References – SN 35.116: Going to the End of the World 
Sutta / Saṁyutta Nikāya / SN 35: Saḷāyatanasaṁyutta / SN 35.116: Lokantagamanasutta

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Comment: I’m improving my skill at seeing the greed or aversion when there are pleasant or unpleasant feelings, but I often don’t see the neutral feeling state so clearly. [Mindfulness of feeling] [Feeling] [Unwholesome Roots] [Neutral feeling] [Delusion] // [Mindfulness of body] [Restlessness and worry] [Fear] [Present moment awareness]

Response by Ajahn Pasanno.

Quote: “That whereby one is a conceiver of the world, a perceiver of the world, that is the world.” — SN 35.116. [Nature of the cosmos] [Proliferation] [Perception]

The Path of Practice [2019], Session 2, Excerpt 11


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“My understanding is that it is not good to indulge the five senses. But is there a way to make that help with your cultivation?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Sense bases] [Sense restraint] // [Appropriate attention] [Discernment] [Skillful qualities] [Unskillful qualities]

Reference: Amaravati Chanting Book, p. 6: Recollection of the Dhamma [Recollection/Dhamma]

Sutta: SN 35.23: The six senses are the all.

Sutta: SN 35.116: A perceiver of the world, a conceiver of the world.

Q&A at Sudhana Center [2023], Excerpt 8


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Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 14, pp. 258-265:

Suttas: SN 35.82; SN 35.116; MN 8.3; SN 4.16; SN 35.90; SN 35.248; Snp 954; MN 72.15; SN 12.51; MN 138.3; Snp 839; Snp 794-5; Snp 812-13; Snp 537; Dhp 421; Dhp 348.

A Still Forest Pool by Ajahn Chah (commercial) p. 73.

SN 35.248: Yavakalāpī.

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 35


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“Ananda’s answer (in SN 35.116) defines the world, but what did the Buddha mean by the end of the world?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Sense bases] // [Cessation of Suffering]

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 35, Excerpt 1


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“It is, friend, in just this fathom-high carcass endowed with perception and mind that I make known the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world, and the way leading to the cessation of the world.” — SN 2.26.5 [Bhikkhu Bodhi translation]. [Nature of the cosmos] [Four Noble Truths]

Quote: “This pithy utterance of the Buddha may well be the most profound proposition in the history of human thought...” — Bhikkhu Bodhi’s footnote to the above passage. [Bhikkhu Bodhi] [Philosophy]

Sutta: SN 35.116: The world in the Noble One’s discipline.

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 40, Excerpt 7