Beginning with instructions on how to settle our minds on the breathing process, Ajahn Anan then goes on to explain how our minds create conventions, imposing a supposed meaning on the world around us. He also relates stories from his practice as a young monk.
Meditation instructions from Ajahn Anan on how to settle our minds down and bring them into a firm, collected state that is ripe for the arising of wisdom.
In this videoconference talk from 14 August 2020, Ajahn Anan discusses gratitude for one’s parents, repaying the debt of gratitude to one’s parents, and two types of rare people in the world.
One can read talk transcripts with Q and A here: https://watmarpjan.org/en/dhamma-reflections/
In this second half of the talk, Ajahn Anan speaks about how penetrating insight into Nama-Rupa, Name-and-Form, gives rise to a vision of Awakening.
In this first half of the talk, Ajahn Anan explains how we can open our Eye of Dhamma, just as Ven. Añña Kondañña did.
In this talk, Ajahn Anan speaks about how, through using and “attaching” to certain aspects of the practice, such as formal meditation, we reach a point where everything, including the quality of knowing itself, must be let go of.
In this videoconference talk from 7 August 2020, Ajahn Anan discusses working with guilt/the feeling that one has done wrong.
One can read talk transcripts with Q and A here: https://watmarpjan.org/en/dhamma-reflections/
In this videoconference talk from 5 January 2018, Ajahn Anan discusses magnifying wholesomeness or unwholesomeness with technology, among other points of Dhamma.
Note: One can read this talk transcript with Q and A here: https://watmarpjan.org/en/using-youtube-wisely/
In this talk, Ajahn Anan speaks about how to use the three sources of merit – giving, morality, and meditation – to raise the mind to a level where it can develop dispassion for the conditioned world and experience the deathless.
In this talk, Ajahn Anan speaks about how contemplating the fact that all beings are subject to their kamma can help us forgive their unwholesome actions.