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

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1. Comment: I was thinking about our obsession to create things. We create our world out of the things that we create. So Nibbāna being no thing-ness seems just right. [Proliferation] [Nibbāna] [Non-identification]

Response by Ajahn Amaro. [Volitional formations] [Conventions] [Impermanence] [Philosophy] [Aggregates] [Insight meditation] [Suffering]

Quote: “The things of this world are merely conventions of our own making....” — Ajahn Chah in Convention and Liberation. [Ajahn Chah]


Readings from The Island, Session 40 – Mar. 8, 2025

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4. “Is [SN 12.15] specifically what the middle way refers to?” Answered by Ajahn Amaro. [Middle Path] // [Dependent origination] [Eightfold Path] [Sense bases] [Philosophy]

Sutta: SN 56.11: Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (Chanting book translation).

Reference: Concept and Reality by Bhikkhu Ñāṇananda p. 63, quoted in The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, p. 140.

Sutta: SN 2.26: Rohitassa.

Sutta: DN 11.85: Where earth, water, fire, and air no footing find...