A talk about Asalha Puja, given around the time of Asalha Puja, in 2017. This is also the time that the monastic Sangha typically enters their yearly rains retreat.
Ajahn Anan teaches us to understand our experiences in line with truth, and not in terms of a preconceived notion of self. This path of understanding and insight leads us to freedom and real peace.
If you would like to join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a translated Dhamma talk every day from 7-9 p.m. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT + 7), you can send an email to wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the link.
In this talk, Ajahn Anan explains how concentration and wisdom practices, or samatha and vipassana, support and strengthen one another.
If you would like to join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a translated Dhamma talk every day from 7-9 p.m. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT + 7), you can send an email to wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the link.
In this videoconference talk from 25 August 2017, Ajahn Anan discusses the right hand disciple of the Buddha, foremost in wisdom, Venerable Sariputta Maha Thera.
Note: One can read this talk’s transcript with Q and A here: https://watmarpjan.org/en/venerable-sariputta-maha-thera/
In this talk, Ajahn Anan speaks about how to strengthen mindfulness through practice until one can see reality in terms of nature and the four elements rather than the proliferation of the deluded mind.
If you would like to join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a translated Dhamma talk every day from 7-9 p.m. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT + 7), you can send an email to wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the link.
In this videoconference talk from 10 July 2020, Ajahn Anan discusses motivation. The story of the great disciple Venerable Yasa Thera is highlighted.
Note: One can read Dhamma talk transcripts, with Q and A, here: https://watmarpjan.org/en/dhamma-reflections/reflections-archive/
At the beginning of the annual three month Rains Retreat, some of Ajahn Anan’s devoted lay disciples asked to take the eight precepts from him via Zoom. This is a recording of the ceremony, along with a short Dhamma talk on the benefits of keeping this level of Sila, and Ajahn’s own experiences with them as a layman. Lastly, Ajahn Anan and the Sangha give a blessing.
Just before the monastic community began the ceremony for determining to spend the three months of the annual Rains Retreat at Wat Marp Jan, Ajahn Anan gave this Dhamma talk on the Duthangas —practices that go against and steadily wear away at the defilements. Among them are the practices of eating all one’s food in one bowl, eating only the food offered on alms round, and not lying down.
Asalha Puja commemorates the first teaching of the Buddha.
One can watch the replay of the entire Wat Marp Jan ceremony here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiRJ-q_VpVk
In this talk, Ajahn Anan speaks about how to use the first foundation of mindfulness, mindfulness of the body, in order to calm and then direct the mind towards seeing through form. Such practice prepares one for physical difficulties and illness that are inevitable in life.
If you would like to join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a translated Dhamma talk every day from 7-9 p.m. Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT + 7), you can send an email to wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the link.