“In one of the first readings [Session 2, question 2 and Session 3, question 3] you mentioned momentary Nibbāna. How do jhānas relate to momentary Nibbāna?” Answered by Ajahn Amaro and Ajahn Pasanno. [Nibbāna] [Jhāna] // [Clinging] [Ajahn Chah] [Liberation]
Sutta: MN 113.21: Don’t be content with jhāna.
Sutta: MN 26.15-16: Āḷāra Kālāma and Uddaka Rāmaputta.
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 12, Excerpt 5
Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 6, pp. 117-123. Read by Ajahn Amaro:
Suttas: MN 113.21; MN 137.19-20; AN 4.24.
Richard Gombrich, ‘Metaphor, Allegory, Satire,’ in How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings, pp. 86-7.
Hsin Hsin Ming, the verses of the Third Ch’an Patriarch.
Atulo, collected teachings of Ajahn Dune compiled by Ajahn Bodhinandamuni (no full English translation).
AN 3.40 in The Magic of the Mind by Bhikkhu Ñāṇananda pp. 49 & 52.