References – MN 44: The Shorter Classification 
Readings from A Burden off the Mind by Ajahn Ṭhānissaro, pp. 17-20 By Ajahn Pasanno:
§8: excerpt from MN 28: Mahāhatthipadopama Sutta.
§9: excerpt from SN 22.57.
§10: excerpt from MN 44: Cūḷavedalla Sutta.
§11: excerpt from SN 22.57.
§12: excerpt from SN 22.57.
§13: excerpt from Sangīti Sutta (DN 33).
§14: excerpt from MN 44: Cūḷavedalla Sutta.
§15: excerpt from SN 22.57.
§16: excerpt from SN 22.57.
§17: excerpt from MN 109: Mahāpuṇṇama Sutta.
Sutta: SN 22.1, Khandhasaṁyutta, “Nakulapitā.”
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 24
“Perception can be very slippery. I experience it as a veil, view, filter, or lens that colors a situation. The traditional Buddhist teaching of, ‘tinted glasses’ and ‘bowls of water,’ is very helpful. However, if identification is strong, I won’t see it. Do you have suggestions for how to see through perception? How to know when it is coloring my world view?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Perception ] [Self-identity view] [Delusion] // [Nature of mind] [Four Noble Truths] [Aggregates]
Sutta: MN 44: “Conjoined not disjoined.”
2014 Thanksgiving Monastic Retreat, Session 5, Excerpt 8
“What is the difference between directed thought and verbal fabrication? Thank you for showing us patience.” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Directed thought and evaluation] [Volitional formations] // [Mindfulness of breathing] [Heart/mind] [Feeling] [Perception]
Sutta: MN 44
2014 Thanksgiving Monastic Retreat, Session 5, Excerpt 9
Comment by Ajahn Ñāṇiko: There is the concern that we practice meditation to make something happen. [Meditation/General advice]
Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Neutral feeling] [Delusion]
Sutta: MN 44: Cūḷavedalla Sutta, The Small Discourse Giving an Elaboration. [Feeling] [Unwholesome Roots]
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [2015], Session 22, Excerpt 6
Readings by Ajahn Pasanno: [Right Mindfulness]
Right Mindfulness pp. 112-113.
Sutta: MN 44, Cūḷavedalla Sutta, The Shorter Series of Questions and Answers.
Sutta: AN 8.63: “In Brief.”
Sutta: MN 101: Devadaha Sutta, At Devadaha.
Sutta: AN 8.81: “Training.”
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [2015], Session 32
Comments by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Karuṇadhammo contrasting the canonical and commentarial approaches to breath meditation. [Sutta] [Commentaries] [Mindfulness of breathing] // [Ajahn Ṭhānissaro] [Pa Auk Sayadaw] [Culture/Sri Lanka] [Culture/Thailand] [Pāli] [Ajahn Pasanno]
Sutta: MN 44 identifies in-and-out breathing as the bodily fabrication/conditioner (saṅkhāra).
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [2015], Session 34, Excerpt 1
Readings by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo: [Mindfulness of feeling] [Feeling]
“The Perceptual Process,” p. 156-159 in Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization by Venerable Analayo.
Sutta: MN 44: Cūḷavedalla Sutta, The Small Discourse Giving an Elaboration.
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [2015], Session 45
Examples of unworldly, unpleasant feelings? Answered by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo and Ajahn Pasanno. [Feeling] [Suffering] [Skillful qualities] // [Sense restraint]
Sutta: MN 44: Cūḷavedalla Sutta.
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [2015], Session 45, Excerpt 3
“What are mental formations and consciousness?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Aggregates] [Volitional formations] [Consciousness] [Not-self] // [Sense bases] [Contact]
Sutta: MN 44: Cūḷavedalla Sutta
The Middle Way of Not-Self [2015], Session 1, Excerpt 2
“Can you offer any reflections about people’s tendency to measure samādhi, concentration, and jhāna and their doubt and discontent about how much is enough to develop insight?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Calming meditation] [Concentration] [Jhāna] [Insight meditation] // [Craving] [Relinquishment] [Etymology] [Translation] [Right Mindfulness] [Right Effort]
Quote: “Samādhi is a holiday for the heart.” — Ajahn Chah. [Ajahn Chah] [Ajahn Sumedho]
Simile: Samādhi is like a chicken in a bamboo coop. [Similes] [Spaciousness] [Mindfulness]
Sutta: MN 44.12: The bases of samādhi.
Simile: Unification of mind is like a bowl of fruit. [Unification]
Q&A with the Chithurst Community [2025], Excerpt 7
“MN 44.14 defines perception and feeling as mental formations. I thought those were just conditional arising on account of contact (MN 109.9)?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Perception] [Feeling] [Volitional formations] [Conditionality] [Contact] // [Pāli]
Ajahn Buddhadasā‘s translation of the Ānāpānasati Sutta (MN 118; Chanting Book translation) translates cittasaṅkhāra as the mental conditioner. [Ajahn Buddhadāsa] [Translation] [Mindfulness of breathing]
Reference: Mindfulness with Breathing by Ajahn Buddhadāsa, p. 72.
Follow-up: “The bodily fabrication doesn’t seem to involve volition, but vitakka and vicāra do.” [Body/form] [Volition] [Directed thought and evaluation] [Aggregates]
Comment: In the Ānāpānasati Sutta, much of the practice is intentionally calming different saṅkhāras. [Tranquility] [Mindfulness of body]
Response by Ajahn Pasanno.
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 24, Excerpt 5
Question about neutral feeling and awareness. Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Feeling] [Neutral feeling] [Delusion] [Mindfulness] // [Unwholesome Roots]
Sutta: MN 44.22: Discussion of the three kinds of feeling.
Western Disciples of the Thai Forest Tradition [2016], Session 46, Excerpt 1
“The Buddha teaches that you have pleasant vedanā, neutral vedanā, and unpleasant vedanā. But [in MN 75] he seems to be saying that all pleasant vedanā isn’t actually pleasant; it’s actually unpleasant.” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Feeling] // [Sensual desire] [Mindfulness of breathing]
Sutta: MN 44.22-24: Cūḷavedalla Sutta.
Readings from The Island [2025], Session 31, Excerpt 4
“Is there another place in the suttas (besides MN 44.24) where neutral feeling is pleasant when conjoined with mindfulness?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Sutta] [Neutral feeling] [Happiness] [Mindfulness]
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 24, Excerpt 1
“How is it that knowledge makes neutral feeling pleasant (MN 44.24)?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Neutral feeling] [Happiness]
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness [2013], Session 24, Excerpt 4
“Can you talk about neither-painful-nor-pleasant feelings and the benefits of being with this boringness?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Neutral feeling ] [Mindfulness of feeling] // [Pain] [Feeling] [Unwholesome Roots]
Sutta: MN 44.25: The tendencies underlying feelings.