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Ayya Medhanandi
Ayyā Medhānandī Bhikkhunī, is the founder and guiding teacher of Sati Sārāņīya Hermitage, a Canadian forest monastery for women in the Theravāda tradition. The daughter of Eastern European refugees who emigrated to Montreal after World War II, she began a spiritual quest in childhood that led her to India, Burma, England, New Zealand, Malaysia, Taiwan, and finally, back to Canada.
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2016-03-30 The Power of Loving-Kindness 37:16
When universal love leading to liberation of the heart is ardently developed, unrelentingly resorted to, it becomes the foundation of our life. We travel in a divine vehicle, our inheritance from the Buddha, the sublime abiding of mettā, loving kindness. This is our shelter from unwholesome states, a true salve for impure and damaging mental afflictions. More and more as we purify the mind, it triumphs over hateful feelings and forgiveness and compassion are perfected. Indeed, by the power of loving kindness, we are crossing the stream to the farther shore, awakening to the Deathless.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding Inner Peace: Monastic Retreat
2016-03-29 Morning Instructions 15:44
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding Inner Peace: Monastic Retreat
2016-03-28 Collection of the Buddha's Suttas 43:23
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding Inner Peace: Monastic Retreat
2016-03-27 Morning Reflection 14:13
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding Inner Peace: Monastic Retreat
2016-03-26 Evening Chanting 4:27
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding Inner Peace: Monastic Retreat
2016-03-26 Gatekeeper Mindfulness 43:44
When the mind is cleared of obstacles, we gain a special skill in developing 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.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding Inner Peace: Monastic Retreat
2015-12-20 Peace Without Fear - Seven Lights to Freedom 29:18
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.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage
2015-12-20 Virtue Goes Full Circle 30:11
Virtue creates a force in the heart, a field of goodness, from generosity to joy to enlightenment and back again. 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.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage
2015-11-22 Sowing Grace 22:07
Toronto Buddhist Community (TBC)
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto
2015-11-22 Many Intersections – Reflections & Guided Meditation 19:02
Just like the Buddha, we have the potential to touch the Truth with our own mind if we follow the precise instructions he has given us. No doubt, we will cross many intersections and, at each one, we must patiently examine the state of the heart, discerning what is harmful and what is wholesome in everything we face. In this way, we gain the benefits of wisdom, happiness, and inner peace. A talk given at Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community in 2015.
Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)

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