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Ayyā Medhānandī

Sati Saraniya Hermitage

Buddhist Women on a Path of Spiritual Awakening

religion & spirituality buddhism

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27:14

Where is the Joy?, Ayya Medhanandi

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/07/19

What is true joy? All too soon, joy declines because that is its nature – to change, like all conditioned things. True joy comes not from an idea of perfect conditions but from knowing the truth of suffering – its causes, its ending and...

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28:37

Not Afraid to Love, Ayya Medhanandi

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/07/14

Do we know the truth of what we are? If not, how can we love unconditionally? When the heart abides in loving-kindness, the misery of fear, anger and despair is vanquished. If we look for unconditional love outside of us, we will never find...

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23:30

Our True Home, Ayya Medhanandi

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/07/05

The heart’s splendor is known in pure awareness – unstained by thought, nor tainted by anticipation, regret, fear, greed, anger or any harmful feelings. It is integrity itself – present now, we traverse from the self, the narrow sense of me and mine, to...

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17:50

An Arahant Never Has Barnacles, Ayya Medhanandi

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/06/27

Anger and fear are perilous, flammable states of mind – like barnacles attached to a ship’s hull that undermine its power to sail. So we call on wise discernment and forgiveness to rescue us. We take stock: is there any anger within me? Or...

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25:35

Intrepid, Ayya Medhanandi

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/06/21

Just as one refines gold, we temper the restless thoughts and moods of the mind to listen, observe and deepen awareness. This inner silence yields a joyous, peace, benign and kind. These noble qualities heal the harm we may have suffered in life. Instead...

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21:25

Call Me to the One Among Your Moments, Ayya Medhanandi

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/06/14

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? A mind tight and closed cannot truly know this. Just listen and watch in silence. Open...

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29:27

On the Threshold of Silence, Ayya Medhanandi

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/06/09

We are caught up in the world – as if we’re in jail. But we are also on the threshold of silence wherein lies the key to pure, infinite, wordless presence. Isn’t that love – timeless, universal, here and now? Sustain that purity of...

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26:55

A Gift for Everyone, Ayya Anuruddha

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/05/30

Our practice is a unique opportunity to develop our deepest potential for happiness as human beings. We use the skills of interior investigation with patience and courage to study the intimate workings of the mind. Well-guided by the Buddha’s teachings, we gradually learn intuitively...

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32:23

Vanquish Hatred With Love, Ayya Nimmala

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/05/23

Hatred is a mental prison. We are blessed with freedom from it as long as we can abide in universal love well-nurtured in our own heart. For nature is its own reward and our true nature is nothing short of that pure metta. So,...

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17:16

This Is Sanctuary, Ayya Medhanandi

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/05/17

The world goes on the way it does. We have no control over these conditions – just as we cannot escape diseases of the body. But waking up is not beyond us. Bowing to the present moment is our homage to awareness, to pure...

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20:29

We Are Not Separate, Ayya Medhanandi

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/05/09

Do joy, peace of mind, and trusted friendship rely on the state of the world outside, or on the qualities we foster within us? In the vast presence of pure awareness, trust and courage lift our feet forward, one at a time. We are...

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28:14

The Magic of Mindfulness, Ayya Medhanandi

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/05/02

Mindfulness of pure present moment awareness takes us to the Deathless, the joy of deliverance. But how can we still the mind to taste that freedom? Once we let go self-concepts, selfishness and its baggage of worldly entanglements begin to fall away. Anger, sorrow,...

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28:07

A Ministry of Love, Ayya Medhanandi

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/04/26

It may seem counter-intuitive that a bitter tasting medicine can heal physical illness, but it does. So too, reflecting on the bitter pill of suffering and its causes can liberate us from it. As the heart opens, divine joy and compassion nurture awakening. Mindful...

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21:37

What More Can I Give?, Ayya Medhanandi

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/04/19

After long years of monastic renunciation, living in seclusion and devoted to spiritual practice, I began to question if this was enough. Was I deluded about the quality of my efforts? Had I really let go the world living with so much peace and...

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25:27

Pain, Forgiveness, and Freedom, Ayya Medhanandi

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/04/11

We have the gift of a priceless inheritance, a BPS – Buddha’s Positioning System. It’s a map to freedom from hatred by way of undaunted love and compassion. It sets our feet on the hero’s path to the oasis of Truth. With the power...

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26:27

What the Angel Asked the Buddha, Ayya Medhanandi

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/04/04

How are we to nurture truth and peace in the midst of a world besieged by moral disintegration and violence? The Buddha gave an angel this advice: “Not apart from awakening and austerity, not apart from sense restraint, not apart from relinquishing all, do...

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18:05

Anger, Forgiveness, and Gratitude, Ayya Anuruddha

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/03/28

How can we remain calm and inwardly strong when we feel anger or fear, greed or grief? Meditate with new eyes – keen, open, attentive, and dare to forgive even difficult feelings or troubling conditions. Stay present, stop and witness fear’s end, because stopping...

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28:22

Darkness Just Before Dawn, Ayya Medhanandi

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/03/22

Could we really love if we lived forever? There is no true love without suffering. This is revealed through our mortality and the impermanence of all conditioned things. We are not the body but its fragility reflects our true essence. Just as when a...

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24:09

At Home With the Wise, Ayya Medhanandi

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/03/16

What frees us from fear, anger, sorrow, chaos and all the many other sufferings of the mind? Beneath the rubble and ruin we may feel, in the silent depths of our own heart, there is a treasure. It may be hidden but it is...

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28:49

Refuge, Ayya Nimmala

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/03/08

True refuge is a call to stop, even for a moment, to see and know the breath that brings the world into and out of consciousness. We witness the liberating silence of that present moment awareness. In the still space between thoughts from which...

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