References – SN 10: Linked Discourses with Spirits 
The Buddha is pointing to something beyond the normal functioning of the mind which is a basis for freedom from all dukkha. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Nibbāna] [Cessation of Suffering] // [Secular Buddhism] [Liberation] [Feeling] [Nature of mind] [Aggregates]
Reference: Skill in Questions by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro p. 349.
Quote: “Objects of the mind that are likeable or unlikeable” — Ajahn Liem. [Ajahn Liem] [Moods of the mind] [Clinging]
Sutta: SN 10.3: “Your touch is unpleasant.”
Sutta: AN 5.208: Five reasons for chewing toothwoods.
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 36, Excerpt 2
“When you are talking about Dependent Origination and craving, I thought that all of that had ceased for an arahant.” Answered by Ajahn Amaro and Ajahn Pasanno. [Dependent origination] [Craving] [Arahant] [Cessation] // [Feeling] [Unskillful qualities] [Ignorance] [Māra]
Suttas: SN 4.6; SN 4.20: The Buddha’s encounters with Māra. [Buddha/Biography]
Sutta: MN 50: Mahā Moggallāna rebukes Māra. [Great disciples]
Sutta: SN 10.3: Sūciloma. [Non-human beings]
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 43, Excerpt 3
“To dissociate—isn’t it like to withdraw? It feels like something violent or painful.” Answered by Ajahn Amaro. [Language] [Relinquishment] // [Proliferation] [Similes] [Seclusion]
Sutta: MN 20: The Removal of Distracting Thoughts.
Sutta: SN 10.3: Sūciloma.
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 44, Excerpt 2
“In the Bāhiya Sutta (Ud 1.10), is the concept of bare attention before mental fabrications and include feeling?” Answered by Ajahn Amaro. [Knowing itself] [Volitional formations] [Feeling] // [Sense bases]
Sutta: SN 10.3: Sūciloma.
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 46, Excerpt 10
Comment by Ajahn Amaro: The Buddha is always inclined towards drawing conversations to a close (MN 122.6). [Buddha/Biography] [Teaching Dhamma] [Idle chatter] // [Loneliness] [Media]
Sutta: SN 10.3: Sūciloma.