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The Most Ancient Remedy of All, Ayya Medhanandi
Day by day, we bear witness to the flow of experience through which the world seems to tumble and thrash, as it did even a thousand years ago. In eve…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Noble Search and Rescue, Ayya Medhanandi
Can we stay true to our spiritual aspirations and fulfill them without compromise? Keep remembering and applying the Buddha's instructions to protec…
7 months ago
Living in Peace and Loving Kindness, Ayya Medhanandi
The Buddha guides our way to inner purity and awakening through cultivating the special qualities of universal love. First, we devote ourselves to a …
7 months, 1 week ago
Waking Up to the Deathless, Guided Meditation and Reflections, Ayya Medhanandi
When the mind opens to the present moment in a humble, homage, witness way, sustaining that, know every wave in the ocean of the heart. In the silenc…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Love Everyone the Same, Ayya Medhanandi
Spiritual abuse is a hidden danger even among the most well-intentioned. If we allow the ego to undermine our nobler instincts, we fall prey to power…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Seeing With Eyes of Kindness and Compassion, Ayya Medhanandi
As an alms mendicant nun, dependent on the kindness of others for nearly four decades, I reflect on the generosity as well as the violence in this wo…
8 months ago
The Astonishing Love Within You, Ayya Medhanandi
There is much fear in this world and yet there is a wondrous way beyond fear. Just as humans create weapons of mass destruction, we are capable of th…
8 months, 1 week ago
The Big Old Skin of Ego, Ayya Anuruddha
Do we really want to wake up? We may have to face painful truths about ourselves. So we examine the depth of our dedication to this spiritual work an…
8 months, 1 week ago
First Aid for the Heart, Ayya Medhanandi
How do we extinguish the fires of greed, hatred and delusion that burn within the mind? The Buddha has thrown us a lifeline. We grab hold of it right…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
In the School of Truth, Ayya Medhanandi
How true can we be so we don’t have to lie? Not just in what we say or think but also in how we live this precious life both in our doings on the out…
8 months, 3 weeks ago