Ayyā Medhānandī

Ayyā Medhānandī


Latest Episodes

Choose Love, Not Sorrow
December 13, 2024

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.

Our Weapon Is Love
December 08, 2024

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 a

We Are the Mandala
November 29, 2024

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 thei

Ennobling the Heart
November 22, 2024

We cant 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 reinforc

A Path of Prudent Happiness
November 15, 2024

How blessed we are to walk this path of awakening into the vast frontier of the mind. We discover unimaginable treasures using our inheritance from the Buddha and directing ourselves with the compass

Give Up What Destroys You
November 08, 2024

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

What is Dhamma?
November 03, 2024

The Dhamma, the Buddhas 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 l

Leave Your Shoes At The Door
October 25, 2024

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

Go To The Roots of Trees
October 18, 2024

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 spiritu

The Art of Harmlessness
October 11, 2024

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 universa