From this videoconference talk from 11 January 2019, Ajahn Anan discusses training, self-giving, and discipline.
An excerpt: “Because when we sacrifice already, then when there isn’t anything more left to do, we are at ease. We can sit meditation, we can practice training the mind, and the mind is spacious and serene. Because we have reduced and given up our selfishness. Self-sacrifice is something that destroys selfishness. It destroys the sense of self, and ends this holding onto ‘this is me’ and ‘this is mine’.”
Note: One can read Dhamma talk transcripts at the Wat Marp Jan ‘Reflections’ page. These include questions and answers with Ajahn Anan, which are not in the audio files. See: https://watmarpjan.org/en/dhamma-reflections/reflections-archive/
This videoconference talk with Ajahn Anan includes the questions and answers after the formal talk.
Note: One can read Dhamma talk transcripts at the Wat Marp Jan ‘Reflections’ page. See: https://watmarpjan.org/en/dhamma-reflections/reflections-archive/
Brief instructions to the monks and laity to start off the evening meditation period.
In this evening meditation Dhamma talk, Ajahn Anan tells a story of a wise young girl answering questions that the Buddha put to her, and how those answers are especially relevant to our lives now.
Given on 11/04/2020
This videoconference talk with Ajahn Anan includes the questions and answers after the formal talk.
Note: One can read Dhamma talk transcripts at the Wat Marp Jan ‘Reflections’ page. See: https://watmarpjan.org/en/dhamma-reflections/reflections-archive/
This videoconference talk with Ajahn Anan includes the questions and answers after the formal talk.
Note: One can read Dhamma talk transcripts at the Wat Marp Jan ‘Reflections’ page. See: https://watmarpjan.org/en/dhamma-reflections/reflections-archive/
This videoconference talk with Ajahn Anan includes the questions and answers after the formal talk.
Note: One can read Dhamma talk transcripts at the Wat Marp Jan ‘Reflections’ page. See: https://watmarpjan.org/en/dhamma-reflections/reflections-archive/
From this videoconference talk from 12 April 2019, Ajahn Anan discusses having the right attitude in relationships and discusses a Zen story on this topic.
An excerpt: “Last week we learned that for the mind to have happiness in life, it must have the 4 divine abidings of metta, or loving kindness, karuna, or compassion, mudita, or appreciate joy, and upekkha, or equanimity. When the mind has these 4 divine abidings to a good level, then the 5 moral precepts can be maintained with ease. This is because, with the four divine abidings, we are happy when others do well, and when others make mistakes out of delusion, we don’t punish them for it and we have equanimity. We wait for the time when we can help them according to our ability.”
Note: One can read Dhamma talk transcripts at the Wat Marp Jan ‘Reflections’ page, which also includes questions and answers with Ajahn Anan, which are not in the audio files. See: https://watmarpjan.org/en/dhamma-reflections/reflections-archive/
This videoconference talk with Ajahn Anan includes the questions and answers after the formal talk.
Note: One can read Dhamma talk transcripts at the Wat Marp Jan ‘Reflections’ page. See: https://watmarpjan.org/en/dhamma-reflections/reflections-archive/
A translation of a talk given by Ajahn Anan on February 16th, 2020. In it, he speaks about what a practitioner must do to cultivate refined states of concentration and, once they have attained them, what they must do to uproot the sense of self that attaches even to these.