Ayyā Medhānandī
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Patience is Love
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
Truth and Reconciliation
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
What Is The Solution?
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 th
Ice Melts
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 fo
When the Mind Sees Itself
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 p
Who Do You Think You Are?
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. Ther
Under the Canopy of Dhamma
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 Buddhas awakening, we purify the heart
The Sound of Silence
Can we quieten the mind enough to hear that divine frequency of the hearts innermost chamber? Into that stillness, we come, softly, humbly to try and we persevere, secluded from the noise of the
Unexpected Treasure
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 cant know the w
Taste the Mountain
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 intern