2021.08.16 | None of us want to be angry, yet we still get angry… So what should we do? If we have great desire to just be a good person who never gets angry, we will suffer a lot. So, when we walk this path, we need to do so with a sense of letting go.

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In this talk, Ajahn Anan tells many stories of monks narrowly escaping harm to illustrate how taking good care of our virtue can help keep us safe from danger.

2021.08.15 | Everyone desires freedom. We see this in a nation’s struggle for independence from oppressors, or a child’s struggle for maturity. But even though we may gain external liberation, the mind is still controlled by ignorance, craving and clinging, and thus still bound to suffering. It is only the path of virtue, samadhi and wisdom that can lead us to real happiness and genuine emancipation from the defilements.

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2021.08.14 | When we gain an understanding of the nature of the world, we see how all beings must pass away and that nothing here truly belongs to us. We then get the feeling that we must strive to seek out that which doesn’t die.

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2021.08.14 | On the occasion of Thai Mother’s Day, Ajahn Anan gave this reflection on the great kindness and care that mothers give to their children, and the best way in which their children can repay this.

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Having conviction is very important. It's what allows us to lay our doubts and views aside, and sincerely walk the path of practice. If we have the good fortune to have a wise teacher, following their teachings with faith will greatly speed up our progress.

2021.08.11 | The arising of a fully self-awakened Buddha is the hardest thing to find. It is our great good fortune and merit to meet with the Buddha’s teachings that lead to liberation from all suffering. Therefore, may we practise with sincerity and not give up on the way to reach true peace.

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In this videoconference talk from 27 Aug, 2021, Ajahn Anan talks about the hungry ghost festival in the Chinese tradition, doing good and sharing the merits with our parents, relatives and ancestors.

"And there is a question that when our parents have passed away already, what goodness should we do? First, is that we ourselves must build goodness, because our parents are our body. We have taken a part of them already for this body, this flesh and blood. Now we can look after ourselves, we can maintain our bodies. But in the beginning, this physical body came from them. All our cells, we got from our father and mother. We have them now already in this body. So we take this body to build goodness. We build dana--generosity, we build sila--morality, we build bhavana--developing our minds. The extent to which we take this body to make goodness, will be the extent that our mind will grow in inner joy."

2021.08.10 | The Buddha went through such great effort and hardship to discover and teach this Noble Path that can free us all from suffering. So now that we’ve found the Way, why don’t we hurry up and walk it while we have the chance?

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We may be highly educated in worldly subjects and skills, but we do not even know when or how we will die. What we do know is that death must come, and we cannot take anything with us when we die. In this life, we have the great good fortune to have the opportunity to practice and develop our minds.