All readings
16 events, 193 sessions, 248 excerpts, 16:29:10 total duration
Most common topics:
Ajahn Chah
(40)
Right Mindfulness
(13)
Mindfulness of breathing
(11)
Death
(10)
Culture/Thailand
(8)
Sickness
(7)
Ajahn Mun
(6)
Mindfulness of body
(6)
Parents
(6)
Thai Forest Tradition
(6)
[Session] Reading: “The Treasure House,” excerpts from Chapter 10 in Rude Awakenings by Ajahn Sucitto and Nick Scott. Read by Ajahn Pesalo.
[Session] Reading: “Basic Premises,” With Each and Every Breath by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro. Read by Ajahn Suhajjo.
[Session] Reading: “The First Noble Truth,” pp. 14-28 in The Four Noble Truths by Ajahn Sumedho. Read by Ajahn Khantiko. [Noble Truth of Suffering]
[Session] Readings by Tan Gambhīro:
Reading: “Recollection of Hell,” Meditations Vol. 6 by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro.
Reading: “Pissing on Palaces,” Meditations Vol. 6 by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro.
Note: The recording begins in the middle of the first reading.
[Session] Readings by Tan Kondañño:
Reading: “Ancient Teachings on Non Abiding,” Small Boat, Great Mountain by Ajahn Amaro, pp. 18-29.
Reading: “Is the Sound Annoying You?” Small Boat, Great Mountain by Ajahn Amaro, pp. 66-72.
Note: The recording begins in the middle of the first reading.
[Session] Reading: “The Second Noble Truth” pp. 29-37 in The Four Noble Truths by Ajahn Sumedho. Read by Tan Jāgaro. [Cause of Suffering]
[Session] Reading: “Sense the Sacred,” pp.127-137 in Don’t Take Your Life Personally by Ajahn Sumedho (commercial). Read by Tan Suddhiko.
[Session] Reading: “Working with Perception,” by Ajahn Sucitto in The Insight Journal, Winter 2009, Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. Read by Debbie Stamp. [Perception]
[Session] Reading: “Parting Words,” a talk by Ajahn Vīradhammo at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery on July 1, 2011. Read by Beth Steff.
3. Reading: Reflections from Reverend Heng Sure. Read by Ajahn Pasanno. [Abhayagiri] // [Rev. Heng Sure] [Pacific Hermitage] [Communal harmony] [Master Hsuan Hua] [Almsround]
[Session] Readings: AN 7.6: Treasures. Read by Ajahn Pasanno. Translated by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro. [Treasures]
4. Reflection by Ajahn Pasanno: The common root of renunciation and compassion is the relationship to suffering. [Renunciation] [Compassion] [Suffering]
Reading: “The Balanced Way” by Bhikkhu Bodhi on accesstoinsight.org.
2. Reading: Stillness Flowing by Ajahn Jayasaro, p. 40-41: Ajahn Chah’s father’s dying request Read by Ajahn Pasanno. [Parents] [Death] [Monastic life/Motivation] [Ajahn Chah] // [Culture/Thailand] [Meditation]
4. Reading: Stillness Flowing by Ajahn Jayasaro, p. 582: “Out of Compassion” Read by Ajahn Pasanno. [Compassion] [Ajahn Chah] // [Gratitude] [Mutual lay/Saṅgha support] [Teaching Dhamma] [Family]
6. Reading: Stillness Flowing by Ajahn Jayasaro, p. 588-591: “Observance Day” Read by Ajahn Pasanno. [Lunar observance days] [Ajahn Chah] // [Abhayagiri] [Eight Precepts]
7. Comment: The essence of Ajahn Chah’s teaching was virtue and Right View. [Teaching Dhamma] [Virtue] [Right View ] [Ajahn Chah] // [Meditation] [Mindfulness] [Concentration]
Reading: Stillness Flowing by Ajahn Jayasaro, p. 594-596: “Sammādiṭṭhi”
9. Reading: Stillness Flowing by Ajahn Jayasaro, p. 612-614 “Faith in the Triple Gem” Read by Ajahn Pasanno. [Faith] [Three Refuges] [Ajahn Chah] // [Buddha] [Dhamma] [Truth] [Teaching Dhamma] [Lay life] [Recollection/Dhamma]
Simile: Digging a well — Ajahn Chah. [Right Effort] [Liberation]
2. Reading: Stillness Flowing by Ajahn Jayasaro, p. 427 “Work is Dhamma Practice” Read by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Chah] [Work ] [Eightfold Path] // [Everyday life] [Aversion]
5. Reading: Stillness Flowing by Ajahn Jayasaro, p. 533-535 “A Snake in the House” Read by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Chah] [Similes] // [Relinquishment] [Cessation] [Saṃsāra] [Nibbāna]
6. Reading: Stillness Flowing by Ajahn Jayasaro, p. 646-647 “Por Buapah” Read by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Chah] // [Death] [Grief] [Personal presence]
Story: Por Buapah did the cement work for the original shine at Wat Pah Nanachat and the bell tower at Wat Pah Pong. [Stupas/monuments] [Wat Pah Nanachat] [Wat Pah Pong]
7. Reading: Stillness Flowing by Ajahn Jayasaro, p. 647-648 “Por Am” Read by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Chah] // [Right Livelihood] [Views] [Intoxicants]
Story: Ajahn Chah teaches Por Am herbal medicine so he can avoid killing animals. [Culture/Thailand] [Food] [Precepts] [Medicinal requisites] [Ajahn Pasanno] [Health care] [Lunar observance days]
Quote: “It’s not possible to defeat the Dhamma, you know, and that’s why you fainted.” — Ajahn Chah to Por Am. [Dhamma]
9. Reading: Stillness Flowing by Ajahn Jayasaro, p. 654-655 “Scientists and Academics” Read by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Chah] [Science] [Education]
10. Reading: Stillness Flowing by Ajahn Jayasaro, p. 662-664 “Por Puang” Read by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Chah] // [Temporary ordination] [Wat Pah Pong] [Generosity] [Recollection/Death] [Sickness] [Death] [Mutual lay/Saṅgha support] [Three Refuges]
13. Reading: Stillness Flowing by Ajahn Jayasaro, p. 682 “Dhamma Practice” Read by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Chah] [Dhamma] [Practicing in accordance with Dhamma] // [Characteristics of existence]
[Session] Reading: Ud 8.8: Visākhā Sutta Read by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo.
[Session] Reading from On Love by Ajahn Jayasaro. Read by Ajahn Ñāṇiko.
5. Reading: Ajahn Mun answers Ajahn Chah’s questions about Vinaya. Read by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Mun] [Vinaya] [Ajahn Chah] // [Commentaries] [Conscience and prudence] [Simplicity] [Mindfulness]
Reference: “Understanding Vinaya,” Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah, pp. 533-534.
The meaning of hiri-otappa. [Translation] [Respect]
[Session] Reading: The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Introduction by Ajahn Sumedho, pp. 14-16. Read by Ajahn Amaro.
Note: The first session of the retreat (January 4, The Island pp. 10-14) was not recorded.
[Session] Readings by Ajahn Amaro:
The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Introduction by Ajahn Sumedho, pp. 16-18.
The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 1, pp. 28-30:
Vinaya: Mahāvagga 1.6.
[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 1, pp. 30-35. Read by Ajahn Amaro:
Nyanatiloka Bhikkhu, “Nibbāna,” Buddhist Dictionary, p. 105.
The Mind Like Fire Unbound by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro, p. 2.
Suttas: MN 26.13; SN 38.1; AN 10.60; Ud 3.10; AN 3.55; AN 6.55; SN 43.1-44.
Vinaya: Mahāvagga 1.5 (also occurs at SN 6.1 and MN 26.19).
[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 1, pp. 39-42. Read by Ajahn Amaro:
Bhikkhu Bodhi, “Introduction,” The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, pp. 31-2.
Note: The recording of the January 11 reading (The Island pp. 35-39) was lost.
[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 2, pp. 43-48. Read by Ajahn Amaro:
Richard Gombrich, ‘Metaphor, Allegory, Satire,’ in How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings, p. 65-68.
The Wings to Awakening by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro p. 6.
The Mind Like Fire Unbound by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro p. 41.
Roberto Calasso, Ka, pp. 369-70.
Gita Mehta, A River Sutra, p. 290.
[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 2, pp. 48-52. Read by Ajahn Amaro:
Suttas: SN 35.28 (also at Mahāvagga 1.21); Iti 93; SN 44.9.
[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 2, pp. 52-56. Read by Ajahn Amaro:
Suttas: Thig 504-6; SN 14.12; Thag 1223-4; Thig 512; Snp 1086-7; Thig 112-16; SN 6.15.
[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 3, pp. 58-61. Read by Ajahn Amaro:
Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu, unpublished Dhamma talk, 1988.
A 10.92; The Wings to Awakening by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro, pp. 35-37.
[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 3, pp. 61-63. Read by Ajahn Amaro:
Sutta: SN 12.20; SN 12.41; AN 10.92.
[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 3, pp. 64-67. Read by Ajahn Amaro:
Suttas: MN 43.11; Ud 1.10; Iti 94.
Master Hsüan Hua, Sixth Patriarch’s Dharma Jewel Platform Sūtra, with Commentary, p. 149.
Śhūrangama Sūtra 1.169.
[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 4, pp. 68-70. Read by Ajahn Amaro:
Sutta: Ud 3.10.
Ven. P.A. Payutto, Dependent Origination, pp. 14-5.
[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 4, pp. 70-76. Read by Ajahn Amaro:
Ven. P.A. Payutto, Dependent Origination, pp. 14-5.
H.H. the Dalai Lama, The Four Noble Truths, pp. 53-57.
Suttas: MN 52.4-14, AN 11.16; SN 22.81; MN 140.20-22.
2. Reading: Reading from Just One More by Ajahn Amaro, p. 16 quoting The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne. Read by Ajahn Amaro. [Winnie-the-Pooh] [Sensual desire] [Becoming] [Craving]
[Session] Reading from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 4, pp. 80-82. Read by Ajahn Amaro:
Ajahn Chah, ‘Toward the Unconditioned,’ in Food for the Heart, pp. 385-9 and Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah, pp. 383-400.
Note: The recording of the January 25 reading (The Island pp. 77-80) was lost.
[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 4, pp. 82-86. Read by Ajahn Amaro:
Ajahn Chah, ‘Toward the Unconditioned,’ in Food for the Heart, pp. 385-91 and Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah, pp. 383-400.
Ajahn Chah, ‘Convention and Liberation,’ in Food for the Heart, p. 307 and Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah, pp. 21-27.
[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 5, pp. 87-92. Read by Ajahn Amaro:
Nyaṇatiloka Bhikkhu, Buddhist Dictionary, p. 106.
Suttas: MN 140.31; Dhp 21; AN 6.49; SN 22.49; SN 1.20; Nid 80.226; MN 144.9; SN 22.59 (also at Mahāvagga 1.6).
[Session] Readings by Ajahn Amaro:
The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 5, pp. 92-96 and 108-109:
Suttas: MN 102.23-4; AN 3.32; Ud 6.6; MN 2.7-8; SN 44.10; SN 22.15.
Sutta: Snp 5.14: Udaya’s Questions.
[Session] Readings by Ajahn Amaro:
The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 5, pp. 96-101:
“No-self or Not-self” in Noble Strategy by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro.
Suttas: MN 1.3-194 (abridged); Ud 4.1 (also at AN 9.3); Ud 2.1.
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Section 6.
[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 5, pp. 101-105. Read by Ajahn Amaro:
Suttas: Ud 3.10; Iti 58; MN 22.37; MN 22.20; AN 6.101.
Ajahn Sucitto, The Dawn of the Dhamma, p. 97.
Ajahn Chah, ‘No Abiding,’ in Food for the Heart, p. 316 and Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah, p. 33.
[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 5, pp. 105-109. Read by Ajahn Amaro:
Suttas: MN 75.12; MN 74.2-5; MN 102.12; Iti 49; SN 12.15, SN 22.90.
Vinaya: Mahāvagga 1.6 (also at SN 22.59).
[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 5, pp. 109-112. Read by Ajahn Amaro:
Ācariya Nāgārjuna, Mūlamadhyamaka-kārikā, Ch.15.
Spiritual Autobiography, Ajahn Chah.