and protection in wisdom; and gain profound peace and happiness through the practice of loving-kindness, compassion and forgiveness. These quali…
00:41:33 |
Tue 13 Jun 2023
So Help Me Dhamma, Ayya Medhanandi
As long as delusion prevails, we are in danger and our happiness is very limited. Beyond its veil, immeasurable riches await us. Four ways to focus our samadhi power help us to clear away the interio…
00:31:57 |
Sun 04 Jun 2023
That Seed of Awakening Within Us, Ayya Medhanandi
Remember compassion like the Buddha’s. Remember courage like the Buddha’s – a mind strong, centered, wise and welcoming; spacious, supple and open. We look within and wake up to that seed of awakenin…
00:24:10 |
Sun 28 May 2023
On the Street Where You Live, Ayya Medhanandi
When a river flows into the sea it acquires one taste, the taste of salt. As our meditation deepens, regardless of age, health, race, gender, culture or social status, delving into the mind, we disco…
00:29:04 |
Sat 20 May 2023
At the Core of the Coreless, Ayya Medhanandi
We sit at the edge of the heart peering in, tangled by clinging, inflated and inflamed by worldly ways. Yet we long to know the truth of what we are. For that we must explore the inner core. This is …
00:28:11 |
Sun 14 May 2023
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