As long as you’re operating from a sense of me and mine, wanting and not wanting, there's always going to be stress, or dukkha. It’s part of being a separate somebody, which is small, limited, and uncomfortable. In brahmavihāra practice, we’re giving space to that which is not personal—yet arises within our own being and transforms our being. Creating a more spacious awareness is an essential part of the practice. We’re opening to a greater truth, a greater reality, a greater resonance than the little “me and mine” story can really accommodate.
Ayya Anandabodhi
Spirit Rock Residential Teacher/Monastic
Ayya Ānandabodhī has lived and practiced as a Buddhist nun for over 30 years. Ayya brings together her training in the Thai Forest tradition with the contemporary Bhikkhunī lineage, which has its roots in ancient India and its branches and fruits in the modern world.