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41 events, 141 sessions, 209 excerpts, 15:33:13 total duration

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Ajahn Chah (3)  Chanting (3)  Pāli (3)  Recollection/Buddha (3)  Characteristics of existence (2)  Dhamma online (2)  Fierce/direct teaching (2)  Kamma (2)  Parents (2)  Abhayagiri (1) 

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Readings from The Island, Session 43: Unsupported and Unsupportive Consciousness – Part 5 – Mar. 11, 2025

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7. “What is the difference between unsupported and unsupportive [consciousness]?” Answered by Ajahn Amaro and Ajahn Pasanno. [Unestablished consciousness] // [Direct experience] [Ajahn Sumedho] [Self-identity view] [Appropriate attention]

Reference: The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, p. 133.

Quote: “We say the mind is empty, but it’s actually full of wisdom.” — Ajahn Chah. Quoted by Ajahn Amaro. [Ajahn Chah] [Emptiness] [Discernment]

Reference: Wisdom Develops Samādhi by Ajahn Mahā Boowa


Readings from The Island, Session 45: Unsupported and Unsupportive Consciousness – Part 7; The Unconditioned and Non-locality – Part 1 – Mar. 15, 2025

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7. “One of the descriptions of Dhamma is ‘here and now.’ Have you had an equivalent insight into now-ness? (Refers to the previous story about here-ness.)” Answered by Ajahn Amaro. [Dhamma] [Ajahn Amaro] [Insight meditation] [Time] // [Impermanence] [Not-self] [Conventions]

Reference: The Sixth Patriarch’s Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra.


Readings from The Island, Session 46: The Unconditioned and Non-locality – Part 2 – Mar. 16, 2025

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4. “Are mindfulness of mind and contemplating a subject such as impermanence two different approaches?” Answered by Ajahn Amaro and Ajahn Pasanno. [Mindfulness of mind] [Recollection] // [Ajahn Chah] [Language] [Directed thought and evaluation] [Appropriate attention] [Lawfulness]

Reference: “What is Contemplation?”, Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah, pp. 475-479.

Quote: “Your best contemplation is quite thoughtless.” — Ajahn Pasanno. [Tranquility]

Reflection by Ajahn Pasanno: Yoniso manasikāra is a way of paying attention to the process of experience. [Pāli] [Characteristics of existence]


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8. Ajahn Amaro recollects and reflects on the receipt of Ajahn Chah’s only letter to Ajahn Sumedho (quoted in The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, p. 164). [Ajahn Chah] [Ajahn Sumedho]

Reference: Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah, p. 339.


Questions and Answers about Ajahn Chah, Session 1 – Jun. 17, 2025

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9. “Can you speak about the connection Ajahn Chah had with Luang Por Tongrat and Luang Por Tongrat in general?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Tongrat ] [Ajahn Chah] // [Thai sects] [Ajahn Mun] [Monastic routine] [Almsround]

Reference: Ajahn Utane’s biography of Ajahn Tongrat. Ajahn Mudito translated this into Portuguese in 2019, and there is a machine translation from the Portuguese.

Quote: “Oh, Chah, you’ve come.” — Ajahn Tongrat’s first words to Ajahn Chah..

Story: Ajahn Tongrat makes a racket under Ajahn Mun’s kuti in order to provoke a Dhamma talk. [Ajahn Mahā Boowa] [Fierce/direct teaching]

Story: Ajahn Tongrat dies in the Dhamma seat. [Death]


Kathina Q&A with the Chithurst Community, Session 1 – Oct. 11, 2025

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2. “Could you offer some reflections on experiencing mind as mind in the Noble Eightfold Path?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Eightfold Path] [Chanting] [Chithurst] [Amaravati] [Mindfulness of mind ] // [Noting] [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro] [Nature of mind] [Knowing itself]

Reference: Amaravati Chanting Book, p. 97.

Sutta: MN 10.34: Mindfulness of mind.

Follow-up: “Does this relate to Luang Por Dune’s reformulation of the Four Noble Truths where it says, ‘The mind seeing the mind?’” [Ajahn Dune] [Four Noble Truths] [Mindfulness of mind ]

Reference: Gifts He Left Behind by Ajahn Dune, p. 3.

Quote: “An inward-staying unentangled knowing.” — Upasikā Kee Nanayon. [Upasikā Kee Nanayon]


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10. “How do we recognize when we’re being taken advantage of when we’re trying to offer compassion? How do we draw a line to maintain our compassion without it impeding?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Abuse/violence] [Compassion ] // [Discernment] [Ajahn Chah] [Fierce/direct teaching]

Suttas: SN 22.86.13; MN 22.37.

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Reflection: The qualities of the Buddha: wisdom, compassion, purity. [Recollection/Buddha ] [Arahant] [Pūjā]

Reference: Amaravati Chanting Book, p. 3: Homage to the Buddha. [Recollection/Buddha ]

Story: A person asks the same question four times. [Questions]


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13. “How does the practice of patience fit into the Noble Eightfold Path? How is patience the incinerator of defilements?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Patience ] [Eightfold Path] [Unwholesome Roots] // [Perfections] [Suffering] [Self-identity view] [Worldly Conditions]

Reference: Ovāda Pātimokkha: Dhp 183-185 (Chanting book translation).


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