References – MN 10: The Discourse on Mindfulness Meditation 
The four constituents of Right Mindfulness. Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno. [Right Mindfulness] [Mindfulness of breathing] // [Mindfulness] [Ardency] [Clear comprehension] [Relinquishment] [Right Effort]
Sutta: MN 10: Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta.
Commentary: Clear comprehension has the characteristic of non-confusion, its function is to investigate, and it manifests as scrutinty. (Path of Purification by Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli, p. 154)
Commentary: Mindfulness has the characteristic of remembering, its function is not forgetting, and it manifests as guarding. (Path of Purification by Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli, p. 154)
Ānāpānasati: Mindfulness of In-and-Out Breathing [2005], Session 19, Excerpt 4
“Ajahn Chah and other Thai Ajahns emphasize this quality of steady practice. Ajahn Chah showed this was the way to solve the dillema of desire being both the root of all suffering and a necessary ingredient to being able to practice at all....It seems the main obstacle to achieving steady practice is the variability of that part of my awareness that is supervising what is going on....How does one cultivate self-supervision?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Chah] [Desire] [Self-reliance] [Postures] [Continuity of mindfulness ] // [Mindfulness of body ] [Ajahn Pasanno] [Mindfulness of breathing]
Quote: “The body is like a mirror for the different moods and state of the mind as we’re experiencing things.” [Similes] [Mindfulness of mind]
Follow-up: “I try to practice body awareness when my mind is being supervised...” [Long-term practice] [Ajahn Sucitto]
Sutta: MN 10 Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta [Right Mindfulness]
Our Roots in the Thai Forest Tradition [2014], Session 41, Excerpt 6
“Would you be willing to talk about the difference between mindfulness, bare knowing, and the one who knows?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Mindfulness ] [Direct experience] [Knowing itself] // [Buddha] [Clear comprehension] [Thai] [Discernment] [Ardency] [Seclusion] [Cessation of Suffering]
Sutta: MN 10: Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta
Our Roots in the Thai Forest Tradition [2014], Session 48, Excerpt 2
“How do we take refuge in awareness (Buddho) in daily life?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Buddha ] [Recollection/Buddha] [Knowing itself] [Continuity of mindfulness] [Everyday life] // [Precepts] [Mindfulness] [Discernment] [Recollection] [Clear comprehension] [Right Effort] [Seclusion] [Nature of mind] [Proliferation] [Culture/Thailand]
Sutta: MN 10: Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta
Note: In the answer to this question, Ajahn Pasanno equates awareness with mindfulness.
Quote: “The literal meaning of Buddho is ‘the one who knows,’ but it’s also being the one who knows, where you have the opportunity for us to be that knowing.”
Questions and Answers with Dharma Realm Buddhist University [2014], Excerpt 16
Dhamma talk: Cautioning against trusting our assumptions about the nature of mindfulness, Ajahn Pasanno reviews several key passages in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta (MN 10). Offered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ardency] [Clear comprehension] [Mindfulness] [Right Mindfulness]
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [2015], Session 4
Discussion of which exercises described as mindfulness of the body (MN 10) are reflective techniques and which are based on vedanā. Led by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Mindfulness of body] [Recollection] [Feeling] // [Elements] [Unattractiveness] [Insight meditation] [Liberation]
Comment about S.N. Goenka’s use of the term vedanā. Contributed by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [S. N. Goenka] [Contact] [Sense bases] [Aggregates]
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [2015], Session 5, Excerpt 4
Readings by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo: [Recollection/Death]
Reading: Nine point death meditation from the Lam Rim.
Reading: AN 6.19: Mindfulness of Death (1).
Reading: AN 6.20: Mindfulness of Death (2).
Reading: MN 10: Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, The Foundations of Mindfulness, Charnel ground contemplations.
Reading: “Only the Practice of Dharma Can Help Us at the Time of Death,” Larry Rosenberg, Tricycle, Summer 2000.
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [2015], Session 10
Readings by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo: [Elements]
Reading: MN 10: Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, The Foundations of Mindfulness, Elements.
Reading: MN 62: Mahārāhulaovāda Sutta, The Greater Discourse of Advice to Rāhula.
Reading: “Wholehearted training” in Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah, p. 635 (excerpt).
Reading: “Why Are We Here?” in Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah, p. 131 (excerpt).
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [2015], Session 11
Readings by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo: [Mindfulness of mind] [Divine Abidings]
Reading: MN 10: Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, The Foundations of Mindfulness.
Reading: Right Mindfulness pp. 132-133, 174-175, 137.
Reading: SN 42.8: “The Conch Blower.”
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [2015], Session 41
Comment: In mindfulness of breathing, you feel the breath throughout the body. This suffusion is similar in jhāna. [Mindfulness of breathing] [Mindfulness of body] [Jhāna]
Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Right Mindfulness]
Suttas: MN 10: Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, MN 118: Ānāpānasati Sutta
Jhāna: A Practical Approach [2015], Session 4, Excerpt 11
“As inspiration for the rest of us, would you please talk about some of your milestone insights over your years of practice and what kept you going over the years, especially when you hit roadblocks?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Pasanno] [Monastic life/Motivation] [Long-term practice] // [Ajahn Jayasaro] [Ajahn Chah] [Impermanence] [Right Mindfulness] [Self-identity view]
Sutta: MN 10: Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta
2015 Thanksgiving Monastic Retreat, Session 3, Excerpt 1
“Would you please speak a little bit more about “mindfulness” and the “sati” factor, since it seems to me that most, if not all, things register in consciousness. For example, “discursive” thoughts are registered in consciousness just as thoughts and we are aware of the thoughts themselves. What distinguishes “mindfulness” from lack of mindfulness during this process?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Mindfulness ] [Consciousness] [Proliferation] // [Right Mindfulness ] [Ardency] [Thai] [Hinduism] [Clear comprehension] [Seclusion]
Sutta: MN 10: Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta
Commentary: Path of Purification by Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli, p. 431: The relationship between sampajañña and pañña. [Discernment]
Definition of mindfulness from P. A. Payutto: “That quality of mind which draws the objects of the senses into the heart.” [P. A. Payutto] [Sense bases] [Heart/mind]
Quote: “It’s like this.” — Ajahn Sumedho. [Ajahn Sumedho]
Thanksgiving Retreat 2016, Session 3, Excerpt 8
“You spoke of experiencing the breath and experiencing feelings and mind. Are you suggesting that we experience the mind knowing the breath or when it’s doing other things?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Mindfulness of breathing] [Mindfulness of feeling] [Mindfulness of mind] // [Right Mindfulness] [Volitional formations] [Conditionality]
Suttas: MN 118: Ānāpānasati Sutta; MN 10: Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta
The Path of Practice [2019], Session 1, Excerpt 3
“Is the fourth foundation of mindfulness as simple as, for example, with the third foundation I identify aversion, and then in the fourth foundation I identify aversion as a hindrance?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Mindfulness of dhammas] [Mindfulness of mind] // [Āgama] [Sutta] [Hindrances] [Four Noble Truths] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Progress of insight]
Suttas: MN 10: Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta; MN 118: Ānāpānasati Sutta [Right Mindfulness]
Reference: Satipaṭṭhāna Perspectives by Bhante Analayo (commercial)
The Path of Practice [2019], Session 1, Excerpt 4
Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:
The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 14, pp. 247-248:
Suttas: MN 10.2; Snp 1086-7.
Sutta: MN 10: Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta.
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 29
“Is body scan as a meditation practice done in the Ajahn Chah tradition? Is there a sutta where the Buddha talks about it?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Body scanning ] [Ajahn Chah lineage] [Sutta] // [Unattractiveness] [Mindfulness of body ] [Elements] [Recollection/Death] [Disenchantment]
Quote: “Ajahn Chah would recommend doing anything that worked.” [Ajahn Chah] [Right Effort]
Reference: Amaravati Chanting Book, p. 60: Reflection on the Thirty-Two Parts.
Sutta: MN 10.4: Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, mindfulness of body section.
Abhayagiri Monastic Retreat 2013, Session 3, Excerpt 1
“Sometimes in meditation, it feels like I’m moving in waves even though my body is still. What does it mean? What should I do when it happens?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Meditation/Unusual experiences] // [Self-identity view] [Mindfulness of feeling] [Right Mindfulness] [Four Noble Truths] [Liberation] [Mindfulness of body] [Mindfulness of dhammas] [Factors of Awakening]
Sutta: MN 10.4: Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta.
Awaken to the New Year Retreat [2021], Session 3, Excerpt 1
“What does the phrase ‘to the extent necessary’ mean [in the satipaṭṭhāna insight formula (MN 10.5)]?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Right Mindfulness] [Insight meditation] // [Relinquishment]
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 29, Excerpt 3
“What does contemplating the body internally and externally mean [in MN 10.5]?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Mindfulness of body] // [Mindfulness] [Clear comprehension] [Ajahn Chah]
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 29, Excerpt 4
“It seems like the ‘Reflection on the 32 Parts’ of the body is missing several parts. Nose, muscles, sex organs, etc. Is it meant to be comprehensive? Or is it just the ugly bits?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Unattractiveness ] // [Elements] [Human] [Disenchantment] [Equanimity]
Reference: Amaravati Chanting Book, p. 60: Reflection on the Thirty-Two Parts.
Sutta: MN 10.10: Simile of different grains. [Similes]
Abhayagiri Monastic Retreat 2013, Session 5, Excerpt 14
“When practicing to get out of the world, how does one avoid slipping into unhappiness with the world?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Escape] [Suffering] [Happiness] // [Saṃsāra] [Not-self] [Divine Abidings] [Unattractiveness] [Equanimity] [Gladdening the mind] [Concentration] [Knowledge and vision]
Sutta: MN 10.10: Contemplating the body as if it were a sack of grains.
Suttas: AN 6.10, AN 10.2: Causal chains yielding gladness (pāmojja) with different starting points.
Questions and Answers at Wat Pah Nanachat [2025], Excerpt 8
Beginning the third tetrad of the Ānāpānasati Sutta (MN 118), Ajahn Pasanno teaches that by attending to the mind itself with each breath, we can recognize that the direct experience of the defiled mind is suffering. Relinquishing the defilements brings peace. [Mindfulness of breathing] [Mindfulness of mind]
Sutta: MN 10.34: Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, mindfulness of mind section.
Ānāpānasati: Mindfulness of In-and-Out Breathing [2005], Session 10
“I didn’t totally understand the difference between the mind and mental qualities in regards to the four foundations. Would you elaborate?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Mindfulness of mind] [Mindfulness of dhammas]
Sutta: MN 10.34: Satipaṭṭhānasutta Sutta, Mindfulness of Mind.
2014 Thanksgiving Monastic Retreat, Session 2, Excerpt 5
“Could you list the ways one contemplates mind as mind again? (third foundation of mindfulness).” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Mindfulness of mind ] // [Skillful qualities]
Sutta: MN 10.34: Satipaṭṭhānasutta Sutta, Mindfulness of Mind.
Thanksgiving Retreat 2016, Session 8, Excerpt 16
Readings from The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 8, pp. 143-146. Read by Ajahn Amaro:
Suttas: AN 11.9; AN 10.6; MN 10.34-35, DN 22.12.
Atulo, collected teachings of Ajahn Dune compiled by Ajahn Bodhinandamuni (no full English translation).
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 42
“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]
Kathina Q&A with the Chithurst Community [2025], Session 1, Excerpt 2
Teaching by Ajahn Pasanno: The satipaṭṭhāna insight formula is a pointer to atammayatā. [Right Mindfulness] [Insight meditation] [Non-identification] // [Ajahn Buddhadāsa] [Translation]
Sutta: MN 10.37: “Or else mindfulness that ‘there are mind objects’ is simply established in him to the extent necessary for bare knowledge and awareness. And he abides independent, not clinging to anything in the world.
Quote: “You don’t have to go and study every tree in the forest.” — Ajahn Chah. [Ajahn Chah] [Similes]
Reference: Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening by Joseph Goldstein (commercial).
Follow-up: “Do you think that the not-self perception is the precursor to the experience of atammayatā?” [Not-self] [Relinquishment]