Ajahn Pasanno   → Tag [Ajahn Pasanno]
2267 excerpts, 148:38:15 total duration


The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Session 14 – Jan. 23, 2015

Download audio (41:26)
[Session] Readings: [Right Mindfulness]

Reading: Right Mindfulness pp. 8-12.

Reading: Iti 34: Ardour. [Ardency]


The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Session 15 – Jan. 24, 2015

Download audio (37:51)
[Session] Readings:

Reading: Right Mindfulness pp. 12-14. [Right Mindfulness]

Reading: AN 10.58: Roots.

Reading: SN 51.15: The Brahmin Uṇṇabha.


The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Session 17 – Jan. 26, 2015

Download audio (46:34)
[Session] Readings: [Right Mindfulness]

Reading: Right Mindfulness p. 21-22.

Reading: AN 4.245: Training.

Reading: Snp 1.4: The Farmer Bhāradvāja.


The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Session 18 – Jan. 29, 2015

Download audio (20:20)
[Session] Readings: [Right Mindfulness]

Reading: Right Mindfulness p. 23-24.

Reading: AN 4.41: Concentration. [Concentration]


The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Session 19 – Jan. 30, 2015

Download audio (36:23)
[Session] Readings:

Reading: Right Mindfulness p. 24-28. [Right Mindfulness] [Right Concentration]

Reading: MN 19: Dvedhavitakka Sutta, Two Kinds of Thought.


The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Session 20 – Jan. 31, 2015

Download audio (27:05)
[Session] Readings: [Right Mindfulness] [Right Concentration]

Reading: Right Mindfulness p. 28-31.

Reading: SN 47.40: Analysis.


The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Session 21 – Feb. 1, 2015

Download audio (31:44)
[Session] Readings: [Right Mindfulness] [Right Concentration]

Reading: Right Mindfulness p. 31-34.

Reading: SN 47.4: At Sālā.

Reading: Iti 90: Foremost Faith.


The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Session 31 – Feb. 20, 2015

Download audio (37:28)
[Session] Readings: [Right Mindfulness]

Reading: Right Mindfulness p. 109-112.

Reading: SN 51.20: “Analysis.”


The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Session 32 – Feb. 21, 2015

Download audio (34:46)
[Session] Readings: [Right Mindfulness]

Reading: Right Mindfulness p. 112-113.

Reading: MN 44, Cūḷavedalla Sutta, The Shorter Series of Questions and Answers.

Reading: AN 8.63: “In Brief.”

Reading: MN 101: Devadaha Sutta, At Devadaha.

Reading: AN 8.81: “Training.”


The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Session 33 – Feb. 22, 2015

Download audio (37:56)
[Session] Readings: [Right Mindfulness] [Concentration] [Formless attainments]

Reading: Right Mindfulness p. 113.

Reading: AN 4.94: “Concentration.”

Reading: AN 9.36: “Jhāna.”


The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Session 34 – Feb. 23, 2015

Download audio (40:03)
[Session] Readings: [Right Mindfulness]

Reading: Right Mindfulness p. 113-115.

Reading: MN 101: Devadaha Sutta, At Devadaha (Right Mindfulness p. 43).

Reading: MN 95: Cankī Sutta, With Cankī.


The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Session 36 – Feb. 27, 2015

Download audio (37:10)
[Session] Readings: [Mindfulness of breathing] [Mindfulness of body]

Reading: Right Mindfulness p. 115-119.

Reading: MN 80: Vekhanassa Sutta, To Vekhanassa.

Reading: Ud 7.8: “Kaccāna.”

Reading: MN 62: Mahārāhulaovāda Sutta, The Greater Discourse of Advice to Rāhula.


The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Session 37 – Feb. 28, 2015

Download audio (26:44)
[Session] Readings: [Mindfulness of breathing] [Mindfulness of body] [Elements] [Mindfulness of feeling]

Reading: Right Mindfulness p. 119-121.

Reading: MN 28: Mahāhatthipadopama Sutta, The Greater Discourse on the Simile of the Elephant’s Footprint.


The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Session 38 – Mar. 1, 2015

Download audio (31:41)
[Session] Readings: [Mindfulness of feeling]

Reading: MN 14: Cūḷadukkhakkhandha Sutta, The Shorter Discourse on the Mass of Suffering.

Reading: Right Mindfulness p. 121-122.


The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Session 40 – Mar. 3, 2015

Download audio (39:41)
[Session] Readings: [Mindfulness of breathing] [Concentration] [Mindfulness of mind]

Reading: Right Mindfulness p. 129-132.

Reading: MN 111: Anupada Sutta, One by One As They Occured.


The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Session 43 – Mar. 9, 2015

Download audio (26:17)
[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.


Western Disciples of the Thai Forest Tradition, Session 12 – Jan. 20, 2016

Download audio (34:29)
[Session] Reading: “Cultivating Gratitude” by Ajahn Pasanno in Gratitude by Ajahn Chah Saṅgha, p. 53. Read by Tan Jāgaro. [Gratitude]


Western Disciples of the Thai Forest Tradition, Session 24 – Feb. 5, 2016

Download audio (43:48)
[Session] Reading: “Attammayata,” The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, pp. 113-124. Read by Ajahn Khantiko. [Non-identification]


Western Disciples of the Thai Forest Tradition, Session 27 – Feb. 11, 2016

Download audio (24:54)
[Session] Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

Reading: “Happiness Forever,” The Anthology Vol. 3 by Ajahn Sumedho, pp. 9-10.

Reading: “Patience,” The Anthology Vol. 3 by Ajahn Sumedho, pp. 65-68.

Reading: “All the Time in the World,” The Anthology Vol. 3 by Ajahn Sumedho, pp. 51-52.


Readings from The Island, Session 2 – Jan. 8, 2025

Download audio (54:42)
[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.


Readings from The Island, Session 3 – Jan. 9, 2025

Download audio (56:21)
[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).


Readings from The Island, Session 4 – Jan. 12, 2025

Download audio (53:33)
[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.


Readings from The Island, Session 5 – Jan. 15, 2025

Download audio (52:12)
[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.


Readings from The Island, Session 6 – Jan. 16, 2025

Download audio (51:34)
[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.


Readings from The Island, Session 7 – Jan. 17, 2025

Download audio (51:17)
[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.


Readings from The Island, Session 8 – Jan. 18, 2025

Download audio (51:23)
[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 – Jan. 19, 2025

Download audio (49:32)
[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 – Jan. 20, 2025

Download audio (48:43)
[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 – Jan. 23, 2025

Download audio (45:31)
[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 – Jan. 24, 2025

Download audio (50:09)
[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.


Readings from The Island, Session 13 – Jan. 26, 2025

Download audio (49:38)
[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 – Jan. 27, 2025

Download audio (48:29)
[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 – Jan. 30, 2025

Download audio (44:43)
[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).


Readings from The Island, Session 16 – Feb. 1, 2025

Download audio (45:32)
[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 – Feb. 2, 2025

Download audio (45:56)
[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 – Feb. 3, 2025

Download audio (45:54)
[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 – Feb. 4, 2025

Download audio (50:01)
[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).


Readings from The Island, Session 20 – Feb. 7, 2025

Download audio (46:14)
[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.