References – The Wings to Awakening (2010) 
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Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 2, pp. 43-48. Read by Ajahn Amaro:

Richard Gombrich, ‘Metaphor, Allegory, Satire,’ in How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings, p. 65-68.

The Wings to Awakening by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro p. 6.

The Mind Like Fire Unbound by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro p. 41.

Roberto Calasso, Ka, pp. 369-70.

Gita Mehta, A River Sutra, p. 290.

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 5


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Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 3, pp. 58-61. Read by Ajahn Amaro:

Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu, unpublished Dhamma talk, 1988.

A 10.92; The Wings to Awakening by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro, pp. 35-37.

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 8


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“When kamma meets this present moment way of handling experience, this synchronic approach, is there some sort of free will there?” Answered by Ajahn Amaro. [Kamma] [Conditionality] [Philosophy]

Reference: The Wings to Awakening by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro, pp. 35-37.

Quote: “The concept of free will is quite European.” [Culture/West]

Reference: “Is God a Taoist?”, Raymond M. Smullyan in The Mind’s ‘I’, edited by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett.

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 8, Excerpt 3