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Ayya Medhanandi"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)

Ayyā Medhānandī Bhikkhunī, is the founder and guiding teacher of Sati Sārāņīya Hermitage, a Canadian forest monastery for women in the Theravāda tradition. The daughter of Eastern European refugees who emigrated to Montreal after World War II, she began a spiritual quest in childhood that led her to India, Burma, England, New Zealand, Malaysia, Taiwan, and finally, back to Canada. In 1988, at the Yangon Mahasi retreat centre in Burma, Ayyā requested ordination as a bhikkhunī from her teacher, the

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19:06

Ayya Medhanandi: Present Moment Awareness is the Path

Ayya Medhanandi"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/10/15

(Madison Insight Meditation Group)

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Ayya Medhanandi: A Beam of Light, Guided Standing...

Ayya Medhanandi"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/10/15

(Madison Insight Meditation Group)

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3:57

Ayya Medhanandi: A Meal of Gratitude

Ayya Medhanandi"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/10/15

(Madison Insight Meditation Group)

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24:05

Ayya Medhanandi: At Home With the Wise

Ayya Medhanandi"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/10/15

(Madison Insight Meditation Group)

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28:01

Ayya Medhanandi: Eye of the Storm

Ayya Medhanandi"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/10/14

(Madison Insight Meditation Group)

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10:27

Ayya Medhanandi: Many Postures Standing in Awareness

Ayya Medhanandi"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/10/14

(Madison Insight Meditation Group)

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26:56

Ayya Medhanandi: Compassion Works

Ayya Medhanandi"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/10/14

(Madison Insight Meditation Group)

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18:22

Ayya Medhanandi: Gratitude is Grace

Ayya Medhanandi"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/10/13

(Madison Insight Meditation Group)

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28:01

Ayya Medhanandi: A Ministry of Love

Ayya Medhanandi"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/10/13

(Madison Insight Meditation Group)

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18:04

Ayya Medhanandi: Leave Your Shoes at the Door

Ayya Medhanandi"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/09/20

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) Let faith be our foundation for a mindfulness that never tires of examining how we are within us. We may eat well, dress well, and look good but what is the real state of the mind? Day by day, finding safety in virtue, aware of the right qualities that direct, protect, and teach us to root out unworthy habits, let us harvest the profound joy and goodness of this life. It’s not how much we work or gain but how well we honour the noble Dhamma as servants of selflessness and

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17:21

Ayya Medhanandi: What is Dhamma?

Ayya Medhanandi"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/09/01

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) The Dhamma, the Buddha's teaching, guides us to a moral awakening, a realization of ultimate truth. We have forever searched for eternal peace in the world of fleeting promises where happiness never lasts. And now we turn to pure conscious awareness, stopping as witness in the silence of the heart. Seeing all as empty, fleeting, free from wanting, free from suffering, we rest in knowing the timeless, boundless, transcendent presence that runs through all things. This is the

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28:24

Ayya Medhanandi: A Noble Heart

Ayya Medhanandi"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/08/07

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) We can't think our way to awakening. How then can we ennoble the heart? Practising right resort will purify the mind with present moment awareness. We give truth a voice, a prevailing knowing reinforced by mindfulness and wisdom. Instead of allowing delusion to rob us of our chance to awaken, we burn it away in its many guises of selfishness, hatred, despair and a host of dark states of mind. Patiently, faithfully, and gently, we navigate the way to true peace,

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21:21

Ayya Medhanandi: If You Want the Moon

Ayya Medhanandi"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/07/21

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) Between beauty and terror lies the Middle Way, at times crushing, at last – transcendent. Can we receive all of life with the pure love of awakened awareness? Just listen and watch in silence. Open and understand the heart in pure presence – the way a valley receives a flood. To witness the truth of impermanence is to know there is nothing at all we can cling to in this vast universe. Rumi wrote, “If you want the moon, do not hide from the night. If you want a rose, do not

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22:58

Ayya Medhanandi: The Art of Harmlessness

Ayya Medhanandi"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/06/30

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) We humans share this journey of birth, old age, sickness and death. Sometimes we succumb to fear or sorrow; sometimes we are exhausted or disoriented as if lost on a perilous path. Seeing this universality of suffering and knowing its causes, we ask: "What will set us free?" With the lens of refined moral aptitude, in silent witness, we stop to listen and directly know for ourselves the inner joy and peace of true harmlessness. Patiently, our noble guides of benevolent

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15:02

Ayya Medhanandi: Knowing Godness

Ayya Medhanandi"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/06/02

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) Was the Buddha a Buddhist? The Buddha was fully awakened, having realized the truth beyond convention, beyond worldly identities. We want that – to fully awaken; to understand our experience at its core through the purification of the heart. When the mind is completely content within itself, in pure awareness, gone beyond attachment to worldly perception, sensation or gratification, we can know a loving authentic opening to true consciousness, godness itself. We are

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23:39

Ayya Medhanandi: When Kindness and Compassion Prevail

Ayya Medhanandi"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/05/12

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) The human realm is ever fraught with greed and delusion, conflicted and loud in its extremes. These violations are just that – destroyers of our spiritual verve. As pilgrims of peace, we disarm them in the interior silence of the heart. Courageous, we stand our moral ground, resolved to hold the bar. Our faith, generosity and discernment rescue us from the flames of sensory fears and infatuations. There is giving up and letting go but the Buddha’s promise is true. Where

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23:39

Ayya Medhanandi: The Buddha's Promise

Ayya Medhanandi"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/05/12

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) The human realm is ever fraught with greed and delusion, conflicted and loud in its extremes. These violations are just that – destroyers of our spiritual verve. As pilgrims of peace, we disarm them in the interior silence of the heart. Courageous, we stand our moral ground, resolved to hold the bar. Our faith, generosity and discernment rescue us from the flames of sensory fears and infatuations. There is giving up and letting go but the Buddha’s promise is true. Where

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25:48

Ayya Medhanandi: Selfie of the Mind

Ayya Medhanandi"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/05/05

(Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)) Are we present here and now? How much do we obsess in thought? Is the mind filled with worry – wavering from anxiety to fear? Here and now, we examine and ascend to peaceful states. When we’re dreaming, wake up. Know that we’re asleep. Know that we’re not present. Know the mind that is upset, angry or boiling and cool it. Use the Buddha’s tools to repair and return our attention to present moment awareness. Mindfully knowing, seeing clearly with

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22:20

Ayya Medhanandi: A Ray of the Absolute

Ayya Medhanandi"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/04/21

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) Just as the sun is eclipsed by the moon passing over it, so the mind is submerged in 'totality' due to the veil of our human conditioning. But we can shatter that darkness by diving deeply with moral vigilance and wise attention into the silence of the mind. There we know suffering, how it begins and the exhilarating joy of witnessing its end in the vastness of the heart's inner dimensions. With unshakeable faith, insight, and understanding, we abide in that sacred space of

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32:20

Ayya Medhanandi: Like the Sun Awakening the Lotus

Ayya Medhanandi"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/04/05

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) Throughout history, hatred, human violence and horrific sufferings have plagued the world. Truth is never diminished by these worldly conditions. So we feed the mind with what supports inner peace and awakening and not with thoughts of depression, disappointment, despair, or fear. What we most fear is unconditional love. That's not consent for nor approval of hateful conduct but rather a call to bear compassion – the most difficult love of all. Like the sun that gives

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