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Ayyā Medhānandī

Sati Saraniya Hermitage

Buddhist Women on a Path of Spiritual Awakening

religion & spirituality buddhism

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22:18

When the Ship Leaves the Harbour, Ayya Medhanandi

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2025/12/05

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20:41

Inner Disarmament, Ayya Medhanandi

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2025/11/28

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21:15

Seeking Buddha Every Moment, Ayya Medhanandi

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2025/11/20

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23:59

The Unrelenting Light, Ayya Medhanandi

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2025/11/14

“Do not hate those who wrong you. How else can you manifest the unborn power of compassion.” Hatred even of our critics is not the resort of the wise. Day by day, know the blessings of peace, of forgiveness, kindness and pure awareness. Wisdom...

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24:59

Guard the Jewels of Your Heart, Ayya Medhanandi

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2025/11/08

The world is forever fraught with the fires of greed, hatred and delusion causing much harm and suffering within and around us. Seeking refuge from the mind’s vulnerabilities and restlessness, we secure our spiritual moorings. For here and now, as disciples of the present...

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28:21

Voice of the Inner Heart – Guided Meditation, Ayya...

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2025/10/31

We are eager to know how to quiet the restless and anxious mind. Will peace ever come in the face of life’s struggles? Let us listen to the voice of the inner heart and peer through the magnifying glass of present moment awareness. Softly...

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20:12

The Buddha Left A Key, Ayya Medhanandi

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2025/10/24

The Buddha left us a key – a wisdom key. Very precious. We just have to turn it to open our cell and wake up. Without understanding that, we may just hang it up. Then we live blind. In the face of all the...

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19:52

Safe Harbour, Ayya Medhanandi

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2025/10/17

Though distinct, our body and mind share the ultimate characteristics of all conditioned phenomena, being impermanent, imperfect and impersonal. Nor do they have any solid core or trace of any ‘self’. This is key to freeing ourselves from identifying with body or mind as...

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28:09

Harmlessness, Ayya Medhanandi

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2025/10/10

What is this Universe? We wonder and we ask. What are we? That which witnesses and is present, watching the flow of the whole system through which we tumble and thrash, we can know it’s perfection. We are that and it is perfect just...

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29:31

Noble Search and Rescue, Ayya Medhanandi

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2025/10/05

Can we stay true to our spiritual aspirations and fulfill them without compromise? Keep remembering and applying the Buddha’s instructions to protect virtue, trust the practice and and commit to this work of noble search and rescue. In our hands we hold the reins...

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25:59

Harness the Power of Loving Kindness, Ayya Medhanandi

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/09/27

The Buddha guides our way to inner purity and to awakening through cultivation and fulfillment of the special qualities of universal love. First, we devote ourselves to a noble life of virtue, kindness, and care for others. We practise humility, patience and forgiveness, and...

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22:42

Wake Up to the Deathless, Guided Meditation and...

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/09/19

Let the mind open to the present moment in a humble, homage, witness way. Sustaining that, we know every wave in the ocean of the heart. Here and now, awareness melts all thought in the silence. We can see with clarity and listen with...

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21:19

Love Everyone the Same, Ayya Medhanandi

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2025/09/12

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 and authority. Vigilant awareness will alert us and open our eyes to truly see and wisely protect the...

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25:59

In Humility the Heart Ripens, Ayya Medhanandi

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2025/09/05

As an alms mendicant nun, fed by the kindness of others for nearly four decades, I reflect on the immense blessing of this path. I also reflect on the unspeakable suffering in this world. For the Buddha’s teaching is founded on the Noble Truth...

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23:08

The Astonishing Love Within You, Ayya Medhanandi

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2025/08/31

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 the exact opposite – nurturing the enlightened mind. We need only wake up from the toxic...

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11:12

The Big Old Skin of Ego, Ayya Anuruddha

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2025/08/26

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 and we watch out for the ego. The Buddha had zero tolerance for young monastics who...

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11:29

First Aid for the Heart, Ayya Medhanandi

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/08/19

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...

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26:17

Sitting in the School of Truth – new link, Ayya...

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2025/08/13

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 –...

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29:03

Trust in Pure Awareness, Ayya Nimmala

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/08/01

The Buddha encourages us to abandon the unwholesome and develop wholesomeness in our daily acts, words and thoughts. As we learn to trust in pure awareness and present moment mindfulness, the weight of the world is lifted from the heart. Here and now, we...

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25:40

Rare, Hard to Do, Only Solution, Ayya Medhanandi

Ayyā Medhānandī ·

2025/07/27

Living in the forest, we are always aware of the trees. Patient, deep-rooted, even in fierce storms, they stand. If we stand like the trees, committed and enduring, we can face the conditioned world with pure awareness. We see it just the way it...

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