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
Stay Tuned – Radiant Mind Untainted By Ego, Ayya Medhanandi
We hear in the Udana, Verses of Uplift, about the Venerable Meghiya’s wish to practise in the beautiful Mango Grove before his mind was mature enough. Even when we are on retreat and conditions for p…
00:26:45 |
Fri 24 Jun 2022
Across the River of Pain, Ayya Medhanandi
We long to be free from this wandering, to go beyond all suffering. The body is our raft to cross from one side of this river of pain to the other. And there we leave the raft. But we don’t leave it…
00:28:08 |
Fri 10 Jun 2022
Chant, Breathe, Trust, Bless the Rain, Ayya Medhanandi
One way animals restore themselves after an attack and regain equilibrium is through the trembling of the body. We too, as human beings, can create an inner rhythmic chant to resonate vibrational wav…
00:16:21 |
Fri 27 May 2022
Death and Awakening, Ayya Medhanandi
Listen deeply to the resonance within where virtue sows fields of goodness, wisdom, and compassion and Death teaches us to let go. At first, we tremble with fear. But out of that fear we draw strengt…
00:49:54 |
Fri 13 May 2022
It Will Never Happen To Me, Ayya Medhanandi
Shrouded in the cloud of ignorance, we believe that suffering will never happen to us. But when we emerge from that fog into a radical simplicity of heart, suffering becomes our teacher. Our eyes are…
00:40:27 |
Fri 06 May 2022
Nothing But the Truth, Ayya Medhanandi
Instead of holding onto what burns and pains us, uphold the truth of present moment awareness and know that freedom is in our hands. We free ourselves from unwholesome qualities. In the midst of fear…
00:28:05 |
Fri 29 Apr 2022
Fierce Gifts, Ayya Medhanandi
When life presents fearsome obstacles, be your own spiritual ally and turn those obstacles into windows that open to the depths of the heart. There, cultivating loving-kindness, compassion, radiant …
00:36:07 |
Fri 22 Apr 2022
The Moral Equivalent of War, Ayya Medhanandi
Though we feel powerless to effect change globally, we can purify the mind and restore trust, peace, and harmony in our own lives. Six special qualities of reconciliation help us nurture the balm of …
00:34:14 |
Fri 15 Apr 2022
Nuclear Free, Ayya Medhanandi
We have a nuclear reactor within us and a nuclear accident may be taking place inside right now. It’s urgent for us to understand how to heal and free ourselves from this toxicity, and from every for…
00:25:58 |
Fri 08 Apr 2022
A Wilderness Traveller, Ayya Medhanandi
All of us can train our minds. When we are driven by lack of wisdom, ill-will, greed or confusion, we live in a wilderness of the mind. In spiritual community, we hold together to blaze a trail throu…
00:37:26 |
Fri 01 Apr 2022
Unsurpassed Treasure, Ayya Medhanandi
The Buddha is our unexcelled guide on the journey of a lifetime – to the end of suffering. We look within and enter the silence of the heart, leaving behind our ideas, fears, attachments, and identit…
00:26:25 |
Fri 25 Mar 2022
Peace Without Fear – Seven Lights to Freedom, Ayya Medhanandi
The Buddha teaches us about seven lights to gain true freedom . They are none other than the factors of enlightenment. Three are dynamic skills that deeply cleanse the mind. In turn, these give rise …
00:29:19 |
Fri 18 Mar 2022
Compassion Is Greater Than Fear, Ayya Medhanandi
Compassion is a strength, a generosity, a joy, a guardian of the mind, a rescue from fear and all forms of suffering, and a fountain of peace. It brings untold benefit both for one who gives it and f…
00:21:44 |
Fri 11 Mar 2022
In the Seen There Is Only the Seen – How Bahiya Overcame Pride to Awaken, Ayya Medhanandi
The heart is a moral tapestry of clear coordinates for liberation. Caught between duality and proliferation, we vanquish the ‘self’ using the Buddha’s pithy instruction to Bahiya of the Bark Cloth. “…
00:38:09 |
Fri 04 Mar 2022
Time to Defragment, Ayya Medhanandi
The Buddha gives us lessons in freeing ourselves but there are critical choices to be made – an emptying out, a readiness, a rising up, a deep yearning for truth. We are compelled to trust so complet…
00:33:53 |
Fri 18 Feb 2022
At the Frontier of Harmlessness – Chop Off the Head of Mara, Ayya Medhanandi
One who practices true compassion inwardly as well as to others is praised as a superior person, a spiritual warrior on the path of harmlessness. How do we emulate that? Guided by right intention, we…
00:42:17 |
Fri 11 Feb 2022
This Is Where the Mind Is Liberated, Ayya Medhanandi
Human beings have that special ability to deeply see and fathom things as they truly are. But we are so impatient. We resist letting go. Clinging, we harm unknowingly and stray from truth, gaining no…
00:30:03 |
Fri 04 Feb 2022
Dedicate Everyday to Someone, Ayya Medhanandi
Are we able to dedicate our goodness and our practice for the welfare of others? COVID teaches us that if we are not healthy, others are affected, and if the world is not well, then we will also suff…
00:38:11 |
Fri 28 Jan 2022
Metta Without Borders, Ayya Medhanandi
Just as a gardener cultivates seedlings by watering them well, metta is praised as a foundational quality for watering the full liberation of the heart. As a spiritual gardener, work to deeply unders…
00:32:30 |
Fri 21 Jan 2022
The Threads of Your Life – Guided Death Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi
When you move towards what is fearful step by step with courage, it is possible to overcome the darkest moments breath by breath. Draw together all the threads of your life, and let each one go stra…
00:17:51 |
Fri 14 Jan 2022
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