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[Session] Reading: “The Path of Non Contention” by Ajahn Amaro in Beginning Our Day Vol. 1 by Abhayagiri Saṅgha, pp. 215-217. Read by Ajahn Kassapo. [Non-contention]
1. Comments by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo about understanding metta as radical acceptance. [Goodwill]
2. “What is the relationship between truthfulness, the truth of the way things are, and metta?” Answered by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo.
Bhikkhu Bodhi presents the Ten Perfections in linear order. Comment by Ajahn Jotipālo. [Bhikkhu Bodhi] [Perfections]
Reference: A Study of the the Pāramīs by Bhikkhu Bodhi.
The preception of not-self helps us avoid denying unskillful mind states. Comment by Ajahn Kaccāna. [Not-self] [Truth] [Unskillful qualities] [Self-identity view]
1. Reading: “Awe” from Meditations Vol. 6 by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro, pp. 47-49. Read by Ajahn Kaccāna.
2. Reading: “Strengthening Mindfulness,” a Dhamma talk given by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro on January 4, 2012. Read by Ajahn Kaccāna.
3. Comments about the translation of saṃvega as fear, terror, or awe. Contributed by Ajahn Ñāṇiko and Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Spiritual urgency] [Translation] [Fear]
[Session] Reading: “Presence” by Ajahn Paññāvaḍḍho in Uncommon Wisdom: The Life and Teachings of Ajahn Paññāvaḍḍho by Ajahn Dick Sīlaratano, pp. 147-156. Read by Ajahn Pesalo.
1. Comments about the Middle Way being different for different people. Contributed by Ajahn Ñāṇiko, Ajahn Karuṇadhammo and Ajahn Pesalo. [Middle Path] [Unwholesome Roots] [Idealism]
[Session] Readings: “Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way,” pp. 12-19 and “Bright Kamma,” pp. 26-31 from Kamma and the End of Kamma, First Edition by Ajahn Sucitto. Read by Ajahn Suhajjo. [Kamma]
Note: These readings come from the first edition, which Ajahn Sucitto has substantially corrected and revised. Please use the second edition when possible.
1. Appreciation for Ajahn Sucitto’s detailed descriptions of the maneuverings of the mind. [Ajahn Sucitto] [Teaching Dhamma]
Reference: Kamma and the End of Kamma by Ajahn Sucitto.
2. “Does Ajahn Sucitto describe sati as more a mind quality and sampajañña more a heart quality?” Answered by Ajahn Ñāṇiko. [Ajahn Sucitto] [Mindfulness] [Clear comprehension] [Heart/mind]
Reference: Kamma and the End of Kamma, First Edition by Ajahn Sucitto, p. 30.
3. Ajahn Sucitto suggests cutting out habitual reaction patterns by bringing up the perception of not-self. Comment by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Ajahn Sucitto] [Right Effort] [Habits] [Not-self] [Conditionality] [Relinquishment]
Reference: Kamma and the End of Kamma by Ajahn Sucitto.
4. The habitual perceptual patterns condition what we seek out to experience. Comment by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Habits] [Perception] [Craving] // [Ignorance]
Reference: Kamma and the End of Kamma by Ajahn Sucitto.
We can see how our body and mnd are in constant flux, but we see others as fixed and solid. Comment by Ajahn Ñāṇiko. [Impermanence] [Views] [Community]
Story: A peaceful sīladhara no longer tells stories in her mind. Told by Ajahn Jotipālo. [Proliferation] [Equanimity]
[Session] Reading: “Why Come to a Monastery?” by Ajahn Candasiri in Friends on the Path by Ajahn Sundarā and Ajahn Candasiri, pp. 13-21. Read by Ajahn Khantiko. [Sensual desire] [Naturalness] [Craving]
1. Discussion about desire as natural and the reduction and eventual elimination of desire. Led by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Desire] [Sensual desire] [Naturalness] [Craving] // [Aversion] [Cause of Suffering] [Judgementalism] [Cessation of Suffering]
Reference: “Why Come to a Monastery?” by Ajahn Candasiri in Friends on the Path by Ajahn Sundarā and Ajahn Candasiri, pp. 13-21.
The word natural carries positive connotations in English. Comment by Ajahn Kaccāna. [Language] [Culture/West]
2. “Is desire itself the problem or is clinging to and identifying with desire the problem?” Answered by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Desire] [Clinging] [Self-identity view] [Sensual desire] [Naturalness ] [Craving ] // [Feeling] [Dependent origination]
Quote: “Taṇhā is eliminate-able.” [Cessation of Suffering]
Comment about distinguishing between hunger and taṇha at meal time. [Food] [Moderation in eating]
Response by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo and Ajahn Ñāṇiko. [Views]
3. Further discussion about the role of desire in practice. Led by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Desire] [Sensual desire] [Naturalness] [Craving] // [Noble Truth of Suffering] [Conditionality] [Human] [Monastic life] [Judgementalism]
Comment: If you aren’t willing to see desire as a dhamma, then you’ll never see Dhamma. [Dhamma] [Culture/West] [Guilt/shame/inadequacy]
Reference: “Why Come to a Monastery?” by Ajahn Candasiri in Friends on the Path by Ajahn Sundarā and Ajahn Candasiri, pp. 13-21.
A practitioner tells Ajahn Paññāvaḍḍho that sexual desire is natural. He replies, “So is the Dhamma.” [Ajahn Paññāvaḍḍho]
Recollection of Ajahn Karuṇadhammo’s advice to an anagārika about different approaches to dealing with lust. Recounted by Ajahn Pesalo. [Ajahn Karuṇadhammo] [Unattractiveness] [Characteristics of existence]
[Session] Reading: “The Beauty of Sila” by Ajahn Jayasaro in Forest Path by the Wat Pah Nanachat Saṅgha, pp. 57-68. Read by Tan Gambhīro. [Virtue]
1. Comment: I have to brace myself when someone is about to kill a bug. [Killing] [Judgementalism]
Response by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Conscience and prudence] [Aversion] [Admonishment/feedback] [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro] [Goodwill] [Precepts]
1. Reading: “Levels of the Breath” from Meditations Vol. 5 by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro, pp. 47-51. Read by Tan Kondañño. [Mindfulness of breathing]
2. Reading: “The Four Jhanas” from Meditations Vol. 5 by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro, pp. 52-57. Read by Tan Kondañño. [Mindfulness of breathing] [Jhāna]
[Session] Reading: “Cultivating Gratitude” by Ajahn Pasanno in Gratitude by Ajahn Chah Saṅgha, p. 53. Read by Tan Jāgaro. [Gratitude]
1. “During the development of Abhayagiri over the years, has there been a shift in how strictly some practices, activities are followed?” Answered by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo and Debbie Stamp. [Amaravati] [Ajahn Sumedho] [Ascetic practices] [Culture/West] [Divine Abidings] [Abhayagiri] // [Ajahn Chah] [Devotion to wakefulness] [Work] [Ajahn Pasanno] [Admonishment/feedback] [Protocols] [Ajahn Amaro] [Guilt/shame/inadequacy]
Story: Can we ask for soymilk? [Food] [Simplicity]
Recollection: The effects of the gap in seniority between Ajahn Amaro and (then) Tan Karuṇadhammo. [Ajahn Karuṇadhammo] [Sequence of training]
Recollection: Ajahn Pasanno is lighter and softer now. Recounted by Debbie Stamp. [Personal presence]
Recollection: The gung-ho early days of Chithurst and Amaravati. Recounted by Debbie Stamp. [Chithurst] [Disrobing]
Recollection: The beginning of sharing circles. Recounted by Debbie Stamp. [Sharing circles] [Culture/Thailand]
2. Comment by Ajahn Ñāṇiko: Abhayagiri works because the abbots empower members of the community to be in charge of different aspects of the monastery. [Abhayagiri] [Abbot] [Saṅgha decision making]
Recollection: Ajahn Pasanno asks the Saṅgha before accepting invitations. [Ajahn Pasanno]
Quote: “Ajahn Pasanno is genuinely open to junior members’ opinions.” [Admonishment/feedback] [Humility]
Comment: Less admonishment in korwat is needed now at Abhayagiri because momentum has built and you can follow the group. [Protocols]
Response by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo.
3. Recollection: Ajahn Pasanno consults the group rather than dictating decisions. Recounted by Ajahn Jotipālo. [Ajahn Pasanno] [Abbot] [Abhayagiri] [Saṅgha decision making] [Leadership]
Quote: “Sometimes it’s better to be harmonious than to be right.” — Ajahn Pasanno. [Communal harmony] [Views]
Quote: “I must hurry, for there they go, and I am their leader.” — Sign above a boss’s desk. Quoted by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Humor]
4. Story: Carrying wood to the Cloth Yurt. Told by Ajahn Jotipālo. [Ajahn Jotipālo] [Ajahn Pasanno] [Lodging] [Work] [Abhayagiri]
5. Story: “How is it going? There are a lot of weeds growing on your walking path.” Told by Debbie Stamp. [Ajahn Pasanno] [Work] [Posture/Walking]
Response by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Gratitude]
[Session] Reading: “Being Awareness Itself” from Don’t Take Your Life Personally by Ajahn Sumedho (commercial). Read by Tan Suddhiko. [Knowing itself]
1. Ajahn Pasanno delights in Ajahn Sumedho’s ability to share Dhamma. [Ajahn Sumedho] [Teaching Dhamma] [Empathetic joy]
2. Quote: “Sumedho will teach you about Nibbāna. I can teach you how to look after your bowl.” — Ajahn Chah to young Ajahn Vajiro. Quoted by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Chah] [Ajahn Vajiro] [Ajahn Sumedho] [Nibbāna] [Almsbowl] [Protocols]
3. “Can you recommend a book of koans for inspiration?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Zen] [Koan] [Dhamma books] // [Ajahn Sumedho] [Hua tou] [Master Hsu Yun]
Story: Ajahn Chah encourages Ajahn Sumedho to develop the hua tou technique. [Ajahn Chah] [Mahasi Sayadaw] [Ven. Ñāṇatiloka]
Reference: Word of the Buddha by Ñāṇatiloka Mahāthera.
4. Story: Harata Rōshi’s response to a question about koans. Told by Ajahn Jotipālo. [Harata Rōshi] [Koan] // [Translation]
Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Knowing itself]
[Session] Reading: “Khanti – Patient Endurance” from The Real Practice by Ajahn Jayasaro, p. 20. Read by Debbie Stamp. [Patience]
1. Question about the idea of punishment in the Vinaya. Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Vinaya] [Disciplinary transactions] // [Thai] [Translation] [Kamma]
2. “Where does the story in the reading come from?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Stories] // [Commentaries]
Reference: “Khanti – Patient Endurance” from The Real Practice by Ajahn Jayasaro, p. 20.
3. “Could you give some guidance on when to patiently endure and when to use discernment to deal with something?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno, Ajahn Karuṇadhammo and Ajahn Jotipālo. [Patience ] [Discernment] // [Right Effort] [Skillful qualities] [Unskillful qualities]
Story: A fortune teller reads Ajahn Chah’s palm. Told by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Chah] [Aversion]
[Session]
Reading: “What is the Timeless?,” a Dhamma talk by Ajahn Vīradhammo at Tisarana Monastery in 2016. Read by Beth Steff.
Reading: “The Middle Way of Knowing Mental Formations,” a Dhamma talk by Ajahn Vīradhammo at Tisarana Monastery in 2016. Read by Beth Steff.
1. Comment by Ajahn Ñāṇiko: This reading reminds me of a sutta where the Buddha defines “apparent here and now.” [Recollection/Dhamma] // [Investigation of states] [Mindfulness of mind]
Sutta: AN 3.53
2. Story: Entering a cold river is just saṅkhāra, told by Ajahn Jotipālo. [Ajahn Kusalo] [Bhante Rahula] [Volitional formations] // [Ajahn Jotipālo] [Arrow River]
[Session] Reading: “Head and Heart Together” from Head and Heart Together by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro, pp. 51-60. Read by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo.
1. Comments by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo on right view and skillful cause and effect regarding the brahmaviharas. [Right View] [Right Intention] [Conditionality] [Kamma] [Divine Abidings] // [Insight meditation] [Goodwill]
2. “Did Ajahn Chah emphasize generosity and service more for Westerners than for Thais?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Chah] [Generosity] [Service] [Culture/West] // [Culture/Thailand]
3. Comment: In “Selves and Not-Selves,” Ajahn Ṭhānissaro talks about generosity and metta as wisdom practices. [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro] [Generosity] [Goodwill] [Discernment] // [Self-identity view]
Response by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Becoming] [Not-self]
1. Brief biography of Ajahn Khemadhammo. [Ajahn Khemadhammo] [Prisons] // [Monastic titles] [Service]
2. Reading: “Invincibility” by Ajahn Khemadhammo from Seeing the Way Vol. 2 by Ajahn Chah Saṅgha, pp. 11-13. Read by Ajahn Jotipālo.
3. Reading: “The Road Towards the Exit from the Prison of Hatred,” a Dhamma talk by Ajahn Khemadhammo at 2015 Amaravati Kaṭhina. Read by Ajahn Jotipālo.
4. “How has work with prisoners affected Ajahn Khemadhammo?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Jotipālo. [Ajahn Khemadhammo] [Prisons] // [Determination] [Service] [Truth]
5. “Where does Ajahn Khemadhammo live?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Khemadhammo] // [Mutual lay/Saṅgha support]
6. Story: Ajahn Khemadhammo creates Buddha groves in prisons. Told by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Khemadhammo] [Prisons] [Buddha images] // [Ceremony/ritual] [Ajahn Pasanno] [Tranquility]
7. Story: The inmate leading the Buddhist group was caught selling drugs. Told by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Khemadhammo] [Prisons] [Intoxicants]
Comments about intoxicants, crime, and prisons. Contributed by Beth Steff and Ajahn Pasanno. [Crime]
[Session]
Reading: “Hindrances and their Cessation” from The Anthology Vol. 2 by Ajahn Sumedho pp. 47-51. An older version is available online in Mindfulness: The Path to the Deathless. Read by Ajahn Ñāṇiko.
Reading: “Emptiness and Form” from The Anthology Vol. 2 by Ajahn Sumedho pp. 53-57. An older version is available online in Mindfulness: The Path to the Deathless. Read by Ajahn Ñāṇiko.
1. “Is Ajahn Sumedho saying that art is always coming from a place of ego?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Artistic expression] [Self-identity view] // [Doubt]
Quote: “How do we respond to doubt? ...out of fear, out of worry? How do we try to make things certain and sure? That’s what we have to figure out.” [Fear] [Impermanence]
2. Comment about the arising of self even in abstract thought. Contributed by Ajahn Kaccāna. [Proliferation] [Self-identity view]
Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Cause of Suffering]
3. Comments by Ajahn Jotipālo, Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Ñāṇiko about self in creative endeavors. [Artistic expression] [Self-identity view] // [Christianity] [Discernment] [Tranquility] [Buddha/Biography] [Ajahn Liem]
[Session] Reading: Who Will Feed the Mice? by Ajahn Amaro. Read by Ajahn Jīvako. [Parents]
1. Comments about the role of parents. [Parents]
Quote: “Our mothers are our umbilical cord to the universe.” — Reverend Heng Sure. [Rev. Heng Sure] [Birth] [Death]
[Session] Reading: “Recollecting Our Goodness” by Ajahn Amaro in Beginning Our Day Vol. 1 by Abhayagiri Saṅgha, pp. 23-26. Read by Ajahn Kassapo.
1. “At what point does it become unskillful to continue to reflect on one’s own good deeds?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno and Beth Steff. [Recollection/Virtue] [Unskillful qualities] // [Self-identity view] [Right Effort] [Recollection/Generosity] [Culture/West] [Christianity] [Guilt/shame/inadequacy]
Quote: “In Buddhism, we don’t believe in original sin. We believe in original purity.” — King Rama IX to a BBC interviewer. [King Rama IX] [Nature of mind]
Reference: The 1979 BBC interview on YouTube.
Commentary: Path of Purification by Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli, p. 104: Forty subjects of meditation.
Story: Western researchers find Tibetans who have been tortured don’t suffer post-traumatic stress. [Abuse/violence] [Vajrayāna] [Three Refuges] [Compassion]
Story: God’s finger over the “Smite” button. [God] [The Far Side]
Comment by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo: The Dalai Lama emphasizes the effect of faith in the law of kamma. [Dalai Lama] [Kamma] [Faith]
Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Right View]
2. Discussion about evaluating the results of practice. Led by Ajahn Pasanno. [Meditation/Results] [Right Effort] // [Faith] [Investigation of states] [Self-identity view] [Not-self]
Comment: I notice that I have preconceptions about the way I evaluate my practice.
Response: Ajahn Pasanno distinguishes between investigation and evaluation.
The very pattern, “What will make me good enough?” is suffering. Comment by Ajahn Kaccāna. [Habits] [Cause of Suffering]
Response by Ajahn Pasanno.
Story: Aversion towards the nada sound and the importance of having a teacher. Told by Ajahn Jotipālo. [Teachers] [Ajahn Jotipālo] [Sound of silence] [Aversion] [Insight Meditation Society] [Ajahn Amaro]
[Session] Reading: We Are All Translators by Ajahn Munindo. Read by Ajahn Kaccāna.
1. “We Are All Translators by Ajahn Munindo mentions the virtue of using different techniques by different teachers in the practice. Was this part of your decision to choose this reading?” Answered by Ajahn Kaccāna. [Meditation/Techniques]
[Session] Reading: Excerpts from Rude Awakenings by Ajahn Sucitto and Nick Scott. Read by Ajahn Pesalo.
1. “Was your experience (in India) similar to what is described in Rude Awakenings by Ajahn Sucitto and Nick Scott?” Answered by Ajahn Pesalo and Ajahn Ñāṇiko. [Culture/India] [Ajahn Sucitto] // [Tudong] [Almsround]
2. “How does the opportunity to go on pilgrimage in India come about for monastics?” Answered by Ajahn Ñāṇiko. [Visiting holy sites] [Monastic life] // [Mutual lay/Saṅgha support] [Ajahn Achalo] [Ajahn Ñāṇiko]
3. “Ajahn Ñāṇiko, during your time in India, was there a big takeaway from your experience or stories or experiences you would be willing to share?” Answered by Ajahn Ñāṇiko. [Ajahn Ñāṇiko] [Visiting holy sites] // [Culture/India] [Sickness] [Poverty]
Story: Going almsround outside Bodh Gaya: “It’s rare to be able to give to a samaṇa.” [Perception of a samaṇa] [Types of monks]
4. Comment: I enjoyed the counterpoint between Ajahn Sucitto and Nick Scott in Rude Awakenings. [Ajahn Sucitto] [Personality]
Responses by Ajahn Jotipālo and Ajahn Pesalo.
[Session] Reading: “Self” by Ajahn Paññāvaḍḍho in Uncommon Wisdom: The Life and Teachings of Ajahn Paññāvaḍḍho by Ajahn Dick Sīlaratano, pp. 235-244. Read by Ajahn Suhajjo.
1. “Ajahn Pasanno, did you have a chance to spend much time with Ajahn Paññavaddho?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Paññāvaḍḍho] [Ajahn Pasanno]
2. “Can you say anything about the “voice of dhamma” Ajahn Paññāvaḍḍho describes [in the reading “Self”] versus the voice we hear inside our head? is it like the voice of conscience?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Dhamma] [Conscience and prudence] // [Knowing itself]
[Session] Reading: “Attammayata,” The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, pp. 110-122. Read by Ajahn Khantiko. [Not-made-of-that]
1. “Can you provide guidance on the contemplation of conceiving, and name and form?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Conceit] [Aggregates] [Proliferation] // [Suffering] [Nature of mind] [Advertizing] [Impermanence] [Relinquishment] [Not-made-of-that] [Four Noble Truths]
Sutta: Ud 3.10: “For however one conceives it, it is always other than that.”
Quote: “The mind is a liar and a cheat.” — Ajahn Chah. [Ajahn Chah] [False speech]
Reference: Ajahn Buddhadāsa’s Nine Eyes, The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, p. 116. [Ajahn Buddhadāsa] [Characteristics of existence]
Sutta: UD 1.10 Bāhiya Sutta: “In the seen there is only the seen...” [Sense bases] [Perception]
Quote: “You can hurt yourself even with really good tools.” [Meditation/Techniques] [Right Effort]
2. “Can you restate Luang Por Dune’s rendering of the Four Noble Truths?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Dune] [Four Noble Truths] // [Thai]
3. “What does the phrase “beyond good and evil” mean in reference to the mind of an arahant?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Arahant] [Skillful qualities] [Unskillful qualities] // [Thai]
Quote: “Above cause, beyond effect. Above good, beyond evil. Above merit, beyond demerit.” — Ajahn Chah. [Ajahn Chah] [Conditionality] [Merit]
[Session] Reading: “Body,” Uncommon Wisdom: The Life and Teachings of Ajahn Paññāvaḍḍho by Ajahn Dick Sīlaratano, pp. 190-198. Read by Tan Gambhīro. [Unattractiveness]
1. “Do the Thai Forest masters emphasize hair, teeth, nails, and skin in their body contemplation because those are more obvious to cultivate?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Thai Forest Tradition] [Mindfulness of body] [Unattractiveness] // [Ordination]
2. “Do you contemplate the body before you contemplate mind?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Thai Forest Tradition] [Mindfulness of body] [Mindfulness of mind] // [Culture/West] [Nature of mind] [Sense bases] [Aggregates]
Follow-up: “Do you need to let go of the body before you can go deep into the mind?”
3. “When you are sick, the body is not happy, so it is not that easy to meditate, right?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Sickness] [Happiness] [Meditation]
4. Discussion of the Judeo-Christian framework in the West and the split between mind and body processes. [Culture/West] [Nature of mind]
5. Story: Ajahn Kalyano instructs monks to memorize the organs while watching an autopsy. Told by Ajahn Jotipālo. [Ajahn Kalyāṇo] [Unattractiveness] [Mindfulness of body] // [Aversion]
Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Disenchantment] [Dispassion] [Skillful qualities]
[Session] Reading: “Five Piles of Bricks: the Khandas as Burden and Path,” The Karma of Questions by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro, pp. 57-64. Read by Tan Kondañño. [Aggregates]
1. “I’m half expecting the earth to shake.” Comment by Ajahn Ñāṇiko after the reading of “Five Piles of Bricks.”
Response by Ajahn Pasanno: All five of the Buddha’s first disciples were liberated when listening to the Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta (SN 22.59; Chanting Book translation). [Buddha/Biography] [Liberation] [Aggregates] [Not-self]
2. ““Is Ajahn Ṭhānissaro the first voice in a couple thousand years to propose that the khandas may not be a self, or is he drawing from another tradition?”” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro] [Commentaries] [Aggregates] [History] // [Buddha]
3. “Could you talk about practicing with intention?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Volition] // [Pāli] [Ajahn Chah] [Precepts]
4. “Is volition the same as becoming or an aspect of becoming?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Volition] [Becoming]
5. “How shall we listen to the Dhamma talks [read during Winter Retreat]?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Hearing the true Dhamma] [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro] [Learning] // [Volition]
6. “In trying to create separation between self and the khandas, are there other tools that can help around the act of becoming?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Aggregates] [Self-identity view] [Becoming] // [Knowing itself] [Volition] [Tranquility] [Investigation of states]
7. The Buddha taught not-self by ecouraging his disciples to ask these questions. [Teaching Dhamma] [Not-self] [Questions] [Philosophy]
Sutta: SN 22.59 Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta questionaire (Chanting Book translation).
Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Skillful qualities] [Ajahn Chah]
[Session]
Reading: “Happiness Forever,” The Anthology Vol. 2 by Ajahn Sumedho, pp. 9-10. Read by Tan Jāgaro.
Reading: “Patience,” The Anthology Vol. 2 by Ajahn Sumedho, pp. 65-68. Read by Tan Jāgaro.
Reading: “All the Time in the World,” The Anthology Vol. 2 by Ajahn Sumedho, pp. 51-52. Read by Tan Jāgaro.
1. “Why is trying to conquer pain a disaster?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Pain] // [Self-identity view] [Craving not to become] [Suffering]
2. “At what point in the Forest Tradition do you use a “warrior strategy” to conquer pain, defilements?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Unwholesome Roots] [Pain] [Thai Forest Tradition] // [Determination] [Self-identity view] [Spaciousness] [Right Effort]
Comment: The Krooba Ajahns can get intense and fiery, but what they are actually doing is making their minds calm and then contemplating and understanding pain and defilements. [Fierce/direct teaching] [Tranquility] [Discernment]
Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Culture/West] [Abuse/violence] [Culture/Thailand]
Story: A gung-ho five vassa monk tears down the spirit house in a southern Thai fishing village. [Superstition] [Rains retreat] [Ajahn Chah]
3. “Ajahn Sumedho talks about Ajahn Chah making him miserable, testing him. Was that your experience when you were practicing with Ajahn Chah?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Chah] [Ajahn Sumedho] [Mentoring] [Ajahn Pasanno]
4. “When dealing with pain, could you give examples of the questions you would ask yourself?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Kaccāna. [Pain] [Questions] [Investigation of states] // [Visualization] [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro] [Elements]
[Session]
Reading: “In the Mood,” Meditations Vol. 1 by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro, pp. 30-32. Read by Tan Suddhiko.
Reading: “Imagine,” Meditations Vol. 1 by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro, pp. 24-29. Read by Tan Suddhiko.
1. “In working with the breath, when I try to spread well-being throughout the body, it seems to diminish. How do I discern whether to maintain this feeling or go back to the more intense feeling?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Rapture] // [Concentration] [Volition]
2. “Does insight arise from deeper concentration or can it also arise from different things?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Concentration] [Insight meditation] // [Tranquility]
Story: Ajahn Pasanno experiences insight on a bus in Bangkok. [Ajahn Pasanno] [Contact]
3. Comments about samādhi and continuity of practice. [Concentration] [Continuity of mindfulness]
[Session] Reading: “Reflecting on Beauty and Disappointment” a talk by Ajahn Vīradhammo at Berkeley Buddhist Monastery on November 3, 2015 (original recording). Read by Debbie Stamp.
[Session] Reading: “The One Who Knows” an unpublished talk by Ajahn Kalyāno at Bodhiyana Monastery, Melbourne Australia in October 2012 (with permission). Read by Beth Steff.
[Session] Reading: “Identity” in The Sound of Silence by Ajahn Sumedho (Anthology volume 4 or commercial). Read by Ajahn Ñāṇiko. [Self-identity view]
1. “Can I respond to my thoughts in ways that I think are useful?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Directed thought and evaluation] [Self-identity view] // [Right Effort] [Cause of Suffering] [Cessation of Suffering] [Knowing itself]
Reference: “Identity” in The Sound of Silence by Ajahn Sumedho (Anthology volume 4 or commercial).
Appreciation for Ajahn Sumedho’s image of the wheel. [Similes]
Sutta: MN 24: The purpose of Buddhist practice. [Liberation]
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