References – AN 10.2: Volition 
AN 10.2 explains that samādhi and liberation follow naturally from gladdening the mind with a foundation of virtue. Elucidating the tenth step of the Ānāpānasati Sutta (MN 118), Ajahn Pasanno describes various ways to allow the mind to delight in Dhamma and stillness. [Mindfulness of breathing] [Gladdening the mind]
Ānāpānasati: Mindfulness of In-and-Out Breathing [2005], Session 11
“When practicing to get out of the world, how does one avoid slipping into unhappiness with the world?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Escape] [Suffering] [Happiness] // [Saṃsāra] [Not-self] [Divine Abidings] [Unattractiveness] [Equanimity] [Gladdening the mind] [Concentration] [Knowledge and vision]
Sutta: MN 10.10: Contemplating the body as if it were a sack of grains.
Suttas: AN 6.10, AN 10.2: Causal chains yielding gladness (pāmojja) with different starting points.
Questions and Answers at Wat Pah Nanachat [2025], Excerpt 8
Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:
The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 13, pp. 235-239:
Suttas: AN 10.2; MN 118.15; SN 56.11; SN 51.20.
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 27
Comment: Some of the links [in AN 10.2] seem more natural than others....For example, the Bodhisattva was really good at concentration, but he wouldn’t have described himself as having knowledge and vision of the way things are back when he was studying with Āḷāra Kālāma. Contributed by Ajahn Kaccāna. [Conditionality] [Naturalness] [Concentration] [Knowledge and vision] [Bodhisattva]
Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Right View]
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 27, Excerpt 1
“You mentioned that one of the links [in AN 10.2] is pleasure. What is this in Pāli?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Happiness] [Translation]
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 27, Excerpt 2
“Is knowledge an vision [described in AN 10.2] different than the Dhammacakka Sutta [SN 56.11.5] where it says that knowledge and vision arose?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Knowledge and vision] // [Four Noble Truths]
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 27, Excerpt 3
“I am interested to hear more about the qualities of wholeheartedness. You mentioned that the English language does not have a word that captures it. There’s something that can go from non-attachment/dispassion to apathy, which is not helpful in the world.” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Language] [Relinquishment] [Dispassion] [Sloth and torpor] [Impermanence] // [Disenchantment] [Skillful qualities] [Pāli] [Conditionality] [Abhidhamma]
Suttas: Suttas: AN 6.10, AN 10.2: The cascade of well being.