Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts30 Des 2025

Gratitude: Count Your Blessings | Guided Buddhist Meditation | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Kataññu Katavedi

At the end of the year, we're usually focussed on resolutions for the future. But we may overlook good things we already have, and good qualities we already have developed in our character.

Reflecting on all the good things we can be grateful for doesn't mean denying all the bad things happening in the world. However, if we're only focussed on the bad stuff, our mind is in danger to become angry of depressed.

If we acknowledge all the good things we receive, our mind will be uplifted and joyful.

In this guided meditation, Ajahn Dhammasiha encourages us to recollect those fundamental things we usually take for granted, but which are in reality great blessings.

Instead of having a long list of complaints, rather let us consider what we have to be grateful for:

Born as a human being in a peaceful, wealthy country like Australia
In reasonable good health with unimpaired mental faculties
At a time when the teaching of Buddha is still available
When we have 'Kalyaṇa-Mitta' (good spiritual friends)
When we have Forest Monasteries
And when we have at least some confidence/faith in the Triple Gem
(...)
( There are many more, feel free to fill in all the other blessings you can find in your own meditation 😊 )

When we count our blessings, we feel contenment, satisfaction and joy in our meditation, and the mind can settle down easily.

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