References – MN 75: To Māgandiya 
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MN 75.3: Māgaṇḍiya's Opinion of the Buddha
MN 75.9: Discussion of Sensual Pleasures
Reading: MN 75: Māgaṇḍiya Sutta. Read by Ajahn Pasanno.
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 17
Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:
The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 14, pp. 251-252:
Sutta: MN 11: Cūḷasīhanāda Sutta
Sutta: MN 75: Māgaṇḍiya Sutta
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 31
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 [2025], Session 32
Comment by Ajahn Kaccāna: The Buddha uses similar pedagogical techniques in MN 75 and MN 74. [Teaching Dhamma] [Buddha/Biography] [Views]
Response by Ajahn Pasanno.
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 33, Excerpt 3
“Did the Buddha get any violent reaction from attacking Hinduism’s central tenet of the atman?” Answered by Ajahn Amaro. [Buddha/Biography] [Hinduism] [Not-self] // [Addiction]
Sutta: MN 75.5: Māgaṇḍiya Sutta, “Wrecker of being.”
Sutta: MN 26.19: The Buddha hesitates to teach.
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 11, Excerpt 2
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 [2025], Session 19
Comment: This reading about the bliss of Nibbāna (The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, p. 105; MN 75.12) reminds me of the monk who had previously been a king who went about saying ‘Oh, what bliss!’ [Nibbāna] [Happiness] [Great disciples] [Royalty]
Sutta: Ud 2.10.
Response by Ajahn Amaro.
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 19, Excerpt 1
“How do we know when to ask for directions on the path as opposed to just continuing farther? What would we ask?” Answered by Ajahn Yatiko. [Questions] [Practicing in accordance with Dhamma] [Gradual Teaching] // [Suffering] [Discernment] [Conditionality] [Faith]
Sutta: SN 12.23: Suffering is the cause of faith.
Follow-up: “What about when things are pleasant, but we’re not headed in the right direction?” [Happiness] [Mindfulness] [Deva] [Relinquishment]
Sutta: MN 75.13: Simile of the leper. [Similes]
Sutta: SN 56.35: Stream entry after 100 years. [Stream entry] [Four Noble Truths]
The Gradual Training [2012], Session 2, Excerpt 8
“How should householders deal with sensual pleasure?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Lay life] [Sensual desire ] // [Virtue] [Happiness] [Generosity] [Skillful qualities]
Comments by Ajahn Kaccāna, Ajahn Karuṇadhammo and Ajahn Pasanno about similes for sensual pleasures found in MN 54 and MN 75.13. [Similes]
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [2015], Session 39, Excerpt 2
Comments and examples regarding the simile of the leper cauterizing his wounds in MN 75.13. [Similes] [Sensual desire] // [Suffering] [Self-identity view]
Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Delusion] [Community]
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 32, Excerpt 1
“Do you have any advice on how to approach unwholesome habits that are based on hindrances?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Habits] [Unskillful qualities] [Hindrances] // [Conditionality] [Mindfulness of dhammas] [Self-identity view]
Sutta: MN 75.15: Māgaṇḍiya Sutta.
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 17, Excerpt 1
“The Buddha teaches that you have pleasant vedanā, neutral vedanā, and unpleasant vedanā. But [in MN 75.16] he seems to be saying that all pleasant vedanā isn’t actually pleasant; it’s actually unpleasant.” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Feeling] // [Sensual desire] [Mindfulness of breathing]
Sutta: MN 44.22-24: Cūḷavedalla Sutta.
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 31, Excerpt 4
“You mentioned the class of actions that are neither bright nor dark as the path leading to Nibbāna. But isn’t the work one does on the path good?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno, Ajahn Karuṇadhammo and Ajahn Kaccāna. [Kamma] [Nibbāna] [Skillful qualities] // [Happiness] [Liberation] [Clinging]
Sutta: MN 57.7: Four kinds of kamma.
Sutta: MN 75.19: Nibbāna is the highest bliss.
Sutta: AN 6.63.33: Kamma, its origin, and its cessation. [Four Noble Truths]
Sutta: MN 117: The Great Forty.
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 32, Excerpt 3
“Would you say that clinging is around the senses and not the sensual desires?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Clinging] [Sense bases] [Sensual desire] // [Aggregates]
Follow-up: “How do we uproot clinging?” [Discernment]
Comment by Ajahn Ñāṇiko: One can only apply the concept of inverted perception from MN 75.29 to the other sense bases. [Delusion] [Perception] [Ajahn Khao]
Response by Ajahn Pasanno: Showering after being exposed to poison oak. [Feeling]
Recollection: Ajahn Mahā Boowa perceived difficulty and problems as a whetstone for mindfulness. Recounted by Ajahn Pesalo. [Ajahn Mahā Boowa] [Mindfulness]
Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Four Noble Truths] [Conditionality]
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 17, Excerpt 2