Relinquishment (paṭinissagga)
Glosses: Letting go
Parent topics: Progress of insight, Cessation of Suffering
See also: Release
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Remembering Ajahn Chah Weekend, Session 3 – Apr. 28, 2001

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6. Ajahn Chah teaches his disciples in everyday living situations. Recollection by Ajahn Jitindriyā. [Teaching Dhamma] [Everyday life] [Ajahn Chah]

Story: “Is the log heavy?” [Relinquishment] [Clinging] [Suffering]

Story: A monk drops a tape recorder after getting an electric shock. [Relinquishment]


Remembering Ajahn Chah Weekend, Session 14 – Apr. 28, 2001

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7. One of Ajahn Chah’s main method was the monastic training. Recollection by Ṭhānissarā. [Monastic life] [Teaching Dhamma] [Ajahn Chah] // [Suffering] [Direct experience] [Idealism] [Relinquishment]


Remembering Ajahn Chah Weekend, Session 26 – Apr. 29, 2001

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20. He encouraged people to let go in so many different ways. Recollection by Jack Kornfield. [Relinquishment] [Teachers] [Views] [Eightfold Path] [Ajahn Chah] // [Idle chatter] [Seclusion] [Aversion] [Ghost] [Fear] [Restlessness and worry] [Sense bases] [Direct experience] [Liberation]

Story: Sit in the middle of your anger. [Jack Kornfield] [Robes] [Shelter]

Story: Walk backwards in the forest in the middle of the night. [Sloth and torpor] [Posture/Walking] [Culture/Natural environment]


Death and Dying, Session 1 – May. 9, 2014

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25. Comment: Merit is faith driven, so there aren’t any limitations to where that can take you, and it has real value. [Merit] [Faith] [Realms of existence] [Death]

Story: Two Thai doctors take temporary ordination to make merit to rejoin their deceased brother in a future life. [Culture/Thailand] [Monastic life/Motivation] [Temporary ordination] [Family] [Rebirth]

Story: The mother of a woman killed in a bus crash dedicates merit so that the dead woman will be reborn in the family. Told by Ajahn Pasanno. [Wat Pah Nanachat] [Ghost] [Relinquishment] [Ceremony/ritual] [Kamma] [Volition]

Quote: “We live in a fairly limited concept of the world; it’s very material in the West. There’s a lot more happening than what we can see.” — Ajahn Pasanno [Nature of the cosmos] [Culture/West]