Ayyā Anuruddhā has trained at Sati Sārāņīya Hermitage with Ayyā Medhānandī since 2014. Originally from UK, she came to the Dhamma after serving as a veterinarian and a high school biology teacher. Seeing the entrapments of existence she felt an urgency for spiritual practice. She received bhikkhuni ordination from Ayya Tathaloka in 2017 and is one of Sati Saraniya's core resident Sangha focusing on the profound intersections between scientific knowledge and the Buddhas' wisdom teachings.
How can we remain calm and inwardly strong when we feel anger or fear, greed or grief? Meditate with new eyes – keen, open, attentive, and dare to forgive even difficult feelings or troubling conditions. Stay present, stop and witness fear's end, because stopping to see is just like turning on a light. There is more clarity to know fear as impermanent, and to observe the nuance of the fear of fear itself. It's not my fear or my anger but unpleasant sensation. So we depersonalize and pour gratitude into the new moment with the quintessential balm of peace – forgiveness.
