References – DN 1: The All-embracing Net of Views 
Sutta / Dīgha Nikāya / DN 1: Brahmajālasutta (5)

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“Have any teachers explained the meaning of the questions in MN 109?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Questions] [Aggregates]

Commentarial explanation of the context of MN 109. [Teaching Dhamma] [Culture/India] [Views] [Culture/West] [Christianity]

Sutta: DN 1: Brahmajāla Sutta.

The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 21, Excerpt 3


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“Is seeing metaphysical principles the same as making something into a concept?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Nature of the cosmos] [Proliferation] // [Views]

Sutta: DN 1: Brahmajāla Sutta.

The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [2015], Session 40, Excerpt 3


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The time of the Buddha was a time of great change. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Buddha/Biography] [History/Early Buddhism] // [Saṅgha decision making] [Spiritual traditions] [Views]

Sutta: DN 1: Brahmajāla Sutta.

Sutta: Snp 3.1: King Bimbisāra meets the Bodhisattva.

Devotion and Ritual: Becoming the Buddha [2017], Session 1, Excerpt 11


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“You mentioned [existentialism/eternalism] and nihilism as familiar Western philosophical ideas. I understand that Buddhism’s approach is not one or the other. How do other Western philosophical ideas like solipsism or materialism sit?” Answered by Ajahn Amaro and Ajahn Pasanno. [Philosophy ] [Middle Path] // [God] [Humor] [Views] [Suffering] [Cessation of Suffering] [Teaching Dhamma]

Sutta: SN 22.86: “I teach suffering and the end of suffering.”

Comment: Philosophy usually tries to create a philosophy from which you pull down how to live your life, but the Buddha is the other way around.

Sutta: DN 1: Sixty-two wrong views.

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 40, Excerpt 6


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[Considering the large numbers of lay disciples who the Buddha declared to have realized stages of awakening in DN 18.1] “I guess they were culturally more open to the path?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro. [Lay life] [Stages of awakening] [Culture/India] // [History/Indian Buddhism] [Cultural context] [Buddha]

Sutta: DN 1: The 62 wrong views. [Views]

Sutta: DN 14.1.4: A fortunate aeon. [Previous Buddhas]

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 54, Excerpt 1