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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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17:46

Ayya Medhanandi: Arahants Have No Barnacles

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

2025/06/21

(Ottawa Buddhist Society) 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 fear? The Dhamma purifies and frees us from these stains of the heart. So seek refuge. Guard the mind from the fires of anger or unwholesome states by directing full attention to present moment awareness. This is the blessing of our work,

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25:36

Ayya Medhanandi: Stand Strong Like The Trees

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

2025/06/20

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) Living in the forest, we are always aware of the trees. Patient, deep-rooted, even in fierce storms, they stand. So stand like the trees, committed and enduring. See the world with pure awareness, just the way it is. Living in a state of gratitude, we make peace with the divisiveness of this realm. We offer the blessing of our own inner harmony – the heart's compassionate, pure presence – to live and die in a state of grace, gratitude and love. Some will be blessed by that

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23:26

Ayya Medhanandi: Silent Homage

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

2025/06/20

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) The heart’s splendor is known in pure awareness – not tainted by any harmful thought or feeling. It is integrity itself – present now. Traverse from the self, the narrow sense of me and mine, to surrender – knowing that we are nothing of this realm. But this emptiness is a fullness, measureless and complete – so vast that it dwarfs everything. It is universal love, compassion, supremely gentle, kind. Once known, it can never not be known. We are not separate from

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11:25

Ayya Medhanandi: First Aid for the Heart

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

2025/06/18

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) 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 here and now – one moment at a time. Free yourself from relentless conceptualizing and the suffering that comes of it. Stop and be aware – again and again. What is happening within you? The Buddha's first aid is just this – see each moment of turmoil or fear that is assaulting us as impermanent. Witness these feelings of

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29:19

Ayya Medhanandi: On the Threshold of Silence

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

2025/05/25

(Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)) 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 heart and abide in pure presence, aware of awareness itself. There is no 'one' there, no solid being, and no experience is refused. Why is that? Because we cease to live in fear. The Buddha guides us to witness this process –

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26:12

Ayya Medhanandi: In the School of Truth

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

2025/05/23

(Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)) 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 outside, and also what goes on inside the mind – where no one can see! But we see. We know the state of the heart. When we turn away from self- deception to the inner shining, we are set free from our deepest pain – with pure love. So live caring for yourself as for others – spiritually in tact and whole, with

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28:31

Ayya Medhanandi: As the Hollow Reed Becomes a Flute

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

2025/02/23

(Ottawa Buddhist Society) There is a transcendent Reality – inaccessible to the thought world – but to be known with right mindfulness and its accompanying powers of mind, patiently developed and polished day by day. These skills we learn provide tremendous traction to cultivate the mind, like gardeners watering the seeds of awakening. At the root of this uplifting spiritual training is the fundamental premise of our mortality. But are you ready to sit at the altar of the sublime and to have your

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28:34

Ayya Medhanandi: Not Afraid To Love

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

2025/01/05

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) 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 it. Nor can we know it by thinking. The mind must grow in silence and stillness, in unsullied conscious awareness. Then we can see what we truly are – intuitively, beyond thought, in the quality of this very breath, this moment. We

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33:37

Ayya Medhanandi: Small Flame, Vast Light

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2025/01/04

(Portland Friends of the Dhamma) Guided by the Dhamma, our life path is courageous. See how the world burns from cruel and chaotic forces. So we cultivate a heart of compassionate awareness and peace, knowing that freedom from suffering is within reach. Our spiritual footprints emulate those of the Buddha himself. We persevere and endure, powered by the noble fire of the Dhamma to illuminate our way and to bless us and all generations to come. Small as the flame appears, its light is as vast as

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33:37

Ayya Medhanandi: From A Single Flame To Vast Light

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

2025/01/04

(Portland Friends of the Dhamma) Guided by the Dhamma, our life path is courageous. See how the world burns from cruel and chaotic forces. So we cultivate a heart of compassionate awareness and peace, knowing that freedom from suffering is within reach. Our spiritual footprints emulate those of the Buddha himself. We persevere and endure, powered by the noble fire of the Dhamma to illuminate our way and to bless us and all generations to come. Small as the flame appears, its light is as vast as

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27:01

Ayya Medhanandi: Wisdom Power

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

2024/12/08

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) Treasure the silence within and listen attentively. Where else can we find the spiritual heights but within our own heart? In one moment of pure presence, we discover the joy, patience, mindfulness and 'kindfulness' that open our eyes to the truth of what we are. And in the goodness of time, there’s an emptying out. It's almost by unlearning what we’ve learned that we can see the blank screen of nothingness in the mind and know pure consciousness itself. This transcendent

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25:18

Ayya Medhanandi: Spiritual Joy

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

2024/12/06

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) Giving our full attention inwardly is waking up to the truth of pure presence. In one breath, one moment of pure awareness, we can know a spiritual joy that deeply calms the mind. The shutters of the heart open to a piercing clarity that cuts through the blinding deceptions of the world. Here in the silence at the very core of our being, we listen. The heart fills with joy and light, resplendent – just as the morning sun emerging from the horizon lights up the world. What

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20:40

Ayya Medhanandi: Inner Disarmament

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

2024/11/24

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) Harmlessness is the benevolent sister of compassion, a way of caring for ourselves by caring for each other – just as we care for each other by caring for ourselves. But how shall we secure this harmlessness within? Isn’t anger contagious? Virtue will reteach us how to stop the chaotic world from infecting us with toxic greed, anger and ignorance. Wisely reflecting, we heal the space of the mind with the powers of compassion, loving-kindness and peace. This, our inner

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20:40

Ayya Medhanandi: Practise Disarmament

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

2024/11/24

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) Harmlessness is the benevolent sister of compassion, a way of caring for ourselves by caring for each other – just as we care for each other by caring for ourselves. But how shall we secure this harmlessness within? Isn’t anger contagious? Virtue will reteach us how to stop the chaotic world from infecting us with toxic greed, anger and ignorance. Wisely reflecting, we heal the space of the mind with the powers of compassion, loving-kindness and peace. This, our inner

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24:06

Ayya Medhanandi: We Are the Mandala

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

2024/11/17

(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) Pure present moment awareness reveals what we are not; and thereby, what we truly are. Investigate and question all thoughts you see circling in the mind – fearful or fanciful, liked or not. Know their clever disguises: impermanence everywhere! Not what we are, but empty, ephemeral in nature, they orbit like space debris – crowding the heart mandala of consciousness. Let go and rejoice when states of wanting, judgement, restlessness, fear, unhappiness and all the many faces

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28:24

Ayya Medhanandi: Our Weapon Is Love

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

2024/11/08

(Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)) We wake up to Truth in the silence of the mind. Where else could we possibly discover it? To see and understand what we truly are, abandon the distractions of the world and purify consciousness. But are we willing to let go? Can we trust enough to enter the unknown? Humbly and tirelessly, bless each present moment with moral integrity, faith, courage and focused attention. Listen! The Buddha’s voice reveals all, not known by will-power but by wisdom

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28:26

Ayya Medhanandi: Our Weapon Is Love

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

2024/11/08

(Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)) We wake up to Truth in the silence of the mind. Where else could we possibly discover it? To see and understand what we truly are, abandon the distractions of the world and purify consciousness. But are we willing to let go? Can we trust enough to enter the unknown? Humbly and tirelessly, bless each present moment with moral integrity, faith, courage and focused attention. Listen! The Buddha’s voice reveals all, not known by will-power but by wisdom

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22:44

Ayya Medhanandi: Bread and Gentleness

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

2024/10/19

(Madison Insight Meditation Group)

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26:29

Ayya Medhanandi: The Awakened Heart Ripens in Humility

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

2024/10/18

(Madison Insight Meditation Group)

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22:11

Ayya Medhanandi: On the Cross of Compassion

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

2024/10/17

(Madison Insight Meditation Group)

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