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Readings from The Island, Session 8: This and That and Other Things – Part 1 – Jan. 18, 2025

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[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Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu, unpublished Dhamma talk, 1988.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.


Readings from The Island, Session 9: This and That and Other Things – Part 2 – Jan. 19, 2025

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[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.


Readings from The Island, Session 10: This and That and Other Things – Part 3 – Jan. 20, 2025

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[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.


Readings from The Island, Session 11: All That is Conditioned – Part 1 – Jan. 23, 2025

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[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.


Readings from The Island, Session 12: All That is Conditioned – Part 2 – Jan. 24, 2025

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[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.


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2. 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]


Readings from The Island, Session 13: All That is Conditioned – Part 3 – Jan. 26, 2025

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[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.


Readings from The Island, Session 14: All That is Conditioned – Part 4 – Jan. 27, 2025

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[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.


Readings from The Island, Session 15: To Be or Not to Be: Is That the Question? – Part 1 – Jan. 30, 2025

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[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 5, pp. 87-92. Read by Ajahn Amaro:

“Nibbāna,” Buddhist Dictionary: A Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines by Venerable Ñāṇatiloka, p. 124.

Suttas: MN 140.31; Dhp 21; AN 6.49; SN 22.49; SN 1.20; Nid 80.226; MN 144.9; SN 22.59.5 (also at Mahāvagga 1.6.38).


Readings from The Island, Session 16: To Be or Not to Be: Is That the Question? – Part 2 – Feb. 1, 2025

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[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.


Readings from The Island, Session 17: To Be or Not to Be: Is That the Question? – Part 3 – Feb. 2, 2025

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[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.


Readings from The Island, Session 18: To Be or Not to Be: Is That the Question? – Part 4 – Feb. 3, 2025

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[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.


Readings from The Island, Session 19: To Be or Not to Be: Is That the Question? – Part 5 – Feb. 4, 2025

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[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 1.6.38 (also at SN 22.59.7).


Readings from The Island, Session 20: To Be or Not to Be: Is That the Question? – Part 6 – Feb. 7, 2025

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[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.

Suttas: MN 49.27; SN 5.10.

Spiritual Autobiography, Ajahn Chah.


Readings from The Island, Session 21: Ajahn Pasanno’s Preface – Feb. 8, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

Ajahn Pasanno’s preface to The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, pp. 8-9.

Sutta: MN 26.1-21: Ariyapariyesanā Sutta.


Readings from The Island, Session 22: Practices and Perspectives I – Part 1 – Feb. 9, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 13, pp. 224-225:

Suttas: AN 4.179; AN 10.60.11; AN 1.494.

Sutta: MN 26.22-42: Ariyapariyesanā Sutta.


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7. Recollecting the peace of Nibbāna. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Recollection/Peace] [Nibbāna] // [Cessation] [Dispassion] [Pāli] [Tranquility]

Reading: The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, p. 225.

Suttas: AN 10.60.11; AN 1.494.


Readings from The Island, Session 23: Practices and Perspectives I – Part 2 – Feb. 10, 2025

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[Session] Readings Read by Ajahn Pasanno:

Suttas: Ud 5.5; AN 3.55; MN 26.19; Iti 54 & 55; MN 107.3-11; MN 73.14.


Readings from The Island, Session 24: Practices and Perspectives I – Part 3 – Feb. 11, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 13, pp. 230-233:

Suttas: MN 29.7; MN 24.10; AN 3.101; MN 70.13, .22 & .23.

Sutta: AN 3.102: Nimitta.

Sutta: MN 70: Kīṭāgiri Sutta.


Readings from The Island, Session 25: Practices and Perspectives I – Part 4 – Feb. 14, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 13, pp. 233-235:

Sutta: AN 9.3, Ud 4.1.

Sutta: MN 70: Kīṭāgiri Sutta.


Readings from The Island, Session 26: Practices and Perspectives I – Part 5 – Feb. 15, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 13, pp. 235.

Sutta: MN 117.


Readings from The Island, Session 27: Practices and Perspectives I – Part 6 – Feb. 16, 2025

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[Session] 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 56.11.2; SN 51.20.

Suttas: AN 10.69; SN 1.1.


Readings from The Island, Session 28: Practices and Perspectives I – Part 7 – Feb. 17, 2025

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[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 13, pp. 239-246. Read by Ajahn Pasanno:

Suttas: Snp 1106-7 & 1111; Snp 1098; AN 1.182; SN 12.15; Iti 49; SN 12.48; SN 12.18; SN 12.67.


Readings from The Island, Session 29: Practices and Perspectives II – Part 1 – Feb. 18, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 14, pp. 247-248:

Suttas: MN 10.2; Snp 1086-7.

Sutta: MN 10: Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta.


Readings from The Island, Session 30: Practices and Perspectives II – Part 2 – Feb. 19, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 14, pp. 248-251:

Suttas: SN 48.54; SN 48.45; AN 7.61; SN 35.80; MN 11.17.

Ajahn Chah, Food for the Heart, p. 241-2.

Sutta: AN 7.61: Nodding.


Readings from The Island, Session 31: Practices and Perspectives II – Part 3 – Feb. 22, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 14, pp. 251-252:

Suttas: MN 11.17; SN 35.131.

Sutta: MN 11: Cūḷasīhanāda Sutta

Sutta: MN 75: Māgaṇḍiya Sutta


Readings from The Island, Session 32: Practices and Perspectives II – Part 4 – Feb. 23, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

Sutta: MN 75: Māgaṇḍiya Sutta.

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 14, pp. 252-253.

Sutta: MN 57: Kukkuravatika Sutta.


Readings from The Island, Session 33: Practices and Perspectives II – Part 5 – Feb. 24, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 14, pp. 253-256:

Suttas: SN 22.80; MN 11.6-7; MN 74.6-8; MN 63.7-8.

Sutta: MN 74: Dīghanakha Sutta.

Sutta: MN 63: Cūḷamāluṅkya Sutta.


Readings from The Island, Session 34: Practices and Perspectives II – Part 6 – Feb. 25, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 14, pp. 256-258:

Suttas: Snp 800-3; MN 2.7-8; MN 109.15-18.

Sutta: MN 2: Sabbāsava Sutta.

Sutta: MN 109: Mahāpuṇṇama Sutta.


Readings from The Island, Session 35: Practices and Perspectives II – Part 7 – Feb. 28, 2025

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[Session] 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, Session 36: Attamayatā: “Not Made of That” – Part 1 – Mar. 2, 2025

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[Session] 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 (pdf unavailable) pp. 49 & 52.


Readings from The Island, Session 37: Attamayatā: “Not Made of That” – Part 2; Attending to the Deathless – Part 1 – Mar. 3, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Amaro:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 6, pp. 123-124:

Sutta: MN 18.16-19.

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 7, pp. 125-126:

Sutta: AN 3.128.


Readings from The Island, Session 38: Attending to the Deathless – Part 2 – Mar. 4, 2025

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[Session] 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.


Readings from The Island, Session 39: Unsupported and Unsupportive Consciousness – Part 1 – Mar. 5, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Amaro:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 8, pp. 133-137:

Bhikkhu Bodhi, Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, Note 513.

Sutta: DN 11.81-5.

Sutta: MN 49.26.


Readings from The Island, Session 40: Unsupported and Unsupportive Consciousness – Part 2 – Mar. 8, 2025

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[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 8, pp. 137-140. Read by Ajahn Amaro:

Dependent Origination by P. A. Payutto, pp. 118-120.

Concept and Reality by Bhikkhu Ñāṇananda p. 63.

Sutta: SN 2.26, AN 4.45.


Readings from The Island, Session 41: Unsupported and Unsupportive Consciousness – Part 3 – Mar. 9, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Amaro:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 8, pp. 141-142:

Suttas: Ud 1.10; Snp 873-4.

Stillness Flowing by Ajahn Jayasaro, pp. 90-91.

Sutta: Snp 4.11 (Venerable H. Saddhatissa translation).


Readings from The Island, Session 42: Unsupported and Unsupportive Consciousness – Part 4 – Mar. 10, 2025

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[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 8, pp. 143-146. Read by Ajahn Amaro:

Suttas: AN 11.9; AN 10.6; MN 10.34-35, DN 22.12.

Atulo, collected teachings of Ajahn Dune compiled by Ajahn Bodhinandamuni (no full English translation).


Readings from The Island, Session 43: Unsupported and Unsupportive Consciousness – Part 5 – Mar. 11, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Amaro:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 8, pp. 146-150:

Ajahn Chah, (anecdotal).

Atulo, collected teachings of Ajahn Dune compiled by Ajahn Bodhinandamuni (no full English translation).

Suttas: MN 49.25; SN 12.38; SN 22.53.

Suttas: MN 49.11-31; MN 140.21-22.


Readings from The Island, Session 44: Unsupported and Unsupportive Consciousness – Part 6 – Mar. 12, 2025

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[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 8, pp. 151-154. Read by Ajahn Amaro:

Suttas: MN 22.36; SN 12.64; Snp 752-3; MN 62.17; SN 4.19.


Readings from The Island, Session 45: Unsupported and Unsupportive Consciousness – Part 7; The Unconditioned and Non-locality – Part 1 – Mar. 15, 2025

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1. Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 8, pp. 154-156. Read by Ajahn Amaro:

The Sixth Patriarch’s Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra, Ch 1.

Vajra Sūtra, Ch 10, “The Adornment of Pure Lands.”


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5. Reading from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 9, pp. 157-158. Read by Ajahn Amaro:

Straight from the Heart by Ajahn Mahā Boowa, p. 228


Readings from The Island, Session 46: The Unconditioned and Non-locality – Part 2 – Mar. 16, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Amaro:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 9, pp. 158-165:

Suttas: Ud 8.1; Ud 8.3, Iti 43; Ud 8.4; Milindapañha 324; Milindapañha 327-328; SN 1.1.

The Magic of the Mind by Bhikkhu Ñāṇananda, pp. 58-60 (pdf unavailable).

Ācariya Nāgārjuna, Mūlamadhyamaka-kārikā, Ch 25.

Ajahn Chah, personal letter to Ajahn Sumedho.

“What is Contemplation?”, Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah, pp. 475-479.

Sutta: Ud 1.10: Bāhiya, quoted in The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, p. 65.


Readings from The Island, Session 47: Practices and Perspectives III – Part 1 – Mar. 17, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 15, pp. 266-270:

Suttas: SN 51.15; MN 106.10-15; MN 1.50.

AN 9.36: Jhāna Sutta.


Readings from The Island, Session 48: Practices and Perspectives III – Part 2 – Mar. 18, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 15, pp. 270-274:

Suttas: SN 1.1; MN 112.4, .6, .8 & .10; AN 10.7.

“The Four Noble Truths,” p. 333 in Food for the Heart (Wisdom Publications) by Ajahn Chah (commercial).


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5. Comment: [This discussion of ‘Nibbāna is the cessation of becoming’ (AN 10.7)] reminds me of the last testament of a well-known teacher: ‘Rest in purity and evenness and do something for the benefit of others.’ Read by Ajahn Pasanno. [Nibbāna] [Equanimity] [Compassion]

Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Simplicity]

Reading: “The Safest Way to Dwell,” Gifts He Left Behind by Ajahn Dune, p. 102. [Ajahn Dune]

Quote: “As for me, I dwell with knowing. … Knowing is the normality of mind that’s empty, bright, pure, that has stopped fabricating, stopped searching, stopped all mental motions—having nothing, not attached to anything at all.” [Knowing itself] [Cessation]


Readings from The Island, Session 49: Practices and Perspectives III – Part 3 – Mar. 19, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 15, pp. 274-277:

Suttas: AN 8.30; SN 2.5; AN 3.83; SN 52.9; MN 123.22; MN 122.4, .6 & .7.

Sutta: MN 123: Wonderful and Marvelous.


Readings from The Island, Session 50: Knowing, Emptiness, and the Radiant Mind – Part 1 – Mar. 20, 2025

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[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 12, pp. 198-203. Read by Ajahn Pasanno:

Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu, Heartwood from the Bodhi Tree, pp. 51-2.

Suttas: SN 35.85; SN 41.7; DN 16.2.25.

Commentary: Visuddhimagga 21.70 (Path of Purification by Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli, p. 686).


Readings from The Island, Session 51: Knowing, Emptiness, and the Radiant Mind – Part 2 – Mar. 23, 2025

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[Session] Reading from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 12, pp. 203-207. Read by Ajahn Pasanno:

Sutta: MN 121.


Readings from The Island, Session 52: Knowing, Emptiness, and the Radiant Mind – Part 3; “‘Reappears’ does not apply…” – Mar. 24, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 12, pp. 207-212:

Suttas: SN 20.7; SN 55.53; SN 22.95; Dhp 46; Dhp 170.

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 11, pp. 191:

Sutta: Snp 1118-9.


Readings from The Island, Session 53: Practices and Perspectives III – Part 3; Sotāpanna: The Spiritual Turning Point I – Part 1 – Mar. 25, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 15, pp. 277-278:

Suttas: AN 4.96 & .99; SN 43.1.

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 16, pp. 279-281:

Suttas: SN 56.35; SN 45.179; SN 45.180.

Vinaya: Mahāvagga 1.7.5.


Readings from The Island, Session 54: Sotāpanna: The Spiritual Turning Point I – Part 2 – Mar. 26, 2025

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[Session] Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 16, pp. 281-286. Read by Ajahn Pasanno:

Suttas: MN 118.9-12; SN 55.52; DN 18.1; SN 55.5; AN 4.240; Iti 76; SN 55.21.


Readings from The Island, Session 55: Sotāpanna: The Spiritual Turning Point I – Part 3 – Mar. 27, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 16, pp. 286-288:

Suttas: DN 3.2.21-22; SN 45.55; MN 2.9-11; SN 22.122.

Sutta: SN 22.122: Virtuous.


Readings from The Island, Session 56: Sotāpanna: The Spiritual Turning Point I – Part 4 – Mar. 30, 2025

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[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 16, pp. 289-291:

A 6.98 & .101 (combined).

Suttas: SN 12.67; AN 5.260; MN 6.2-3 & .11; DN 2.101-2.

Suttas: AN 6.98-101; SN 17.5.


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5. “Could you repeat the five types of stinginess (AN 5.260)?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro. [Greed ] // [Family] [Corruption] [Lodging] [Gain and loss] [Fame and disrepute] [Teaching Dhamma]

Story: Ajahn Mahā Prasert gets sent to Nebraska. [Ajahn Mahā Prasert] [Jealousy]

Suttas: SN 17: Connected Discourses on Gain, Honor, and Fame.

Reading: SN 17.5: The Dung Beetle. [Humor] [Similes]

Reflections on the kammic effects of King Ajātasattu killing his father (DN 2.101). [Kamma] [Killing] [Parents] [Stream entry]

Vinaya: Khandhaka 21.1.3: The First Council occurred at Rājagha, King Ajātasattu’s capital city.


Even the Sāsana Will Pass Away – Aug. 24, 2025

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[Session] Readings: AN 7.48.10: Saññā Sutta; SN 35.82: Loka; Ud 4.1: Meghiya; AN 1.136: Uppādā Sutta; SN 15.20: Mount Vepulla. Read by Ajahn Pasanno. [Impermanence]


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