[Session] Readings by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo: [Nibbāna]
Reading: Introduction to Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha p. 31-32 (quoted in The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, p. 40-41).
Reading: The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, p. 224-226, 33-34.
[Session] Reading: “The Path of Non Contention” by Ajahn Amaro in Beginning Our Day Vol. 1 by Abhayagiri Saṅgha, pp. 215-217. Read by Ajahn Kassapo. [Non-contention]
[Session] Reading: Who Will Feed the Mice? by Ajahn Amaro. Read by Ajahn Jīvako. [Parents]
[Session] Reading: “Recollecting Our Goodness” by Ajahn Amaro in Beginning Our Day Vol. 1 by Abhayagiri Saṅgha, pp. 23-26. Read by Ajahn Kassapo.
[Session] Reading: “Attammayata,” The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, pp. 113-124. Read by Ajahn Khantiko. [Non-identification]
[Session] Reading: “Why am I Talking?”, Beginning Our Day Vol. 2 by Abhayagiri Saṅgha, pp. 92-94. Read by Ajahn Kassapo. [Right Speech]
[Session] Reading: “Santuṭṭhi and the Meaning of Contentment,” Beginning Our Day Vol. 1 by Abhayagiri Saṅgha, pp. 2-4. Read by Ajahn Kassapo. [Contentment]
[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] Readings:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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. [Winnie-the-Pooh] [Sensual desire] [Becoming] [Craving]
[Session] Reading from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 4, pp. 80-82:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
Ācariya Nāgārjuna, Mūlamadhyamaka-kārikā, Ch.15.
Spiritual Autobiography, Ajahn Chah.