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I Sit Here In Blessing – Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi
How can we care for ourselves and each other, using our formal meditation practice as a template for daily living? As we sit for meditation, mark an …
4 years, 9 months ago
Softly Close The Gates, Ayya Medhanandi
There is so much for us to understand. Preparing yourselves for that unfolding of wisdom, take your rightful seat in a balanced way and follow the pa…
4 years, 10 months ago
Baptism of Fire, Ayya Medhanandi
Sometimes it takes an illness or a loss to wake up. The wheel of Dhamma turns us towards the centre point, where all the mind’s movements are stilled…
4 years, 10 months ago
The Nimitta of Suffering, Ayya Medhanandi
When we’re out of balance, it's due to the worldly winds. Even if you call them Dhamma winds, they end up being worldly - as soon as we grasp them, w…
4 years, 10 months ago
The Value of Death, Ayya Medhanandi
This path takes us to our true home through cultivating sanctity, and understanding the value of death: the death of greed, hatred and delusion. When…
4 years, 10 months ago
Feast of Patience, Ayya Medhanandi
Can we not give vent to the wanting mind, not blame conditions nor allow discontentment to grow? Develop patience and persevere on the path. Know thi…
4 years, 10 months ago
Virtue Goes Full Circle, Ayya Medhanandi
Virtue creates a force in the heart, a field of goodness, from generosity to joy to enlightenment. Bring each moment back to awareness. Once there is…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Teacher is Present – Vesak Joy and Dhamma Refuge, Ayya Medhanandi
To celebrate the Buddha’s life is to be his disciple in enlightenment. Every day becomes a day of Vesak when we emulate the Buddha’s virtues and foll…
4 years, 11 months ago
Spiritual Athlete, Ayya Medhanandi
Every Canadian knows Terry Fox, a teenage athlete who lost his leg to cancer, continued to train as a runner and ran across Canada with one leg befor…
4 years, 11 months ago
Great Compassion
Reflections on how to approach the development of insight meditation, vipassana, like a spiritual athlete with comparisons to the rigorous training o…
4 years, 11 months ago