Reading and reflection on AN 9.36: “This is peace, this is exquisite ...” (quoted in The Island p. 270). [Recollection/Peace ] // [Deathless] [Volitional formations] [Aggregates] [Clinging] [Cessation of Suffering] [Nibbāna] [Non-return]
2. Comment: I’m looking at contemplating peace as opposed to grasping for peace as a result of aversion to dukkha. There’s not the same result. [Recollection/Peace] [Clinging] [Aversion] [Suffering]
Response by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Noble Truth of Suffering] [Craving not to become] [Relinquishment] [Kamma]
18. The perception of dispassion (AN 10.60.10) is the opportunity to experience what is truly peaceful. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Dispassion] [Recollection/Peace] // [Etymology] [Nature of mind]
19. The perception of cessation (AN 10.60.11) can be experienced as the non-arising of becoming. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Cessation of Suffering] [Recollection/Peace] [Becoming] // [Translation] [Clinging]
1. Guided meditation: Lifting up perceptions that culminate in the Deathless. Offered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Perception] [Recollection] [Deathless] // [Right Effort] [Impermanence] [Not-self] [Unattractiveness] [Drawbacks] [Dispassion] [Cessation] [Recollection/Peace]
6. Quote: “We have to get out of the habit of being thieves.” — Ajahn Buddhadāsa. Quoted by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Buddhadāsa] [Relinquishment] [Stealing] [Recollection] // [Aggregates] [Clinging] [Naturalness]
Quote: “The peace of Nibbāna is not something that you gain, that you get, that you claim ownership over; it’s by relinquishing and releasing these bases of identity.” [Nibbāna] [Recollection/Peace] [Release] [Self-identity view]
10. Comment by Ajahn Pasanno: Throughout the whole teaching (DN 16) there is the sense of the ordinary and the transcendent together all the time. [Conventions] [Unconditioned] [Sutta] [Buddha/Biography] // [Nature of mind] [Ceremony/ritual] [Precepts] [Meditation] [Devotional practice] [Middle Path] [Release]
Sutta: Aniccā vata saṅkhārā ... (SN 6.15) [Cessation] [Happiness] [Recollection/Peace]
2. “In this context (The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, p. 225), what does disenchantment mean?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Disenchantment ] // [Relinquishment] [Recollection/Peace]
7. Recollecting the peace of Nibbāna. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Recollection/Peace] [Nibbāna] // [Cessation] [Dispassion] [Pāli] [Tranquility]
Reading: The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, p. 225.
Suttas: AN 10.60.11; AN 1.494.
5. Ajahn Pasanno translates and reflects upon, “Etaṁ santaṁ, etaṁ paṇītaṁ ...” as found in AN 10.6. [Recollection/Peace] // [Ajahn Pasanno]
9. Reading and reflection on AN 9.36: “This is peace, this is exquisite ...” (quoted in The Island p. 270). [Recollection/Peace ] // [Deathless] [Volitional formations] [Aggregates] [Clinging] [Cessation of Suffering] [Nibbāna] [Non-return]