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                    <title>Be Bread, Share Blessings, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[Can we 'be bread' for ourselves and those we meet who are hungry in spirit? Through the goodness of our practice, with the understanding gained in the silence of the heart, we open to a freedom without boundaries – letting go the weight of our sorrows, clinging, and suffering. Even a spaceship cannot travel to the frontiers where this wondrous space in the heart can take us. We may not know it fully yet, but when we pierce the delusion of the world, awakening is our rightful inheritance. Then the 'Way' can never be lost to us again. And we can share the blessings of that exalted love – the bread of awakening.  Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Aug. 3, 2025

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                        <![CDATA[Bowing in the currents of life, we navigate with a generosity of attention and heart. Whatever happens, the sign of the Dhamma rises in us like a glowing sun. We receive it, know it, open to it, and welcome its wondrous light to guide us. Now is the time to live, sit, walk, rest, work and love – blessing the world with great compassion. Not giving up but waking up – because awareness will transform us step by step. And we do awaken.  Breakfast Reflections, Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Sept, 27, 2025

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                    <title>Our Walk for Peace, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[Like a mother, the Buddha walks us in the ways of the Dhamma, teaching us how to turn the mind to peace and true refuge. Our fear of fear can be disabling, but just to witness our fear or grief or any unwholesome thought is empowering. So awareness, loving-kindness and inner harmony help to dispel feelings of anger, fear, pain, or sorrow. Whatever their origin, we see their impermanent, troublesome and empty nature, and we abide in the peace of pure conscious awareness. This very life is our walk for peace. And we never give up on love. Breakfast Dhamma, Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Sept 16, 2024

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                    <title>Healing Inside Out, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[When the mind comes to quiet, truth rolls in. We plant seeds of wisdom that sprout naturally and the mind stops fabricating or wandering outwards. Staying centred and aware, we begin to feel a timeless healing. This is the supreme way of true freedom and happiness for a human being. But who lives this way? One devoted to care for and purify the mind; one who sustains conscious awareness and peace; one who seeks not to get or acquire but rather to share and to love; one who acts for the good of all. As generosity and compassion blossom, we heal and we sanctify. This is the work of the Blessed One. All who pass this way are naturally blessed.  Sati Saraniya Hermitage, April 7, 2024

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                        <![CDATA[The Buddha’s medicine is a universal gift for the mind. It helps us see what is apparent here and now, and it is timeless. By investigating the heart, we know the truth of what we are. It's like taking an internal selfie to be able to recognize that. But to really free ourselves from suffering, look deeply into the Four Noble Truths which teach us the causes of suffering, how it ends, and how we come to directly know our true nature. Conscious present moment awareness is key. Even when chaos and wars are raging, may we persevere and sustain the heart's refuge in boundless peace and compassion.  Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Sept. 14, 2025

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                    <title>Brave Lotus Rising &#8211; Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[Consciousness plays a beautiful silent concerto in the mind's pure presence. Listening deeply, beyond the masks of the conditioned world that appears and disappears, without grasping or getting lost in any of it – we explore the truth of the present moment. What do we know in this silent space of the heart? Rise up like a brave lotus from muddy waters beyond the ephemeral dimension of sense experience. This is pure knowing – awakening to its true nature – apparent here and now – eternal, infinite, deathless. There is no ‘one’ to set free. We are the peace of pristine conscious awareness.  Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Autumn, 2025

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                        <![CDATA[How far we have strayed from knowing our true nature. So we exert vigorous present moment attention to train the mind. Aware, alert, and focused, we discard intrusive mental ‘malware’, cutting through the river of thought to bear witness beyond it. We shelter in pure presence of the Dhamma, free from the blindness of our conditioning. No more daggers, fear, sorrow or delusion – just clear consciousness – intuitive awareness knowing timeless eternal love. Our spiritual eye opens to what we truly are. Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Oct. 23, 2025

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                        <![CDATA[The Buddha says "delight in vigilance" – live an examined life: mindful, patient, ethical and reflective. We protect the mind while also investigating it and probing deeply. And we train it – just as the elephant trainer tames a wild elephant. We discover that there is illumination here within the mind itself, ready to bring forth. Once we were blind with untamed habits. But as we train the mind, we open the 'Dhamma eye' to see this rare treasure of the awakened heart. And we clearly know the joy of luminous wisdom, unsurpassed in this world – Nibbana. Morally whole, we are at peace, self-radiant, empty of darkness, and filled with light.  Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Dec. 21, 2021

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                    <title>Without Pain, No Enlightenment, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[When we suffer in body or mind, we are called to investigate pain and its causes – are we ill, threatened, injured, broken in spirit, or have we hurt someone else? Awareness of the causes enables us to respond well. But reflecting on and understanding the Buddha's Four Noble Truths of suffering is core to complete freedom from it. When we let go our ideas about suffering, we directly experience its qualities. Our mental faculties sharpen and purify the mind for the arising of wise insight and ultimately – awakening.  Ottawa Buddhist Society retreat, Nov 20, 2025

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                    <title>Start Where You Are, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[Where is peace if not within us? The world may be on fire but we start where we are, guided by the Buddha himself. Just being with the breath, studying the law of impermanence, see how it is ever changing – arising and ceasing. No breath is ever the same. No footstep, no moment, no day repeats. This practice of present moment awareness reveals that we are not our thoughts, nor the objects in the mind; we are not our mind states nor anything that the mind clings to in the world – just as a mirror is not what it sees. For we are the knowing that reflects all that is known – pure consciousness itself, boundless and peaceful. That is our true nature.

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                        <![CDATA[This is a realm of suffering and happiness. Greed, hatred, and delusion seem to be burning everywhere and we may feel helpless to control those fires. But there is one fire that we can extinguish and it is within us. Cultivating mindfulness moment by moment, we see the harm of our unskillful habits. When worldly attachments no longer fulfill us, we grow disenchanted. When others treat us poorly, we burst into flames. Practising virtue and kindness in all that we do, say or think – not as mere convention but as a force for peace – we find a new way to be and we walk it. Each time the inner fires perish, our joyful peace prevails and radiates. It's contagious. Sati Saraniya reflections, Aug. 25, 2019

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                    <title>Living Peace Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[The path between the beginning of our pains and their ending is the Buddha's Middle Way. Rare in this world, it is worthy of our trust – through a subtle shift in perspective. There is freedom from mental suffering – not by avoiding it but by understanding it. Know its impermanence and see its true nature – empty and not what we are! So we disarm the stress, fear, doubt, hatred, or any of their cousins and mindfully balance moment by moment. In the light of sacred awareness, gathering gentle joys and peace, we offer our silent heart to the Infinite Silence.  OBS, May 19, 2023

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                        <![CDATA[We are blazing a trail out of the wilderness of ill-will, greed, and delusion in the world. It may feel as if we are walking a razor’s edge – at times bereft or lost – and we must all face death. But the Buddha teaches us to trust, to persevere, and live wisely. As a witness to life, we search deeply so that we can clearly see the true causes of our suffering. Thereby, we gain stability, patience, contentment and inner peace. In this joyful awareness and gratitude, the heart opens with greater loving-kindness and compassion towards all beings everywhere – for we are on the same path of awakening. Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Nov. 2, 2025

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                        <![CDATA[By nature, we are inclined to care for ourselves. Do we also wish to see others well and happy? Reflecting that we are all subject to the universal law of impermanence, so too, let us consider how caring for ourselves is a way of caring for and blessing one another. Harmlessness and non aggression balance the heart and nourish a deep island of inner refuge,  peace, and gentle stability. This is a blessing to the world. Just so, caring for ourselves, we care for each other – sheltering in love, kindness, compassion and wisdom. A talk at the Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community, Nov. 15, 2025

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                    <title>Setting Good Intentions – Then Life Happens, Ayya Nimmala</title>
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                        <![CDATA[How powerful, disarming, and distracting is the sense world where the mind is easily caught in desire, hate and delusion. Clinging we suffer. But sufferings spur us on to discover a quality of peace that is unshakeable. When we learn to abide with the flow of experience, seeing that peace in stillness and pure awareness, we feel the true contentment and happiness of the Dhamma. This is blissful. The mind emptied of impurity – empty of ego – sees wisely and is filled with love and compassion. We know our true nature, and we see that we are all one. Ottawa Buddhist Society, Dec. 19, 2025

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                    <title>Enter the Timeless – Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[We are eager to know how to quiet the restless and anxious mind. But how will peace ever come in the face of life's struggles? Listen to that inner cry with present moment awareness. Softly, simply, be present, balance, and rest on the pinnacle of every breath. Practising like this, again and again, let the world fall away into a beautiful vast spacious awareness. We enter the timeless, tenderly knowing the joy and unsurpassable refuge of this universal silence – not out there, but right here within us. Meditation reflections at the Ottawa Buddhist Society, Oct. 17, 2025

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                    <title>Seeds of Awakening, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[As pure witness, we sail the inner sea in our own heart's silent awareness. Not plundering the mystery of this silence with concepts, we listen. Even in the midst of the noise of life, or the chaos of the world, we can stop there to wake up for one moment, and then another. Silently knowing, we are present. Being aware for one moment is peaceful. This knowing is boundless. For in all of life’s events, struggles, and unfoldings, here and now – fear has no grip, neither worry nor want for anything. We are whole in the peace of this awareness itself, reflected in the luminous truth of timeless presence. We are born for this – to plant seeds of awakening for ourselves and all beings. Sati Saraniya, Dec. 14. 2025

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                    <title>Be Your Own Doctor, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[When fear, anger, sorrow, or shame arise, the Buddha advises us: "Be your own doctor." See. Feel. Know the suffering within. To cherish the silence of the mind is to go beyond fear and all cousins of darkness. When we rest in the present moment, intuitive awareness blossoms and shines its extraordinary light to illumine the truth of all that arises, lingers, and fades away. Impermanent. Moment by moment, timeless. Right here and now, we can know things just as they are. Fear breaks up into empty fragments of sensation. Nothing more. It has to because that is its true nature. This is how we bring forth fearlessness out of fear. And that will be freedom for our brave heart. Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Dec. 7, 2025

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                    <title>Celebrate Goodness, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[We are ever concerned about what we eat and the condition of the body. Yet care for the mind brings spiritual health. It's a question of balance. Mind is the forerunner of all things. And happiness and joy will surely follow when we rejoice in goodness. If we lose hold of the Dhamma, then how can our ship leave the harbour? Though the currents of life – of the world – are huge, we persevere. Trust in purity of heart, kindness, compassion and wise awareness everyday, in all that we do. A loving heart opens to clarity of vision, peace and blessings for ourselves and for all beings. Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Nov. 23, 2021

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                    <title>Practise Disarmament, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[Compassion is the benevolent sister of harmlessness. Caring for ourselves, we care for each other – just as caring for each other, we care for ourselves. But how shall we live harmlessly in a world filled with anger, greed, and ignorance? May virtue prevail to protect us from their toxic currents. Fully aware and guided by wisdom, we shield the pure space of the mind with greater compassion, loving-kindness and peace. This practice of inner disarmament is the Buddha’s recipe for awakening. Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Nov 24, 2024

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                    <title>Seeking Buddha Every Moment, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[To understand suffering is to know the way out of suffering in our life. So, we trust the perfectly enlightened Buddha – most noble friend and guide to the heart's awakening. Turning away from greed, hatred, selfishness and conceit, cleanse the cobwebs of delusion and sow seeds of virtue, wisdom, love and compassion. With pure conscious awareness, just listen to the silence – present and awake in the joy and peace of liberating insight. This is the path. Sunday reflections at Sati Saraniya Hermitage. Nov 2025

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                    <title>The Unrelenting Light, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA["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 dispels our fears and sorrows in the clear light of awakening. Just like plants everywhere keep turning themselves towards the sun whenever it shines – the trees, flowers, vines, even weeds – they teach us. We always return to the unrelenting light. Sati Saranya Hermitage, Nov. 5, 2023

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                    <title>Guard the Jewels of Your Heart, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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 moment, we have full protection. We stand tall in virtue and wisdom. And we graze in the field of mindfulness and pure awareness. Whenever the ego drags us away, we return to pure presence, undaunted and aware – guarding the jewels of our heart. Reflections at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Aug. 17, 2025

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                        <![CDATA[The Buddha left us a blessing key to wisdom and freedom. Can we use it for awakening? In the face of all the inevitable challenges of this human life: painful feelings, worries, fear, illness, betrayal, loss of the loved, aging – so many ways we suffer and are locked in by that suffering. The blessings are awareness and vital care of our actions, speech and thoughts regarding ourselves and each other. Living ethically, with kindness and humility, we wake up to universal truths, to what we really are. We see with new eyes: the shrine is within us and this life on planet Earth is pilgrimage itself. Sati Saraniya Hermitage breakfast reflections, Oct, 20, 2025

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                    <title>When the Ship Leaves Port, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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 what we truly are. So we investigate further to understand, clear and protect the mind. Virtue is our moral shield from harmful, unskillful states. Aware inner listening nurtures stillness. We are on track to enter the gates to the Deathless. Insight Meditation Society Retreat, May 6, 2013



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                    <title>The Most Ancient Remedy of All, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[Day by day, we bear witness to the flow of experience through which the world seems to tumble and thrash, as it did even a thousand years ago. In every age, doesn't life unfold through change, success, pain and struggle? How do we harm ourselves and each other and how can we repair and heal suffering with the timeless tonics of loving kindness, compassion and forgiveness? Such is the power of living harmlessly – the most ancient remedy of all. Sati Saraniya Hermitage Sunday talk, Oct 5, 2025

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                    <title>Noble Search and Rescue, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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 commit to this noble search and rescue. We hold the reins to free ourselves from life's inevitable trials, so let us see the way to emerge from unfathomable darkness with our compass of wisdom. Here and now, awareness ripens the heart in joy, compassion, and blessing. Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto retreat, 2015

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                        <![CDATA[The Buddha guides our way to inner purity and awakening through cultivating the special qualities of universal love. First, we devote ourselves to a noble life of virtue, loving kindness, and care for others. We observe our own conduct – instead of blaming or judging anyone. We aim to abide with unconditional loving kindness, compassion and gratitude. Wisely reflecting, living in peace and understanding towards all beings, we shall surely know deliverance of the heart. Breakfast reflections at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Sep 24, 2025

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                        <![CDATA[When the mind opens to the present moment in a humble, homage, witness way, sustaining that, know every wave in the ocean of the heart. In the silence of here and now, awareness melts all thought. We can see with clarity and listen with great compassion. Awareness deepens as we dive into the timeless, vast dimension of pure consciousness. We are awake. And we know – I am not fear, I am not anger. So let fear die. Let anger die. We are free, not separate – awareness aware of itself. Love prevails. And we never time out. Theravada Buddhist Community retreat, Toronto, May 23, 2025

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                    <title>Love Everyone the Same, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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 heart. When we are with the Dhamma, we are with the Buddha. We may not be perfect but we are on a noble path. So guard the mind and bear no hatred. Enshrine this pure presence and connection to the heart, to life and to each other with humility, respect, and loving-compassion – and share these blessings with all beings.

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                    <title>Seeing With Eyes of Kindness and Compassion, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[As an alms mendicant nun, dependent on the kindness of others for nearly four decades, I reflect on the generosity as well as the violence in this world. And yet, this path yields immense blessings. For the Buddha’s teaching is founded on the Noble Truth of suffering. If we care only about our own happiness, we suffer. But if we care about the happiness of others, peace of heart ripens. With humility, we free ourselves from darkness. The ego blinds us until we see with the eyes of kindness and compassion. Madison, WI. Retreat, Oct. 18, 2024

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                    <title>The Astonishing Love Within You, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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 delusion and deceit of this world. Just as we turn from darkness to discernment, from fighting to forgiveness, grow in wisdom and see things as they truly are. Unconditional love and compassion shield us to peacefully work with what is not peaceful. At last, empty yourself of fear and be the true love you seek. Sati Saraniya Hermitage, June 15, 2025

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                    <title>The Big Old Skin of Ego, Ayya Anuruddha</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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 resisted his advice. Yet pivotal to this training of the mind is just that – being open to reflections or feedback from a wise spiritual friend – if they are willing to guide us. Even if we think we are doing well on the path, their perspective may mirror a critical blind spot that will clear our path to awakening. Madison, USA retreat, Oct. 18, 2024

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                    <title>First Aid for the Heart, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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 despair or darkness arise and pass away – not what you are. Breathe free. Breath by breath, we let the heart heal – at peace. Breakfast reflections, Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Nov 2018

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                    <title>In the School of Truth, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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 measureless kindness and compassion. Sitting in the school of Truth, more than pilgrims, we are stars crossing space. We shine, even in the dark.

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                    <title>Stand Strong Like the Trees, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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. But can we spread peace in the world without being peaceful ourselves? Ottawa Buddhist Society, June 20, 2025

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                    <title>Trust in Pure Awareness, Ayya Nimmala</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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 abide in the formless, changeless, and eternal. Not only do we bear testimony to others that this is within our reach but we are also directly blessed by it ourselves. We see the nature of emptiness and know the peace of true freedom.

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                    <title>What Is True Joy?, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[What is true joy? All too soon, joy declines because of its nature to change, like all conditions of life. True joy is not an idea or belief in a perfect moment but it is knowing the truth of change and how to free ourselves from clinging to ephemeral happiness. Just as we avoid poison ivy when walking in the forest, refrain from touching anger or hatred. To see beyond the duality of likes and dislikes, the beauty of flowers or the fear of danger, wisely investigate and know the nature of all experience. Day by day, living the middle way with pure present moment awareness, we discover the joy of peace in the midst of change.

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                        <![CDATA[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 pierce through the dust of lifetimes to know the core of our being, to wake up – here and now. Just to live in that kindness is the truest life of all. Sati Saraniya Hermitage, January, 2025

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                    <title>Silent Homage &#8211; Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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 awareness. Like the sky. It is always there – a silent homage, our true home. Ottawa Buddhist Society meditation, June 2025

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                    <title>Arahants Have No Barnacles, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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, and the promise of awakening. Ottawa Buddhist Society, Quaker House, June 21, 2025

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                        <![CDATA[Just as one refines gold, we temper the restless thoughts and moods of the mind. We listen and deepen awareness in joyous silence, peaceful and benign. It's a noble healing of every harm we may have suffered in life. Instead of running from pain, we are freed from it – seeing its cause and its falling away into the luminosity of pure consciousness. Awareness of fear is not fearful – is not burdened by any darkness in the mind. So we walk intrepid, daring to forge our path to awakening. Quaker House, Ottawa Buddhist Society, May 2017

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                        <![CDATA[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 run from its thorns. If you want love, do not hide from yourself.” Sati Saraniya Hermitage, July 2024

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                        <![CDATA[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 – not as a person identified with self or ego but just letting the world go. For we are not what we know, and that consciousness is the Deathless. Theravada Buddhist Community, Toronto, May 25, 2025

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                    <title>A Gift for Everyone, Ayya Anuruddha</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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 how to direct ourselves on this path of wholesomeness and devotion. By trusting our spiritual practice, we are strengthened, growing inwardly as we directly experience freedom from fear and the heart's true compassion.



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                    <title>Vanquish Hatred With Love, Ayya Nimmala</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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, we guard this precious jewel vigilantly. Our primary obstacle is not knowing – first, that such a gem is within reach, and second, how to turn to it for true protection and safety in dark times. When universal love takes its rightful place on the throne of the heart, it shall preside unobstructed. Ottawa Buddhist Society, Friday, May 16, 2025
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                    <title>This Is Sanctuary, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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 presence that transcends all conditions. We see what is true – all else is a sham, arising and falling away. If we hold onto any of it, we have not yet shed the myriad faces of the ego. Mara will dance on our bones, pull out our hair, cut us to pieces or throw us off a cliff. But seeing the masquerade of Mara, we rise above all brokenness. For what is there to get – compared to what we already are? The ego dies at the feet of true sanctuary. Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Sept. 30, 2024

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                        <![CDATA[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 humbly walking this noble path through treacherous terrain and unexpected obstacles. At times, feeling lonely, vulnerable – beyond our limits – still, we persevere, devoted to what we treasure most. Gratitude for the way and wise, loving compassion spur us on. Then one day, the heart opens a little wider, and we clearly know for ourselves – we are not separate at all. Ottawa Buddhist Society meditation reflections, June 17, 2022

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                    <title>The Miracle of Mindfulness, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[Mindfulness of pure present moment awareness guides us to the blessed joy of awakening. But can we still the interior tides of emotion and thought enough to taste that freedom? Everyday, devote time to witness habitual thought patterns and worldly attachments. Stopping in the silence of the heart, the causes of our suffering are seen for what they are. Anger, sorrow, grief and resentment gradually wither and we directly experience the flowering of timeless consciousness and universal compassion. This is the miracle of pure mindful awareness. A talk given at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, April 13, 2025

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                        <![CDATA[How can a bitter tasting medicine heal physical illness? Just so, understanding suffering can liberate us from it. Listen to the dance of impermanence arising and falling endlessly. Bear witness to thoughts of fear, anger or sorrow flowing into the sea of awareness and know: awareness of fear is not afraid. So too, awareness of anger is not angry, nor does awareness of sorrow grieve. Pure presence frees us from fascination with the mind's mental creations – no future, no past, no me, no mine, no ownership, no struggle, just boundless inner peace. We are that pure consciousness – unconditional love.  Madison Insight Meditation, Wisconsin, Oct 2024

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                    <title>What More Can I Give?, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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 natural beauty around me? Had I understood the deeper levels of freeing my heart? What more could I give to open to the truth of this timeless teaching? What must I do? So I asked for a sign. And the answer came. I had to venture again into the unknown and serve. Just like gold is purified by fire, I have to give back, to share the suffering, the joy of sacrifice in the Dhamma – to know the sacred mother of compassion. Quaker House, OBS, 2009

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                    <title>A Map to Freedom, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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 of forgiveness, we pass unscathed through what seem like the fiercest storms and sufferings of life: ill-winds, dangers, traumas, and exhaustion. But we are vigilant, guided in awareness and wisdom. Refuge in the Dhamma is our compass, and spiritual friends shine as jewels within our hearts. We are pilgrims of peace and awakening – to the last breath. Satipaññā Insight Meditation Retreat, Chapin Mill, Batavia, NY, USA, Aug. 28. 2021

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                    <title>What the Angel Asked the Buddha, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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 I see any safety for human beings.” Just so, we see that our ethical footprint surpasses despairing over the state of the conditioned world. We wander undaunted through the labyrinth of the mind, growing in pure awareness, integrity, insight and compassion – the path to awakening itself. OBS retreat, Arnprior, Ontario, 2007.

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                        <![CDATA[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 to see is just like turning on a light. There is more clarity to know fear as impermanent, and to observe the nuance of the fear of fear itself. It's not my fear or my anger but unpleasant sensation. So we depersonalize and pour gratitude into the new moment with the quintessential balm of peace – forgiveness. Madison Insight Retreat, Wisconsin, Oct. 19, 2024

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                    <title>Darkness Just Before Dawn, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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 candle melts, the flame burns. Just as the sun arises out of the darkest night, so too, our awakening to truth is grounded in understanding the Buddha's Noble Truth of suffering. We witness how suffering begins, how it ends, and how to free ourselves from it. As the heart breaks open, we are waking up to the truth of what we are, nothing less than unconditional love. In the words of Victor Frankl, “To give light, we must endure burning.”

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                    <title>At Home With the Wise, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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 there. And we can know it. Sitting in the still, pure presence of conscious awareness, turn away from thinking, worry, all those mental habits and the heartaches of life. Moment by moment, dive deeply into each breath – not to change anything but to know, to understand what is there. Bow to the silence and let go fleeting worldly pleasures. Just see the heart's intuitive dimension revealed. Listen, know Reality and rejoice. For this knowing will truly set us free. Madison Insight Meditation retreat, Wisconsin, USA, Oct. 15, 2024

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                        <![CDATA[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 all that appears in the mind arises and disappears without end, we let go. Trust this. See the instability and insecurity of all else. Be an island, be a refuge unto yourself in the pure awareness of truth beyond concepts – the truth in this moment of freedom. Disentangled from the world, we can let go. Our refuge is the awakened heart. An OBS online talk, Jan 5, 2025

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                    <title>Empty Yourself of Fear, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[One night, while Malani was dying, we gathered a group of her close friends to meditate with her. Each breath was a struggle yet she stayed aware, serene, composed, and at peace. We listened in silence, breathing freely – but our minds were not free. We knew all is impermanent, that we can die at any time. Yet we carry on as if we have forever. So we try again, everyday, to practise living in awareness. One moment at a time, empty yourself of fear and let go the world. Listen to the silence and wake up – like dear Malani.  Ottawa Buddhist Society, Quaker House, 2009

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                    <title>As the Hollow Reed Becomes a Flute, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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 illusions shattered? Like the hollow reed that becomes a flute, empty yourself of fear and be the pure love you seek. Ottawa Buddhist Society, Quaker House, 2007

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                    <title>Even Owls Know Who, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[Who are we? More than two and a half millennium ago, the Buddha hesitated to teach us, but he relented for the benefit of those with little dust in their eyes. Can we actually clear the dust away, earnestly, patiently – studying, examining and probing within to know the truth of what we are? It is a great blessing to be able to undertake this work. We have only to open our hearts to the journey, persevere and pierce the veil of ignorance. Just as the morning sun bathes the world with light, guided by the Buddha's map of consciousness, we shall come to know the highest peace.  Satipanñā Insight Meditation (SIMT) retreat, Chapin Mill, USA, May 31, 2023

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                    <title>Wisdom Power, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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 awareness becomes our refuge. We no longer look for refuge in other people, nor in ideas, concepts, occupations, travels, wealth, information, anything of the world. The heart is overjoyed in simple homage to the breath we breathe right now. This is waking up through wisdom power – pure presence ever transcending. Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Dec. 8, 2024

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                    <title>The Guests Come and Go, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[“Being human is a guest house” wrote Rumi. Every day we greet new arrivals – joys, sorrows, hostilities and more; and moments of awareness too. We bow to the present moment and greet them all, be they thorns or unruly monsters like malice, shame, fear, anger or greed. Can we see them all just as they are, painful or pleasant – impermanent, not ours, not who we are? Can we let them come and go, and be grateful? Treat whatever passes through the heart as empty. After all, these are karmic messengers from beyond bearing unique spiritual gifts. For in their presence, we strengthen our practice. Wisely attentive, reflective, and aware, we are on the magnificent path of waking up.  'Feast of the Moment Retreat', New Zealand 2005

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                    <title>No Self Drive to Nibbana, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[We are travelling a spiritual highway. Our precepts are like safety belts – upholding the core of our humanity with moral restraints that serve as both compass and anchor. They also act like brakes on our Dhamma vehicle, safeguarding us through the wilderness of the world while grounding the mind in an integrity of presence. With pure awareness, we have a stethoscope of the mind, steering and balancing us joyfully on the path so that we can wake up out of the darkness. We carry the Buddha in our hearts like an imperishable lamp, a supremely compassionate parent, our wise and formidable shepherd to help us overcome every hardship. Yes, we’re in self-drive – selfless – crossing to the far shore, Nibbana.  SIMT annual retreat, Chapin Mill, Rochester, May 28, 2023

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                    <title>From A Single Flame To Vast Light, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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. Negligible as a single flame may appear, its light is as vast as this great universe. At Portland Friends of the Dhamma, January, 2025

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                    <title>At the Shrine of Forgiveness, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[It’s good to clear everything before we die, to leave no spiritual debts that may heavily impact our karma. Seeing the powerful healing of joy and kindness, I take up the practice of inner cleansing day by day, applying metta – loving-kindness practice – through the luminosity of forgiveness. This potent flame of reconciliation melts away any harmful residue or holding in the heart so that not a flutter or tremor of ill-will remains. Let us avail ourselves of its power. At the shrine of forgiveness, we light the light of joy and freedom within while fostering happiness for other beings. This is the fount of both medicine and cure – reconciliation and liberation of the heart. Meditative reflections at an SIMT retreat, Chapin Mill, June 2, 2023

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                    <title>Our True Inheritance &#8211; Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[We keep searching for happiness through travel, surfing the internet, shopping, and other worldly ways – but does it ever last? Supreme happiness arises right here in the heart. When we are present and patient beyond measure, we are stronger than we know. This groundbreaking inner seeing is free of devices – and free of vices. Pure, wise clarity and conscious awareness disentangle and unburden the mind of fear, obsession, all distractions, and at last, all suffering! This is the key to our self-made prison of beliefs, thoughts and opinions. We wake up to our true inheritance – the liberating Truth of what we are. Guided meditation reflections at Insight Meditation Society, Massachusetts, USA, 2019

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                        <![CDATA[Our spiritual home is within the heart. Are we able to activate that awareness and treasure kindness and goodness in our daily actions and speech? Can wholesome states of mind prevail even when we face difficult or painful conditions? Moral purity is the harbinger for our waking up to the Truth within us. As we hasten to empty and weed out self-centredness, the poison arrow of craving is extracted. This is freedom – this is life-saving sanctuary. A talk at the Heart of Wisdom Retreat, Insight Meditation Society, Massachusetts, USA in 2019.

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                    <title>Spiritual Joy &#8211; A Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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 we have been seeking far and wide is right here within us – seeing and knowing our true nature as it really is, we receive the gift of Unconditional Love. A guided meditation, Ottawa Buddhist Society (OBS), Dec. 6, 2024

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                    <title>Choose Love, Not Sorrow, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[We can be kind to anyone with practice. So start where you are and trust this practice of kindness. Even in the face of painful times, reflect wisely – not to be poisoned by fear, despair, or sorrow. Rather see the truth within and open a well-spring of infinite love in your own heart. For you are the hero of your life. First, we slay the dragons of fear and aggression. Gently and resolute, break them apart and extend kindness to all as to yourself. To accept the miracle of pure awareness – patient, diligent, with unwavering compassion, draw out the dart of sorrow and know the gift of love. A Sati Saraniya Sunday talk, Oct. 15, 2017.

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                        <![CDATA[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 power. Sustain pure awareness – and true happiness, peace, and freedom await us. It is the weapon of nobility – nothing less than unconditional love. A Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community retreat talk, Nov. 8, 2024

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                        <![CDATA[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 of 'self' dissolve in the silence of pure awareness. This is true refuge – here and now. All else withers in the furnace of eternity.  Sunday reflections, Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Nov, 17, 2024

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                        <![CDATA[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, navigate the way to true peace, unconditional love, and compassion. Morning reflections at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Aug 7, 2024

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                        <![CDATA[On this path of awakening into the vast frontier of the mind, we discover the treasure of our inheritance from the Buddha, directing ourselves with the compass of compassionate wisdom. This journey 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 powerful antidotes to pain and fear. What we most valued pales when compared to the joys of pure awareness, and of knowing and sharing the true gifts of our humanity.  Ottawa Buddhist Society, Arnprior Retreat, Nov. 18, 2022

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                        <![CDATA[Harmlessness is a gift to ourselves and to others. The child of courage and the mother of true peace, it relies on core practices of virtue and  nonviolence. To abandon anger and its retinue of hatred, ill-will, fear and blame is to protect ourselves and all beings in this world. We walk the moral high ground of forgiveness, tolerance, loving-kindness and compassion. These shall serve as the bedrock of our inner disarmament. A talk at the 10th Global Conference on Buddhism, Neuroscience, and Mental Health, Toronto 2017.

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                        <![CDATA[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 reality of what we are – unconditional love. Sati Saraniya Sunday talk, Sept 1, 2024

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                        <![CDATA[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 human kindness. Morning reflections at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Sept. 20, 2024

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                        <![CDATA[Whether we live as laity or in a monastery, there is a sacred path open for all to explore. Yet few would brave its fierce tests. How we train and incline the mind will naturally determine our spiritual growth. So the Buddha encouraged us to go to the forest, to seek seclusion from devices, worldly concerns and attachments. These cannot rescue us from mental sufferings; nor from ageing, disease or dying. . . because it’s about pure love – an unearthly love that never dies – and the gift of true safety, peace, and transcendent awareness of our true nature. As this knowing dawns in the heart, we are freed from every kind of suffering. No riches, no power, nothing in this wide universe can offer such blessings. Ottawa Buddhist Society, May 2017

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                        <![CDATA[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 the 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 harmlessness. We find safety in authentic refuge. Guided by benevolent compassion and wise reflection, we steer the heart to liberation in Unconditional Love.  A talk given at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, June 30, 2024

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                        <![CDATA[We are on a miraculous voyage in the fragile vessel of a body that ultimately dies. This is the Noble Truth of our suffering. To unravel its mystery and rescue ourselves, we must navigate the inner sea of the heart. We explore how in the world of objects, devices, ideas and experiences – whether exotic or excruciating, we are bound up with joy, fear or any point between. But there is a freedom from this cycle and it comes when we brave the great quiet of that vast interior universe. Blessed is the silence that opens our eyes to the Deathless, the Truth of what we are. A talk for the Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC), Sept, 2010

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                        <![CDATA[How can we rescue ourselves from the obstacles to our happiness? We must not disregard the power of awareness in the present moment to vanquish suffering. For in this very moment is everything we need to know. All moments, whether tainted or blessed, are conditioned by their predecessor. Without care and discernment, vigilance and integrity, we could easily fall into states of decline. Ill-will begets enmity, while joy begets ease and serenity, and each moment is the mother of the next. So too, stepping into the joys of life as it unfolds, we live by the best qualities we can reap. One bare insight into truth and we open the gates to the Deathless. Morning Reflections at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Sept. 2024

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                        <![CDATA[We are on a mountain with a tremendous view. Let the breath speak to us. Stay present and watch both the joy and the suffering.  We investigate wisely and patiently like a parent whose child may object or run away. Trying to see the breath clearly, our mindfulness is like the sunlight on a flower. Attentive, receptive, timeless, and still, we gently soften and mellow – just knowing, observing, and selflessly aware of pure presence. To trust the breath is to let go moment by moment, discovering its hidden truths – and our true home here and now. Guided meditation and reflections, Heart of Wisdom retreat, Insight Meditation Society, Mass. USA, April, 2019.

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                        <![CDATA[What else is there to do in this life but know the truth of what we are and deepen in wisdom and compassion. Our spiritual map leads us out of the darkness to a purity and clarity of understanding. Here we are, secure in the raft of the heart, braving the tempestuous currents of the world. Yet we are forever tuned to awareness of our true nature. We carefully examine our attachments and let go, guided to freedom from the poisons and dangers of the world. At last, we shall know the irreversible and liberating joys of the Way. A talk for the Ottawa Buddhist Society, July, 2010



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                        <![CDATA[Listen to the interior silence with audacious selfless attention and see how pure awareness catapults us into a dynamic intuitive presence. We connect to the Dhamma without obstructions. Silence is formless, soundless, complete. We are witness to an emptiness beyond attachment where the burdens of identification have no footing. There is no 'one' to be in that – for when the intellect bows in faith to the heart, we abide in the loving presence of what is here and now. Ahh! But can we sustain it? Breakfast Reflections at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Aug. 28, 2024

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                        <![CDATA[The Buddha realized a state of pure awakened consciousness. We try to emulate his moral excellence by turning inward to bring the mind to silence. We relinquish habitual unwholesome and harmful thoughts, and reveal the same universal moral essence within us – just as in all beings. We know the Noble Truths of how and why we suffer and forge a pathway to the heart’s freedom. For when loving-kindness and compassion preside, the gates to the Deathless are opened. Sunday talk, Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Nov. 2023

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                        <![CDATA[Joy can come with wise reflection and a pepper of difference. I learned this standing in town with my alms bowl as a mendicant nun one morning.  Living for the sake of what is highest within us, we can each know the beauty, brilliance, and brightness of that joy and see how to nurture loving kindness and presence of mind. We learn to understand our predicament and forgive the brokenness and estrangements we have endured. We stand compassionate inwardly and to all, trusting our noble Dhamma inheritance to awaken in this very life. A talk at the Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community, 2018.

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                        <![CDATA[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; and 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, to godness itself. We are that. Reflections at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, June 2024

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                        <![CDATA[Meditation is a renewable resource. “Why do we have to be human? O not because happiness exists – but because being in this Dharma realm means so much.” Our spiritual work reveals how we must hold the mind – as refuge, safety, and protection from harm. This is the basis for true happiness. We pay attention to what is impermanent and thereby discover deeper treasure – knowing Reality, the truest renewable resource. With the ego disabled from ruling consciousness, we transcend beyond the bonds and blindness of our human existence. A retreat talk, The Dharma Centre, Kinmount, 2009.

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                        <![CDATA[To bring the mind to peace, we must learn about all that makes it unpeaceful, unquiet. We learn how to guide ourselves to abide in wholesome states of mind, how to prevent dark and unskilfull states from arising and how to deal with them if they do. Follow virtue. Stay close to spiritual friends, and take refuge in the wisdom of the Buddha and our own potential to cultivate and develop this Noble Eightfold path. Practise gratitude, generosity, and kindness. Wake up. Love wisdom more than life. A talk given during a 7 day SIMT retreat, Chapin Mill, Batavia, NY 2016.


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                        <![CDATA[All conditions of this world have the nature to change: the earth, weather, governments, work, health, leisure, family, friendships and so forth. We observe these variations and consider the most critical change of all. It promises the greatest blessing – but first we must plow the interior field of goodness that yields our heart's deliverance. Faithfully, patiently, as we clear away the dust in the mind, the hindrances of greed, ill-will, fear and delusion fall away, and we abide in the clarity, serenity, and joy of the Dhamma. A retreat talk given at Spirit Rock, June 2013. 

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                        <![CDATA[Strong in restraint, courageous in wisdom, we use our Dhamma 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 resounds in the galaxies. Keenly aware, supremely blessed, we rejoice in the totality of unbounded compassion. Ottawa Buddhist Society, Oct 2022

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                        <![CDATA[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 blameless joy and wise insight, we lighten our burden. We are cultivating the garden of the mind. A talk given for the Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC), May 2024

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                    <title>Soft Landing &#8211; Reflections and Guided Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[When we meditate, we are alone and yet with all the world. Thoughts intrude from all sides. But we remain secluded within, protected, serene. Gently we open the door to the heart with unassailable trust. We bend and bow silently, observing the breath with an empty mind. Then what’s the result of that? Giving our full attention to this moment, we are absolutely present, feeling every nuance of the ground beneath us or the pressure of each breath. Mindfulness deepens our awareness. Now we truly know the boundless peace of the mind's radiance. Reflections and guided meditation, SIMT Nov 2021

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                        <![CDATA[Compassion is a sublime, healing quality that restores us to goodwill, integrity, wisdom and equanimity. Not only do we repair the harm that we have caused, but we turn the wheel of Dhamma in this world. This can also serve as a catalyst for others to wake up from their misguided ways of living. We bear compassion for harm caused and we sow seeds of reconciliation even in the blindest or most cruel of beings, for "hatred is never resolved through hatred, but through love alone." An OBS talk, Oct. 1, 2021

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                        <![CDATA[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 kindness and compassion prevail, the heart knows unshakeable peace. A Sunday afternoon talk at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, May 12, 2024

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                        <![CDATA[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 warmth to all beings, the awakened mind does not differentiate. It does not choose one over another. It just gives light. A talk for the Ottawa Buddhist Society, April 5, 2024

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                        <![CDATA[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 pure awareness and unconditional love – like the sun freed from the shadow of the moon. A Sunday afternoon talk at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, April 21, 2024

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                        <![CDATA[Impermanence stares us in the face. How then can we free ourselves to understand the raw truth of what we are? There is a sorrowless state, a way out of the pains of life where we can abide in blameless happiness and inviolable peace. It may appear elusive and out of reach. Yet we need only incline our minds faithfully to giving up all that is false, divisive, fearful or fragile. We begin to know the joy that subdues all sorrow. One taste of that and we are on the Path, sheltered in the unsurpassed protection of the Dhamma. A talk for the Ottawa Buddhist Society, Nov. 5, 2021

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                        <![CDATA[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 the dimension of transcendence that uplifts us 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. Reflections and Guided Meditation, Ottawa Buddhist Society, Oct. 21, 2022

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                        <![CDATA[Peace, patience, and practice ripen with the quality of faith. We trust the teacher on a path distinguished by compassion and a diet for awakening the heart. “All suffering arises when we think about our own happiness. And all happiness arises when we think about the well-being of others.” So we forsake harm to free ourselves from selfishness. Learning to understand and know our true nature, we sow the seeds of unconditional compassion and peace. This is the highest blessing.  A talk for the Ottawa Buddhist Society, April 2021

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                        <![CDATA[As seekers of truth, we turn the wheel of Dhamma inwardly. There alone can we understand the mind’s purity and directly know the true rhythm of the heart, undiluted by worldly refrains. The sounds of the world can turn coarse and invasive until we listen to the silence in our interior depths. Secluded from life's relentless currents, we traverse the ‘cloud of unknowing’ with the riches of our virtue. Then we shall discover and gain strength enough to fulfill the way of the Buddha – our transcendent going forth through the gates of the Deathless.  A Dhamma talk and guided meditation, Ottawa Buddhist Society, April 2021

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                        <![CDATA[As the witness of suffering, we gain new eyes to see. A doorway to knowing non-duality opens – there is no 'you', no 'me'. We are in the realm of no separation in one moment – gone beyond opinions, beyond wanting, beyond our pains and brokenness, and our enslavement to all that drives us. Can we see them as empty and powerless apart from the power we give them? Emptying the mind's rubbish each day, every moment that we can – enough to see, to intuitively know unconditional love – we ascend the Everest within to behold the jewel of the heart’s Himalaya.

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                        <![CDATA[Too long we have been caught in the grip of anxiety, anger, and clinging that lead nowhere. But there is an oasis in the depths of our native humanity. To understand what is true, we must empty all that is untrue. This is ultimate care of the mind: disentangling the knots in the heart that obstruct the moral-ethical fabric of our true nature. So we set our inner compass beyond all these blinding mental habits to witness that inner radiance. In the mirror of pure emptiness we reflect that silent knowing the truth of what we are. A talk at Portland Friends of the Dhamma, January 2024

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                        <![CDATA[Fire is our teacher – the fire of pain, the fire of persevering through difficulty and the fire of going beyond what we think we are capable of. For we are greater that we know and our journey is one of learning to trust what is right and true. When the heart’s compassion, wisdom, and generosity mature, there is no space for fear. All the dross of the world melts away in the silence of pure presence. Here is the absolute sanctity of awareness, unencumbered and joyous in the knowledge of pure love itself.

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                        <![CDATA[The winds of change blow constantly. We seek shelter, gazing attentive and unobstructed into the mind – aware, in pure presence each moment. We sit, warming the heart and our precepts with gratitude. Stopping in this way, letting be, we truly see. In loving care of the mind, not harming ourselves or any living being, uplifted, we realize our true nature. This is supreme refuge. The Dhamma is there to be fully known. Clear, empty, joyful, open – we prepare to receive it.  Guided Reflections, Portland Friends of the Dhamma, Jan. 2024

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                        <![CDATA[When universal love leading to liberation of the heart is ardently developed, unrelentingly resorted to, it brings great joy to our life. We inherit a super vehicle from the Buddha, the sublime abiding of mettā, loving kindness. This is our shelter from unwholesome states – the antidote and true salve for harmful habits of mind. More and more, the practice of forgiveness and compassion vanquish hateful feelings and uproot the poisons of the mind. We awaken to the wondrous blessings of loving kindness, and we plant seeds of our spiritual healing, peace and incomparable happiness. Insight Meditation Society Retreat, MA., USA, 2016

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                    <title>We Are That Song, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[Our suffering may feel too great or the mountain may look too high. But we are resilient and we have it in us to do this work, to walk this path – if we can give up thoughts of self-cherishing and feel compassion for ourselves and for all beings. The fruit of this work is a treasure to be gained even in the smallest instant of awareness. With radical patience, just make peace with one moment of painful feeling. Then offer up the pain or misery. From the ashes of suffering, we turn inward to the clarity of the mind. Stay fully present in awareness, listening to that silence. Such a song comes – the pure sound of this awareness. That's what we are. We are that song. Ottawa Buddhist Society Retreat, Pembroke 2009

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                        <![CDATA[By deeply examining the mind as the Buddha taught, we see our stark human predicament, why we suffer, and the real source of happiness. For he awakened to suffering’s end and the noble path to freedom. With immense gratitude for his teaching, we learn how we are caught grasping the world, compelled by its impingement and tormented ever after. We realize the ineffable vanquishing of that disease – when we stop giving vent to the wanting mind and live each moment from a pure compassionate and wise awareness. And so, quite apart from the world, we directly know here and now, within our own heart – the truest joy, the supreme peace of Nibbana.

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                        <![CDATA[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 Buddha guide us to know our true nature? Giving up all self-preoccupation for unconditional love, we know the heart’s true freedom. A talk given at the OBS Arnprior Retreat, Nov. 18th, 2022

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                        <![CDATA[Contentment and generosity nurture a quality of metta that is kind through and through. We learn to respond to life like the good earth that is ever patient with and tolerant of our heedlessness. Whatever you throw on it – even if it’s harmful – the earth receives that. Generating such a depth of goodwill, we endure through hardships with contentment even if we’re struggling. And, with a generosity of harmlessness, we weave great compassion and benevolence to ourselves as well as to others. Such measureless kindness never dies. It is our true wealth and the bedrock of our path to liberation. A talk given to the Portland Friends of the Dhamma, January, 2024.

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                        <![CDATA[What does it mean to be noble? As a daughter of the Buddha, I learn that no name, title, degree or pedigree can confer true wisdom, authority or respect; nor do opinion, tradition or entitlement bestow them – for as the Buddha wisely teaches, “One does not become noble by birth. It is by one's deeds that one attains to nobility.”  Just so, the riches of our human journey are revealed in the fire of inner purification. Therein we find our true name. It is nothing less than the pure presence behind every name – the emptiness in which all personal identity dissolves. And where only unconditional love abides.

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                        <![CDATA[Stay true to seeing with wisdom and be compassionate to yourself – then, gradually to all beings. Preserve, treasure, grow and rejoice in the moral fabric of your true nature and know its incomparable radiant light. But first, we must have complete trust in the Buddha as our guide. Then we set our compass to the heart's journey of transcendence on the Noble Eightfold Path. Reflecting on the benevolence of the Buddha's awakening, we walk in gratitude, courage, joy and empowerment. Portland Friends of the Dhamma, US, Jan. 2024

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                        <![CDATA[The Buddha gives us a flawless positioning system that will guide us to the coordinates of Truth. That ultimate refuge and peace is not to be known anywhere but in the sanctuary of our own heart. To find our spiritual bearings, we explore our true nature and the real origin of our sufferings. Step by step, our wise friends and daily practice of virtue, mindfulness, heroic forbearance, and faith will reinforce and steady us as we navigate the tempests of life. But this is a journey of great joys as well as trials. Like the hollow reed that becomes a flute, we empty ourselves of fear to be the true love we seek. A talk given at the Insight Meditation Society monastic retreat, Ma. USA, May 11, 2013

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                        <![CDATA[Though we may feel lost in the world, on the path of purification we find secure refuge and blessings shower down upon us. It is by the power of our own mind that we bring forth what is resplendent in this world. We use suffering as our teacher and live in forgiveness, gratitude, and clear seeing – grounded in the treasures of Truth. Doesn't the ocean care for each wave until it reaches the farther shore? Just so, we entrust our aspiration to liberate the heart in the care and protection of the Dhamma. An Ottawa Buddhist Society talk, Dec. 17, 2021

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                    <title>Give Peace a Chance &#8211; Meditation Reflections, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[With selfless awareness, we radiate good-will, that quality of loving-kindness, inwardly and to all beings, even to those who are indifferent or hostile, or to those who cause harm. This is the Buddha's instruction to us in the Metta Sutta. Can we unequivocally wish all beings freedom from harm? Can we forgive enough to convert thoughts of fear, anger or enmity into benevolence? It takes courage to enter a dark space without a light. So we try as much as we can because unconditional compassion and kindness in this world give peace, healing and reconciliation a chance. Guided reflections for the Ottawa Buddhist Society, Nov. 18, 2023

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                        <![CDATA[Across millenia, the Buddha speaks of his awakening – teaching us how to take refuge, how to be fearless, how to walk the Middle Way, how to understand suffering, and how to know what to trust. Fear is the opposite of trust. So be willing to relinquish concepts and questions and let yourself live into the answers day by day where fear can end – there in the pure sanctuary of the heart. For this, we learn to have compassion even for those who harm us. But we must give up what is not trustworthy. With courage, compassion, and clear awareness of what we face now, stay quietly present and listen carefully. The truth will speak, and we shall understand.  A talk at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, December, 2023.

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                        <![CDATA[Let us not serve the false, fierce tyranny of fear – withering, unworthy, not to be clung to, and not who we are. By emptying the mind of fearful thoughts, we stop clinging to anything of the world – one moment at a time. Tasting the joy of true freedom, we enter that dimension of transcendence, beyond the prison of grasping a self and all its adornments. For there is no 'one' to be afraid, no ‘one’ who dies, and no ‘one’ to awaken. But there is waking up as we let go into the peace of selfless awareness. A talk with the Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community, Dec. 17, 2023

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                    <title>The Face of Holiness, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[Through the lens of Truth, mindful and attentive, we pierce anger, sorrow, fear and complacency. We are on the cusp of realizing who we are. Clear present awareness leads us inwards. We are on track to let go, relinquish and abandon all that is harmful. Discarding ancient beliefs one after another with microscopic insight, we empty out the rubbish from the mind. Radical awareness directly knows the impersonal, imperfect and empty nature of all that we experience. Now we see the face of holiness. Giving our hearts to truth, we are set free. A talk at IMS retreat, Barre, MA., USA, April. 2019.

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                        <![CDATA[When the inner fires flare, stay in your lane – aware, present and know – even if you are on fire, you can still the inner turbulence and sustain peace. Resist wandering to the past or future; resist the viruses of the mind’s obsessions. On the magnanimous wave of Dhamma, let go fear and control. Wise, patient, and pure-hearted, sit fearless in the truth of this moment, and right there, at the very core of the raging storm – watch it die. When the chains of life unravel and the bonds of wanting gently fall away, you enter the chrysalis. It’s a prayer, a holiness, the heart’s peace – indeed, the way from sacrifice to sanctity. At a week-long SIMT retreat, Batavia, NY, USA. Aug. 24, 2021

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                        <![CDATA[We are searching for the Unconditioned and the way to fulfill our highest potential as spiritual beings. Our journey of awakening simulates the monarch butterfly's miraculous flight. Freed from its chrysalis, it emerges whole and ready to traverse unimaginable distances. Just so, the liberated mind is freed from the mire of delusion to transcend the imperfections of this realm. It flies beyond ignorance to touch the Dhamma and know the fullness of our humanity. Given at a Satipaññā Toronto retreat, Aug. 24, 2021

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                        <![CDATA[The core teachings of the Buddha offer us a ready escape from the hells of hatred and hostility. Though the heart is perturbed, we reach deeply into our core to connect to that aquifer of Dhamma within us, calming the mind again and again. This fibre of peace is more than an intention. Its energy sets in motion the wheel of Truth that stirs us to forgiveness, restores us to kindness, and compels in us a breadth of compassion for all beings and all conditions. At last, even in the face of vitriolic treatment, wisdom and peace shall prevail. We are in the shelter of the Sacred. A talk given at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, November 2023

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                        <![CDATA[Nature is begging us to wake up especially when we find ourselves at the mercy of fear arising like a ghost in the dead of night. What will protect us from these intruders? At the moment of ambush, can we see their true qualities in the light of suffering and its cause? Know that truth of suffering, its cause, its cure and the truest way of healing to break out of the prison of delusion. Now enter the measureless liberation of mind. A Satipaññā Insight Meditation retreat talk at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, July 2016.

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                        <![CDATA[What can protect us from the repercussions of negative and unwholesome mind states? Begin the journey, the archeology of our own heart. It’s a total cleansing. Like a mountain climber, we ascend the interior slopes and our burden lightens. We clear it out moment by moment. Whatever misfortunes come, letting go, we wean ourselves away from the quicksand of habit. We grow fearless, students of life, learning to bow and bring forth these gifts, like diamonds from coal in the quiet eternity within us. Therein, we hear the timeless hymn of unspoken love. At Sati Saraniya Hermitage, May, 2017

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                        <![CDATA[Patience is love, a faith both fearless and true. How can we know and embody that? How can we value each moment and care for it, patiently turning the mind away from the world to the peace within us – to that raw dimension of a subtle and stunning silence? The less we cling, the deeper we enter it. Emboldened by formidable spiritual tests, as we abandon and purify the mind, the Path unfolds beneath our feet.  With joy, wisdom, and gratitude, we persevere to the heart’s freedom – the Deathless.  Sati Saraniya Hermitage 'Ask Ayya' reflections, Nov. 30, 2021

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                        <![CDATA[Can we face what we most fear and touch the well-spring of goodness, kindness and compassion within us? The first step towards Truth is taking responsibility for our own actions, intentions, and their consequences. Denial and distraction only numb us to what is painful to remember let alone face up to. But the Truth will always emerge. There is no running away from it. So we acknowledge our unskillful acts and open the door to forgiveness and reconciliation. One glimpse into the true marrow of our being reveals the urgency of repairing harm and the healing power of forgiveness. A talk given at the Ottawa Buddhist Society, 2017.


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                        <![CDATA[The Buddha said it simply. The awakened mind is the best solution. The mind-heart needs happiness to be well and to extend that well-being to others. So we tune inward, listen, meditate and resolve the dis-ease. We teach ourselves to be resilient, joyful and discerning rather than feeding on delusion and misery. When the loss is too great or madness reigns everywhere, we pour benevolent ingredients into awareness itself, patiently practising this way. Then we radiate true compassion, true forgiveness and true peace in all directions. A Sunday talk given at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, October 2023.

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                        <![CDATA[We carry the seed of awakening. And yet we are so blind. Can we learn to see through the clouds of delusion, greed and hatefulness? Do we have the resolve and patience to begin and the humility and forgiveness to persevere in hard times? Vigilant in ethical practice, unremitting mindfulness, inner stillness, and sharp discernment, we purify the mind. Not only that – joyous and aware, we radiate a fearless unequivocal compassion. When the sun rises, darkness disappears. Just so, we emerge from our blindness, at peace with all conditions. Given at a ten day Ottawa Buddhist Society retreat at St. Joseph's Convent, Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, 2009.

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                        <![CDATA[How long must we wander misguided in life? To courageously seek Truth, extract all impurity from the mind under the scrutiny of the Wisdom Eye – silent, watchful, fully aware, and dedicated to inner purification. See what fills the space of the mind, what percolates within and how we fuel it. Gradually, we will triumph over the sway of delusion and habitual distractions that betray the mind again and again. We’ll take our rightful seat, empty and poised on the throne of present moment awareness. In the safety of true refuge, there’s no going, and no one who goes. When the mind sees itself, there's just pure knowing, awake to its innermost sanctity. A talk given at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, August 18, 2019

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                        <![CDATA[Not-clinging spreads very fast, very far. Its fuel power is letting go attachment to ‘self’; to selfishness and the inversion of the mind into a cocoon of self-concern – which is spiritual death. There’s no truth in that. Aren’t we all drowning –  metaphorically? Not thinking of ourselves, the moment we jump into the river to rescue someone, we begin to wake up. Who can do that? We must help each other. But first we practice and gain strength to traverse the rapids and the mire of this conflicted, misguided world. Destination – directly knowing what we truly are – and are not. A retreat talk with the SIMT community, Chapin Mill, Batavia, USA, Aug. 28, 2021

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                        <![CDATA[Where is safety in a world burning with greed, hatred, fear and violence? It is within us. Under the protective canopy of Dhamma, with unshakeable faith in the Buddha's awakening, we purify the heart – emulating his tactical strategies for training the mind to abandon unskillful physical and mental habits. We look for 'nothing' apart from how to wisely observe and truly see with penetrating discernment, and how to let go the delusion of self-identity. Secluded from the world, awareness knows imperturbable peace. This is the path of selflessness, of generosity, of great compassion, of harmlessness. A seven day Satipaññā Insight (SIMT) retreat talk at Chapin Mill, Batavia, NY, 2016.

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                        <![CDATA[Can we quieten the mind enough to hear that divine frequency of the heart’s innermost chamber? Into that stillness, we come, softly, humbly – to try – and we persevere, secluded from the noise of the world. As the fevers of wanting are purified, we devote our attention to the serene sound of silence, sublime and joyous. We are bathed as if by a holy baptism, eager to receive the gifts of the true Dhamma. So we practise, patient with our own work and patient with all the world. Meditation reflections at the SIMT Toronto Retreat, Chapin Mill, Batavia, USA in June, 2023

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                        <![CDATA[Deep in the space of our hearts there is a sanctity unreachable by any vehicle other than wisdom. We travel there silently to explore the galaxies that lie within us. Until we try, we can’t know the wonders of that dimension. Yet we touch this sanctity by parenting the mind with pure intention, humility, uncompromising awareness and trust. The mind gains balance and poise on the Middle Way enough to pierce the veil of delusion. We dive beyond the turbulence of panic and fear to a vast stillness, free and at peace. How long have we ignored this possibility – so priceless, and yet, costing absolutely everything? A guided meditation, SIMT retreat, Aug. 24, 2021

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                        <![CDATA[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, we taste the mountain. A talk at the Ottawa Buddhist Society Day of Mindfulness, Dec. 17, 2022.

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                        <![CDATA[We underestimate the power of renunciation to gain our true spiritual inheritance from the Buddha. These deeper levels of practice require not a formulaic approach but faith enough to let go the clinging that perpetuates an endless cycle of loss and suffering. On this sacred way of freedom, we walk the razor’s edge to ascend the Everest of the heart. This is no small task for a human being. But we push on with clarity, courage and insight. Holding the chalice of sanctity, we come face to face with the law of impermanence, the jewel of awakened wisdom, and the immeasurable peace of all that is pure and beautiful and true.  Given at a 10 day retreat, New Zealand, Dec. 2005.

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                        <![CDATA[We wish for perfect conditions in life. But true perfection only arises within the awakened mind. So we are like mendicants of the present moment – not able to control or know what lies ahead. Let us not lose heart. In truth, this Middle Way of awareness has great fruit and great benefit, and we can walk it – even in this digitally driven era. Being patient, brave, and staying true to the wisest course, we gain strength and skill at each step. It may feel like balancing on a tightrope of fire. But with unflagging resolve and care, we burn out delusion. And that will be the fire of our illumination. A Sunday talk at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Aug. 20, 2023.

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                    <title>I Just Wanted Some Toothpaste, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[The way out of pain is not in sense pleasure. But suffering can be a ticket to Nibbana – maybe not the one we asked for, but it's in our hands. So we try. Taste the moment just as it is. Choose love when there is every reason to hate. Trust when there is every reason to despair. Be patient when anger is burning within. Faced with terror or far from peace, let go. Being still in the very midst of fear, we can know non-fear. All is fleeting, not what we are, and nothing to hold onto. There, in the silent flow of the breath, the heart will soften in a tender wave of unconditional love. A talk given on a 10 day Retreat, Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand, 2003.

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                        <![CDATA[In a psychic feat for his sister, Sundari Nanda, the Buddha creates a vision of a beautiful lady who transforms into an old woman. Through this direct experience of impermanence, her mind is liberated. Likewise, those who rightly love wisdom and contemplate death without fear see the emptiness and impermanence of all conditioned things. Realizing the futility of all clinging and the inevitability of death, our wisdom and faith in the Dhamma ripen and reveal the doors to the Deathless. This is the path of awakening. A 10-day retreat talk at Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand, 2003.

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                        <![CDATA[The sublime attitudes of loving kindness, compassion, joyous empathy, and serene composure create for us a path, a moral training to guide us not to ransom our goodness or our intrinsic values for the fleeting joys of worldly gratification. As we purify the heart, we hasten our escape from the cyclic rounds of rebirth. So let us be heroic in the good. What we never thought was possible is truly within reach – purest gold, that higher knowledge, the jewel of the Dhamma within you. Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community, June 2021.

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                        <![CDATA[The Dhamma is deep, subtle yet powerful enough to teach us how to stop, how to listen, how to see the truth of things. For what we thought we knew, we may have not really understood. So how can we transcend our social, cultural, psychological, and environmental conditioning? By uprooting greed, ill-will, and ignorance, the mind sees the truth of impermanence, suffering and emptiness. Like silent thunder, it grows pure, fearless, awake, and free. Bow Valley Sangha, Canmore, Alberta, June 3, 2014.

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                        <![CDATA[Let us truly live with compassion enough to care. And share that beautiful mind energy with a depth of awareness and attention to each moment. Keeping far from the noise of the world, every breath, every new moment will arise in a field of compassion and condition the next moment after it, the next breath, with kindness and presence of mind. Just so, we learn the art of loving all that we are and the path's unfoldings that free us from fear. Reflections on meditation given at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Jan 4, 2022.

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                        <![CDATA[Right mindfulness developed with meticulous appreciative attention on the breath enables us to tame the wilderness of the mind. If we are careening off course – just when the canoe starts to tip – we notice and immediately rebalance, regaining awareness and sustaining it as best we can. We continue to polish the mirror of the mind each moment, discovering the joy of seeing its true nature: impermanent, imperfect and empty. With nothing to hold onto in the world, we are free to enter the shrine of Truth. Reflections at the 'Waking Up to the Peace in Our Hearts'  IMS retreat, Barre, MA. USA in May 4, 2013.

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                        <![CDATA[What do we fear the most? Love, unconditional love. Learning to see intuitively, we truly see. And when we have eyes to see, we are fearless. We may not feel fearless but we know how to face our fear – to know it as it truly is. That’s how we vanquish it – right there. Never give up a heart of love but give up fear of suffering. With faith in our deepest intention to free ourselves, courage rises up. We remember the pure love hidden behind the mask of fear. It is a harmlessness, a radiance, an inexhaustible peace. True disarmament is not in the world but in the heart. A talk given at a weeklong SIMT retreat, Chapin Mill, USA, 2018

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                        <![CDATA[The Buddha guides us on a way of benevolence, worthy of our praise, worthy of our attention, 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.  A talk give at the Ottawa Buddhist Society Retreat, Arnprior, Nov. 2022.

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                        <![CDATA[The spiritual path may be exceedingly long and demands nothing less than the most supreme culminating effort. But our patience and faith are radical.  In every moment of pure attention, insight into impermanence and awareness of Truth shatter our delusion. Though monstrous dangers and fears assail us, we sever the shackles of worldly views and attachments with the sword of wisdom – courageous to the last frontier of illumination, Nibbana itself.  Reflections given for OBS, May 19, 2023

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                        <![CDATA[To harvest the real riches of the journey, seek refuge and protection in wisdom; and gain profound peace and happiness through the practice of loving-kindness, compassion and forgiveness. These qualities of reconciliation uphold virtue, concord, care and respect so that we can befriend what is noble and realize the truth for ourselves. Even in the darkest hour, remember what you love, awaken the highest from within you, and light the path to freedom. A talk given during the Holistic Awareness monastic retreat, Spirit Rock, USA in June, 2013.

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                        <![CDATA[Remember compassion like the Buddha’s. Remember courage like the Buddha’s – a mind strong, centered, wise and welcoming; spacious, supple and open. We look within and wake up to that seed of awakening.  Standing for truth instead of delusion and weakness, even if what we have is not enough – we make it enough. Even from a tiny seed of awakening, plant it in the soil of contentment. Watch it grow into a tall, magnificent refuge in Truth that is not conceptual but is realized intuitively. You are here in the moment like never before. A talk at Sati Saraniya Hermitage,  May 24. 2023

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                        <![CDATA[When a river flows into the sea it acquires one taste, the taste of salt. As our meditation deepens, regardless of age, health, race, gender, culture or social status, delving into the mind, we discover one taste, that is the taste of truth. The world is full of suffering, not what we want it to be. And on the street where you live is your monastery, your garden, the thorns and the flowers, the compost and the field of cultivation – from feeling hopeless despair to the dawning moment when you understand the origin of suffering and the way to the Deathless. Letting go in the very marrow of the moment, spread peace and compassion in all directions – on the street where you live. Given at a 10 day retreat, Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand, 2005.

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                        <![CDATA[We sit at the edge of the heart peering in, tangled by clinging, inflated and inflamed by worldly ways. Yet we long to know the truth of what we are. For that we must explore the inner core. This is a letting go both magnificent and excruciating. So how can we bear it? Burn up all that you think you know to discover that which cannot be burned. It's a corelessness – the pure, unfathomable truth. Trust and see through to the emptiness of 'I' – there is no me and nothing to cling to. That knowledge and vision will set us free.  A morning reflection at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, October, 2018

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                        <![CDATA[We are here to learn to see, to dispel all ignorance with intuitive wisdom. When I walk on alms round, even if nothing is given, I see that my life is like an alms bowl. It is both full and empty – full of emptiness, like all conditioned things. They have no choice but to arise and pass away. Seeing this, I can stand for truth in the present moment and not be diminished by the sufferings of this life. The flame of truth in the mind will not go out – and that will be our rescue.  A talk given at the Ottawa Buddhist Society Friday evening, Dec. 16, 2022.

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                        <![CDATA[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. Trust. One day we will find gold. A talk for the Ottawa Buddhist Society, Dec. 16 , 2022.

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                        <![CDATA[There is no final cure for the body, but the mind can be freed. No matter how much craving, anger, sorrow, fear or obsessive negative thoughts keep storming the mind, don’t let discouragement become another hindrance. Every new moment is a chance to see these hindrances for what they are with pure awareness itself. Patient, courageous and wise, we are ready to receive the gift of ‘bread’ and to win back the boundaries of our hearts. A talk given during a Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto (SIMT) week's retreat at Chapin Mill, Batavia, NY, USA, in 2014.


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                        <![CDATA[On the path to freedom, every moment in every life situation is an opportunity for training the mind.  We plant seeds of virtue, watering them with renunciation, respect, contentment, generosity and valiant effort. We clear the cobwebs of lifetimes from the mind with wisdom and mindfulness guarding us from the eight worldly winds, while forgiveness, love and compassion hasten the heart's awakening to Nibbana.  A talk given during a one week Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto retreat at Chapin Mill Zen retreat Centre, Batavia, NY, USA, Aug. 2014.


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                        <![CDATA[On a wilderness trail, at times the path is clear, at times not. We get lost, confused, and disheartened. Tested again and again, we gain strength, skill, and clarity, and we learn to see what we could not see at first. The spiritual way is not a trail under our feet but a daunting passage of the heart. Once our view is purified, we know there is no going back. Persevering with humility and trust, we navigate across the depths of our pain and brokenness. We break free.  A Friday evening talk given at the Ottawa Buddhist Society, Dec. 2020.

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                        <![CDATA[Where is safety in this world? As the Buddha taught: “Not apart from awakening and austerity, not apart from sense restraint, not apart from relinquishing everything do I see any safety for any living being”. So with unshakeable faith, not faltering in the face of difficulty or pain, we nurture heroic patience and compassion. Wisely probing and seeing the Noble Truths of suffering, its cause, its ending, and the way beyond suffering, we hasten to follow the Noble Eightfold Path into the stream and across – to our freedom. An online talk given to the Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC), December 2022.

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                        <![CDATA[Our most valued renewable resource is the heart, the seat of awareness and our true refuge in what is worthy of refuge – the ancient virtue of the noble ones. Breath by breath, we embody pure presence, wisely seeing how suffering arises and understanding the Noble Truth of how it ends. With courage enough to face our fear, we cut the currents of negativity and we stop feeding them. This is our path to the ending of pain – the heart’s total release. A talk given for the Ottawa Buddhist Society 10 day retreat, Sisters of St. Joseph Convent, Pembroke, 2008.

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                        <![CDATA[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. A guided meditation online with Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto (SIMT) 2022

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                        <![CDATA[The Eightfold Noble Path is the Buddha's map to freedom. His directions how to proceed are precise, rigorous and breathtaking – the better for our faith and diligence. Though we may falter or feel unworthy, we discard delusion of a self – the better for purifying our hearts. Wise, sure-footed and joyous, we open the gates to the Deathless. A talk given at Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto 2011


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                        <![CDATA[Can we resolutely walk the moral high road and discover Dhamma treasures in the fertile ground of the heart? Heroic good-will, 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. Talk #6 of 6, Portland Friends of the Dhamma, Dec. 31, 2022

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                        <![CDATA[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. Talk #5 of 6, Portland Friends of the Dhamma daylong retreat, Dec. 31, 2022.

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                        <![CDATA[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 ourselves and to all the world. Talk #4 of 6 - in response to five questions, Portland Friends of the Dhamma daylong retreat, Dec 31, 2022

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                    <title>I Will Not Be Scared, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[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 heart is free. A talk given at the Portland Friends of the Dhamma daylong retreat on New Year's eve, Dec. 2022.

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                        <![CDATA[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 heart.

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                        <![CDATA[What are we, and what are we doing on this planet? We easily get lost in the dream of the world. It is a very good time to wake up. Right here in your own heart is the greatest adventure possible. See the danger and look inwards into the centre of the storm for sanctuary. That is how we shall bring forth a wave of awakening in this world. A talk given at a joint Theravada Buddhist Community &amp; Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto retreat in 2016.

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                        <![CDATA[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 may hurt. But this is our journey. Trust that it will ripen into greater and greater wisdom. And in that unfolding, discover how, when things fall apart, incomparable peace and joy arise from the ashes. A talk at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, 2023.

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                        <![CDATA[Our greatest life journey takes us inward through the Dhamma MRI of mindful, radical investigation. At last, we learn to see clearly, with true discernment. We see the root causes of our suffering, disentangling the web of delusion and despair to take up our spiritual compass. As the heart opens, we teach ourselves to forgive, sure-footed and courageous, ascending to realize the heart’s true deliverance. A talk given during a Satipaññā Insight Meditation retreat at Chapin Mill Retreat Centre, Batavia, USA., 2014.

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                        <![CDATA[There is a fearlessness that we can know, where greed and anger are vanquished. It is a state of equanimity with whatever comes which no one else can pollute, disturb or destroy. There is nothing more difficult - or more noble - for a human being to realize than this indestructible peace of heart. So why would we want to dedicate ourselves to anything less than that? May we realize this precious truth for ourselves and preserve it for the benefit of all beings. A talk given at the Canmore Buddhist Community, June 2013.

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                        <![CDATA[Simplicity is not about wearing one colour, shaving your head or fasting but rather it's 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 time for what is precious. Simplicity reveals the silence and sameness of life that can help us discover the deepest truth of our conditionality and the way to free ourselves from it. That is our work. No one else can do it for us. A November talk at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, 2012.

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                        <![CDATA[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.  Morning reflections at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, 2022.

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                        <![CDATA[What is spiritual beauty? Kindness, forgiveness, unconditional love? Can we sustain a hallowed inner space that will not be degraded by unkind thoughts? When noble virtue protects the heart at its innermost core, we repair and train the mind to go beyond all brokenness. Relinquish the burden of endless struggle and free yourself with awakened wisdom and compassion. We are a pure clear vessel of unfathomable love. Given at an OBS Retreat, Pembroke, June 11, 2008

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                        <![CDATA[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. Buddhist Society of Victoria, Australia, Oct 23, 2005

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                        <![CDATA[Sometimes we feel torn apart by life and unable to cope. Healing may be slow to come but our meditation practice can enhance that process. If we contemplate the fearsome winds of life in such a way that we deeply understand their impermanent nature, we will also understand that they are unsatisfactory and empty of any 'self'. That will be the dawning of the heart's true peace. A talk given at a joint Theravada Buddhist Community / Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto event in 2018.



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                        <![CDATA[The Buddha offers us an extraordinary medicine – the medicine of Truth. No one can take it for us nor can we take it for anyone else. And we discover it through our own wisdom, love, and compassion. We are the surgeon and the Dhamma is our saving grace. Even in the midst of the raging fires of the world or the fires of greed, hatred and delusion within us, we gain a foothold to the heart's peace. A talk given at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, November 2016.

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                        <![CDATA[Are we able to sit with a quiet mind and know the fragrance of silence? All of us are familiar with the stressful impacts of relentless thought and reactivity on our well-being. The good news is that we can free ourselves from the inner floods and tempests by deepening our meditation practice and intuitive insight. As we hone these skills in conducive conditions, we prepare to test our spiritual mettle in the vicissitudes of everyday life. A talk given at a True North retreat, Padua Centre, Montreal, Quebec in 2008.

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                        <![CDATA[We may travel to the most beautiful setting, and yet if there is no silence on the inside, how can we find peace? But to empty and purify the mind, we enter a sacred space, and we taste only sacredness. We experience a dimension of being that is vast - without boundaries. Like pilgrims, we sit in awe at the wondrous quality of the silent heart. A talk given during a 10 day Ottawa Buddhist Society retreat at the Sisters of St. Joseph Convent, Pembroke, Ontario, Canada in 2009.

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                        <![CDATA[To vow for life: not to compromise our faith, our virtue, or our goodness – even in a moment of terror – is a powerful spiritual ally. Not cowering nor retaliating even in a hopeless-feeling-moment, we learn to stay present with compassion and kindness. As long as we remember to keep the practice alive within, we will have the stamina to grow in generosity, equanimity, and wisdom. So, at all times, make good-will the mantra of your heart. Insight Meditation Society, Massachu-setts, USA in 2019.


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                        <![CDATA[We all experience some pain, mental, physical or both.  And we work with pain both in the body and in the mind until it is exhausted.  This is how we care for the mind, healing its sickness and removing the sand that obstructs the spring of truth in our hearts. Then we can see clearly. We see what obstructs the Dhamma eye and we open our eyes to the truth of the Dhamma.  A talk given given during a Satipanna Insight Meditation Toronto (SIMT) Retreat, Chapin Mill, Batavia, N.Y in 2018.

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                        <![CDATA[Our mission is to find truth by turning inward to the space of the heart. We may think we know why we are here on this earth but we can only really know when we enter the sanctuary of this inner space and turn the world off. Then we will surely find the pearl of truth we long for. It is universal, not contrived nor concocted by our ignorant mind – and it gives us a peace and happiness that is unshakeable, incorruptible, and unconditional. A guided meditation given on Zoom for the Ottawa Buddhist Society, April, 2022.

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                        <![CDATA[Developing awakened wisdom is an organic process, the unbinding of all problems that leads to indestructible peace and harmlessness. We undertake and persevere through training the mind so that we can renounce our attachments and stop the interior whirling of the world. No longer caught in its duality, we rest in knowing the liberating truth of this moment, cessation of suffering and a transcendent healing that takes us to the Deathless. A talk given at an Ottawa Buddhist Society retreat at the Sisters of St. Joseph Convent, Pembroke, Ontario, Canada in 2009.

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                        <![CDATA[Has there ever been a time when the world was not filled with fear and violence? Millenia ago just as now, humans have been bound in a cycle of delusion, fear, and harm. The way out is within us – learning to find the still-point in the mind, where fleeting conditions subside. Awake to the present, anxiety and clinging bow to an inner contentment and peace. We are on the Middle Way. A talk given at a Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto (SIMT) retreat, November, 2015. 

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                        <![CDATA[How can we sharpen awareness of thoughts that gush forth in the mind like Niagara Falls? Observe them gently, not clinging and with diligent focus. Our present moment awareness and unstoppable attention, when sustained inwardly, have the transformative power of a Niagara to cleanse the heart of all impurities. Therein is the path to freedom. A talk given during an Ottawa Buddhist Society retreat at the Sisters of St. Joseph Convent, Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, 2009.

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                        <![CDATA[The Buddha himself touched the Truth with his own mind. And so can we. It’s a purifying, intimate process - internal, invisible and crossing many intersections. At each one, we patiently examine the state of the heart, discerning what is harmful and what is wholesome in everything we face. The way opens for us to enter the domain of no fear and receive the gifts of wisdom, peace, and the heart’s unshakeable freedom. A talk given at a Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC) retreat in 2015.

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                        <![CDATA[How can we be free of anger? To cross a river, walk over it. From a burning house, escape. So too, when your heart is on fire, stay present, forgiving and compassionate. Balance and cleanse the mind to stop it from spinning with fear, to see deeply, to heal. We direct the mind to what is great – unsurpassed joy arising with awakening to the Dhamma.. A talk given at a joint Theravada Buddhist Community / Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto retreat in 2016. 

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                        <![CDATA[In the world of Arahant Rohini, the same forces of violence, greed, and delusion we face now were at play. She encourages us to sustain faith in the Dhamma, using its special weapons to counter the erosion of peace and to liberate the mind with kindness, courage, selflessness, and wisdom - for the benefit of all beings. A talk given at the SIMT-TBC Toronto retreat, November 2017. 

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                    <title>Stay Tuned – Radiant Mind Untainted By Ego, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[We hear in the Udana, Verses of Uplift, about the Venerable Meghiya’s wish to practise in the beautiful Mango Grove before his mind was mature enough. Even when we are on retreat and conditions for practice seem perfect, hindrances plague the mind and overcome it with impurities. So we hold fast to the Buddha’s instructions to know for ourselves the radiance of mind that is untainted by ego. A talk given at a 10 day Ottawa Buddhist Society retreat in Pembroke, 2009.

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                        <![CDATA[We long to be free from this wandering, to go beyond all suffering. The body is our raft to cross from one side of this river of pain to the other. And there we leave the raft.  But we don’t leave it until we cross, until we realize the Deathless – when no one ‘dies’ but we know the death of greed, of anger, of delusion. As we cross, we end the pain, grief, rage, vulnerability, fear – every form of distress. And where we were once inflamed by these troubles, they give way to the infinitudes of love and compassion. This talk was given at Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community, July 3, 2016.

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                    <title>Chant, Breathe, Trust, Bless the Rain, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[One way animals restore themselves after an attack and regain equilibrium is through the trembling of the body. We too, as human beings, can create an inner rhythmic chant to resonate vibrational waves that help us move out of fear and clear traumas from our nervous system. All the senses converge and soak in the sound of the breath itself. Trusting the heart's innate goodness, we feel uplifted. Bless the rain. Recorded at an Ottawa Buddhist Society daylong retreat in 2016.

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                        <![CDATA[Listen deeply to the resonance within where virtue sows fields of goodness, wisdom, and compassion and Death teaches us to let go. At first, we tremble with fear. But out of that fear we draw strength. Out of anger – a stillness and forgiveness. Out of greed, we draw generosity and gratitude. And from true vulnerability, we awaken to the Deathless.  A talk given in May 2011 at an Insight Meditation Society retreat, Barrie, MA., USA.

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                        <![CDATA[Shrouded in the cloud of ignorance, we believe that suffering will never happen to us. But when we emerge from that fog into a radical simplicity of heart, suffering becomes our teacher. Our eyes are opened thanks to Right View and direct experience of the Four Noble Truths. At last we transcend the tyranny of fear.  A talk given at the Chariot to Nibbana Retreat, Bodhinyanarama Monastery, New Zealand in 2006.

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                        <![CDATA[Instead of holding onto what burns and pains us, uphold the truth of present moment awareness and know that freedom is in our hands. We free ourselves from unwholesome qualities. In the midst of fear, we bring up fearlessness; in the midst of resentment, we discover gratitude. We vanquish ignorance and we see wisely. Forgiveness arises in the face of what feels unbearable. This is the miracle of the practice. A talk given at Ottawa Buddhist Society in October 2018..

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                        <![CDATA[When life presents fearsome obstacles, be your own spiritual ally and turn those obstacles into windows that open to the depths of the heart.  There, cultivating loving-kindness, compassion, radiant joy and the wisdom of discernment, behold the fierce gifts of the Dhamma that defy delusion and rescue us from the mire of every perceived burden. A talk given during a 10 day Ottawa Buddhist Society retreat at the Sisters of St. Joseph convent in Pembroke, Ontario, Canada in 2009. 



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                        <![CDATA[Though we feel powerless to effect change globally, we can purify the mind and restore trust, peace, and harmony in our own lives. Six special qualities of reconciliation help us nurture the balm of forgiveness. We learn to see how our suffering begins and how to stop the bombs in our own minds. Practise kindness and compassion, and we find ourselves letting go hostility. We put down our weapons and enter the temple of the heart. A talk given at the Buddhist Society of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, 2005.

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                        <![CDATA[We have a nuclear reactor within us and a nuclear accident may be taking place inside right now. It’s urgent for us to understand how to heal and free ourselves from this toxicity, and from every form of violence. Meditate, live wisely, and practice kindness. Begin to reconcile the contamination in our minds with compassion, serenity and joy. What a magnificent offering of peace for our troubled world. A talk given at the Ottawa Buddhist Society in 2011.

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                        <![CDATA[All of us can train our minds. When we are driven by lack of wisdom, ill-will, greed or confusion, we live in a wilderness of the mind. In spiritual community, we hold together to blaze a trail through that wilderness, establishing trust and confidence, and persevering. We are guided by wisdom and mindfulness to purify ourselves; and we are willing to make sacrifices – even to suffer – for the treasures of the Path. A talk given at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, April, 2012.

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                        <![CDATA[The Buddha is our unexcelled guide on the journey of a lifetime – to the end of suffering. We look within and enter the silence of the heart, leaving behind our ideas, fears, attachments, and identities to discover the treasures of pure presence – an unsurpassed happiness and freedom. A talk at a week-long SIMT (Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto) retreat, Chapin Mill near Rochester, NY, August 15, 2015.

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                        <![CDATA[The Buddha teaches us about seven lights to gain true freedom . They are none other than the factors of enlightenment. Three are dynamic skills that deeply cleanse the mind. In turn, these give rise to four 'septic friendly' brightening agents that lead us to inner wisdom. We learn how to practice forgiveness and compassion, and how to awaken to a selfless benevolence - an unassailable joy, peace and complete freedom of heart. A talk give n at Sati Saraniya Hermitage in 2015.

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                        <![CDATA[Compassion is a strength, a generosity, a joy, a guardian of the mind, a rescue from fear and all forms of suffering, and a fountain of peace. It brings untold benefit both for one who gives it and for one who receives it. Compassion enhances the sublime abidings and the factors of awakening, thus serving, in and of itself, as a dynamic vehicle for the heart’s liberation. At Portland Friends of the Dhamma, December, 2021.

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                        <![CDATA[The heart is a moral tapestry of clear coordinates for liberation. Caught between duality and proliferation, we vanquish the ‘self’ using the Buddha’s pithy instruction to Bahiya of the Bark Cloth. “In the seen, there is only the seen. In the heard... only the heard. In the sensed... only the sensed. In the known... only the known. When for you there will be only the seen... there is no you there.” We too shall come out of the jungle of our attachments. A talk given at a week long SIMT retreat, Chapin Mill, USA, August, 2017.

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                    <title>Time to Defragment, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[The Buddha gives us lessons in freeing ourselves but there are critical choices to be made – an emptying out, a readiness, a rising up, a deep yearning for truth. We are compelled to trust so completely to wake up to the peace in our hearts, offering the best we can. It's a harvest of wisdom. And in this remarkable learning, we receive the great gift of a love, a compassion, a kindness that pervades us and, in turn, allows us to extend it to all beings. A talk given at the Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC), April, 2007.

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                    <title>At the Frontier of Harmlessness – Chop Off the Head of Mara, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[One who practices true compassion inwardly as well as to others is praised as a superior person, a spiritual warrior on the path of harmlessness. How do we emulate that? Guided by right intention, we abandon the hindrances of the mind and patiently whittle away our ingrained habit of ego construction. We learn to see wisely and to forgive conditions as we journey to transcendence. A talk given to the Portland Friends of the Dhamma, Dec. 12, 2021.

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                    <title>This Is Where the Mind Is Liberated, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[Human beings have that special ability to deeply see and fathom things as they truly are. But we are so impatient. We resist letting go. Clinging, we harm unknowingly and stray from truth, gaining no peace. How can we recover and free ourselves from fear, anger, and mental distress? Purify the mind and directly know the higher truth of impermanence. See blessings where there was darkness. And within the heart’s core, touch the Unconditioned. A talk given for the Ottawa Buddhist Society, Oct. 16, 2020.

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                    <title>Dedicate Everyday to Someone, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[Are we able to dedicate our goodness and our practice for the welfare of others? COVID teaches us that if we are not healthy, others are affected, and if the world is not well, then we will also suffer – because we are all connected. We are wise to seek the inexhaustible well-spring of peace in our hearts – to be uplifted and to freely share that. Far beyond physical health, we can find that peace within our reach if we care for the mind. That will be our spiritual recovery. An online talk given to Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC), Sept. 26, 2021.


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                    <title>Metta Without Borders, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[Just as a gardener cultivates seedlings by watering them well, metta is praised as a foundational quality for watering the full liberation of the heart. As a spiritual gardener, work to deeply understand and integrate metta in all aspects of life and practice. It is present in every skilful mind-state and ripens in the awakened mind as unconditional and universal spiritual love.

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                    <title>The Threads of Your Life &#8211; Guided Death Meditation, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[When you move towards what is fearful step by step with courage, it is possible to overcome the darkest moments breath by breath.  Draw together all the threads of your life, and let each one go strand by strand. A guided meditation on death at an Ottawa Buddhist Society 10 day retreat, Galilee Centre, Arnprior, Ontario Canada in 2007.

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                        <![CDATA[Develop health of the mind. Many who face dire illness and many at the cusp of death overcome their fear or face death fearlessly. How is that possible? Caring for the mind can bring it to peace whereas the health of the body will never free the heart from the pain of losing what is most precious to us. An OBS talk at a Day of Mindfulness, July 18, 2020.

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                        <![CDATA[Take refuge and commit to ethical precepts to deepen the purification of virtue within us. This is the basis for true happiness. We take refuge in enlightened wisdom, and in our ability to awaken. We have faith that we can realize that Truth by ourselves – in this life; and we trust in this timeless teaching, worthy of our effort, worthy of our attention, worthy of our faith, and worthy of our refuge. A talk given for Portland Friends of the Dhamma, Jan.3, 2021.

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                    <title>We Will Arrive &#8211; Beating a Path to Awakening, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[How can we beat a path to awakening? Meditate and develop deep, wise insight, training like a spiritual athlete in this new millenium. Like clearing a trail in dense forest, walk it again and again, with strong determination, truly knowing, and enduring difficulties to navigate beyond mental afflictions. Study the mind incisively and trust - we will arrive. A talk given at a 10 day OBS retreat at the Sisters of St. Joseph Convent, Pembroke, Canada in 2008.

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                        <![CDATA[When we remember to empty out all the distraction, all the movement, all the roughness of life, nameless, formless, without identity - we touch the shore of truth as waves touch the shores of the ocean, reaching our true home in the fullness of this moment exactly as it is. This guided meditation was given during the Holistic Awareness retreat with Ajahn Sucitto at Spirit Rock, USA, June 3, 2013. 

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                        <![CDATA[Discover the riches of the Noble Eightfold Path again and again. See into the depths of the mind by rightly remembering and using the Buddha's guidance not only in formal meditation practice but in every waking hour of daily life. Begin, sustain, and deepen the practice of clear seeing and understanding the Path. This is how we step out of suffering into true blessing and joyous freedom. A talk given at a joint Theravada Buddhist Community of Toronto/ Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto retreat in 2016. 

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                        <![CDATA[A humble novice with his bowl empty exemplifies where true riches lie in this world. Meditating deep in the unchartered borders within, gain those riches by giving up worldly pursuits. See the value of what is true and what reveals the truth to us. Beyond confusion, beyond wanting, beyond harmful ways of being, purify the mind and seek that jewel of the heart's true peace, clear and free.

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                        <![CDATA[Practice wise attention, train in right view, and see things as they are. Touch the fires of trauma and rise from their ashes. Attend to ancient hurts with conscious full-hearted forgiveness. As we disown these old karmas, we augment the higher frequency and pure vibration of loving-kindness. It’s unconditional and ownerless. So the inner fires gradually cool and reveal the Unconditioned. Seeing the truth of the moment we undo all the untruths of the past. A talk given at an Ottawa Buddhist Society Quaker House meeting, Nov. 2016.

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                        <![CDATA[Are you watching your breath or watching your opinions? It is not enough to just watch the breath; you must reflect closely on what is arising. Come to the truth of the way things are by identifying and letting go of your opinions. Reflect on what you pay homage to and how to give birth to the truth in your heart. A talk given at the Ottawa Buddhist Society in June, 2009.

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                        <![CDATA[The Buddha gives us lessons in emptiness. We are compelled to trust so completely to be able to truly receive these teachings, surrendering to the Dhamma, offering everything. We bless each step, harvesting wisdom with a brave heart. And in this remarkable learning, we shall know the unexcelled fragrance of the Dhamma, the island beyond which we cannot go. A talk given during a 10 day Insight Meditation Society Retreat in May, 2011. 

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                        <![CDATA[When we clear the mind of obstacles, we gain a special skill in developing mental stillness and samadhi. Mindfulness is the gatekeeper enabling the burning away of the defilements. There in the clear, stilled, stabilized mind of unfabricated, primordial purity, the factors of awakening arise. No where else in the world but within this seclusion of mind can we find our true home and realize our Buddha nature. A talk given on a retreat at Insight Meditation Society, Barre, MA., USA, March, 2016

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                        <![CDATA[What are we doing on this planet? How do we cope with feelings of fear? Can we observe wisely and penetrate through the fictions of the mind?  To abandon them, we must understand them. Ayyā Medhānandī coaches us to investigate emotions like fear and anger, viewing their characteristics as tiny fragments of physical sensation and learning how to refresh the mind in one instant. Then we touch the space of non-fear, serenity and joy within us.  A talk given at Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community in 2015.

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                        <![CDATA[Sariputta said (SN 21.1): “There is nothing in the world with whose change there would arise in me sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, and despair.” It is hard to remember the Buddha’s teachings when the mind is beset with fear and anxiety. But we can escape from these bonds by disempowering the hindrances, calming the mind and seeing with greater wisdom. For this process to bear fruit, we have to fully trust the path alone and not put our trust in the world.  Given at a Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto annual retreat, Chapin Mill, Batavia, Rochester, NY in 2016. 

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                        <![CDATA[As we grow in wisdom, our fear of death dissolves. The more we purify from within, the more we abide with a clarity of mind that bestows the ultimate seeing, our cosmic ordination, our unburdening from the sufferings of this realm. The veil of delusion collapses in the sacred footprint of the Dhamma. This will be our noble warming. A talk given at an Insight Meditation Society retreat, Barre, MA., USA, April 30, 2011.

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                        <![CDATA[Two overarching supports for gaining the fruits of the Path are mental purity and spiritual friendship. Consummate virtue and prize virtuous friends, the highest being the Blessed One himself. Emulate his conduct and mental practices in everyday life. Gradually transform mundane right view into transcendent right view and do the same for all eight limbs of the Path. And as they ripen, you will enter into the stream of transcendence. An online Satipaññã Insight Meditation Toronto (SIMT) retreat talk, Aug. 21, 2020.

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                        <![CDATA[How can we love everything the same? How can we come to a place of pure love within us so that whatever energy is arising in the heart, we can receive it, and we can accept it fully. We don't have to run away anymore. That way, all experience can be lived and treated the same - the way the sun treats all beings the same. And yet, we must use sharp wisdom to discern what is harmful and abandon that; and to know what is wholesome and cultivate that - like the Buddha's example of a great mother bestowing compassion on all her children.

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                        <![CDATA[Standing up in pure presence is one of the four great postures. In this simple act of being present, know one mind-moment at a time, repeatedly. Grateful for one breath, one posture, one point, we gain balance and poise. We allow our suffering to dissolve in the suffering of all the world. This is how we stand for the Dhamma in a practical way – with the body; and in a practice way – with compassion and understanding of the Dhamma.  Talk #9 given at the Madison Insight Retreat, May 2017 in Wisconsin, US.

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                        <![CDATA[When delusion, impatience and lack of trust prevail in our spiritual work, we rape our own goodness and execute ourselves over and over again. This suffering, clearly known, helps us to see how we cling and how we let go. When clinging again, let go again – stop the subterfuge of clinging and undermining ourselves. Actually, we are our own liberators. We are powerful beyond our understanding. Dhamma Talk #8 with Q &amp; A given at the Madison Insight Retreat, May 2017 in Wisconsin, US.

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                        <![CDATA[Reviewing our effort to practise, recalibrate and make adjustments as needed. Make peace with what arises – neither controlling nor being passive; like a parent – compassionate, mindful, discerning. Whatever hindrance is most predominant, make it skillful, waking up if we’re asleep, or settling down if we’re restless, calming when agitated or patiently balancing. This is nothing short of the way to Nibbana, the supreme goal. Step by step, through all manner of sufferings and joys, we radiate blessings in the ten directions. Talk #7 given at the Madison Insight Retreat, May 2017 in Wisconsin, US.

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                        <![CDATA[Venerable Punna was one of the great bhikkhus of the Buddha’s time, known especially for his fierce faith, practice skill, and his fearlessness.  When the Buddha hears that Punna plans to wander on foot in a remote and dangerous frontier region, he questions Punna how he would respond to the inevitable perils and violent ways of the native people of that place. Their dialogue reveals Venerable Punna’s remarkable courage, wisdom, and selflessness. Talk #5 given at the Madison Insight Retreat, May 2017 in Wisconsin, US.

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                        <![CDATA[How do we deal with life when it bites us? Without trust in the Path, there is no way we can fulfill it. Practise seeing what works and what doesn’t, what binds us and what frees us. Seeing pain as our teacher, we can face whatever we are feeling and not lament. Not owning our suffering is letting go the second arrow of mental pain. This will be for our safety, and when wise insight into suffering reveals the truth in us, there arises incalculable joy and peace. Talk #3 given at the Madison Insight Retreat, May 2017 in Wisconsin, US.

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                        <![CDATA[We are Dhamma gardeners putting in the right ingredients to develop ten perfections. These noble qualities are essential to enhance the practice of growing in wholeness, unconditional love and balance. Reflecting on how they support each other and work together, we fill the beautiful chant of these Ten Pārami with our voices.  Talk #1 given at the Madison Insight Retreat, May, 2017 in Wisconsin, US.

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                        <![CDATA[Dhamma is like mother, father, guardian, the Truth that we can rest in. So rest in the purity of one moment. Offering to listen, what is the message we receive? In the silence of the mind, what do we hear? If there is no silence, we listen more intently and dive more deeply. Where there is no past, no future, nothing to run away from, nothing to run towards, we stop to truly listen. And we see. This is pure presence - the gift of our attention. With the compass of the mind, open to the Dhamma. No where do we find any solid essence to call a self, a me, a mine. This is the most sacred knowing. A guided meditation and Dhamma reflections, July 2021.

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                        <![CDATA[How can we care for ourselves and each other, using our formal meditation practice as a template for daily living? As we sit for meditation, mark an intuitive pathway through painful, burdensome mind states, teaching the mind to purify itself with every breath. Gradually, we overcome our sufferings. We glimpse the peace, happiness, clarity and freedom of heart that are within our reach. A guided meditation given during an SIMT talk in Toronto, Nov. 20, 2011.

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                        <![CDATA[There is so much for us to understand. Preparing yourselves for that unfolding of wisdom, take your rightful seat in a balanced way and follow the path inward. Softly close off all the gates and give your full attention and energy to the mind's interior exploration – of itself. We are on a wondrous journey! A talk given at Sati Saraniya Hermitage in October 2015.

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                        <![CDATA[Sometimes it takes an illness or a loss to wake up. The wheel of Dhamma turns us towards the centre point, where all the mind’s movements are stilled so that we can see the truth of suffering. Fear arises but we can observe it ceasing in the light of our inner spiritual work. Gently, patient and aware, with selflessness and noble intent, we persevere. A talk given at the Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community, Nov, 2009.

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                        <![CDATA[When we’re out of balance, it's due to the worldly winds. Even if you call them Dhamma winds, they end up being worldly - as soon as we grasp them, we’re back in samsara and we’re circling. The ending of circling always begins within us. It doesn’t end out there. Even if the balance of Dhamma out there is perfect, that moment of perfection is impermanent. Once we truly see what we could not see before, balance is restored. An online teaching given for Portland Friends of the Dhamma, Jan. 2021

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                        <![CDATA[This path takes us to our true home through cultivating sanctity, and understanding the value of death: the death of greed, hatred and delusion. When we see all things as impermanent, death gives definition to our life. It delimits our experience. That’s how we learn how to love – because if things were permanent, we wouldn’t know the meaning of love. We would not know how to love. And that would be a terrible loss – not to know, not to learn, how to love. An online teaching given for Portland Friends of the Dhamma, Jan. 2021

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                        <![CDATA[Can we not give vent to the wanting mind, not blame conditions nor allow discontentment to grow? Develop patience and persevere on the path. Know things as they are and accept them. Patience is the highest austerity. So change gears, and move away from old habits of mind by rubbing the dust out of your eyes. Weather difficult conditions. See the beginning of your suffering and end it in the ways of Dhamma. Plant good seeds. A talk given during a Theravada Buddhist Community retreat in Toronto, Nov. 2012.

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                        <![CDATA[Virtue creates a force in the heart, a field of goodness, from generosity to joy to enlightenment. Bring each moment back to awareness. Once there is joy in the heart, the mind finds ease to go to its depths. Be your own doctor, self-examine, see with the inner eye to discern and resolve our inner dis-ease and free the mind. Dukkha is not the problem. It is our teacher.  A talk given at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, December 2015.

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                        <![CDATA[To celebrate the Buddha’s life is to be his disciple in enlightenment. Every day becomes a day of Vesak when we emulate the Buddha’s virtues and follow his gradual training in Dhamma-Vinaya and spiritual warrior-ship. We vow to purify the mind, realize the vision of Dhamma, and practice perfect compassion for all living beings. At last we find the teacher present within us. A talk sponsored by the Indonesia Buddhist Federation of Canada for Vesak, May 2021.

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                        <![CDATA[How can we have compassion for others without falling apart? The Buddha's path of awakening teaches us how to disarm our internal armour, to be harmless. This will be for us a true basis for following precepts and thereby developing enough inner quiet to investigate ill-will. We begin to clearly see and understand our mind-states. This full presence enables compassion that is tireless and unconditional. A talk given at Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto in 2018. 



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                        <![CDATA[Using the breath to move into the silent space in the heart and attentively following its rhythm, the breath becomes our whole world. We let go of all objects that arise, all thought, as we stay present and aware in the simple current of breathing. In these moments of pure presence, we are planting the priceless seeds of our awakening.  A guided meditation at Sati Saraniya Hermitage, October 2015.


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                        <![CDATA[How training the mind in following precepts, such as the rules regarding the use of four monastic requisites - food, robes, shelter, and medicines, can win us greater patience, faith, gratitude, calm, courage, and mindfulness. Such ways of renunciation test our commitment to the path and teach us how to forgive and let go even our fears so that we harvest the riches of joy, compassion and inner peace. A talk given during a Theravada Buddhist Community retreat in Toronto, 2008.

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                    <title>A Gift from the Sea – Unbroken Pāua Shell and Consummate Trust, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[There are many skills and restorative qualities needed for us to grow in our spiritual work. Let us not underestimate the essential ingredient of mettā. This universal quality of love will unfailingly nurture the unfolding of the Noble Eightfold Path. It enhances our energy to persevere with courage, agility and joy so that the journey is sustainable and our trust becomes unwavering. We reach out more to others and support them in the good, while rejoicing that as we accomplish the Way, we draw close to the Buddha.
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                    <title>Dwell in Intrinsic Emptiness – The Liberating Quality of Loving-kindness, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[What are the prerequisites and supports for walking such a path of awakening? Kindness and a loving forgiveness rank with those qualities that are foremost. They allow us to repair the seemingly unforgivable, to heal what we could not see or wish to see, to dwell in the real not in our concepts, and so to ascend with the strength gained from that groundwork. Try forgiveness first. Recovery opens the way home to healing, to Truth.

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                    <title>Don’t Be Afraid, Mahanama – Lean Towards Nibbana, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[The Buddha told Mahanama not to be afraid of the muddled mind, just to keep developing the qualities which incline the mind to Nibbana. This Dhamma is for one who is content. A mind unburdened can pacify itself and be calmed. A mind fortified by faith, virtue – in particular, the virtues dear to the noble ones, learning, generosity and wisdom, will go to distinction. But for mental peace we have to consider how to seclude the mind and what we are giving our consent to in daily life.
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                    <title>Repair What Feels Broken – The Hardest Walk of All, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[The path is a gradual one. Don’t go to the depths immediately. First develop the strength. Going slowly but deeply. Forgiveness, supported by patience endurance, acknowledging and seeing the breakage and repairing it regularly, repairing what has been broken or harmed, and freeing ourselves from the prison of our anger. How can we creatively counter the current of our addictions instead of gratifying it. If we do, we tap into the joy of the heart.
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                    <title>A Mystical Ladder – Patience, the Incinerator of Defilements, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[We are ascending a mystical ladder which must be done so carefully and gradually. For a spiritual warrior, the path of practice is a gradual one.  We are in a cloud of unknowing but patiently the cloud is emptied and we begin to see everything as impermanent.  We know what is the path and what is not. This clarity will be for us a refuge. It is a natural unfolding through purification.  This is talk 10 of 14 talks given during SIMT retreat at Chapin Mill in August of 2019.

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                    <title>Breaking the Cycle of Harm – Patience and Friendship With The Lovely, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                    <pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2021 06:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <![CDATA[The insight into not-self requires a deeper seeing and understanding of reality. Virtue is our saving grace. It gives us the energy for enlightenment which we transform into right effort. Thus we are guided through the wilderness of the world to develop and sustain the heart like an ocean of peace. Patience works with Restraint, Renunciation and Resolve, and with a host of other wholesome qualities to take us beyond the cycle of harm but we must also keep practising kindness and forgiveness. 
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                    <title>What is Killing You – Thorns, Barnacles and Buoys on the Middle Way, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[When you know what is killing you then you will know what will save you. Right effort protects us and offers safety and seclusion. We find saving grace within if we can navigate through the wilderness of the mind assisted by a host of special qualities. It’s like being at sea. Through the thorns, barnacles and buoys on the Middle Way, learn and understand how to let go – be free. Nothing remains hidden to a true seeker.
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                    <title>A Swallowtail Butterfly at the Hummingbird Feeder, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[The quality of energy manifest as courage, commitment and compassion is the way forward. We have to be brave – like a lion. Brave warriors face the powerful maras, monsters of the mind, to overcome them. They train the mind to gain its freedom by developing heroic energy and superpower wisdom. These qualities are further ennobled with forgiveness and association with true spiritual friends.
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                    <title>A Matter of Death, Life, Truth and Recovery, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[Call suffering by its true name and the face of the Dhamma will emerge from within us. We meet the truth of impermanence, of death, and the universality of pain as we carve out the understanding of who we are and why we are here. Nourish the mind with virtue and shine the light to our true home, to insights that repair what has been broken and free us from fear, anxiety, and the many sufferings we have endured. 
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                        <![CDATA[Contemplating the 4 elements, the 32 parts of the living body, and the remains of the body in a charnel ground, we gain a deeper understanding of impermanence and the intrinsic impersonal and empty nature of the body. Seeing it for what it truly is can free us from fear of death. We study it, and gradually unveil the true gift of death as a portal to our liberation.
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                    <title>Masquerade of the Hindrances – A Blameless Life, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[Clearly see the danger of the hindrances in the mind and stop killing goodness. The story of Angulimala's life reveals the power of moral rehabilitation to end our harmful ways and urgently revert to the path of goodness, wholeness and purification. There’s no one to blame for our suffering. Instead, as spiritual warriors, we reset our moral compass, cross the floods of existence, and live blamelessly.
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                    <title>Beautiful Qualities – Five of the Ten Perfections, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[The Buddha taught about ten perfections or beautiful qualities of mind that are needed to help us cross the flood of samsara, the cyles of existence. The first five of these are generosity, virtue, energy, wisdom and renunciation. When embodied, these qualities lead us out of the prison of impermanence. Overcoming ignorance and responding to life with greater joy, we live compassionate and harmless.
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                    <title>How To Cross the Flood – Seven Enlightenment Practices, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[The Buddha answers a deva who wants to know how to cross the flood of sensuality, the flood of existence, and all its dangers. Walk the Middle Way, he taught, not stopping and not over-struggling with obstacles. Use the seven enlightenment practices to train our minds so that we can make this dangerous and urgent crossing. No matter how long it takes, never give up.
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                    <title>I Will Not Be Angry – How Ajahn Gunhah Won the Hearts of Outlaws, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[Laying down weaponry, giving up hostility, we can abandon negativity and establish sanctuary within us. We hear the inspirational tale of how Ajahn Gunhah transformed his kidnappers in northern Thailand. Through his embodiment of mettā they became his disciples, just as the Buddha had done with his adversaries 2600 years ago. Such is the power of pure mettā - good will or loving kindness. It is our true protection from harm. We too can rescue ourselves by developing it with great inner vigilance, wisdom, compassion and courage.

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                        <![CDATA[We may speak of or feel that we know about death but until we truly contemplate, approach and move into death, what do we know? This is a tale about looking into the eye of a tortoise shell butterfly while it lay dying on the shrine .  When its frail antennae reached up towards us at the sound of our voices, we felt at one even with this tiniest of creatures - who also wanted only to be loved. An OBS online talk, December 19, 2020.

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                        <![CDATA[As we follow the steps of the Eightfold Noble Path, our hatred, greed, and delusion abate. We may yet suffer, but we use our suffering to fathom the meaning of it, see its causes, and see the possibility for ending suffering. The four Noble Truths come alive within. Invariably, our suffering manifests in many forms. It may never ‘end’ but it ceases to be a problem as our fear or aversion to it die. Persevering in this work is the way to make peace with our suffering. A talk given at the the Vancouver School Board in Vancouver, B.C. in 2008.

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                        <![CDATA[What is renunciation? Patiently we learn how to let go of the thoughts and actions that enslave us to samsara. And we begin to understand what it takes to tame the ego and cultivate greater and greater compassion in its boundless quality. Through this magnificent process, we study the way to ascend the altar and sit with our teacher, the Buddha. A talk given at Birken Forest Monastery, Knutsford, B.C. in 2008.

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                    <title>Empty the Basket &#8211; Guided Meditation and Reflections, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[Let us hone our expertise to witness the charade of gain and loss arising each moment. Seeing the eight worldly winds, impermanent, not giving in when the mind perches in 'self', purify wrong view, empty the basket, and begin here where we are, balanced, the Middle Way. A talk given during a Covid-19 online retreat with Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto (SIMT) August 2020.

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                        <![CDATA[We go forth into the quiet of the heart, distant from the world, to glimpse the Unconditioned. We are alone but we are as if with all beings. There is no 'one' who wakes up, there is just awakening. It is freeing and it's free - but it will cost us absolutely everything. We give up everything but there is nothing to give up. And we gain the understanding of the ancients.

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                    <title>A Safe Domain: How the Quail Escaped a Hawk, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[The contemplative path of purifying the mind is the most important journey of all - inward. Just as the little quail that tricked a hawk, we no longer fall prey to the 'maras' of the world, safe in our proper ancestral domain of virtue. Therein, the heart of generosity is further refined into qualities of joy, selflessness, compassion and wisdom, thus benefiting ourselves and all beings.

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                    <title>The Inner Stopping, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[Wherever we go the mind does not remain happy - unless we fully awaken. How can we end the restless tides and remain inwardly stable, content within ourselves like the well-hewn wheel that stood still when it stopped rolling and did not fall down? Purifying our bodily acts, speech, and mind in the Buddha's gradual training, we go beyond the eight worldly winds, coming to cessation, to the Deathless. An online retreat talk hosted by Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto (SIMT) in August 2020.

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                    <title>Chopping and Burning the Tree of Emptiness, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[Too busy in the world, all entangled, we yearn to be free. So direct the mind to Nibbana - like a tree that leans to the East. And when it falls, it will fall in that direction. We too will arrive if we aim for the far goal but keep attention in the present where we are. Chop wood for a thousand days, but in a single moment, see into the emptiness of it all - burnt in the fire of wisdom. A talk given at a Covid-19 online retreat hosted by Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto (SIMT) in August 2020.

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                    <title>A Good Pair of Boots, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[We must not underestimate the significance of dedicating ourselves to the five precepts. Such a commitment to virtue provides a moral and ethical basis for life that will ultimately lessen our suffering. We find ourselves embodying qualities of truthfulness, kindness and care for ourselves and others that touch a new level of inner happiness, one of the factors of enlightenment. A talk given during a Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC) retreat in 2008.

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                    <title>Change for the Good, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[Are we ready to stop clinging, let go and trust? If we live with gratitude and change for the good, if we learn to really see, we will be able to listen from within and notice the true condition of the mind. We move from a state of fear to non-fear, from suffering to non-suffering, from trauma to trust and the truth of the Unconditioned. Putting out the fires of greed, hatred and delusion, we forgive, set our burdens down and embrace kindness. We make wise choices and we live and die with joy, peace, and blessing. A talk given at an SIMT (Satipanna Insight Meditation Toronto)- TBC Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community retreat in November, 2016.

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                    <title>Speaking of Violence, Ayya Medhanandi</title>
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                        <![CDATA[If we can deal with the craziness of the mind, we can help to decrease the craziness and violence of the world. But we have to be so patient and keep faith with the process of of cleaning up our own violence. Even when the mind is hot, there will be some good will that we can touch - if we lean towards that which is kind and gentle - harmless - this can lead us towards fearlessness and acceptance. A talk given at an Ottawa Buddhist Society Day of Mindfulness, July 2014.

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                        <![CDATA[In a dialogue between King Milinda and Venerable Nagasena, we hear the Buddha’s instruction on mental training and how to apply our allies of mindfulness, restraint and wisdom.  Devoted to the training, we can overcome ignorance, take hold of the mind and cut off the defilements just as the barley reaper cuts his barley. Our mission is to lean towards Nibbana, not the self-making stories, and gradually, patiently, wrestle free from ignorance, waking up right in the middle of any storm we may face. At talk given for the Ottawa Buddhist Society, July 2020.


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                        <![CDATA[Removing our harness to the world, we really detach and make the intention in the mind to stop. Having moved inwardly into this now moment, we pause and secure our internal connection to truth. This work requires our faith, vigilance, sustained attention, care and perseverance.  We long for freedom and it will arise, releasing us to roam free in the vast space of the mind – empty and awake. 

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                        <![CDATA[Four astounding things happen when the Buddha teaches the Dhamma. When he teaches about non-attachment, people want to listen and to understand how to give up attachment. When he teaches about the removal of conceit, people lend ear and try to understand it. People delight in excitement, but when he teaches the way to peace, people want to lend ear and understand it. And when he teaches how to remove ignorance, people want to listen and follow the Way. A talk given online for the OBS Friday night series, July 17, 2020.


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                        <![CDATA[During times of global pandemic, it’s easier to see how deeply connected we are in our vulnerability to disease.  Meditating and touching the silent space of the heart, we see how deeply connected we are at all times – connected in dis-ease; in fear, in sorrow, in suffering; and also in our potential for joy. And we discover the well-spring of goodness within us from which that joy arises. Ottawa Buddhist Society, July 17, 2020.

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                        <![CDATA[Praising Truth for its own sake, we lean in the direction of Truth. We make our intention not to harm by body, speech, or thought. Harmlessness leads to selflessness. Selflessness leads to the Deathless. To boundless compassion. This will save us from the flames of greed, violence, and delusion raging around us. Like the baby quail. What saved it from the forest fire was the purity of its own truth developed over lifetimes. An online Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC) talk during COVID-19, May, 2020.

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                        <![CDATA[Responding to questions about social change during COVID pandemic protests: seeing that we are the owners of our actions, subject to the law of kamma, we can embody the Buddha's teachings by respecting all beings with compassion, nonviolence and our foundation in virtue, and choosing wise leaders who uphold these principles. A Question & Answer session during an Ottawa Buddhist Society online zoom.

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                        <![CDATA[We long to change for the good, to grow in the ways of wisdom, to sit at the feet of the Buddha. But how? The world is on fire with the flames of greed, hatred and delusion. In this COVID year, we see moral decay and heightened fear. Though we are not in control of external conditions, we can care both for ourselves and others morally and spiritually. To bring healing in the world, speak and act from an inner quiet, from good-will, not boiling with anger or resentment, but from a heart tempered with patience, compassion, wisdom and peace. An online talk given for the Ottawa Buddhist Society during the global pandemic and anti-racism protests.

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                        <![CDATA[A guided meditation into the heart of our struggles and fears where, on the altar of our tears, the jewels of the Dhamma are revealed radiant within us. Breath by breath, wisely seeing through and courageously defying all obstacles to our freedom, we embark into the miracle of pure presence in this moment.  An Ottawa Buddhist Society zoom teaching during the COVID pandemic.

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                        <![CDATA[In the Sallekha Sutta, MN 8, the Buddha teaches us how not to imitate the faults of others, how to be fearless in the good, and how to vanquish unwholesome mental habits. We start where we are and trust the path, learning to live wisely, to glimpse the fruits of letting go, reaching for the farther shore so that when fear dies, unconditional love will prevail. An online talk given to the Madison Insight Meditation Group during the COVID-19 pandemic June, 2020.

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                        <![CDATA[Digging deep through life's trials and pains with unfaltering compassion, discover the way beyond harming, the way beyond anger. At last, can we forgive all the monsters of the mind, letting them go, setting them free? Living harmlessly, fearless in the good and devoted to this radical healing, the face of enlightenment appears in the trenches of our own suffering.  A talk given at the Satipanññā Insight Meditation Toronto daylong in October, 2019.


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                        <![CDATA[Forgiveness is the greatest generosity we can give ourselves.  We come to it by wisely seeing that the harm in the world, whether it originates within ourselves or others, comes from ignorance. So there is nothing to fear and nothing to forgive.  We can surrender to the challenges of life which seem to overwhelm us by staying in the present moment awake and aware. And in this way we polish our hearts until they can reflect the Truth. A talk given at Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community in 2018.



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                        <![CDATA[What stops us from realizing Truth? We face the human condition besieged with obstacles in the mind that can be overcome with a total commitment to giving up our many forms of addiction. We learn to stay present and to develop the enlightenment factors which defy all the hindrances until we see the jewels in the mind that are brighter than the sun. These are the gifts of the Path.   A talk given during a 7 day Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto retreat at Chapin Mill Retreat Centre, Rochester, NY in 2017. 

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                        <![CDATA[In our meditation practice, we journey inwards to come to the edge and see ourselves as we really are. To do this, we have to cultivate special qualities, the paramis or perfections. And so we learn to grow a silent harmless space within ourselves which does not know how to be afraid.  A talk given at a Buddhist Insights event in East Village, New York City in June 2018.



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                        <![CDATA[Intuitive wisdom develops gradually as we learn more and more to drop the story and view the flood of impermanence in the silence of the mind. Eventually we will be able to answer the question: what remains after the work of purification? A talk given during a Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto retreat in 2016.



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                        <![CDATA[The Winter of the World is here... How do we bear it? What does the mind need in order to open to the teachings? Dana. Sila. Generosity and virtue. Cultivating generosity, starting with the material, can mature into acts of sharing one's time, energy, abilities, kindness and compassion. Let us cherish these noble qualities and develop them in a boundless way, for all beings. The Buddha advises us how to be fearless and present with a loved one near death. A talk given at Sati Saraniya Hermitage in November, 2017.

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                        <![CDATA[To simulate the natural process of death is to experience the impermanence of the five aggregates and a pure awareness that knows the inherent emptiness of things as they truly are. Dying is a potent doorway for liberation of mind and the best death we can die is shattering the ego. Then we can let go of fear once and for all. This guided meditation was given during a death and dying retreat in an Australian church in 2004.



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                        <![CDATA[Waking up to our spiritual wealth, we learn the true currency of COVID - it is not fear and frailty but courage, compassion, loving-kindness, community and connection. We see what is protection for ourselves and for each other, dwelling with the Dhamma, the Truth, as our safety - our island and refuge. Talk given online for Ottawa Buddhist Society during COVID lockdown, May 1, 2020

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                        <![CDATA[We can develop boundless quality of Metta in difficult conditions. A guided meditation during Waking Up to the Peace in Our Hearts Monastic Retreat at Insight Meditation Society Retreat Centre in 2013.

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                        <![CDATA[Every moment is an opportunity to transform ourselves by understanding things as they really are and opening to the natural law of life and death. We learn what death is and how to find true peace by following the Noble Eightfold Path and living and dying skillfully.  A talk given at a Death &amp; Dying Retreat in 1996, at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, in England.

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                        <![CDATA[Though our spiritual paths are many and varied, we can all practice with enough present moment awareness, faith, energy and commitment to realize the boundless nature of the heart that seemed at first beyond our reach. Satipañña Insight Meditation Toronto (SIMT) Retreat, Chapin Mill, Batavia, N.Y. 2018



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