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Brave Lotus Rising – Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi
Consciousness plays a beautiful silent concerto in the mind's pure presence. Listening deeply, beyond the masks of the conditioned world that appears…
2 months, 1 week ago
Knowing Our True Nature, Ayya Medhanandi
How far we have strayed from knowing our true nature. So we exert vigorous present moment attention to train the mind. Aware, alert, and focused, we …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Mind Like A Tamed Elephant, Ayya Medhanandi
The Buddha says "delight in vigilance" – live an examined life: mindful, patient, ethical and reflective. We protect the mind while also investigatin…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Without Pain, No Enlightenment, Ayya Medhanandi
When we suffer in body or mind, we are called to investigate pain and its causes – are we ill, threatened, injured, broken in spirit, or have we hurt…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Start Where You Are, Ayya Medhanandi
Where is peace if not within us? The world may be on fire but we start where we are, guided by the Buddha himself. Just being with the breath, studyi…
3 months ago
A Force for Peace, Ayya Medhanandi
This is a realm of suffering and happiness. Greed, hatred, and delusion seem to be burning everywhere and we may feel helpless to control those fires…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Living Peace Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi
The path between the beginning of our pains and their ending is the Buddha's Middle Way. Rare in this world, it is worthy of our trust – through a su…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Out of the Wilderness, Ayya Medhanandi
We are blazing a trail out of the wilderness of ill-will, greed, and delusion in the world. It may feel as if we are walking a razor’s edge – at time…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Sheltering in Kindness, Ayya Anuruddha
By nature, we are inclined to care for ourselves. Do we also wish to see others well and happy? Reflecting that we are all subject to the universal l…
4 months, 1 week ago
Setting Good Intentions – Then Life Happens, Ayya Nimmala
How powerful, disarming, and distracting is the sense world where the mind is easily caught in desire, hate and delusion. Clinging we suffer. But suf…
4 months, 1 week ago