Ayyā Medhānandī

Jan 31 2025 231 ep. 27 mins 10
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Dhamma Talks by Ayya Medhanandi and Others at Sati Saraniya Hermitage in Perth, Ontario, Canada

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New audio – The Guests Come and Go, Ayya Medhanandi

Jan 31 2025 23 mins  
“Being human is a guest house” wrote Rumi. Every day we greet new arrivals – joys, sorrows, hostilities and more; and moments of awareness too. We bow to the present moment and greet them all, be they thorns or unruly monsters like malice, shame,...

Self-Drive to Nibbana, Ayya Medhanandi

Jan 23 2025 19 mins  
We are traveling a spiritual highway. Our precepts are like safety belts – upholding the core of our humanity with moral restraints that serve as both compass and anchor. They also act like brakes on our Dhamma vehicle, safeguarding us through the wilderness of...

Small Flame, Vast Light, Ayya Medhanandi

Jan 16 2025 33 mins  
Guided by the Dhamma, our life path is courageous. See how the world burns from cruel and chaotic forces. So we cultivate a heart of compassionate awareness and peace, knowing that freedom from suffering is within reach. Our spiritual footprints emulate those of the...

At the Shrine of Forgiveness, Ayya Medhanandi

Jan 09 2025 23 mins  
It’s good to clear everything before we die, to leave no spiritual debts that may heavily impact our karma. Seeing the powerful healing of joy and kindness, I take up the practice of inner cleansing day by day, applying metta – loving-kindness practice –...

True Inheritance – Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi

Jan 02 2025 18 mins  
We keep searching for happiness through travel, surfing the internet, shopping, and other worldly ways – but does it ever last? Supreme happiness arises right here in the heart – when we are patient beyond measure, present, stronger than we know. With groundbreaking inner...

Life Saving Sanctuary, Ayya Medhanandi

Dec 27 2024 25 mins  
Our spiritual home is within the heart. Are we able to activate that awareness and treasure kindness and goodness in our daily actions and speech? Can wholesome states of mind prevail even when we face difficult or painful conditions? Moral purity is the harbinger...

Spiritual Joy – A Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi

Dec 21 2024 25 mins  
Giving our full attention inwardly is waking up to the truth of pure presence. In one breath, one moment of pure awareness, we can know a spiritual joy that deeply calms the mind. The shutters of the heart open to a piercing clarity that...

Choose Love, Not Sorrow, Ayya Medhanandi

Dec 12 2024 20 mins  
We can be kind to anyone with practice. So start where you are and trust this practice of kindness. Even in the face of painful times, reflect wisely – not to be poisoned by fear, despair, or sorrow. Rather see the truth within and...

Our Weapon Is Love, Ayya Medhanandi

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, Ayya Medhanandi

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...