References – MN 2: All the Taints 
Sutta / Majjhima Nikāya / MN 2: Sabbāsavasutta

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It’s interesting that three of the fetters are named [in MN 2] but the other seven are not named explicitly. Comment by Ajahn Kaccāna. [Fetters] // [Stream entry] [Commentaries]

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 34, Excerpt 3


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“I’m reading the autobiography of Luang Por Thoon. He’s speaking at the end about the āsava kayañāṇas, the knowledge that the taints are destroyed. Would that be relinquishment of the āsavas [in MN 2]?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Outflows] [Knowledge and vision] [Relinquishment] // [Arahant]

References: The Autobiography of Venerable Ācariya Thoon Khippapañño, Volume 1, p. 350; The Autobiography of Venerable Ācariya Thoon Khippapañño, Volume 2, p. 24.

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 34, Excerpt 4


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“If you are constantly around someone who engages you with prolonged and agitated discussion, how do you handle that?” Answered by Ajahn Amaro and Ajahn Pasanno. [Idle chatter] // [Mindfulness] [Clear comprehension] [Admonishment/feedback]

Sutta: MN 2: Sabbāsava Sutta.

Quote: “Never give feedback to your fellow samaṇas before the meal.” — Ajahn Chah. Quoted by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Chah] [Monastic life]

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Quote: “We can be completely mindful of taking initiative. Our capacity to act is part of the way things are.” — Ajahn Amaro. [Right Action ] [Discernment] [Right Mindfulness] [Buddha/Biography]

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 42, Excerpt 10


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“The citta is sometimes defined as pure awareness, and it being in the fourth khanda, but it sounds like here [Ajahn Wanchai] is talking about the activity of awareness?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Heart/mind] [Ajahn Wanchai] [Knowing itself] [Volitional formations] // [Rebirth]

Quote: “There is that which is beyond birth and death. And then you start asking, ‘Well, what is it and how is it? How should it be?’ It’s just the same as in the Sabbāsava Sutta (MN 2.7)...As soon as you get into conceiving, you’ve already started the process of dukkha.” [Unconditioned ] [Proliferation] [Conceit] [Suffering]

Follow-up: “So is it better to hear what he said and let it go when I notice awareness that’s good, but I don’t have to make anything out of it?”

Quote: “The investigation is not a conceiving. The best investigation is when the mind is exceedingly still and not conceiving, not creating concepts.” [Discernment] [Concentration]

Follow-up: “So is it a realizing, not a conceiving?” [Knowledge and vision]

Our Roots in the Thai Forest Tradition [2014], Session 51, Excerpt 2


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Readings by Ajahn Amaro:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 5, pp. 92-96 and 108-109:

Suttas: MN 102.23-4; AN 3.32; Ud 6.6; MN 2.7-8; SN 44.10; SN 22.15.

Sutta: Snp 5.14: Udaya’s Questions.

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 16


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Readings by Ajahn Pasanno:

The Island by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro, Chapter 14, pp. 256-258:

Suttas: Snp 800-3; MN 2.7-8; MN 109.15-18.

Sutta: MN 2: Sabbāsava Sutta.

Sutta: MN 109: Mahāpuṇṇama Sutta.

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 34


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Comment by Ajahn Kaccāna: MN 2.8 leaves out ‘I perceive not-self with not-self’ from its list of speculative view. My assumption is that this view is incorrect as well. [Views] [Self-identity view]

Response by Ajahn Amaro.

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 16, Excerpt 4


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“When you have completed the practice, does everything become ‘down time?’” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Stages of awakening] [Recreation/leisure/sport] // [Clinging] [Almsfood] [Culture/Natural environment]

Quote: “It’s because we reflect on these ‘serious things’ that we can hold things lightly.” [Recollection]

Suttas: MN 2.13: Reflection on the requisites; AN 5.208: Benefits of chewing toothwood

The New Ajahn Chah Biography [2018], Session 3, Excerpt 15


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“The Seven Factors of Awakening to be developed (MN 2.21)—is that the same as in the Anāpānāsati Sutta (MN 118)?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Factors of Awakening] [Mindfulness of breathing]

Readings from The Island [2025], Session 34, Excerpt 2