2021.08.08 | The days and nights are relentlessly passing by, how well are we spending our time? We have the firm intent to practise the Noble Eightfold Path. May we continue to walk this path of practice and never give up. With consistent effort we can meet with amazing results. We can see the Dhamma and realize great rapture and happiness, even for 3 days and 3 nights continuously on first seeing the truth.
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2021.08.05 | Clinging to the five aggregates of form, feeling, perception, mental formations and sense consciousness is stressful. But this is what most of us do—we carry them around with us everywhere we go—and as a result, we’re always burdened by them. But when we see just how heavy they are, our minds instantly drop them, and we experience lightness and freedom.
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In this videoconference talk from 20 Aug, 2021, Ajahn Anan talks about the importance of khanti, forbearance, and how it leads us to true freedom.
“So when we train in the beginning, if we want freedom then we need to endure. We call this sila. And when we can do it, then bit by bit our minds will develop samadhi. Then our minds can be free from all the sense objects that contact our mind. We can let it go. We can put it down.”
It’s natural that when we sit to meditate, we’ll have a lot of thoughts going through our heads. Our minds re-run the issues that we’ve dealt with throughout the day. But it’s important to put all of our worries and concerns down for now, and allow our hearts to find peace.
2021.08.04 | Recollecting the Buddha is a skillful way to bring the mind to peace. We can also recollect the stories of Mettaya Bodhisattva, the next Buddha, and Bodhisattva Sumedha, who was a past life of our Gotama Buddha.
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2021.08.03 | In the Mangala Sutta, Lord Buddha clearly explained what the highest blessings in life are. These take us right from the basics of generosity and living a good lay life, right up to transcending the world and realising the deathless.
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Brief meditation instructions and contemplations for putting down the busyness and burdens of mind, letting the mind gather in samadhi.
2021.08.02 | When we live together, we need to have kindness for one another and help each other out. In doing so, the community we live in becomes a happy one. If we are selfish, however, this leads to discord and is a significant hindrance to our inner cultivation.
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2021.08.01 | Time swallows all, and old age, sickness, and death are inevitable results of birth – considering this, we strive to put down the causes of suffering. Suffering arises based on causes, and with the cessation of those causes, suffering ceases. Seeing clearly, then in no long time, we can understand the Dhamma like Venerable Sariputta.
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2021.07.31 | Right now, we still have life and breath. So we should use this opportunity to create as much goodness and cultivate our hearts as best we can, because we simply don’t know when we will die.
To join Ajahn Anan and the Wat Marp Jan Community online for daily chanting, meditation, and a Dhamma talk, you can email wmjdhamma@gmail.com for the link. Daily live sessions at 7pm – 9pm, Indochina Time (Bangkok, GMT+7).