In this talk, given on the Uposatha day, Ajahn Anan speaks about how to use wisdom to develop the factors of enlightenment.
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Some people read the texts and wonder whether certain objects of meditation will lead to true insight, but as Ajahn Anan points out in this talk, all of them reach peace and knowledge.
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In this videoconference talk from 12 February 2021, Ajahn Anan discusses Chinese New Year, the topic of blessings, stories of Great Disciples, and more.
“So let us look at these blessings, that whatever the blessings that are given to others, everything comes down to having causes and conditions. So we need to practice ourselves as well. Like if we want to have a long life. Everyone wants to have a long life, of the type where we are strong. Then we need to have a mind of metta, loving-kindness, and not killing living beings, not harming living beings. This is the practice to gain long life.”
All the actions we create get stored in our mind, like how a single seed stores roots, leaves, branches and fruit within it. All it takes are the right conditions, and those things will manifest. Therefore, creating goodness and abandoning evil are of great importance.
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It’s normal for us to meet with difficulties along this path, but they don’t go away just because we don’t like them. Instead, we must figure out a way of clearing these obstacles out and then steadily go about doing it. None of the Buddha’s teachings are beyond our capabilities.
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In this talk, Ajahn Anan commemorates the Buddha’s first discourse by describing the difference between the wisdom of the world and the wisdom of the Dhamma.
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In this talk, Ajahn Anan speaks about how to develop the perception of death to the point where one understands the importance of developing a goodness that doesn’t fade.
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In this talk, Ajahn Anan speaks about how to develop wisdom to the point of awakening through looking carefully at the body’s true nature as Ajahn Chah taught.
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It’s natural for us to want to know which method of practice will give us the fastest results. But this attitude of wanting things quick can easily stir our hearts into a mess. Ajahn Anan tells us how the best way of cutting through this line of thinking—and the doubts that produce it—is the reflection on emptiness.
In this videoconference talk from 29 January, 2021, Ajahn Anan discusses samadhi – concentration or collectedness.
“…So try to train in samadhi well. Restrain your actions and speech to be within sila, restrain the mind to have samadhi, and ultimately you will progress to have wisdom, step by step, until one sees the Dhamma. May you all have happiness and prosperity, may you grow in blessings.”