Mission Dharma: Ayya Anandabodhi's most recent Dharma talks: Recent Episodes
Ayya Anandabodhi
Ayya Anandabodhi first encountered the Buddha’s teachings in her early teens, igniting a deep interest in the Buddha’s Path of Awakening. She lived and trained as a nun in the Forest Tradition at Amaravati and Chithurst monasteries in England from 1992 until 2009, when she moved to the US to help establish Aloka Vihara, a training monastery for women, where she now resides.
Her practice and teaching are guided by early Buddhist scriptures and through nature’s pure and immediate Dhamma. In 2011 she took full Bhikkhuni Ordination, joining the growing number of women who are reclaiming this path given by the Buddha.
(Parayana Vihara) An encouragement to bring the Noble Eightfold Path out of the conceptual and into a lived experience, bringing strength and clarity to our lives.
(Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara) This begins with a Dhamma talk and leads into a meditation these heart qualities, deepening the practices of Mudita (appreciative joy) and Upekkha (equanimity).
(Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara) An overview of the Satipatthana sutta and the four brahma viharas, with an encouragement to practice with what is accessible and not get lost in a large array of possible meditation practices.
(Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara) Recognizing the cyclic nature of our lives, we can make different choices and start to transform the patterns of our lives.
(Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara) Reflections on sati - awareness - as a refuge. Grounding and settling in the body. The first guided meditation of the retreat.
(Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara) Reflections on awareness (sati) as a refuge from the storms of the body and mind.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Morning reflection and contemplating death as a way to bring bring the mind back into presence.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A guided meditation on pervading the body and mind with metta (Loving-kindness)
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An invitation to notice the Dhamma in your immediate experience within the framework of the Three Characteristics of Existence, followed by chanting.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An overview of the five hindrances and clarifying the place of desire in the practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation on standing meditation, bringing awareness to the body.
(Parayana Vihara) 4th Sunday online Dhamma teaching - Remembering our right to keep sīla (morality) even in challenging circumstances, and to do good in our lives and in the world.
(Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara) A Guided meditation through metta, karuna, mudita, upekkha.
(Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara) Through tending to the layers that may need clearing out and letting go, we can come into harmony with the truth of the way things are. A reflection on the three characteristics of existence and attunement to nature.
(Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara) A guided meditation on 'breathing through the limbs and torso". This practice can help to disentangle energy blocks in the body and bring about great physical well being and body awareness.
(Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara) After an intro - a guided meditation, breathing in the metta that is being generated in the world, and letting go on the out-breath.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Samma Samadhi - Ways of entry into samadhi - mindfulness immersed in the body, the Jhana Factors, and deepening meditative states.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Laying out the framework of Right Effort and Right Mindfulness, with a story about the hawk and the quail (Simile of the Quail).
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided standing meditation and reflection on body awareness
(Aloka Vihara) A reflection on remembering the innate potential of our heart and mind given online at 4th Sunday Dhamma.
(Aloka Vihara) Evening dhamma reflection on the four noble truths and the three understandings of each, as presented in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta
(Aloka Vihara) Guided meditation on transforming the inner environment, creating a peaceful place of abiding, inviting mudita
(Aloka Vihara) Morning dhamma reflection and guided meditation on karuna and anukampa, the two different qualities that are translated as "compassion"
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on upekkha (equanimity) and a guided meditation on birth, aging and death.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Developing the skill of being with sensations as they are.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A Dhamma talk on the 5 Hindrances followed by a guided meditation on settling with the breath.
(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) Join me on Mother's Day to explore our relationship with Unconditional Love, generate some love, and share the blessings for the benefit of all.
(Aloka Vihara) The practice of giving, ethics, and meditation can undo the confusing experience of being a separate individual person, as we attune more fully to the nature of the way things are.
(Aloka Vihara) Ayya Anandabodhi reflects on applying the Four Noble Truths while caring for her elderly mother. The mention of "surrender" in this talk refers to putting one's hands in the air in a surrender position as a response to noticing one is getting contracted or holding on to a position or a view.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Opening instruction for "Earth, Awareness and Being" retreat.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sharing the poems of these three Theris and offering encouragement and guidance on taking the practice from retreat into one daily life
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sharing the enlightenment poem and story of Mahapajapati, the aunt and adopted mother of the Buddha, and neither of the Bhikkhuni order
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Introducing the radiant practice of Metta, a guided meditation
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sharing the story of Dhammadinna and reflecting on skillful effort.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Allowing the practice to break us out of the old conditioning of me and mine.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sharing the story of Patacara who lost her whole family, within a few hours, then lost her mind. Meeting the Buddha, she regains her senses and breaks through to stream entry, and later - Nibbana
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sharing the story of Patacara who lost her whole family, then lost her mind. On hearing that Dharma, she awakened and came to be a great teacher and leader of women.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A Therigatha overview (the first five minutes are announcements. The talk ends with a silent meditation)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha encouraged us to reflect on the fact that death could come at any time. This sobering reflection, when used in the right way, brings sharpness and clarity as to what is important in our lives
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflecting on asubha (the non-beautiful) aspects of the body we can find greater peace and acceptance with things as they are. Through this understanding, the mind is released from desire and aversion
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This practice, one of the Four Protective Meditations, leads us to directly understand the true nature of the body. Through this understanding, the mind is released from desire and aversion and we can accept this body as part of nature, rather than "me" and "mine".
(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided body sweeping meditation on the three feeling tones - pleasant, painful, neither-pleasant-nor-painful.
(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) At the end of a challenging year, reflections on letting go of resentment, cultivating a loving heart and opening to the bigger picture.
(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) A guided meditation on the Four Brahama Viharas with a radiant heart.
(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided walking meditation and hand movement meditation.
(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) A guided meditation to establish the heart and mind in metta.
(Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley) Ayya Anandabodhi and Matty Weingast read from their new translation of the Therigatha - The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns.
(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)) Dhamma Talk on the precious opportunity we have for practice - reflecting on the Five Indriya as a support for the Path.
(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)) Guided metta meditation
(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)) Dhamma reflection on Going Forth into the practice.
(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)) Reflection - using the Five Indriya - on how the Path is not a straight line, but meanders like a river towards the ocean.
(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)) Dhamma reflection on beginning retreat, using the Five Indriya (Five Faculties) as a framework.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A reflection on the challenges of our time, and cultivating the Four Boundless Qualities as a way to meet these challenges and transform our life and the lives of others.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Overview of the Four Stages of Awakening and the The Ten Fetters.
(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)) Guided Meditation New Year's Retreat
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) (Talk 2 here - https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/278/talk/53268/)
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An overview of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness and working with greed, aversion, and delusion.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Radiating the qualities of Metta (benevolence), Karuna (compassion), Mudita (appreciative joy), and upekkha (equipoise).
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Finding balance and developing the four aspects of Right Effort the 6th factor of the Eight Fold Path.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections and poems on Right Livelihood, the fifth fold of the Eight Fold Path.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation on the radiating practice of compassion and appreciative joy.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation on Metta practice, based on the Buddha's teaching
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A look at how we can cultivate Right Thought, the second fold of the Eightfold Path
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on the first fold of the Eightfold Path.
(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation, New Year's Retreat at Applegate Jesuit RC, CA
(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation, New Year's Retreat at Applegate Jesuit RC, CA
(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation, New Year's Retreat at Applegate Jesuit RC, CA
(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation, New Year's Retreat at Applegate Jesuit RC, CA
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This is the afternoon guided meditation and talk by Ayya Anandabhodi from the monastic daylong program Entering the Heart of Practice with Ayya Santacitta and Isabelita Papa (Qigong)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dhamma Reflection from the daylong - Listening to Natural Law - on July 16, 2016. Followed by a Q&A with Ayya Anandabodhi and Ayya Santacitta.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided Meditation from our daylong - Listening to Natural Law - on Saturday, July 16, 2016
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Evening reflection on how we need to apply the practice differently as our path progresses - and a reminder of how we can get caught by the hindrances, and how to get un-caught.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Morning reflection on developing awareness of changing states.
(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) A talk given with Pamela Weiss at SFInsight after the 'Undoing Racism' training at Spirit Rock.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This Q&A session is from - Giving Thanks - a daylong at Spirit Rock on Saturday, November 28th with Ayya Anandabodhi and Ayya Santacitta. On this Thanksgiving weekend, celebrating the great flow of gratitude and generosity that is sustaining life in every moment
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk is from - Giving Thanks - a daylong at Spirit Rock on Saturday, November 28th with Ayya Anandabodhi and Ayya Santacitta. On this Thanksgiving weekend, celebrating the great flow of gratitude and generosity that is sustaining life in every moment
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk is from - Giving Thanks - a daylong at Spirit Rock on Saturday, November 28th with Ayya Anandabodhi and Ayya Santacitta. On this Thanksgiving weekend, celebrating the great flow of gratitude and generosity that is sustaining life in every moment
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A short reflection and guided meditation on three kinds of feeling.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How can we transform the hindrances into the path of awakening
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Using wisdom and love as a means of letting go
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An outline of the three kinds of feeling and desire
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Ayyas Anandabodhi & Santacitta respond to yogis questions
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Reflections on dharma practice opportunities that arise in daily life
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Pointing to "self" as process - not person - can we let this life flow on, guided by wisdom and compassion?
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Explanation of the five Nivasanas (five hindrances)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, Sangha
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on taking refuge in the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha.