Ayyā Medhānandī

Dec 07 2024 223 ep. 27 mins 11

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Dhamma Talks by Ayya Medhanandi and Others at Sati Saraniya Hermitage in Perth, Ontario, Canada

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Our Weapon Is Love

Dec 07 2024 28 mins

We wake up to Truth in the silence of the mind. Where else could we possibly discover it? To see and understand what we truly are, abandon the distractions of the world and purify consciousness. But are we willing to let go? Can we...

We Are the Mandala

Nov 28 2024 24 mins

Pure present moment awareness reveals what we are not; and thereby, what we truly are. Investigate and question all thoughts you see circling in the mind – fearful or fanciful, liked or not. Know their clever disguises: impermanence everywhere! Not what we are, but...

Ennobling the Heart

Nov 21 2024 18 mins

We can’t think our way to awakening. How then can we ennoble the heart? Practising right resort will purify the mind with present moment awareness. We give truth a voice, a prevailing knowing reinforced by mindfulness and wisdom. Instead of allowing delusion to rob...

A Path of Prudent Happiness

Nov 14 2024 28 mins

How blessed we are to walk this path of awakening into the vast frontier of the mind. We discover unimaginable treasures using our inheritance from the Buddha and directing ourselves with the compass of compassionate wisdom. This walk is internal, silent, hidden. We are...

Give Up What Destroys You

Nov 07 2024 23 mins

Harmlessness is a gift to ourselves and to others. The child of courage and the mother of true peace, it relies on core practices of virtue and nonviolence. To abandon anger and its retinue of hatred, ill-will, fear and blame is to protect ourselves...

What is Dhamma?

Nov 02 2024 17 mins

The Dhamma, the Buddha’s teaching, guides us to a moral awakening, a realization of ultimate truth. We have forever searched for eternal peace in the world of fleeting promises where happiness never lasts. And now we turn to pure conscious awareness, stopping as witness...

Leave Your Shoes At The Door

Oct 24 2024 18 mins

Let faith be our foundation for a mindfulness that never tires of examining how we are within us. We may eat well, dress well, and look good but what is the real state of the mind? Day by day, finding safety in virtue, aware...

Go To The Roots of Trees

Oct 17 2024 15 mins

Whether we live as laity or in a monastery, there is a sacred path open for all to explore. Yet few would brave its fierce tests. How we train and incline the mind will naturally determine our spiritual growth. So the Buddha encouraged us...

The Art of Harmlessness

Oct 10 2024 23 mins

We humans share this journey of birth, old age, sickness and death. Sometimes we succumb to fear or sorrow; sometimes we are exhausted or disoriented as if lost on a perilous path. Seeing this universality of suffering and knowing its causes, we ask: “What...

Navigating the Inner Sea

Oct 03 2024 19 mins

We are on a miraculous voyage in the fragile vessel of a body that ultimately dies. This is the Noble Truth of our suffering. To unravel its mystery and rescue ourselves, we must navigate the inner sea of the heart. We explore how in...