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Holding the Chalice, Ayya Medhanandi
We underestimate the power of renunciation to gain our true spiritual inheritance from the Buddha. These deeper levels of practice require not a form…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Fire of Illumination, Ayya Medhanandi
We wish for perfect conditions in life. But true perfection only arises within the awakened mind. So we are like mendicants of the present moment – n…
2 years, 8 months ago
I Just Wanted Some Toothpaste, Ayya Medhanandi
The way out of pain is not in sense pleasure. But suffering can be a ticket to Nibbana – maybe not the one we asked for, but it's in our hands. So we…
2 years, 8 months ago
Those Who Rightly Love Wisdom, Ayya Medhanandi
In a psychic feat for his sister, Sundari Nanda, the Buddha creates a vision of a beautiful lady who transforms into an old woman. Through this direc…
2 years, 8 months ago
Purest Gold, Ayya Medhanandi
The sublime attitudes of loving kindness, compassion, joyous empathy, and serene composure create for us a path, a moral training to guide us not to …
2 years, 9 months ago
Silent Thunder, Ayya Medhanandi
The Dhamma is deep, subtle yet powerful enough to teach us how to stop, how to listen, how to see the truth of things. For what we thought we knew, w…
2 years, 9 months ago
Compassion Enough to Care, Ayya Medhanandi
Let us truly live with compassion enough to care. And share that beautiful mind energy with a depth of awareness and attention to each moment. Keepin…
2 years, 9 months ago
My Religion is Kindness, Ayya Medhanandi
Joy comes softly. First, we plow through the labyrinth of our emotional compost. We know anguish, selfishness, and all their truant cousins. Then we …
2 years, 9 months ago
When the Canoe Starts to Tip, Ayya Medhanandi
Right mindfulness developed with meticulous appreciative attention on the breath enables us to tame the wilderness of the mind. If we are careening o…
2 years, 9 months ago
Behind the Mask of Fear, Ayya Medhanandi
What do we fear the most? Love, unconditional love. Learning to see intuitively, we truly see. And when we have eyes to see, we are fearless. We may …
2 years, 10 months ago