References – AN 10.60: Girimānanda 
Event: Meditation on the Ten Perceptions – September 2016
“How important is chanting for one’s practice? Do you have any tips for how to recite/remember the Pali chants?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Chanting ] [Memory] [Pāli] // [Monastic life] [Recollection] [Devotional practice] [Energy] [Thai Forest Tradition] [Long-term practice] [Dhamma recordings] [Posture/Walking] [Almsround] [Mindfulness]
Story: Ajahn Mun would chant for over an hour each evening before he started meditating. [Ajahn Mun] [Monastic routine]
Suttas: AN 10.60 Girimānanda Sutta; SN 56.11: Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (Chanting Book translation).
Story: The evening program at Wat Fah Krahm is three hours of chanting followed by a three-hour sit. [Wat Fah Krahm] [Meditation] [Ajahn Kovilo]
Reference: Amaravati Chanting Book, p. 138: Rhythm of the Pāli language.
Sutta: SN 48.9: Mindfulness related to memory.
2015 Thanksgiving Monastic Retreat, Session 7, Excerpt 13
Discussion of sañña and paññā. Led by Ajahn Pasanno. [Perception] [Discernment] [Pāli] [Volitional formations] // [Abhidhamma] [Consciousness] [Recollection/Buddha] [Unwholesome Roots] [Aggregates] [Habits]
Reference: AN 10.60: Girimānanda.
Western Disciples of the Thai Forest Tradition [2016], Session 56, Excerpt 4
The meaning of perception (sañña) in the Girimānanda Sutta (AN 10.60). Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Perception] [Recollection] // [Meditation] [Tranquility] [Directed thought and evaluation] [Discernment]
Recollection: Ajahn Pasanno gives instruction from the Girimānanda Sutta to the monks on the first four-week retreat at Dtao Dum. [Ajahn Pasanno] [Dtao Dum] [Teaching Dhamma]
Sutta: MN 43.8-9: Conjoined, not disjoined. [Feeling] [Consciousness]
Sutta: AN 10.57: Ten perceptions culminating in the Deathless. [Deathless]
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 1, Excerpt 2
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]
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 2, Excerpt 1
“When meditating on perception (AN 10.60), is the perception a lens through which you view a meditation object?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Perception] [Meditation]
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 3, Excerpt 2
“What about the second part of the Girimānanda Sutta (AN 10.60) about healing?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Healing] [Sickness] // [Dhamma] [Desire] [Body/form] [Gladdening the mind] [Thai Forest Tradition] [Concentration]
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 3, Excerpt 5
“How would you use any of the perceptions in AN 10.60 in a demanding and fast-paced workplace where performance is important?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Perception] [Recollection] [Work] // [Tranquility] [Happiness]
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 3, Excerpt 6
“The mind goes into automatic perceptions based on survival instincts. How do you work with this?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Perception] // [Habits] [Recollection] [Skillful qualities]
Follow-up: “Does this question refer to perception in terms of the aggregates (a noun) while AN 10.60 refers to perception as an activity?” [Aggregates] [Conditionality]
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 3, Excerpt 8
The ten perceptions in the Girimānanda Sutta (AN 10.60) can be proactively tuned to our own practice to lead to peace, clarity, and understanding. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Perception] [Recollection] // [Healing]
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 4, Excerpt 4
“Why didn’t the Buddha visit Girimānanda himself (AN 10.60)?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Kaccāna. [Buddha/Biography] // [Great disciples] [Personal presence] [Healing] [Recollection/Dhamma]
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 4, Excerpt 5
Comment by Jeanne Daskais: The Girimānanda Sutta (AN 10.60) is also a sutta about Saṅgha. [Saṅgha]
Response by Ajahn Pasanno.
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 4, Excerpt 6
Comment: In teaching [the Girimānanda Sutta (AN 10.60)], the Buddha is teaching us to change our views and opinions. [Views]
Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Outflows] [Proliferation] [Perception] [Recollection]
Sutta: MN 2.8: The thicket of views ...
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 4, Excerpt 7
Lifting up the perception of the aggregates as impermanent or uncertain. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Perception] [Impermanence] [Aggregates] // [Directed thought and evaluation] [Jhāna] [Ajahn Chah] [Habits]
Sutta: AN 10.60.5.
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 1, Excerpt 3
“In working with perceptions like unattractiveness and dispassion (AN 10.60.7 and AN 10.60.10), if I don’t feel those things, do I have to conjure them up?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Perception] [Recollection]
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 1, Excerpt 13
Contemplating the unattractive nature of the body (AN 10.60.7) soothes the mind and inclines it towards dispassion. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Unattractiveness ] [Tranquility] [Dispassion]
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 1, Excerpt 14
Readings from Body Contemplation: A Study Guide by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro. Read by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Mindfulness of body]
AN 4.184: Janussonī; AN 10.60.8: Girimananda; SN 35.247: Six Animals; AN 4.45: Rohitassa; Thag 1.104: Khitaka.
Dhp 259, Dhp 299, Dhp 46; Ud 3.5.
AN 1.575 and onward, Mindfulness immersed in the body (SuttaCentral numbering).
AN 1.616 and onward, Deathless (SuttaCentral numbering).
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [2015], Session 5
“In this passage where the Buddha lists illnesses and calamities (AN 10.60.8), he separates kamma out as a cause of those things. However the cause of being subject to these things is because of making good or bad kamma. Is kamma [in this list] a direct, proximate cause?” Answered by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Kamma] [Sickness] [Conditionality]
Sutta: SN 36.21 Sīvaka: The Buddha refutes the notion that kamma causes everything.
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [2015], Session 5, Excerpt 2
AN 10.60.8 describes the dangers inherent in the human body. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Drawbacks] [Sickness] // [Aspects of Understanding] [Benefit/gratification] [Escape]
Story: Ajahn Pasanno visits a hospital library. [Ajahn Pasanno]
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 1, Excerpt 16
“Is the purpose of the perception of danger (AN 10.60.8) to change up our usual perception of, ‘Oh, it’s a human body, it’s wonderful, and it’s going to last forever?’” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Drawbacks] [Perception] [Body/form] // [Sickness]
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 3, Excerpt 1
The Buddha describes the perception of abandoning (AN 10.60.9) as putting down the three wrong thoughts/intentions. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Right Effort] [Right Intention] [Unskillful qualities]
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 1, Excerpt 17
“Can the perceptions of abandoning, dispassion, and cessation (AN 10.60.9-11) be understood as a progression?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Right Effort] [Dispassion] [Cessation]
Follow-up: “Do the perceptions of dispassion and cessation arise naturally as a result of the earlier perceptions?” [Conditionality]
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 1, Excerpt 20
“Could you talk about the skillful use of perception of abandoning (AN 10.60.9) so that it doesn’t move into aversion?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Right Effort] [Aversion] [Suffering] // [Relinquishment]
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 3, Excerpt 4
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]
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 1, Excerpt 18
“At the beginning of this retreat, Tan Ajahn Anan advised us, “Don’t forget Nibbāna.” How do we orient ourselves towards Nibbāna?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Nibbāna ] [Ajahn Anan] [Monastic life] // [Dispassion] [Cessation of Suffering] [Etymology] [Stream entry]
Sutta: AN 10.60.10-11: Girimānanda Sutta [Cessation]
Sutta: SN 56.11: “Whatever is of the nature to arise, that is of the nature to cease.” [Conditionality]
Quote: “[The goal] is incredibly worthy, and it is not beyond our capability and means to experience.” [Direct experience]
The Teaching and the Training [2018], Session 11, Excerpt 4
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]
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 1, Excerpt 19
Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 1, pp. 30-35. Read by Ajahn Amaro:
“Nibbāna,” Buddhist Dictionary: A Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines by Venerable Ñāṇatiloka, p. 123.
The Mind Like Fire Unbound by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro, p. 2.
Suttas: MN 26.13; SN 38.1; AN 10.60.11; Ud 3.10; AN 3.55; AN 6.55; SN 43.1-44.
Vinaya: Mahāvagga 1.5 (also occurs at SN 6.1 and MN 26.19).
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 3
Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:
The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 13, pp. 224-225:
Suttas: AN 4.179; AN 10.60.11; AN 1.494.
Sutta: MN 26.22-42: Ariyapariyesanā Sutta.
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 22
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.
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 22, Excerpt 7
The perception of impermanence should be cultivated for the removal of the conceit “I am.” Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Conceit] [Impermanence] // [Self-identity view] [Relinquishment] [Nibbāna] [Cessation of Suffering]
Quote: “Being right doesn’t lead one to freedom from suffering. Oftentimes it just makes you a pain in the butt.” [Views]
Sutta: Ud 4.1.21: Meghiya Sutta.
Sutta: AN 10.60.11: “This is peaceful, this is sublime ...”
Even the Sāsana Will Pass Away [2025], Excerpt 4
The perception of non-delight (AN 10.60.12) means stepping back from clinging and self-identity. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Perception] [Clinging] [Self-identity view] // [Relinquishment] [Dispassion] [Habits]
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 4, Excerpt 1
“When I first read the perception about non-delight in the world, (AN 10.60.12), my first reaction was, ‘I don’t like that one.’ But when I return home after an extended time at Abhayagiri, everything looks fresh and more subtle. Would it be helpful to actively take on a perception like this in meditation?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Dispassion] [Direct experience] [Perception] // [Proliferation] [Spaciousness] [Liberation]
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 4, Excerpt 8
The ninth perception of the Girimānanda Sutta (AN 10.60.13) re-emphasizes the importance of the transient nature of all internal and external phenomena. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Perception] [Impermanence] // [Discernment] [Cessation of Suffering]
Sutta: Dhp 277-279 (Amaravati Chanting Book, p. 72; A Dhammapada for Contemplation by Ajahn Munindo, p. 102).
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 4, Excerpt 2
The last perception of the Girimānanda Sutta (AN 10.60.14), ānāpānasati, neatly ties up the sutta and is equivalent to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Perception] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Right Mindfulness] // [Calming meditation] [Discernment]
Simile: “The still, meditative mind like a tree stump.” [Similes] [Thai Forest Tradition] [Wrong concentration]
Sutta: MN 118: Ānāpānasati Sutta (Amaravati Chanting Book, p. 85).
Meditation on the Ten Perceptions [2016], Session 4, Excerpt 3