References – AN 9.36: Depending on Absorption 
“What is the difference between abandoning craving and realizing the abandoning of craving?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Jotipālo. [Impermanence] [Aggregates] [Cause of Suffering] [Cessation of Suffering] // [Commentaries] [Doubt] [Relinquishment] [Concentration] [Gladdening the mind] [Desire] [Becoming] [Non-return] [Right View]
Sutta: SN 56.11 Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta. [Four Noble Truths]
Sutta: AN 9.36 Jhāna Sutta: Passion for Dhamma leads to non-return. [Dhamma] [Rapture]
Sutta: MN 121 Cūḷa Suññata Sutta: The Shorter Discourse on Emptiness [Emptiness]
Quote: “The characteristic of cessation is not just ending something and annihilating [it], but it’s being willing and able to stop. The nature of the mind is that it doesn’t like to stop. And it’s [through] that not stopping that we keep creating that sense of me.” — Ajahn Pasanno. [Cessation] [Nature of mind] [Self-identity view]
Our Roots in the Thai Forest Tradition [2014], Session 40, Excerpt 5
Readings by Ajahn Ñāṇiko: [Mindfulness of breathing]
Reading: Right Mindfulness pp. 93-96.
Reading: Book of the Discipline Part 1 p. 116-121, Pārājikā 3 origin story.
Reading: AN 9.36: Jhāna.
Reading: SN 54.8: Simile of the lamp.
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [2015], Session 23
Readings by Ajahn Pasanno: [Right Mindfulness] [Concentration] [Formless attainments]
Reading: Right Mindfulness p. 113.
Reading: AN 4.94: “Concentration.”
Reading: AN 9.36: “Jhāna.”
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [2015], Session 33
Commentary on AN 9.36, “Jhāna.” Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Jhāna] [Formless attainments] [Characteristics of existence] [Aggregates] [Liberation] [Deathless] [Progress of insight] [Relinquishment] [Nibbāna]
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [2015], Session 33, Excerpt 2
“Does the Buddha mean [in AN 9.36] that one can enter and emerge from these attainments at will?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Jhāna] [Formless attainments] [Volition] // [Similes]
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [2015], Session 33, Excerpt 3
“Related to the need to emerge from neither-perception-nor-non-perception and cessation of perception to contemplate the five khandhas [in AN 9.36], don’t some of the commentaries imply that that’s what you do with first jhāna; that insight is not possible even in first jhāna?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Formless attainments] [Aggregates] [Insight meditation] [Commentaries] [Jhāna] // [Views]
Recollection: Ajahn Chah emphasized that every step of the way there has to be awareness. Awareness has to form the basis of the whole practice. [Ajahn Chah] [Mindfulness] [Clear comprehension] [Right Concentration] [Right View]
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [2015], Session 33, Excerpt 5
“Do you have to emerge from jhāna to contemplate the characteristics of the aggregates?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Jhāna] [Insight meditation] [Aggregates] // [Mindfulness] [Thai Forest Tradition] [Knowing itself]
Sutta: AN 9.36: “Jhāna.”
Quote: “Contemplation gets really good when you stop thinking.” — Ajahn Chah. [Ajahn Chah] [Directed thought and evaluation]
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [2015], Session 33, Excerpt 8
Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 7, pp. 126-132. Read by Ajahn Amaro:
Stephen Collins, Selfless Persons, pp. 43-45.
Suttas: MN 64.9-16, AN 9.36; Iti 51; AN 9.37; SN 48.57; AN 10.58; AN 8.73; MN 49.23; MN 1.25.