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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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19:49

Ayya Medhanandi: Are We the Disciples of Fear or Love?

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

2023/01/11

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) Walk away from the tigers that have made us run all our lives. Grow, instead, that beautiful space of selfless love deep within. Growth means breaking out of the shell. It hurts. But this is our journey. Trust that it will ripen into greater and greater insight. And in that unfolding, discover when things fall apart, true wisdom arises from the ashes.

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13:57

Ayya Medhanandi: Shave Your Heart

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

2022/12/31

(Portland Friends of the Dhamma) Can we resolutely walk the moral high road and discover Dhamma treasures in the fertile ground of the heart? Good-will or heroic metta, will serve as our anti-inflammatory, quelling the fires of greed, anger, fear, and blame along with every other uncharitable mind state. ‘Shaving’ the heart with kindness and compassion, we ascend the mountain until there is no more mountain and no ‘one’ to climb it.

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27:01

Ayya Medhanandi: Courageous Friendship

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

2022/12/31

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) Generosity and virtue are at the heart of waking up. We give nothing less than our full devotion to the practice, day by day, training in present moment awareness and purifying ourselves. Secluded from dangerous mental states, we endure patiently, courageously. As the wisdom of the ancients dawns within us, we are blessed by that sacred gift of the Path – a noble mind.

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23:22

Ayya Medhanandi: Fertile Ground for Liberation

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

2022/12/31

(Portland Friends of the Dhamma) To escape clinging to the world and the creations of thought, we purify and tame the restless mind until we directly know the impermanence, unsatisfactory and selfless nature of all conditioned things. No matter what comes, we endure. A diet of discernment, gratitude, and the heart's unconditional compassion rescue us from the swamp of fear and unwholesomeness. Seeing the whole truth and nothing but the truth, we walk with the Buddha, a true spiritual friend to

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10:13

Ayya Medhanandi: I Will Not Be Scared

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

2022/12/31

(Portland Friends of the Dhamma) We live in a world of toxic fear and earnestly wish for a way beyond it. Devoted to the Buddha’s supreme advice, we undertake this holistic training how to live harmlessly, joyful and at peace in ourselves. With courage and patient humility, we don’t back down when it gets tough or pick and choose only the parts we like. Once the inner world of the mind is purified, liberation dawns. We shall reap untold blessings to the end of selfishness. Wisdom is born and the

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27:00

Ayya Medhanandi: A Friend That Will Never Fail Us

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

2022/12/31

(Portland Friends of the Dhamma) With the Buddha as our guide, we walk in his footsteps. If we fall away from the path, we return to it as soon as we can. Just as you steer your car back on the road should it veer off. The mind may be on fire with wanting, fear, grief or anger. Then feel the heat. Know its origin and see its ending – not owning nor feeding it, let it subside. Here and now, awareness and wisdom deepen. We are waking up. And we discover – that true friend resides within our own

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28:08

Ayya Medhanandi: Taste the Mountain

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

2022/12/17

(Ottawa Buddhist Society) Rather than running away from suffering, we use it as the way to deliverance. Out of suffering, we draw beneficial mind states, especially compassion – not blaming our dukkha on any external or internal conditions but letting them go. If we are content with simple blessings, our gratitude consecrates the breath that we are breathing right now. We rest in awareness and experience the truth of the present moment – fleeting, flawed, formless and empty. In the stillness of now,

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20:15

Ayya Medhanandi: An Oasis of Freedom

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

2022/12/16

(Ottawa Buddhist Society) Learning to play an instrument, at first nothing good comes of it. The body is like an instrument. At first, it howls, it screams or cries. Then one day, that cry becomes a chant. So it is freeing the mind. We teach ourselves to walk the path. We fall and we get up again. In the darkest moment, we grow that tiny speck in the heart of not being afraid, not panicking, not being angry, not giving up. Practise freeing yourself so you can free everyone. Patiently keep digging

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31:12

Ayya Medhanandi: Just Practise Kindness

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

2022/11/30

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) Every moment of right mindfulness is a gift of pure attention, clarity and discovering the true origin of our pain. Applying the alchemy of kindness and compassion towards ourselves and others, we break through the veils of delusion to experience a selfless happiness, peace, and wise benevolence. Measureless are these blessings of the Dhamma.

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26:24

Ayya Medhanandi: Choose Simplicity

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

2022/11/30

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) Simplicity is not about wearing one colour, shaving your head or fasting but rather a way of mental fasting. When we choose simplicity, we have time to stop, and to observe and study the mind. We see the extent of our suffering and the origin of it. This is of great value to us. Start simplifying on the outside, then slowly draw inward to see the complex world of our ideas, thoughts, fears, longings, and attachments. Stop defending our vulnerability and investigate it. Make

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31:35

Ayya Medhanandi: A Way of Benevolence

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

2022/11/19

(Ottawa Buddhist Society (Galilee Centre)) The Buddha guides us on a way of benevolence, worthy of our praise, worthy of our attention, and worthy of our devotion. It extinguishes the fire of delusion in the mind to kindle the fire of awakening. No 'one' awakens but the heart heals naturally by touching Truth. Freed from the shackles of ignorance, it knows the emptiness that is full and the fullness that is empty – complete peace with all things exactly as they are.

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28:33

Ayya Medhanandi: A Path of Prudent Happiness

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

2022/11/18

(Ottawa Buddhist Society (Galilee Centre)) How blessed we are to walk this path of awakening into the vast frontier of the mind. We discover unimaginable treasures using our inheritance from the Buddha and directing ourselves with the compass of compassionate wisdom. This walk is internal, silent, hidden. We are learning to actually see with new eyes – clear and far-sighted – but well-attuned to our penetrating task of exploration and discernment. What has felt painful and fearsome really holds

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26:58

Ayya Medhanandi: Give Up the Cloud

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

2022/11/18

(Ottawa Buddhist Society) When the mind is completely silent, we experience the peace and happiness of pure awareness. This far surpasses any worldly promise of impermanent gains or pleasures. Instead, through wise intuitive insight, we enter into a blessed interior seclusion. Metaphorically speaking, not a shred of love exists in the cloud where we trust storing all our important digital data. Yet with our pure awareness, we see what can never be seen in the cloud. Where else but within does the

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23:09

Ayya Medhanandi: The Totality of Compassion

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

2022/10/22

(Ottawa Buddhist Society) Strong in restraint, courageous in wisdom, we use the compass of right view to steer us on the Noble Eightfold Path, while right intention sustains the healing actions of mind that let go unwholesome thoughts and endless fabrications. We learn to live and respond to life compassionately, responsibly, mindfully, with integrity and noble presence of mind. Healing from above and below, from the outside and internally, we listen to the unspoken silence of the heart that

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23:09

Ayya Medhanandi: Totality Compassion

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

2022/10/22

(Ottawa Buddhist Society) Strong in restraint, courageous in wisdom, we use the compass of right view to steer us on the Noble Eightfold Path, while right intention sustains the healing actions of mind that let go unwholesome thoughts and endless fabrications. We learn to live and respond to life compassionately, responsibly, mindfully, with integrity and noble presence of mind. Healing from above and below, from the outside and internally, we listen to the unspoken silence of the heart that

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23:09

Ayya Medhanandi: Our Dhamma Compass

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

2022/10/22

(Ottawa Buddhist Society) Strong in restraint, courageous in wisdom, we use the compass of right view to steer us on the Noble Eightfold Path, while right intention sustains the healing actions of mind that let go unwholesome thoughts and endless fabrications. We learn to live and respond to life compassionately, responsibly, mindfully, with integrity and noble presence of mind. Healing from above and below, from the outside and internally, we listen to the unspoken silence of the heart that

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19:02

Ayya Medhanandi: And Then Your Heart Will Shine

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

2022/10/22

(Ottawa Buddhist Society) How can we tread the path of nonviolence that rises above anger, blame, and mistrust? Try choosing compassion, kindness and forgiveness. For inner peace is nowhere to be found if not within your own heart. Even in the throes of tempestuous life situations, draw out courage from that as water from a deep well within. By the power of refuge in what upholds Truth, you navigate through the most fearsome obstacle even if it seems impossible. And then your heart will truly

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25:20

Ayya Medhanandi: We Have Nothing to Fear

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

2022/10/21

(Ottawa Buddhist Society) Emptying the mind of fearful thoughts, we stop clinging to anything of the world – one moment at a time. And we come to know a liberating joy. It's a way to enter a dimension of transcendence and to be uplifted beyond the prison of grasping a self with all its adornments and entanglements. As we let go identification with the self, there arises the peace of selfless awareness and waking up to the ultimate truth that is the end of suffering.

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21:11

Ayya Medhanandi: Far From the Madding Crowd

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

2022/07/15

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) How well are we spending our time? Do we endlessly cling to all that perpetuates suffering? Death will have no holiday. So what will free us from the tyranny of death? Be courageous enough to see what gives us true happiness and what brings misery; what is harmful and what is beneficial. Keep the company of those who support our virtues and our best qualities. Stay ‘far from the madding crowd’ and walk the way from blindness to bliss.

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20:53

Ayya Medhanandi: Unwavering Mind

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

2022/04/26

(Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto) To directly know Truth, we enter the depths of the vast ocean of the mind. We refine our attention and focus it like a laser beam. In the knowing of knowing itself, impermanence is revealed together with the inherent suffering of the conditioned world and the intrinsic emptiness of everything everywhere. In the starkness of this Reality, unwavering awareness sees all that we cling to as nothing while ego capitulates to liberating insight.

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